Warmoth neck and Musikraft body experiment

[Heavy Rock]

Just want to share an interesting experience.

Yesterday I sat down with my two favorite guitars, two superstrats, and compared the necks on them focusing purely on how they feel. One has a Warmoth neck (quartersawn maple neck and fretboard) and the other has a Halo neck (maple neck and fretboard). While the Halo neck feels very good, I prefer the Warmoth neck. Somehow it feels more solid. Well, it's quartersawn maple with stainless steel frets, so probably it is more solid structurally. But it's also easier to play. For example I can hit all the notes in chord inversions, especially on the high strings where they are more tricky to get precisely and I think the narrow tall fretwire is also responsible for that. It's better than the full blown jumbo fretwire for me.

So, I thought I'll combine the two highest quality parts with a superstrat style that I own so far. The Musikraft Dinky swamp ash body and the Warmoth quartersawnm maple neck.
I must say, I loved the sound! It got tighter and also filled the low mid punch that was kind of missing before. The highs are more glassy and chimey and now the string definition is super clear. You can hear every string ringing separately. When I finished playing I said "FFS!" aloud to myself lol.

I think I'm onto something here. Like combing two No1 guitars to make the No0.

I'm thinking now how to proceed. I lean on thinking to keep this one like this, with the Musikraft body and the Warmoth neck. And put the Halo neck on the Cortek body of the other guitar.
It will probably involve some minor refinishing because they were themed guitars before.

So some more work is coming down for this Spring!

 

[Heavy Rock]

And here is my minor refinish.

I know black is boring but I like black guitars with maple fretboards since I saw Alex Skolnick's Ibanez RG on the Electric Crown video many years ago. Let's see how long until I get another finish idea down the road, lol.



So this is the guitar. I picked an appropriate name for a black guitar.... I might put red pickups like Alex above at some point, or some zebra scheme, I don't know yet. For now it has the modern plastic cover look.

This guitar sounds amazing, and more balanced than before. The good thing is that before swapping the necks, this guitar was a bit too bright and the other a bit too dark. Now they are very well balanced. Also the action is more correct on both guitars because the Halo neck has a slightly higher heel and the Cortek body a little deeper neck pocket so those two fit perfectly together. The Musikraft body and the Warmoth neck are like made for each other. Very nice outcome in general. Before I had to shim both guitars, now neither has any shims in the pocket.

This guitar sounds the best out of all. I mean I love all my guitars, because I try a lot to fine tune them and the others sound amazing too, but this one has the edge now. I'm going to put pictures of all the rest of my guitars in this thread later on. I need to finish some minor adjustments on a couple of them.


Anyway, pics: