Will Warmoth Top Route ANY body style besides Strat?

[speedyone]

I have a 1983 Fender Elite Stratocaster, and I hate the Trem on it.

I want to keep the neck and transfer all the electronics + into a new Warmoth body.

However, I want to get a Velocity body, and the website only allows the option of rear-routing the control cavity.

Will Warmoth top-route it for an up charge, or will they ONLY rear route it?

Thanks for any help!

 

[ragamuffin]

They don't do top routes on the velocity because they don't have a pickguard designed for it.

If you want a top routed body keeping your electronics just as they are, I think your only options are a strat body or a "hybrid tele" (tele shaped with a strat style guard)

 

[Rick]

Speedy, you need to call the mothership. I think not, but you never know until you ask. Call them tomorrow.

 

[Fender.Fan]

They will omit the routings all together if you’d like, it’s usually like a $50 upcharge. You’d obviously have to do your own routing though

 

[Hodgo]

For my latest project Spike said “we can’t offer that because the pickguard won’t fit”. I said “I’m making my own, I accept the risk”, lo and behold they did it.

Give em a call.

 

[aarontunes]

We do top routs on tons of bodies. If it's got a corresponding pickguard that means it's top routed.

Examples of bodies that can be either top or rear routed:

• Tele
• Strat
• J Bass
• P Bass
• Switchback
• Jazzmaster

OTOH there are many models that only come rear routed, and the Velocity is one of them. Soloist is another, although....

 

[BroccoliRob]

Soloist is another, although....

WHAT

 

[supertruper1988]

We do top routs on tons of bodies. If it's got a corresponding pickguard that means it's top routed.

Examples of bodies that can be either top or rear routed:

• Tele
• Strat
• J Bass
• P Bass
• Switchback
• Jazzmaster

OTOH there are many models that only come rear routed, and the Velocity is one of them. Soloist is another, although....

please please please make a soloist pickguard body. I have 6 soloists in my possession and I would order a couple more if I could get them front routed. Hands down my favorite body shape.

 

[Rick]

I'd love to see a reverse iceman.

 

[ruscio]

We do top routs on tons of bodies. If it's got a corresponding pickguard that means it's top routed.

Examples of bodies that can be either top or rear routed:

• Tele
• Strat
• J Bass
• P Bass
• Switchback
• Jazzmaster

OTOH there are many models that only come rear routed, and the Velocity is one of them. Soloist is another, although....

Although...? I'd love to pick up a soloist if they came front routed.

 

[bonesofwrath]

Oooooh yeah definitely a fan of top routed soloists. And I'd love to see new but appropriate pickguards for the Z and ML (correct me if I'm wrong, but the ML pickguard might just be a Mustang pickguard).