warmoth experience?

[jeffbonny]

The one Warmoth neck I've bought played great with nothing other than a minor truss rod tweak required.

As for the neck dive issue I found the guys at Warmoth very helpful in recommending a minimum weight for a body to balance with the neck I was inquiring about recently.

[walterw]

Originally Posted by Grabow

Originally Posted by JLS

Most of their necks will require a fretleveling & recrowning, I've found.

see, that's what gets me. after you pay $300 for a neck, you have to turn around and shell out more money for a full fret leveling/ crowning.

I have owned 7 Warmoth necks, never once did i need to do anything other than screw it in and play. have you ever owned a Warmoth neck?

owned one (a strat), but more important, installed scores, if not hundreds, over the years. (i don't doubt JLS's experience is similar)

bolted right on, they played OK to pretty well; with a judicious level and crown, done in a tensioning jig, they played awesome, like sadowsky/lull/lakland awesome.

it all depends on how fussy you are about playability.

again, if warmoth somehow invented a way to build guitars that needed no initial fret leveling, everybody else would quickly follow suit.

[Bogfish]

Just finished my first Warmoth. Jazz - Korina body,rosewood neck,macassar ebony fretboard with gold frets. Dimarzio model Js,gold hipshot bridge(just ordered babicz),250k linear volumes-500k audio tone cts pots. .051 "black cat" cap,gold gretsch arrow knobs,and gold Gotoh ultralights reverse tuners. Danish oil finish-wet sanded with 600grit. Had to have the fret ends polished, standard 30*cut was a little sharp. Awesome playing and great sounding bass compared to my others -50th Anniversary MiA Jazz,30th Stingray. Neck incredible-sooo easy to play. Like buttah! Told my wife to bury me with this one so I can have it up there.
Only problem now is NOT building another one.



Old thread -sorry. Some pics of how she started.

[deepestend]

Can you post a picture? Sounds awesome.

[walterw]

i can see the gretsch knobs with the embossed arrows, nice touch!

how's the balance? korina's a pretty light wood, while solid rosewood for the neck is pretty heavy, right? i'm sure the light keys helped out there.

[Bogfish]

A few pics- unfinished body alone weighed 6.2lbs per warmoth -this piece of korina was heavy. No neck dive -balances perfectly on a 4inch Italia strap, but you most certainly feel it there. Bass feels resonant and alive even though weighty. Notes vibrate strongly through the body- you can really feel them, and seem to sustain forever. Watcos danish oil finish is satin smooth and has a wonderful sheen. No waxing or buffing has been done. I was pleasantly surprised at how much the grain contrast improved, and how prominent the fiddlebacking became, using just the danish oil. Neck is raw with a bore oil finish.

[Bogfish]

Gassin to build another- perhaps a p/j in arctic white.... hmmn..

[fivestringgecko]

I wasn't 100% sure where to post this, so here it is. lol

I built a Gecko about 14 years ago that later had action/playability problems. I had installed a Kahler bridge from Warmoth that has independent saddles for each string (a form of screw that you turn to raise/lower each string), and the problem I was running into was that the saddles were bottomed out and couldn't go any lower.

Warmoth no longer offers this bridge that I thought was so cool at the time, but 14 years later when I called, Rob didn't hesitate for a second to help out. On his suggestion, I shimmed the neck with a couple strips of a business card, and it now plays like a new bass. The saddles are still bottomed out, but it'll work until I can get the bass in to get routed for a different bridge.

He didn't outright say it, but I barely mentioned that bridge and he already knew what I was going to say. I think he agreed that that bridge sucks. lol

5sg.

[kurosawa]

I bought a body and a neck from them and they didn't fit each other. Neck pocket needed to be enlarged. Of course if I had wanted to screw with it myself with a Dremel tool I wouldn't have bought Warmoth.

[Bogfish]

The neck pocket on my build was perfect. I could gently set the neck in the pocket and lift the body up without the screws. I didnt have to do a thing-certainly not with a dremel. I found the build fairly easy. Good luck - YMMV

[kurosawa]

It was the butt end of the neck that didn't fit the neck pocket. The contours on the curved parts didn't match. It really sucked because it was a non-pickguard model with rear routing. The neck fits other bodies nicely, so it is the neck pocket that is bad.