What would it take...

[Ddbltrbl]

...to get Warmoth to offer a few necks in the showcase with an option for no inlay or to choose the inlay of your preference at some extra cost?

Or, to offer a few LP or LPS bodies in the showcase with an option to choose a bridge other than a TOM?

Anybody else think these are good ideas? :dontknow:

 

[line6man]

I just want them to stop RUINING everything in sight with hideous cream dots! :sad:

 

[thewrathchilde]

I just want them to stop RUINING everything in sight with hideous cream dots! :sad:

+1, if a guy is willing to spend $300-500 on a neck then he probably isn't going to hold back over charging an extra $15 and putting in Mother of Pearl or Abalone instead of plastic dots.

 

[bagman67]

I think the inlay goes on and then the fingerboard is radiused.  So it's not just a matter of a little extra work - the entire order of operations prevents it.  Once the board is radiused,  there's nothing else you can do to it besides fretting.

 

[line6man]

I think the inlay goes on and then the fingerboard is radiused.  So it's not just a matter of a little extra work - the entire order of operations prevents it.  Once the board is radiused,  there's nothing else you can do to it besides fretting.

Yep. AFAIK, once they inlay a neck, there's not much you can do.

 

[Ddbltrbl]

I have to agree that killing the crappy cream dots would be great start! But, you could offer the option before radiusing them, couldn't you? Maybe the option includes picking your faovrite radius??  :dontknow:

 

[JCizzle]

I'd like a neck with the James Hetfield man-to-wolf inlays... arty07:

 

[Ace Flibble]

We could just petition Warmoth to change what kind of cream dots they use. Even Squiers get a nicer shade of cream than the one Warmoth uses. I can't imagine it would be hard to stop using the terrible colour they have now and buy in some normal-coloured cream dot material. Or even just plain white plastic would be fine.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

The showcase is the impulse buy, slightly cheaper than build to order pricing.  It is also the go to place for one off prototypes and custom returns. If the scratch builds seldom get cream dots and the cheaper, less optioned showcase pieces still sell, why would they change anything?  As for other options, "why don't they do the custom options I would want for showcase pricing?" You just answered your own question and now understand why they have a showcase and do custom orders.

 

[Cagey]

I like the cream dots they use. I have them on several necks, and the only thing I'd change if I could would be to have no dots at all.

 

[erogenousjones17]

I'm with Cagey. Granted, I've only got one Warmoth neck, but it's got cream dots and it's never bothered me. :dontknow:

Next one probably won't have any though.  :icon_thumright:

 

[bagman67]

I like the cream dots on Quty Pie's neck. 

 

[SustainerPlayer]

No inlays, side dots only.

/thread

 

[Ddbltrbl]

The post wasn't really about the cream dots. That's personal taste (if you can call it that).

But an occassional offering without inlays would make sense given as many of them as I see in builds on the forum. We (the forum builders) are in a sense a marketing investment for Warmoth.

@STDC - No one is asking for additional options at showcase price. I specifically said, "at some extra cost."

But none of this explains why there are no LP/LPS bridge options. If it were simply a marketing concern and they were just trying to drive business to the body & neck builder, then why would they offer anything but 6 point bridges on the Strat bodies in the showcase? Given the price and possiblity of damage I could understand some hesitancy to offer options on the finished bodies, but that still leaves the un-finished ones? :dontknow:

 

[Cagey]

I think the answer is simply that they've been doing this for a long time and so have plenty of statistics to draw from and use to predict buying habits. Judging by what I see go by in the RSS feeds every day, the forum builders here are a really small percentage of their business. Their bread and butter really is replacement parts, so you see tons of Rosewood or Ebony on Maple Strat and Tele necks going out. Unless they're made of something figured or unusual, it's often smarter to simply replace a neck rather than re-fret and/or refinish an old one.

Same with bodies. Unless it's made of something exotic, getting an existing body refinished and/or re-routed costs as much as a new one that's already done. So, when replacing it you'd buy something you already have the hardware for.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I've lost count of the more of this, less of that, make me this showcase threads.  When a thread can't get consensus, how can the showcase please everybody? 

 

[Updown]

Their suppose to have a new Black MOP as an option, since they now have it.
But I can't see it anywhere yet !!

On a similar note .......
This should be a simple option available on guitar necks too.
Shouldn't be to hard to implement  :dontknow:
They already do it for Bass.
Lined frets  :icon_thumright:
http://www.warmoth.com/Pages/ClassicShowcase.aspx?Body=1&Bass=1&Path=Spotlight&fWire=49

 

[Wyliee]

Fretless guitar necks are available.  That's a pretty rare option.  Contact the sales team for more details.


As has been noted, inlay work is done before the fingerboard is radiused and the necks in the Showcase have already been radiused.