Recent content by MoreSpaceEcho

+1 Can't stand the "hide the new guitar from the wife" thing. Guitar culture is soooo overwhelmingly dudely already, stuff like that just makes it worse. While I'm at it: dudes referring to their guitars as "she". Yuck, no, never.

That looks beautiful!

Also, just to be clear: I'm definitely NOT saying that any old DIY'er can do a fancy dye job with a glossy finish that's gonna look anywhere close to what you'd get from Warmoth. I certainly can not! I couldn't even make red on flame maple look good (that guitar ended up, you guessed it, black)...

I see the OP decided to go with a finished body, but for other n00bs reading, IMO/E if you can stain a piece of wood, you can totally do the finish yourself. I wouldn't attempt a painted finish myself, I really don't think I could make that look acceptably good, but dyeing/staining is fun...

I can't play a standard tele for more than a couple minutes, I need the contours, especially the forearm one. I took an angle grinder to my real tele and contoured it, which ruined any resale value but made it infinitely more comfortable. For me, a strat, soloist, or contoured tele are...

Yeah the tops on both of those look great. Really nice work.

Forgive me a stupid n00b question: If I want the control knobs in my own special, perfect place, it's no big deal to drill holes through an unfinished body, right? No finish to mess up, I can just drill a dang hole, like one does? Follow up: does it matter if I use a paddle bit like the pic...

Foil was completely unharmed and is resting comfortably.

Aaron's not kidding about that stuff being sharp. I put together a soloist over the weekend, my 8th build, so I'm not a total beginner, and even after watching the video and being careful I still managed to cut myself. Fortunately the cut is on my fretting hand index finger, don't use that one...

Can we not get a chambered soloist? I swear it used to be an option.

Big fan of the Musiclander, I've built two. I bet the tele pickups/bridge will look great on that body shape. Can't go wrong with those locking hipshot tuners, and I agree, those knobs look great. Look forward to seeing this thing!

I'd like a Shell Pink strat to go with them! And a Sonic Blue strat to go with the pink one. And then of course I'm going to need a Seafoam Green one... As an aside, I told my wife (owner of 2 strats herself), when we eventually move to a new house we're painting all the rooms classic Fender...

I wish! There's some Fenders and Charvels in the rack in back. For me Warmoth's default standard thin, 10-16 neck is a perfect middle ground between those two. 6 Warmoths: 2 strats, teles and musiclanders. Apparently I like the buddy system. There's a soloist in progress and that's going to...

Hi. First post. Just wanted to say I've rarely encountered anything that's impressed me as much as the quality of Warmoth's necks and bodies. I'm a newb to partscasters, with a rudimentary set of tools, and I can put these together no problem, do a basic setup and they play just great. I built...