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Some of you may recall a recent Incoming UPS Notification thread
So here is a summary this really nice neck arrived.
Here is a Warmoth pic of the neck from the showcase.
SN_MAHOGANY by stratamania, on Flickr
I generally buy unfinished necks but in this case I thought that looks nice and that it might save me some work.
I ended up having the option to send it back to Warmoth as there were a couple of things that were not quite as expected.
After seeing the neck on my desk and not yet having gone to the post office etc due to snow and ice etc...I came to the conclusion that I would just tweak and fix the neck myself.
Note and caveat: I do not recommend to most people to do this course of action in this thread with regard to neck modification. In general if in the unlikely event of something not being up to par to do a warranty return and let Warmoth take care of you.
In the other thread Mayfly asked me what was wrong with the neck and here is the breakdown...
It is a clear gloss finish and thickly applied. This means that it will not go into the neck pocket of the body - actually I have three Warmoth bodies here to test against and it will not go into any of them where other Warmoth necks do as expected. So I am hoping that I can carefully take the finish down without cutting through it and that it will fit. If not I will have some touch up to the finish to do.(the alternate would be easing the neck pocket but as those are to spec I prefer to sort the neck out)
Also the nut is not as accurately placed as I would prefer with the low E further from the fretboard than it should be and the high E closer than would be expected. The spacing other than that is correct but it is somewhere around 1 - 2 mm off centre.
I have also noticed a bump in the finish near the tip of the headstock on the edge again I am hoping that will sand/buff out.
Somewhat ironically I was almost going to buy a Q-Sawn Mahogany without a finish or frets and do that work myself. But I liked the figure in this one that had popped up in the showcase it was already finished and fretted with a nut fitted so I thought it might save me some time. Still it is all part of a project when all is said and done...
So here we go with the build thread...
So here is a summary this really nice neck arrived.
Here is a Warmoth pic of the neck from the showcase.
SN_MAHOGANY by stratamania, on Flickr
I generally buy unfinished necks but in this case I thought that looks nice and that it might save me some work.
I ended up having the option to send it back to Warmoth as there were a couple of things that were not quite as expected.
After seeing the neck on my desk and not yet having gone to the post office etc due to snow and ice etc...I came to the conclusion that I would just tweak and fix the neck myself.
Note and caveat: I do not recommend to most people to do this course of action in this thread with regard to neck modification. In general if in the unlikely event of something not being up to par to do a warranty return and let Warmoth take care of you.
In the other thread Mayfly asked me what was wrong with the neck and here is the breakdown...
It is a clear gloss finish and thickly applied. This means that it will not go into the neck pocket of the body - actually I have three Warmoth bodies here to test against and it will not go into any of them where other Warmoth necks do as expected. So I am hoping that I can carefully take the finish down without cutting through it and that it will fit. If not I will have some touch up to the finish to do.(the alternate would be easing the neck pocket but as those are to spec I prefer to sort the neck out)
Also the nut is not as accurately placed as I would prefer with the low E further from the fretboard than it should be and the high E closer than would be expected. The spacing other than that is correct but it is somewhere around 1 - 2 mm off centre.
I have also noticed a bump in the finish near the tip of the headstock on the edge again I am hoping that will sand/buff out.
Somewhat ironically I was almost going to buy a Q-Sawn Mahogany without a finish or frets and do that work myself. But I liked the figure in this one that had popped up in the showcase it was already finished and fretted with a nut fitted so I thought it might save me some time. Still it is all part of a project when all is said and done...
So here we go with the build thread...
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