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Warmoth Owners Club!!

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Just weighed it and it's just under 8 lbs or 3.6kg. Nice weight, although slightly neck heavy, with the big vintage style tuners. It was more noticeably neck heavy before I reduced the headstock size. I'd been using it with regular smaller string ferules and when I installed the much bigger vintage correct ones, the balance improved slightly, which I really didn't expect.
 
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AphekGreg said:
Just weighed it and it's just under 8 lbs or 3.6kg. Nice weight, although slightly neck heavy, with the big vintage style tuners. It was more noticeably neck heavy before I reduced the headstock size. I'd been using it with regular smaller string ferules and when I installed the much bigger vintage correct ones, the balance improved slightly, which I really didn't expect.
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Nice, I don't know about your taste, but all my Fenders and Fender style instruments get hipshot ultralites
 
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joeyl said:
Nice, I don't know about your taste, but all my Fenders and Fender style instruments get hipshot ultralites
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I do have 2 necks with Ultralites. I have actually found they change the tone slightly. The tone is slightly less crisp and tight. I assume due to the lower mass. I was quite surprised, but have confirmed it by swapping tuners on a couple of necks. Much nicer to use though and the tone isn't worse, it's just different.

With this bass I was going for a fairly accurate '51 style bass, so went for period correct parts. I could have just bought a MIJ version, but I knew this would be better and I wanted the nitrocellulose finish. I even went as far as getting flat slotted screws rather than phillips head.

Of course I completely ruined that from the start, by going with the Warmoth neck/body, instead of the square heel neck joint of the originals. Then using the Wilkinson intonatable (is that a word?) bridge and the Fralin split humbucking pickup.

It sounds great and nothing like my other P or J style basses. Much more woody and deep sounding. Ironically I owned a Jack Casady hollow body, that I was never totally happy with and this sounds the way I wanted it to sound. I assume due to the light weight body and the pickup being slightly closer to the neck.
 
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AphekGreg said:
I do have 2 necks with Ultralites. I have actually found they change the tone slightly. The tone is slightly less crisp and tight. I assume due to the lower mass. I was quite surprised, but have confirmed it by swapping tuners on a couple of necks. Much nicer to use though and the tone isn't worse, it's just different.

With this bass I was going for a fairly accurate '51 style bass, so went for period correct parts. I could have just bought a MIJ version, but I knew this would be better and I wanted the nitrocellulose finish. I even went as far as getting flat slotted screws rather than phillips head.

Of course I completely ruined that from the start, by going with the Warmoth neck/body, instead of the square heel neck joint of the originals. Then using the Wilkinson intonatable (is that a word?) bridge and the Fralin split humbucking pickup.

It sounds great and nothing like my other P or J style basses. Much more woody and deep sounding. Ironically I owned a Jack Casady hollow body, that I was never totally happy with and this sounds the way I wanted it to sound. I assume due to the light weight body and the pickup being slightly closer to the neck.
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Interesting find with the tuners...I'm sure it affects the sound at some level, when I switched to Ultralites on my Fender, the dead spot moved higher on the neck, from the C# to the E. I should switch back to the giant F stamped tuners and see if the sound gets clearer!
The 2 barrel bridges are horrible for intonation, and I think you made the right choice to go with modern solutions where you could.
 
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Tuner weight noticeably affecting tone, eh, not so sure about that. Im not calling anyone a liar but people tend to hear what they want to hear. The strings still go over a nut and under a string tree (in some cases) before even touching the tuners. That will affect the strings vibration far more than a tuner.
 
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Bass-Adrenaline said:
Tuner weight noticeably affecting tone, eh, not so sure about that. Im not calling anyone a liar but people tend to hear what they want to hear. The strings still go over a nut and under a string tree (in some cases) before even touching the tuners. That will affect the strings vibration far more than a tuner.
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not to start any tone discussions again :rollno: but the fathead dead spot remover works just by adding mass to the headstock, it does not touch the strings at all, but it does affect vibration. Of course, to me, all the belly button gazing tone consideration in the bedroom goes out the window once you play live, it either works or it doesn't, and small variations in tone are moot.
 
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Though not a member yet, I hope to be able to join soon, and I was just wondering from those who've experienced it, what is the turnaround time like for orders from Warmoth, for say, a showcase neck with a few added options (such as frets & a nut, but no finish)?

I know the bodies I want are going to take longer because I can't order the specifics of what I want with the showcase bodies (mainly string through and colors that don't seem to ever appear in the showcases, like Black Cherry Metallic).

Thanks
 
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Bass-Adrenaline said:
Tuner weight noticeably affecting tone, eh, not so sure about that. Im not calling anyone a liar but people tend to hear what they want to hear. The strings still go over a nut and under a string tree (in some cases) before even touching the tuners. That will affect the strings vibration far more than a tuner.
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It definitely does change the tone and it must be due to the mass. As joeyl pointed out, the fathead just adds mass to the headstock.

I have thoroughly investigated this, as I want to know the truth. I have changed tuners one by one, so I can hear the change in comparison to the other strings and there is clearly a difference.

I seriously considered using an Ultralite on the G string only on one bass. The G was particularly crisp and twangy and softening the attack really helped to balance the tone with the other strings.

As I said before, it isn't better or worse, just a different sound. The ultralites are much nicer tuners to use.
 
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Bass-Adrenaline said:
Like i said, i dont really buy it. Ive also changed to much lighter tuners and didnt notice any change. To each his own though, im not gonna argue about it.
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That's fine. The fact that you didn't hear it doesn't mean that joeyl and I didn't though. We're not talking massive changes, but there is one.

My day job for the last 20 years, is as a recording engineer. I'm very familiar with people hearing and not hearing different things. There are things that stick out like a sore thumb to some people, that others sitting in the same room listening to the same source can't hear at all.
 
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It's here, new Warmoth neck with graphite, it is lighter but not as light as my MIA Fender Jazz neck or USACG neck, probably due to the heavier truss rod style. That neck is gorgeous, it has both bird's eye and flame :) and the finish from Warmoth was top notch, thin and seemingly very hard, not rubbery like other poly finishes. :hyper:


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