Why I'm glad I put together a couple Warmoths

[KaiserSoze]

So my wife, who is awesome, picked me up a Chinese LP copy she saw in a store.  Now, several years ago I would have thought "I wonder how fast I can sell it?".  Instead, because I can't afford to do another Warmoth build yet, and with my experience assembling and tinkering with a couple builds, I thought "I cant wait to tear it apart".

So, Since I already have a great humbucker guitar, I thought P90s.  New GFS pickups, new tuners, bridge, and all new wiring, pots, switches, jack, and nut.  The frets needed work, and I've never done that before, so I got some good advice here and it turned out great. 
Doin the wiring I ran into some issues but the good news is that I was forced to research and learned a lot. 

End of the day a fumbling non expert was able to take a semi-crappy guitar and make it into a good one.  I don't pretend to hear the difference between a $40 P90 and a $150 P90 or wtf a "pronounced mid-range" is, but it plays great, holds tune well, and sounds really raunchy.  Where my other guitar sings, this barks.  Clash tunes sound great.  Thank you Warmoth and DIY compadres.  Looking forward to the next one.
 

 

[anorakDan]

That looks very cool! Frets look smooth. Love the pickups. The only little niggly-bit is the empty pot hole. Is that a volume-tone-tone pot setup, or volume-volume-tone?

Great job, do-it-yourselfer!

 

[KaiserSoze]

Hi.  Thats my laziness; meaning I did a V-V-T setup because I didnt feel like going out to buy another 500K pot.  I have a treble-bleed on only the neck pickup for the same reason.  I like it tho, so I'll probably keep it and put a bandaid over it or something.

 

[Alfang]

Just take one of the original crappy pots and put it in the empty hole, put a knob on it and done.

 

[anorakDan]

Your local hardware store should sell both plastic and metal caps that should fit about perfectly. Or, just drop in a red, push button switch, wired to nothing, just for show. Tell people it's a last resort, self-destruct button. -grin-

 

[Strat Avenger]

That's cool.  I actually did the opposite; learned about customizing guitars by tearing apart production models and using that knowledge to build my Warmoth. Either way, it works to your advantage.

 

[alterbridgefan]

Just buy some cheap pot or use the stock ones and just don't wire it up???!! :dontknow: