What's the hardest part about building a Warmoth?

[Mor Paul]

Secondhand experience, Wyliee.

I'm pretty sure that's not cool if you're having secondhand experience with someone's wife.  Who's gonna call Max's mom to tattle?

-Mark

I will.  I was gonna call Max's mom later on tonight anyway.   :icon_biggrin:

:icon_jokercolor: Nice.

 

[Superlizard]

The hardest part is trying to figure out what Warmoth you're gonna build next, and stopping yourself from actually doing so when you don't quite have the $$$ yet.

 

[Orpheo]

hardest part:

1: waiting for the parcell to arrive!
2: drilling the holes for the tuners without crapping myself that I drill THROUGH the headstock (did that once on an ALLPARTS neck;don't wanna do that again! To sum up all the misery I had: I was holding the neck with my left hand near the head, and drilled with my right, RIGHT into the palm of my left hand; all I could do was laugh, yank out the drillbit out of the drill, and turn it out of my hand; no blood whatsoever by the way  :laughing3: :laughing11: :laughing7: :icon_scratch: )
3: making sure everything is STRAIGHT and square (humbucker rings, but on a strat/tele you don't have that problem, huh...) and output jack.
4: the ability to be patient when building it.

I can't imagine nothing else as being a real problem.

 

[Return of Guitlouie]

Final setup is the trickiest part.  The only other hard thing is just getting up the nerve to drill that first hole.  It's cake to get it together, if you have good sense and at least a little handiness.  You got those?


P.S., The really hardest thing is becoming an addict and wanting more more more, but having to wait until funds are available.  :sad1:

 

[JaySwear]

Drilling into a new neck for the first time.  Scary...

this was definitely the scariest thing for me, too.

and the worst problem i've had so far is finding out i'm missing little parts. pickup mounting screws were my latest problem. i've got everything BUT those. it's a problem  :-\  but i'm unorganized. i found out i had the most detailed list in the world when i custom ordered my body and neck, but when i needed parts i forgot everything except the pickups haha

 

[Phrygian]

Not rushing the project!

 

[Kvebbs]

Here is an easy way to avoid what I think was the hardest part; Don't install the studs yourself with only a hammer and a small piece of nylon-fabric to help you... It took me like a 100 knocks with the hammer, and eventually..... 1 will be a slight miss Luckily it was my friends thumb, and not the guitar I hit......  :laughing8:

The rest is simple, just think, and measure twice before drilling etc...

 

[PitchShifter]

The hardest part is building only one guitar... at a time.  I have three builds happening right now, lol.

-Mark

I feel your pain! Get halfway through something and see something else nice pop up!

Doing my own wiring is the final frontier for me, though getting a professional paint finish seems the hardest part IMHO.

I have dreadful patience, and that seems to be the #1 thing I find hardst of all.

 

[Jeremiah]

Thanks for all the ideas and advice.

As I said, it will be a while before I actually get to start a build, so I'll have plenty of time to think about what specs and components I want.

For now, I'm practicing on an old 'project' guitar - an 80s Aria Pro II; the idea was first to replace the pickups and rewire it using the existing pots/switches etc, and then replace everything with good quality components, but I'm finding there are some non-standard parts that I can't find replacements for (like a 3-way switch that looks like a Tele switch, but the mounting holes are the wrong distance apart.)

So I see why it might be a better idea to get something like a Squier that uses standard size parts.

The hardest thing so far was replacing the tremolo with a vintage-type hardtail bridge, that involved cutting wood to fill the tremolo cavity and then drilling the holes for the new bridge. It looks ugly and I wrecked the finish, but other than that it seems to be OK.

However, I'll probably leave any work on levelling/dressing the frets or nut to a pro as I can see myself ruining the whole neck and needing a refret if I try it myself.

 

[clearerphish]

the hardest part is keeping confidence in your original vision through to final assembly. I must have changed my mind 100 times while I was building my first Warmoth. Now I'm waffling on whether my next build will be a 12 string VIP or a 5 string Gecko.

The easy part is walking knowingly right smack into an expensive addiction.

 

[Finch]

Hardest part is making up your mind what to build.....

+1 qouted for truth