I bought a (new) warmoth flame maple neck with a nice vintage tint a couple years back for a project. It's a 24 3/4 conversion neck - and that is the whole reason I bought it. I play gibson a lot and want a strat with the same scale.
However, it sits too high in the pocket. After I put it together, I took it to a luthier for a setup and to do basic fretwork. But they had to raise the saddles and tilt the bridge so much it looks and feels ridiculous.
As a result - that guitar never gets played...which is a shame because it's custom, best of everything. I recently ordered a different body with a 2 point bridge and a cutaway heel - and I'm going to move everything to that body. Would love to keep the warmoth neck but if I can't get it to sit right, I'm going to go back to a normal fender neck.
My recollection is I measured the warmoth neck and it's just thicker than my fender necks at the pocket. I'll have to put it back on the bench and see when the new body comes but...I've seen others post about this before. The solutions I see people post are usually shim it to tilt it, rout the body, CNC the neck thinner, or adjust the truss rod. I'm not convinced a lot of those people know what they are talking about though.
Just wondering what the usual experience is with putting a Warmoth neck on a fender body. Do you typically find it just sits higher? Is there any good solution that doesn't require destroying the value of the neck or the body?
However, it sits too high in the pocket. After I put it together, I took it to a luthier for a setup and to do basic fretwork. But they had to raise the saddles and tilt the bridge so much it looks and feels ridiculous.
As a result - that guitar never gets played...which is a shame because it's custom, best of everything. I recently ordered a different body with a 2 point bridge and a cutaway heel - and I'm going to move everything to that body. Would love to keep the warmoth neck but if I can't get it to sit right, I'm going to go back to a normal fender neck.
My recollection is I measured the warmoth neck and it's just thicker than my fender necks at the pocket. I'll have to put it back on the bench and see when the new body comes but...I've seen others post about this before. The solutions I see people post are usually shim it to tilt it, rout the body, CNC the neck thinner, or adjust the truss rod. I'm not convinced a lot of those people know what they are talking about though.
Just wondering what the usual experience is with putting a Warmoth neck on a fender body. Do you typically find it just sits higher? Is there any good solution that doesn't require destroying the value of the neck or the body?