Ace Flibble
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Y'know, in terms of the headstock shape and the basic body outline. Everything else, not so much.
What I meant to snap and didn't was the very slight flame-like figuring ont he back of the neck. Forgot and now I put everything away, ah well.
And don't worry, there is now a Warmoth decal on it. Lost it in my parts drawer right up until sitting down to write this.
I don't expect anyone to think it's pretty. You might like the spec though.
Body is solid alder with a contoured heel - everything else you can see. Great weight to it, feels about the same as my black korina thinline. I can't say I've noticed too much benefit from the contoured heel, though I do most of my playing before the 15th fret anyway. It is slightly nicer on the palm on the rare time I go up to the 17th though, so it's a welcome addition.
Neck is 24.75" conversion, purpleheart stock with ebony fretboard, SS6105 frets, TUSQ nut and Sperzel staggered tuners. This marks both my first raw neck and also my first time with stainless steel frets, and I doubt I'll ever go back to anything else. Typical Warmoth Standard Thin - I've never been 100% happy with it in the past but the '59 neck is a little too thick for my liking and I figured better the devil you know. As it turns out this one does feel ever so slightly rounder than my previous two Standard Thin necks so it's as close to perfect as I could have asked for. The Sperzel tuners really are rather great too, I really appreciated how easy they were to install and not having to drill for string retainers. Annoyingly this is the first of my Warmoth necks which is going to have to have some work done to the nut, I use a .10-.50 set which fit in the last two fine but on this one the low E, A and D strings all sit just on top of the slot. Little annoying but nothing that can't be fixed.
Electronics are alpha pots - they fit the holes better, the knobs fitted them without having to bend anything and I like their taper - with a .022uf orange drop on the bridge tone and a 0.33uf paper-in-oil cap on the neck tone, for a little more range.
Neck pickup is a DiMarzio PAF Pro. Only used these in the bridge before, really liking how it sounds in the neck. Typical neck thickness but just a touch brighter on the lowe strings, no mud to be found. It's surprisingly nice clean, sounds very close to a Phat Cat.
Bridge pickup is a DiMarzio Evo 2. It's had a lot of bad reviews because people expected it to be just a better version of the Evo. I'm liking it though. I use the Evo in some of my 7-strings and the Evo 2 is a lot like the 7-string version of the Evo. It's slightly warmer than an Evo is and has slightly lower output, making it a much more versatile pickup. It's also the most incredibly responsive bridge pickup I've come across other than an EMG 81. It's almost too responsive, it certainly make smy sloppy playing more obvious - good job I mostly stick to rhythm.
Bridge needs changing, as the high E string slips out of the saddle whenever I bend it past the 10th fret. Looks like the notch in the saddle wasn't cut properly or some such. Also I somehow managed to wire the selector switch backwards, so up is bridge and down is neck. I'm liking it, bizarrely. Like the flipped 5-way switch on some old Kramers, having it backwards actually kind of makes sense in the middle of playing.
And a little tip for anyone else who thinks of sticking a tune-o with a stopbar on a carved Tele: don't do this and expect low action. Luckily, I set all my guitars up for fairly high action anyway as I'm prone to whipping out a slide at odd times and as I've said, I'm not much of a shredder. If I was though then this guitar would be causing me problems. Even with the neck straightened out more than it needs to be and the tune-o screwed down literally all the way it can go, the action is still at about 2.5mm. I usually set to 2.2mm so I can handle this alright but if I did want to get that ultra-low Satriani kind of feel then the guitar would need a lot of work.
... Well, C.C. DeVille would probably approve. Eww.
What I meant to snap and didn't was the very slight flame-like figuring ont he back of the neck. Forgot and now I put everything away, ah well.
And don't worry, there is now a Warmoth decal on it. Lost it in my parts drawer right up until sitting down to write this.
I don't expect anyone to think it's pretty. You might like the spec though.
Body is solid alder with a contoured heel - everything else you can see. Great weight to it, feels about the same as my black korina thinline. I can't say I've noticed too much benefit from the contoured heel, though I do most of my playing before the 15th fret anyway. It is slightly nicer on the palm on the rare time I go up to the 17th though, so it's a welcome addition.
Neck is 24.75" conversion, purpleheart stock with ebony fretboard, SS6105 frets, TUSQ nut and Sperzel staggered tuners. This marks both my first raw neck and also my first time with stainless steel frets, and I doubt I'll ever go back to anything else. Typical Warmoth Standard Thin - I've never been 100% happy with it in the past but the '59 neck is a little too thick for my liking and I figured better the devil you know. As it turns out this one does feel ever so slightly rounder than my previous two Standard Thin necks so it's as close to perfect as I could have asked for. The Sperzel tuners really are rather great too, I really appreciated how easy they were to install and not having to drill for string retainers. Annoyingly this is the first of my Warmoth necks which is going to have to have some work done to the nut, I use a .10-.50 set which fit in the last two fine but on this one the low E, A and D strings all sit just on top of the slot. Little annoying but nothing that can't be fixed.
Electronics are alpha pots - they fit the holes better, the knobs fitted them without having to bend anything and I like their taper - with a .022uf orange drop on the bridge tone and a 0.33uf paper-in-oil cap on the neck tone, for a little more range.
Neck pickup is a DiMarzio PAF Pro. Only used these in the bridge before, really liking how it sounds in the neck. Typical neck thickness but just a touch brighter on the lowe strings, no mud to be found. It's surprisingly nice clean, sounds very close to a Phat Cat.
Bridge pickup is a DiMarzio Evo 2. It's had a lot of bad reviews because people expected it to be just a better version of the Evo. I'm liking it though. I use the Evo in some of my 7-strings and the Evo 2 is a lot like the 7-string version of the Evo. It's slightly warmer than an Evo is and has slightly lower output, making it a much more versatile pickup. It's also the most incredibly responsive bridge pickup I've come across other than an EMG 81. It's almost too responsive, it certainly make smy sloppy playing more obvious - good job I mostly stick to rhythm.
Bridge needs changing, as the high E string slips out of the saddle whenever I bend it past the 10th fret. Looks like the notch in the saddle wasn't cut properly or some such. Also I somehow managed to wire the selector switch backwards, so up is bridge and down is neck. I'm liking it, bizarrely. Like the flipped 5-way switch on some old Kramers, having it backwards actually kind of makes sense in the middle of playing.
And a little tip for anyone else who thinks of sticking a tune-o with a stopbar on a carved Tele: don't do this and expect low action. Luckily, I set all my guitars up for fairly high action anyway as I'm prone to whipping out a slide at odd times and as I've said, I'm not much of a shredder. If I was though then this guitar would be causing me problems. Even with the neck straightened out more than it needs to be and the tune-o screwed down literally all the way it can go, the action is still at about 2.5mm. I usually set to 2.2mm so I can handle this alright but if I did want to get that ultra-low Satriani kind of feel then the guitar would need a lot of work.
... Well, C.C. DeVille would probably approve. Eww.
Actualyl I have seen the Q Parts knobs before; they were a bit too glam for my liking. I actually bought those other ones too, from a UK supplier, turned out they are actually very pink (more like Warmoth's neon purple finish), so that's a pass there.
