What was your first Warmoth build?

[willyk]

It doesn't have to be a complete instrument..
            Mine was a replacement neck for an old Japanese Profile P Bass. I bought the bass as a back up about twenty years ago and pulled the frets out of it on a whim. After discovering that Jaco had nothing to worry about, the butchered victim went under the house. I decided to resurrect it a few years ago and started looking around the after market suppliers for a left handed neck. I found Warmoth and the rest, as they say, is history. I bought a plain maple/rosewood P bass neck, had it fretted with skinny little 6230 wire and a corian nut. It was the cheapest bass neck on the showcase at the time and I was mightily impressed with the quality.

I have since replaced the corian for a bone nut and use the bass with
flatwound strings. It gets a lot more excercise than it used to...​

 

[DangerousR6]

This is my first Warmoth build, back in '99

 

[guitlouie]

My first Warmoth build was my chambered cherryburst Strat with flamed Anegre neck with Pau Ferro fretboard.  Did it just last year, though I have been dreaming of building a guitar with Warmoth parts since high school when I had a paper catalog sent to me from an ad in the back of a magazine.  Last year when I was trying to find a hardtail strat, and couldn't, I again thought of Warmoth.  Couple months of obsessing, and viola......

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

First and only...so far.  It's in the J-Bass section.

 

[Xplorervoodoo]

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=2800.0

 

[Lucky #7]

Bengal Burst LP.

I'm hoping for a second in the next couple of months.

 

[dbw]

It's barely approaching its first birthday but it feels (and looks) very worn-in.  Great warm sounds.

 

[kreig]

My red tele...built in 83? or so. I bought a plank of Quilted Maple. I planed and laminated the body and rough cut the tele shape.
It's a 3 pc body. And I bought a righty birdseye neck from Warmoth.
I had Paul Stroh do all the rest, He shot the Blood Red on the fretboard which I requested and I put gold-leaf numbers as side dot
markers on the right side of the neck and he shot clear over it.
It's been my most played guitar and it has a SD Hotstack
Eddie Van Halen's FrankenStrat inspired the 1 PUP/ 1 knob.
Her name is Vicki

I believe he had a Warmoth neck on that guitar while it was evolving ,BTW.

 

[RLW]

My first Warmoth was traded for an Ovation and a Gibson BR-9 lapsteel well over 20 years ago. It was an alder hardtail Strat body with a birdseye maple/rosewood neck. Bought it the old fashioned snail-mail way from one of their print catalogs. Had the luthier at Guitar Trader in Red Bank NJ paint the body Fiesta Red. The entire guitar weighed in the neighborhood of 11 lbs., in case you're wondering why I traded it.

 

[Kublai]

Mahogany carved top LPS finished with Blazing Copper.
Wenge neck, BR fboard.

It has had issues -
UPS wrecked it on the way to me from the luthier.
All the other problems were bad choices made on my part, such as pups and fret size.
Nothing wrong with the W components. It was all quality stuff.

It has recently been dis-assembled in an attempt to remove the bad mojo. New all rosewood neck on the way for it, and BKP Mules will be ordered shortly. I think I will keep the UPS relic job finish.

EDIT - In no way do I want this post to sound like I am knocking W. Since that first guitar I have built a Jazz bass that is nice and a VIP that is fan-freakin-tastic. And am plotting the rest of the components to go on a Strat body I grabbed a few weeks ago. I love W!

 

[DocNrock]

My first has been posted here, but then the neck changed to be one of the more recent...  :dontknow: :icon_scratch: ???

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I wanted a Warmoth LP Bad, but then i saw this and just got it.

Just about 5 minutes ago i received the tung oil to finish it with and the neck will be ordered as soon as the Aussie dollar reaches 90 us cents again.

 

[willyk]

That's great news on the oil Wana. Not so great about the Pacific Peso having to reach 90 cents again. I reckon that body will be well and truly cured by the time the neck arrives.  :sad:

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

That's great news on the oil Wana. Not so great about the Pacific Peso having to reach 90 cents again. I reckon that body will be well and truly cured by the time the neck arrives.  :sad:

Cured, wired up and bridge and other goodies installed.

I'm hoping that the Aussie dollar reaches 90c by next week.  Fat chance though :sad:

 

[stubhead]

I had put together a few strat-HB-whammy things way back in the 80's sometimes, when you put car paint or furniture finish on 'em. I had a brown one and a browner one.... dog knows where those guys went - in the 90's I got all stupid about job-career-wife-house etc. and have only this new century regained my senses. I more wish I had my Travis Bean TB1000 and B.C. Rich Mockingbird back...

 

[tfarny]

My first, about a year ago. Lots a good stuff on it, great learning experience.

 

[GoDrex]

basswood replacement body in 1990

I think this one turned out a lot better:

2008

 

[m4rk0]

here's mine! 4 or 5 years old now.. this was my original #1, a japanese "contemporary 22" which I played since '86.
the body is alder with a fantastic birdseye maple top (aka your grannies coffee table / Skin Disease for some of you)
and my favorite bridge hb, a rg bbq

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

It was a Basswood Strat, pearl white, with a white pearl pickguard, 3 single coils, but I put a Duncan Stack in the bridge, Original Floyd.

I haven't seen pics of it in years, this was back in the late 80's, 91 at the latest.

 

[willyk]

   :kewlpics:   everybody, keep'em comin'  :headbang:

Hey Drex, I think your goldie is magnificent but your "tattoo" star is the felines night attire   :cool01: