exaN
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Hey guys, I decided to do something I always wanted to do, which is to upgrade my first Warmoth guitar! I lent it to my dad for a couple of years and recently brought it home with me after my holiday visit. There were some things about it I didn't quite like, such as neck profile, frets, pickups.
Here's the original thread (from almost a decade ago!)
The new specs are:
And here's how it looks now:
It plays and sounds really great. I always liked the 67s in the neck and middle but it was way too bright and weak in the bridge and ended up never using the bridge pickup. The Injector really brings it all together, very versatile on both ends of the spectrum. I added a Fender decal after much inner debating. It's purely for looks and would of course never even pretend this is a genuine Fender. I kept the "WITH SYNCHRONIZED TREMOLO" (it's a fixed bridge) as an easter egg :laughing7:.
It's also interesting to see the difference in parts colors here:
-Neck and middle pickups have the original white covers that naturally aged and a bit yellowed
-Bridge pickup cover is the DiMarzio aged white color
-Knobs and switch tip are Warmoth parchment
-Pickguard is mint green (very hard to capture in photo even with good color correction)
Here's the original thread (from almost a decade ago!)
The new specs are:
Code:
Neck:
-Dark rosewood/maple
-Vintage tint finish
-Vintage/modern construction
-Compound radius
-Standard thin profile
-Graph Tech nut
-Gotoh tuners
-22 SS6150 frets
Body:
-Swamp ash
-Fiesta red
-DiMarzio Injector bridge, DiMarzio Area 67s middle and neck
-Standard Strat wiring
-Mint green pickguardAnd here's how it looks now:
It plays and sounds really great. I always liked the 67s in the neck and middle but it was way too bright and weak in the bridge and ended up never using the bridge pickup. The Injector really brings it all together, very versatile on both ends of the spectrum. I added a Fender decal after much inner debating. It's purely for looks and would of course never even pretend this is a genuine Fender. I kept the "WITH SYNCHRONIZED TREMOLO" (it's a fixed bridge) as an easter egg :laughing7:.
It's also interesting to see the difference in parts colors here:
-Neck and middle pickups have the original white covers that naturally aged and a bit yellowed
-Bridge pickup cover is the DiMarzio aged white color
-Knobs and switch tip are Warmoth parchment
-Pickguard is mint green (very hard to capture in photo even with good color correction)
