Warmoth Baritone 7 neck, rosewood+flame maple body

[djf67]

Thought it was time to start a thread on this one.
Neck came just before Christmas, thread here -
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=14984.0
Wenge neck with bloodwood fingerboard.

I've now routed the body. 7/16" bookmatched Indian Rosewood on 1" bookmatched Flame Maple
Bridge will be ABM individual saddles
Pickups will be SD Blackouts

 

[Nando Vallart]

Very cool!

 

[rapfohl09]

This is gonna be awesome. Will it be carved at all? It's a little on the thin side already. How much were those ABMs? Last time I checked they were like 40 dollars each...

 

[djf67]

Wasn't planning to carve it beyond a forearm and belly cut - maybe not even those as it isn't a thick (or heavy) body.
ABMs from www.thomann.de are £11.30 each or ~$15. Some things are cheaper in Europe!

 

[djf67]

:headbang1:

 

[Nando Vallart]

WOW

 

[Cagey]

Wasn't planning to carve it beyond a forearm and belly cut - maybe not even those as it isn't a thick (or heavy) body.
ABMs from www.thomann.de are £11.30 each or ~$15. Some things are cheaper in Europe!

No doubt. When you get right down to it, there's nothing to pickups and no reason they should cost what they do. They're just a coil of wire around a form with some core(s). Even $15 is a bit much, really. But, the marketing weenies have everyone convinced there's something "special" about them, so they add a bunch of adjectives and wish-fulfillment language to the descriptions of the things and charge a boatload of money. Players eat it up with a spoon, so everybody gets away with it.

To be fair, hand-wound and fabricated pickups are labor intensive, so the guys who do that barely make any money even given the exorbitant pricing. It's more a labor of love than anything, for the same questionable return.

 

[djf67]

The ABMs are the saddles Cagey.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Cagey]

The ABMs are the saddles Cagey.  :icon_jokercolor:

I knew that! Yeah. I just got some bad information from my wife... umm... Morgan Fairchild. Yeah.
That's the ticket. She's an idiot! Pretty hot, though, am I right?
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[rapfohl09]

Wow, this looks awesome! Very clean work, deffinitely my favorite of yours.

 

[ihavenothingprofoundtosay]

That's an amazing piece of work there - can't wait to see the end result! :kewlpics:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Some stunning planks you've got there 

 

[TomPerverteau]

Yay! 7 \m/

 

[djf67]

Thanks, gentlemen.

A bit of oil to bring out the colour...

The rosewood is so dry I think it'll take an entire can of Danish Oil!

 

[Patriot54]

That rosewood looks ridiculously good with the Danish oil

 

[djf67]

Body oiled and waxed.
Neck treated with lemon oil...

 

[Nando Vallart]

Wow, it's really cool oiled!

 

[DangerousR6]

Looks bad ass, but those edges look rather sharp....

 

[djf67]

After waitng on a stereo jack socket, it's finally finished.
Tuned mildly to ADGCFAD with 11-58s. I have some Zakk Wilde 11-70s on one of my W six strings tuned to B at the moment so I could go much, much lower but would probably need bass tuning pegs...
How does it sound?


:evil4:


Actually, it's bright without being harsh and has beautiful clean tones and great note separation, even with significant distortion. And a big THANKS to Warmoth 'cos the neck is the best out-of-the-box neck I've ever played; flat radius, perfectly levelled frets, perfect nut means I've got super low action with no string buzz without even trying.
:icon_thumright:

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

You had me up until the input jack.
I personally would have placed it on the side of the body, but that's just me.