What new product or feature would be in your Christmas list for Warmoth to introduce in 2024?

[Hodgo]

Another vote here for front-route soloist bodies. Also a more modern, sculpted neck heel (like the Ibanez AANJ) would be great.

Heel inserts and countersunk screws instead of neck plate!!

 

[teleme01]

Universal route for tele

 

[stratamania]

Another vote for off-menu options to be just listed as options.

 

[Jebberz]

A Forearm contour on Iceman bass

 

[dsn716]

7/8 soloist body.
Really want to build with a 7/8 neck. Being a Gibson guy for most of my playing days, I prefer the shorter scale, and really want to do a 24 fret build. But the Tele and Strat 7/8 bodies just look goofy to me.

 

[JohnnyHardtail]

Would a 7/8 Soloist be smaller, or have a similar outline to the regular Soloist body with repositioned pickups and bridge routing?

 

[dsn716]

Would a 7/8 Soloist be smaller, or have a similar outline to the regular Soloist body with repositioned pickups and bridge routing?

I would imagine just slightly smaller, like the Strat and Tele 7/8 bodies are. Sort of like the Warren DiMartini snakeskin Charvel. Same body shape as a soloist, just a bit smaller.

 

[Wizard of Wailing]

90 X 55 SS frets. My go to on other brands custom necks.

 

[Masta C]

4 Things:

1) Fender-style contoured heel (this option is waaaaaaay overdue!)

2) Modern forearm contour on Iceman body shape (as another user mentioned above)

3) Ibanez/Iceman-inspired headstock shape (seriously, how can you offer the correct body, but no decent headstock options?)

4) Meadowhawk bodies

 

[Rick]

Let me add again... reverse ice man

 

[Hodgo]

Let me add again... reverse ice man

I agree (twice). I suppose a left handed body could be ordered with no control routing, no binding, and a reversible bridge route….

 

[ScottDR]

Iceman style 3x3 headstock

 

[NedRyerson]

More metal pointy styles.

I say this tongue-in-cheek because I know the community here as a small microcosm of the whole of the WM customer base, and honestly, we Cheesy-Metal-Pointy-Guitar types are in the minority. Too small to make the additional R&D, CNC, and marketing investments beyond the V-K and V-R worthwhile from a business perspective. I would imagine that WM also wants to be careful about treading too far into Jackson's*, ESP's, and BC Rich's stomping grounds.

* I assume the Fender license has some particular limitations.

On a more sensible direction as far as a wish list, I'd love to see expanded options for bass neck inlays beyond dots and blocks.

 

[TBurst Std]

I’ve always like the Eagle and Mockingbird. One of those 2 the W used to do decades ago.

 

[NedRyerson]

Mock is one of my favorite shapes, and I'm at the point of being able to build my own. A long-term project on my list has been a Mock baritone (make the body myself and order a WM bari neck).

 

[Strat Avenger]

Let me add again... reverse ice man

You mean "Fireman"? Would be cool, but Paul Gilbert may send Warmoth a Cease & Desist if they did that.

 

[teleme01]

I would like to see a true semihollow body, with bolt on neck, and rear access.

 

[vernschrock]

QC has been an absolute joke on most of the factory instruments I've received lately. Terrible fretwork needing a full level/recrown out of the box, misaligned bridges (my biggest peeve), cracked dry fingerboards, electronic issues, truss rods that do nothing, etc. I'm DUE for a good one. My distaste with quality control on factory instruments is what led me to Warmoth in the first place. If I have to repair all the work that the factory chose not to finish, I may as well get the parts from Warmoth and just do it myself.

I agree 100%!!!!!

I'm at the point where I feel most factory guitars are absolutely worthless. The only purpose these things really seem made for, is to be shoved into a closet and forgotten about. And, I'm sorry if this ruffles any feathers, but "Custom Shop" guitars from the big names aren't much better; it's just a fancy paint job, but made out of the same cheap crap materials the budget examples are made of. It's about the business of selling, and selling a TON. Economies of scale and all that.

 

[ghostrider25]

Another vote for off-menu options to be just listed as options.

Notes for Order: "I would like my guitar body animal style, please."

 

[rockandroller]

My next 7/8th build will need no neck pickup, and a nice big SLOT for adjusting the truss rod nut WITH THE STRINGS ON. Nothing annoys me more than taking the neck off repeatedly just to tweak the setup. Give us the truss rod slot in the body option, please.

Another wish is a real pointy headstock, like the old Carvin "angled" headstock (which I think was by Westone, originally)

Another wish is Mooncaster bodies WITH NO BINDING. Come on, Warmoth, give us some forearm comfort on the hollowbodies ( bass and guitar!)
I get it that the binding is to hide the top join, so that the body can be chambered - but I dont mind if thats a "solid paint colors" only option, but I'd prefer a nice big edge radius, like a rickenbacker 360 (non-bound style). I could live with the bound BACK, even... ( a la Rickenacker!) - would happily sacrifice the belly cut for some forearm comfort.