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Roger Williamson<br />Words cannot express how happy I am with my guitar. An LP's style with a single "pearly gates" pickup mounted in the neck position. Mahogany Body with a walnut neck. I'm particularly fond of the oval markers on the neck which, by the way, fits my hand better than any other I've ever played. The tones I get out of this thing are nothing short of amazing. Whether I'm playing through a single 12, or four 10's, she gives me wonderful, rich tones and feels just great doing it! I couldn't be more impressed with the finish they applied to the wood. The contrast between the body and neck colors is perfect. The build was so much fun I had to slow myself down to keep from hyperventilating. The whole project turned out exactly as I had hoped, and she's just the guitar I wanted. She's the first brand new guitar I've ever owned, and I named her Cherry Red. I'd like to thank Gregg Stewart for all his help on the phone, keeping me up on all the details, and making great suggestions. I'd also like to thank the Warmoth brothers, for staying in business this long, and keeping their product real. Josh W<br />This is a LP with a Flame Maple top finished in a blue dye. The back is left natural. The neck is canary with an ebony board. It is loaded with a Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro in the neck and a Seymour Duncan SH-11 Custom Custom in the bridge. Josh Wager<br />This is a LP with a Quilt Maple top finished in a Bengal Burst with an Amber finished back. The neck is Black Korina with an ebony board. It is loaded with Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Pickups in the neck and bridge positions. Jay Potter<br />Paul the Explorer First Warmoth build. LP swamp ash body with book matched flame top, Explorer maple neck with Rosewood Freetboard and Schaller tuners. Single EMG 81 with coil tap push/pull. Hand stained dark cherry finish by me. This guitar really screams, I've never felt a need for the neck p/up and really enjoy playing it with all styles of music. Can't wait to get my hands on some bass parts and see what happens. Paul Xerxen<br />Les Paul Double Cut. Warmoth mahogany body. Yellow dyed Flame Maple body with a Warmoth mahogany neck. Seymour Duncan hum cancelling P-90 pickups, with standard LP controls. My second Warmoth guitar, beautiful tone, and I think a real "eye catcher". Thanks again guys. Kevin Sanders<br />This one took a while! Warmoth Mahogany LPS body - grain filled (oil-based), sealed, primed, several coats of Duplicolor Metal Specks Silver, topped with 10 coats of clear Nitrocellulose Lacquer, cured 1 month, wet-sanded 800 & 1000 grit, micromesh pad dry sanding 1500-12000 grit, then buffed with Scratch-X and Hand Glaze. Warmoth Mahogany/Rosewood '59 Roundback neck natural finished/filled. Grover locking tuners. Warmoth pickguard. PRS HFS/VB pickups with coil split on the neck tone knob (push-pull). This baby is a straight-up, simple, rock MACHINE ... I may sell my American PRS to fund the build of another (couple) Warmoth guitars! Hannah Complin<br />This guitar is just gorgeous. It's a blue burst on a wild maple top with a black korina body, birdseye maple neck and Indian rosewood fretboard. And of course there the body and neck have full ivoroid binding. Warmoth did an excellent job with the parts, and I had a great time putting it together. It's really cool to have a guitar that people gasp at the first time they see it. It plays like butter too! N Backer<br />This is my pride and joy. Singlepiece purpleheart top on 2 piece indian rosewood, non-chambered, flamed canary neck, macassar ebony board, and again, custom inlay. She's finished with danish oil, to keep it super-natural, the pickups are my own design, wound by Jon from tone for days dot com. it's got an alnico 8 bar and alnico 5 slugs, as well as a special wind and wire. The tones I get from this guitar is huge, broad, wide. Playability, tone, looks; all unique and lovely. It has a slot for a slideswitch, the ones you see on Strat&reg; and Tele&reg; style guitars. I use it to control the middle pickup. In the down-position, its a 'stock' les paul, the middle does nothing. in the middle, its the middle always on, and in the up position, its the middle only. N Backer<br />Koa top on a walnut back. In real life, the figuring is much more pronounced! The neck is ziricote, with a high grade macassar ebony board, custom inlay (almost all the inlay patterns warmoth offers!) with a kahler bridge (7200 hybrid stud mount). the bridge and neck pickups are seymour duncan prails, and in the middle its an d-activator by Dimarzio. The tones I get from this guitar is huge, broad, and wide.Playability, tone, looks; all unique and lovely. It has a slot for a slideswitch, the ones you see on strats and teles. I use it to control the middle pickup. In the down-position, its a 'stock' les paul, the middle does nothing. in the middle, its the middle always on, and in the up position, its the middle only. It has for each pickup tone and volume, as well as coiltaps for the prails. Matthew Aebi<br />Here is my copy of a Gibson S-1. I used a flat top LP body and 24 3/4 conversion flying V neck. I finished the body in Nitro lacquer, and NOS Gibson pickups. This guitar is great for rock and blues, and plays like butter. Thanks for the great parts, Warmoth! Chris Schmidt<br />This guitar project was started as a build a guitar from scratch project. Unfortunately, it would have taken a lot longer than expected if it was not for Warmoth. The guitar is unique in that it was finished by a friend of mine, Dale, who finished it in Orange Shellac, which is similar to lacquer. The pickups are Seymour Duncan Antiquities, the bridge and tail piece are Gotoh gold (Purchased from Warmoth.). The guitar was setup by a guy in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Other than a few minor tweaks which are personal to my preferences, the guitar sounds like a well used 50's Les Paul. I purposely went with no binding to let the beautiful flamed top show off its best. This guitar is definitely going to be my main axe. Thank you very much to all the people at Warmoth, the quality of your work is incredible. Lots of Sustain and warmth. Due to the neck being a 59 roundback profile (the neck is great, comfortable, and perfect for my hands. Thank you Warmoth ! Chad Paxton<br />Mahogony chambered body, tone pros bridge, jumbo frets, boat neck out of Bubinga, (unfinished), Rosewood fret board, mother of pearl inlays, Seymour Duncan antiquitys, Gibson clay tuners. This sexy guitar has some tone too baby. Thanks Warmoth, I was shooting for as close to a 59' LP as I could get and got much more. This is without a doubt the greatest guitar that I have ever played. Carlos Lorenzo<br />Korina body and neck (rosewood fingerboard) with '59 contour, a Bigsby B7 (fits perfectly!), roller bridge and Kent Armstrong HB-sized P90s. Incredible tone, probably the best of the 9 Warmoth guitars I've made so far. Cory Verbin<br />This is the other half of my first Warmoth build(s) - a Goldtop for my 14 year old son. He spec'd everything out himself and we assembled it together with a buddy of mine. The body is mahogany with a maple top, finished by the folks at Warmoth in Goldtop gold w/clear gloss back. The neck is mahogany w/rosewood and trapezoid inlay; Corian nut and locking Sperzel tuners. The guitar is a stunner. I'm still having a hard time reconciling the fact that we actually built it. It looks incredible and feels and sounds amazing. It's light for a LP, a direct result of the tone chambered body. Despite it's comparative lack of heft and bolt-on neck, though, it has a characteristic LP tone. The Seymour Duncan '59 neck pickup is thick and warm and the JB bridge has more bite than I expected. Overall, it's one of the nicest LPs I've ever played, with a tone and feel that lives up to the name and enough of a unique personality to be a truly custom instrument. My son loves it and it's supplanted his Gibson SG as his #1 guitar. Lots more pics and a description of the build project here: http://corysblog.squarespace.com/ Dave Raco<br />LPS with Black Korina body and flame maple top. dyed with tobacco brown, sanded, than re-dyed with amber. DiMarzio PUs, Planer Waves tuners, and Gotoh bridge. Gary Drechsel<br />All mahogany chambered body with carved top and cream binding. Gold top gold paint and trans red on the back. Black paint on the headstock. Rosewood fingerboard with no inlays. SD Custom/'59 Hybrid bridge, SD Jazz neck. "Jimmy Page" wiring with four push pull pots. Planet Waves locking tuners. TUSQ nut. Schaller strap locks. Gotoh TOM bridge and stop piece. Custom neck plate by DangerousR6 (see unofficialwarmoth.com). Made in April '08 Tim Farnsworth<br />My Warmoth LP, this is my #1. Solid mahogany body, Rosewood '59 neck, ebony board. A lovely player and a lifetime keeper. Andika Eri Trianto<br />L.P. flat top.The body is a mahogany, The neck is a Maple with an rosewood or i call it a sonokeling fret board...with GnB pickups my Guitar name is HarPa'uL...because the desain is Les Paul and i put a harpa in the flat top body...with pentatonic scale...i love pentatonic ,....warm, bitting, cutting, and rocking sound love rock and roll Dane Boulay<br />Here is my homegrown Warmoth LPS. Body and neck are mahogany, fretboard is rosewood. Pickups are SD Phat Cat pickups, hardware is Gotoh. The paint is Dupont Competition Yellow. Plays like a dream and sounds great. Rock solid, and a looker too! Thanks Warmoth! Dan Weiner<br />This is my second 100% Warmoth. This guitar is awesome. The quilt maple/mahogany body and quilt bubinga/ebony neck were both showcase items. The finish is incredible, and the ivoroid binding is a very nice touch. The neck is raw. The pickups are Rio Grande TX/BBQ.<br> <br> This guitar sounds so good and plays so smooth, I never play anything else. I can get any sound I need out of this one... all my other guitars have the strings rusting off.<br> <br> Everyone should stop by unofficialwarmoth.com and say hello! Jason Method<br />My old '92 flattop LP that's been the subject of many modifications. Currently on it's 3rd neck, a short scale maple/rosewood with standard contour and 6130 frets. Current bridge is an 80's Kahler 2200 mounted in a new aluminum 2300 base, bridge pickup is an old Duncan Distortion, neck is a '59. #1 gigging guitar!<br> <br> PS, the paint job is NOT a Truckster rip, I painted it like my old bug, which in turn is painted like and old German fighter plane sans markings, circa 1944 Russian campaign. Hetfield copied ME!!! Antonio Morello<br />This is my first project I've done with Warmoth.<br> <br> Mahogany body with gloss finish and the color is cherry burst<br> Rosewood mahogany neck is like a standard Les Paul with 24 3/4 inch scale length with a clear satin finish.<br> Two push/push pots for coil splitting.<br> <br> I have never accomplished something like this in my life and I've never been more proud. I always wanted to buy myself a Les Paul but as a 15 year old kid they weren't too easy to buy. So I decided to build myself a Les Paul. To do this I researched a lot on putting together the parts. My guitar teacher was a big help in this project and I'm very grateful. <br> <br> This is by far the best instrument I've played, i can go from many genres of music with it. It was a joy to put together.<br> <br> I'd also like to thank Spike for helping me out with the customer service.<br> <br> After building this guitar I am very dedicated to building another one. I'm still thinking what type of guitar. Øyvind Storhaug<br />My second Warmoth project. Les Paul Custom<br> A true one-of-a-kind Custom!<br> <br> Here it is, all Warmoth construction:<br> all besides the tuners<br> <br> LP Carved Top,hollow one-piece mahogany back, quilt maple top, cream binding, tobacco burst finish, transparent brown backfinish.<br> <br> 24 3/4 Scale Conversion LP neck, mahogany, Indian rosewood fingerboard, cream binding, pearl block inlay, 12 radius, standard thin contour, 6150 frets, matching bodyback/neckback finish, black gloss pegface.<br> <br> Gotoh tuners from StewMac, Gotoh Tune-O-Matic, all hardware in gold.<br> <br> Original Gibson Burstbucker Pro's, neck and bridge.<br> <br> <br> The guitar plays, and sounds fantastic! Just like a great original Paul! Thanks again Warmoth! Rob Moore<br />This is my second Warmoth.An LPS flat top with a select quilt maple top, mahogany body, mahogany neck and ebony fretboard. <br> Top is a black-red-yellow sunburst with black binding and transparent red back, which matches the transparent red neck and black headstock. <br> Pickups are Seymour Duncan Prails with a graphtech ghost piezo on the vintage bridge.<br> P90's, Humbuckers, single coils, accoustic sounds they're all there.<br> As usual, the quality of the Warmoth workmanship is superb thanks guys !!! bill keaveny<br />The body is walnut with a padouk lam top. It has front and rear contours and a contoured heel. Neck is padouk/ebony. 12 radius standard thin with 6130 frets. Pearly Gates neck and StagMag bridge pups have individual mini switch coil splits. Syd Zilla<br />The Resonance from the body is substantial due to the light coat of finish. It is hard to find nitro in stores now and days. The electronics include one volume pot and a seymour duncan P90 Phatcat the pick up is Crunch when used with a high gain setup and epic when pluged into a sunn reverb amp. over all a flexible guitar used for any genre. Bill Taylor<br />This is my first Warmoth build. I got the body off the showcase and custom ordered the neck. The body is Mahogany with Flame Maple top. The neck is Bubinga/Ebony. The pickups are Bareknuckle Pickups from the UK. All the parts were of the absolute best quality. The entire thing went together without any hassle. Looks and, more importantly, sounds great. Since I built this one, I have built an LP for my son and have the parts on order for a Spalted Maple Tele&reg; style guitar.<br> <br> V/R <br> Bill Benjamin Onnhed<br />LPS mahogany body, mahogany neck with rosewood board, all in gold top gold. Seymour Duncan Vintage P90. My first Warmoth, but not the last! Wayne Powell<br />I saw a body of the same color as my project in the Warmoth Gallery and thought, what an awesome guitar it would be if I got a Les Paul style body with the same color and put a Strat® style neck on it. I couldn't visualize how it would look, whether it would look weird or not, but as you can see, it looks OK. The body is a Warmoth one piece Alder back with AAAAA grade Flame Maple carved top with a neck contour, Strat controls with a Clapton pre amp installed. The pick-ups are Lace Sensor and the neck is a Warmoth Pro neck with stainless steel frets. I am basically a Strat® player and have several, but also have a Gibson “ Black Beauty” Les Paul. I tend not to play the Les Paul that often, as I am used to playing my Strats. I love the Les Paul shape and wanted one that I could play with ease, hence putting the Strat® style neck on it with Vin-style machine heads. The guitar has great tone and sustain and sounds about halfway between a Strat and Les Paul.I have called the Guitar Les Strat on the headstock. My nickname for it is frenchy. Rob Moore<br />The quality of the finish, the accuracy of the routing, the attention to detail and overall quality is second to none. Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, PRS, and all the rest...look out Warmoth products are comin' to git ya !!!<br> <br> To all the guys at Warmoth, Spike and Brian in particular, thanks for all your efforts this will not be the last....<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Rob Moore Bucky Jaszewski<br />I absolutely love my Warmoth LP. Chambered Mahogany body with spruce top and cherry sunburst finish with natural masked binding. Birdseye maple neck with Brazilian rosewood fretboard. The neck is a '59 contour and finished with 10 coats of oil and urethane topcoat. Pickups are Golden Age vintage, these pickups sound surprisingly good. Alot of bang for the buck. Sperzel locking tuners, Gotoh bridge and stop tailpiece.<br> This guitar is very light but sounds amazing. I can't wait to start my next project! Seamus Duffy<br />LP CARVED TOP MADE FROM KOA, BACK FROM MAHOGANY. NECK FROM MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD. Alawn Koh<br />First build, a Warmoth LP white korina on white korina with natural masked binding, Honduras mahogany pickup rings, PRS Tremonti Treble and Bass pickups, Amber speed knobs, 6105 fretwires, clear satin finish on dark mahogany 59' LP neck contour and ebony fretboard, Planet waves tuners, graphite nut, GOTOH TOM/STP. Nice weight, balanced tone, baby smooth neck and workmanship makes this my best LP ever. Thanks Warmoth! Bob Iglody<br />Warmoth mahogany/flame maple body, birdseye maple/birdseye-maple neck with 6100 frets. I mix my own lacquer colors and spray the finishes.I own 15 plus high quality guitars and this is now my number one guitar for blues and rock. bill keaveny<br />The body is a Swamp Ash flat top with front, rear and neck contours. The neck is a Pro standard thin with a variax headstock,graphite nut and 6130 frets all rosewood. Gold hardware from Warmoth and Seymour Duncan JB and 'Hot' P90 pickups. I filled the grain with black to accent the figuring and sprayed the body with satin poly I had tinted with wood stain. The neck is raw. Daniele Stradivari<br />Mahogany LP with Flamed Maple Carved Top. Nitrocellulose Finish. Wolfetone Pickups. Sounds great and looks great, too. Thanks to all at Warmoth! N. Backer<br />the right-side-up guitar is from warmoth. Malagassy rosewood neck, singlepiece chambered mahogany back, quilt maple top. The inlay has been done by a friend of mine. The pickups in this guitar are nowadays custom-build pickups 22K ohm/ceramic-alnicoV magnet combinatio for the neck and the bridge-pickup, to achieve true singlecoil sounds, and blistering humbucker sounds. the middle pickup, again, is fake. The tuners are sperzels as well, and the tremolo is also a hipshot.<br> <br> warmoth guitars are THE best. I sold almost all my guitars to buy exclusivly warmoths. I had gibson, PRS, Fender, Gretsch, and I only use my warmoths nowadays. I saved up for a new warmoth. N. Backer<br />The right-side-up guitar has a Korina back, Flamed maple top, and brazilian rosewood fingerboard and a Rio Rosewood neck. <br> <br> Luthiers in the Netherlands called this one 5A, warmoth called it 3A. For me it's 5A. <br> <br> Its loaded with sperzel locking tuners, hipshot tremolo and bareknuckle miraclemans in bridge and neck. The middle-pickup is a faux-pickup. <br> <br> warmoth guitars are THE best. I sold almost all my guitars to buy exclusivly warmoths. I had gibson, PRS, Fender, Gretsch, and I only use my warmoths nowadays. I saved up for a new warmoth, nr.3, and that one will be online as soon as I have that one. Tom Diklich<br />My pride and joy was completed In October of 2007. She is based on a showcase hollow body - all Indian Rosewood - and the custom padouk variable radius neck with ebony board and head. The fabulous inlay art is by Craig Lavin, and depicts a leaping Dorado lunching on a flock of flying fish. The tr cover and pickguard are ebony, and the guard is backed with sterling silver for support. She's finished with hand rubbed nitro. Here's a list of the goodies:<br> * Schaller black tuners with ebony knobs<br> * Ebony and rosewood knobs everywhere<br> * Ebony pup rings<br> * Lindy Fralin 8K/9K buckers<br> * Pagebucker wiring harness by Torres Engineering 4 push pull pots for 2 coil taps, phase and series<br> * TonePros TOM bridge and stop<br> The rosewood and padouk combo is absolutely beautiful, and the inlay puts it over the top. She is a one-of-a-kind piece of art. The Fralins are clean and rich, and, when combined with a harness that offers over 70 switch variations to add to the usual LP tone/volumn choices, can produce just about any sound you want.<br> I knew this one would be special when I saw the grain on the showcase body. She balances her weight 9.9 lbs very well.<br> Thanks to the guys at Warmoth for all the help. I just made an heirloom. Philip Jelks<br />Incredible!!! <br> <br> I saw something similar to this hanging in the local music store. No way could I afford that one, it was a Gibson. I fugured the guys at Warmoth could help me build one. They did!<br> <br> These picture do not do the guitar justice. They certainly do not tell you what the sounds from this beauty are like. The body is from the EStore, a Flame top maple on mahogany in a natural finish. The neck is custom made, Ebony over a maple neck with gold 61G alloy frets. The scale is a 24 3/4 conversion. The pups are a Seymour Jazz in the neck and a Seymour J.B. in the tail. The pups are tapped to split the coils at the volume controls but I also had install a full Jimmy Page wiring system so that the guitar will switch into phase and reverse phase. The result is killer. This the first LP that can actually sound like a Strat&reg;, a Tele&reg;, a Les Paul, and so many other guitars I own.<br> <br> My hats off to Warmoth! You make an amazing product. Thanks for making a dream come true! Pete Birchenough<br />This guitar takes my breath away! I had goose bumps putting it together and to see it all finished and hearing it plugged in now makes all the waiting and hard work worth it. I was very particular about how I wanted this guitar to sound and look and it took a lot of research to find all the parts I was wanting.<br> <br> I was looking at an auction online for a 1976 Gibson LP when my Dad had said Couldn't you just make one for less than that? So I started looking online at kits and sites that sold LP style bodies when I came across Warmoth. I knew what I wanted and began checking the showcase everyday for the next two weeks waiting for new LP archtops. This body was probably up only an hour or so when I snagged it. Maple top with honey burst finish and cream binding on a trans brown finished mahogany back and hollowed out to drop the weight, but don't be fooled this baby has still got a lot of heft to it.<br> <br> It was the next morning that I placed an order for the neck: a Pau Ferro fretboard with a cream binding a top a mahogany neck with a satin finish, trapezoid pearl inlays, standard thin contour, compound radius, 6105 fret wire. I went with perloid Sperzel locking tuners to set off the inlays. <br> <br> My pups came from Shep at Sheptone.com and I promise you this was the single BEST decision I made in building this guitar. The pups are hand wound by Shep and sound fantastic!! Like PAFs with the grit, but are louder and sound full and open.<br> <br> I decided once I got the body that there was no way I was covering up one square inch of that gorgeous quilt, so I abandoned the pickguard and switchplate cover, but kept the creme pickup rings which match the neck binding nicely. The pots came from Warmoth as did the tune-o-matic bridge. I wanted the same strap buttons that were on my Ibanez JS1000 because they are nice and wide. so another special order on those. What I really wanted was the old school volume knobs and these were hard to find as well in the gold with gold tops, but really look great with the honey burst finish.<br> <br> Once I put it all together I went down to Mitch at Hotlicks Guitars who is the guitar luthier that set up the neck for me, rounding and beveling the frets and he too could not get over how awesome the guitar sounded with Sheps pickups and commented several times how beautiful the guitar turned out. Thanks to Warmoth and to all the folks that helped out on the unofficial forum. EOIN JAMES<br />ANOTHER WARMOTH MASTERPIECE MY LES PAUL JACKSON HYBRID SEYMOUR DIST AND JAZZ HUMBUCKERS FLOYD ROSE WITH THE NECK OFF A JACKSON RR3 VERY UNIQUE THANKS FOR THE BODY GUYS Morten Onsvaag<br />My first homemade guitar, but not the last. <br> <br> This LP is a carvedtop, black korina, with a dark finish. Pickups are Seymour Duncan's Seth SH 55. <br> I guess it was just luck, but it sounds just like in my dreams. A warm, dark sound, perfect for blues. <br> <br> I'm soon coming back to you for my next project. Darren Ward<br />This is my first Warmoth guitar. It's a carvedtop Les Paul with mahogany back and maple top. The neck is unfinished indian rosewood with a macassar ebony fretboard, and standard thin contour. It is a Warmoth Pro Construction 25 1/2 scale neck with 1 1/16 width at the Corian nut. Frets are 6105. Pearloid block inlays and neck binding. Tuners are Sperzel lockers. The pickups were handwound by Jeff at HighOrder pickups to basically Antiquity specs, NECK: 7.8K A3, symmetrical wind, and BRIDGE: 8.3K A2, asymmetrical wind. The rest of the hardware, I ordered from various places. The wiring and pots are from RS Guitarworks, and it includes Hovland tone caps .015/.022, and RS/CTS 500K smooth taper super pots. The bridge is a locking TonePros TPFP/T1Z setup. The pickguard is machine-turned aluminum from Sharp Concepts, and I topped it off with chrome knobs with ebony caps from Q-Parts. The body also has the natural lip over binding. Thanks Twelfth Fret in Portland for the assembly and setup. The truss rod cover was custom made my Mosby guitars in red abalone on black ebony. This guitar plays like butter. Much better than the Gibson SG Custom I sacrificed to finance this build.<br> <br> Thanks Warmoth, David Salchak<br />I put this in the L.P. gallery because that is the type of body I used, but it is more of a hybrid. I was wondering what what would happen if I took my favorite components from different guitars and stuck them into one guitar. I really didn't know if the result would be good or bad, but I was pleasantly surprised.<br> <br> The body is a mahogany L.P. flat top. I pick a flat top simply because it easier to sand and finish. The neck is a mahogany fatback with an ebony fret board that I darkened with dye from Stewart MacDonald.<br> <br> I used a Gotoh Telecaster humbucker bridge and TV Jones TV'Tron Classic Plus pickup. This is essentially a Gretsch replacement pickup made to fit a humbucker mount. They are expensive, but worth it.<br> <br> I finished the guitar myself, which was a first for me and harder than I expected. The back is dark gray with a light gray front. I also cut my own pickguard. Actually I cut six and picked the best one, and it was a good thing since I completely botched four of them.<br> <br> The end result is a great sounding guitar. Warmer and butterier than you would expect from a bridge pickup when played clean. When played with some overdrive it growls without losing any articulation.<br> <br> I think it may even be my new favorite. It is also fun when people ask what kind of guitar it is. I tell them that it is one of a kind.<br> <br> David Salchak<br> david@salchak.com James Gilbert<br />My first attempt at assembling a guitar from scratch. I had replaced the neck on an old T-Style guitar with a Warmoth a couple of years before I tried this and was very satisfied with the quality, so I thought I'd give it a go. <br> <br> The body is chambered mahogany with a maple top. It already had the funky paint job on it when I first saw it in the Showcase. Whatever the wood looks like under there, it sounds phenomenal. The whole thing resonates when you hold notes and the sustain just goes on for days. <br> <br> The neck is, obviously, all birdseye with stainless frets and only side dot inlay. Its a matte finish fatback and plays like a dream. The neck is thick enough to give you something to hold on to, but the shape makes it play faster than you'd expect.<br> <br> With the chambered body and all that maple the guitar simply sings. Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in the neck and JB in the bridge work really well. Clear and loud but without distorting on its own, and the bass response is amazing without overpowering. Harmonics just jump. <br> <br> A great learning experience. When I get tired of playing this one I may start on another, but I don't really see that happening any time soon. Hugo Alba<br />THIS IS MY WARMOTH LP SHORT SCALE BODY 24 FRET NECK, VERY NICE GUITAR WITH SILKY MATE NITRO FINISH IN A 5A MAPLE FLAT TOP, EBONY KNOBS, EBONY FRETBOARD AND EBONY LAMINATED PEGHEAD, SD PICKUPS, I''M A TREMOLO PLAYER SO I ADDED ONE...THANKS FOR LOOKING. Curtis Litchfield<br />All warmoth parts.<br> Chambered Korina body, dragonburst finish with trans green back. Mahogany neck with ebony fretboard. Pearl inlays, standard thin contour. All hardware is chrome.<br> Seymour Duncan JB and '59 pickups, Stainless Steel Frets. I reversed the knobs so that the neck controls are on the bottom and the bridge controls on the top. I like it that way, an advantage of making your own guitar. The Machineheads are Grover Rotomatics 18:1 ratio.<br> <br> This Guitar turned out exactly how I imagined it. Its got the Fender scale rather than the Gibson scale which I think makes it look really mean even though its hardly a difference. But man can you feel it when you play it. Its a groovy guitar and I'm gonna rock out constantly. I can't wait for my next build. Thank you Warmoth. Bob Randolph<br />I wanted to update a raging version of Duane Allman/Leslie West with a little Pete Townsend a la The Who Live at Leeds so I went with a Black Korina Les Paul Special body with Red Transparent finish. The brown streaks in the Korina show a cool black in the deep red. The neck is Indian Rosewood 1 3/4 nut width, boat back contour with Macassar Ebony fretboard for brightness. Stainless Steel 6230 frets and corian nut. I installed two Jackson pickups from a mid-1980's Charvel/Jackson.The controls are vol/vol/master tone and toggle switch.<br> I think I hit the mark pretty well. It has a great woman/brown tone and a pretty good treble bite, too. And sounds great playing slide or modern metal. And with the forearm/tummy cut/heel contours it is smallish and fits great. David Keane<br />Here she is!!<br> Black Korina on Black Korina, picked up at the showcase superstore. I had the cash finally!! Thanks to all my friends and family for my 30th birthday. This is a dream come true, but I just couldn't wait to have Warmoth make me something. I just had to have it ... NOW!!! <br> <br> Added a conversion scale mahogany neck with one of the most stunning ebony fingerboards I could imagine, and was part way there. Then came the pups. Seymours had to be the choice I have Di Marzios on another LP and boy do they live up to expectations Jazz neck and JB bridge, they simply ROCK!!. Gotoh for the bridge and I picked up these great little tuners by Wilkinson in my home town in England, highly recommend their gear. So once it all got here, I slapped on 3 coats of honeyed oak veneer on the top, mask bound the side of the top cool tip from Warmoth. Clever and visually tasty! and headed for another three coats of a mahogany tinted finish on the back. Clear coats were shot... and hey presto!! All electronics are wired by yours truly, and of course CTS quality pots make a big difference if you've ever played with those mini pots one finds on some cheap guitars.<br> <br> It's taken just a month from delivery. I've vaguely set it up, and am going to have the neck properly looked after fret level and pro set up. For a guitar that's not really finished or rather half finished too damn quick 'coz I just had to hear it ........<br> <br> HEAVEN !!!!<br> <br> I love this guitar.....<br> <br> Did I mention I love this guitar?<br> <br> I tried everything to find the right guitar for me, from Gibby's to PRS, Gretsch, etc. I love them all, and it really wasn't a question of money. I just wanted something that was mine, or rather, that was me. And i've found it. As they say in France Bravo Messieurs. Warmoth LP's officially float my boat!!<br> <br> It has already been tested alongside my friend and fellow axe man's 1971 Gibson at band practise. Ok, it's not finished, the action isn't perfect and no i didn't thrash it so new, just a gentle strum through one song!. He went nuts. My warmoth sounds as good if not better in some areas. And the way that Korina makes these Seymour Duncans stound proud and come out sluggin'... If you're a doubter, doubt no more!! These Warmoth guitars absolutely ROCK, ROLL, WAIL and CRY !!!<br> <br> I've found my little piece of musical heaven.<br> <br> Warmoth guitars ?<br> <br> Hell Yeah!!! Federico Teatini<br />This is my first and I hope it's the last warmoth project. It' a lefthanded carved top LP style guitar. The body is one piece Mahogany with Koa top gorgeous. It has a transparent satin nitrocellulose finish, made by Roberto Reani. Neck is a 25 1/2 scale standard thin Mahogany satin finish with Braz. Rosewood fretboard 6105 frets, abalone dots and graphite nut.<br> Tuners are Gotoh locking, bridge is gotoh 510.<br> Pickups are Austrian hand made Haeussel Humbuckers, with a toggle switch for seriesparallessplit configuration one each PU. It sounds like no other guitar I ever tried. Long sustain, lots of harmonics, it all vibrates when you play. Thank You guys! You really made a great job, I'm lucky to have found you.<br> My next project is a lefthanded Esquire, but now I just want to enjoy my lovely LP style guitar!!! Paul Castellani<br />This is my first build. It is a warmoth standard thin neck with an Ebony fretboard. The body is mahogony with the cool curly silverish maple cap. Tuners are Grover 18:1 Rotomatics. Internally the volume and tone pots are Gibson 500K. The pickup combination that was chosen was a Jason Lollar Peter Green model pickup custom wound at their shop.<br> This build came out very nice and the instrument is extremely resonant. I have gotten 27 seconds of measurable sustain off a single note from my bench. Lots of fun for the first time! Claude Alves da Rocha<br />hi,<br> here is my left handed LP style warmoth equipped with zakk wylde emg pickups.i used to have a gibson les paul standart that sound great but was too heavy. my warmoth sounds as good as the gibson and is really lighter. the paint finish is beautiful and you can see all the wood nuances.<br> thanks guys for the great quality of your guitars. Christophe Asselineau<br />LP sonic blue gloss olympic white satin pick ups: a set of hand wound uk made bare knuckles :<br> Neck: P91 <br> Bridge : Steve Stevens Rebell Yell splittable Ben Cardon<br />This is my first Warmoth LP. It's a hollow black Korina body I picked up on the showcase with a tobbacco burst finish. The neck is Indian Rosewood with a Brazilian fretboard and an SRV back contour. The pickups are a Jazz/Blues combo and were custom wound by Jon Moore. They were a great deal and I sacrificed nothing for the price. They are simply the best pups I have ever used. The tuners are Planet Waves and the rest of the hardware was ordered from Warmoth making this overall the best sounding best quality guitar I own. I look forward to the next one!<br><br> Thanks Warmoth. Brian Hager<br />After a few years and some transitions, I have completed my first Warmoth and I can not be happier. This LP flat top guitar started it's life back 2001. It actually started on a somber note when I was choosing my parts on the Warmoth website on Sept. 11, 2001 somewhere around 8:30ish in the morning. My Warmoth would have to wait a few weeks after, as I was interrupted with the news of what was going on. I didn't think of guitars for many days later.<br><br> It was completed (the first time) in 2002 with a black transparent finish. I realized how poor a job I did on the finish when I played a gig at the Rock Hall in Cleveland in an event sponsored by Gibson (everyone asked if it was a Gibson). When the show was over, the finish had a gigantic scratch hole in the back from my studded belt. If you never finished a guitar yourself, I recommend a pro or practice first.<br><br> So, in 2005, after learning from my mistakes, I finished it with Gold Glitter and cannot be happier. The finish is like a rock and sparkles brightly. It has an ebony neck that was finished by Warmoth (thank God for that). All parts were purchased from Warmoth except the pickups, which are PAF classics. It plays great thanks to Kurt Wright in Cleveland who leveled the frets, and did the wiring. He is the area's finest guitar tech. Everyone comments on it now. It sounds and plays fantastically.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth! Eldon Fisher<br />I finally finished my Warmoth guitar. I had ordered the parts last January & now it's completely done. My good friend & guitar luthier Mike Dresch did the abolone inlay on the headstock with my initial "E". This is the semi-hollow body with a Floyd Rose & D-Tuna, Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck in the bridge position & Seymour Duncan '59 in the neck position. This guitar plays great & makes all of my other guitars sound bad in comparison to the huge tone this thing delivers!<br><br> Thanks Warmoth! Alex Myla<br />Hey i just put together one of your guitars and it is AWESOME. Its just beautiful. Its a AAA Flame maple top with a hollowed mahagony body, Ebony fretboard and birdseye maple neck finshed with a clear satin and ebony peghead veneer. The finish is a bright blue dye with a small black burst around the edges. The body is bound with a white binding and there are trapezoid inlays on the fretboard. The Pickups are White Lace Sensor Drop & Gain Pickups, which are quite unique, they are made for people who like to shift the tuning of their guitars. It also allows a bit more articulation. Its no where near the power of a EMG 81 or anything but it has tone for days. The four knobs arent your conventional les paul knobs, they are Two volumes(Tone maxed) and an EMG EXG guitar expander, and an EMG AB afterburner which allows me to further play with my sound. With the EXG i can get a nice acoustic guitar sound from my les paul, and with the AB i can get a pushed sound like from a marshall. This is the first guitar i have built and am thinking about a 7-string for next year. Thanks to Bob and Jay for being very good helpers in this process. Also thanks to Bill at the Whitsett Guitar Works(http://www.whitsettguitarworks.com/) in lowell, who helped me get everyting assembled.<br><br> Thanks, Geoff Versteeg<br />Thought I'd send in a picture of my first creation. The body is a one-piece, extra-light mahogany back (my friend who has a Gibson LP can't believe how light it is) with a Wild Maple top. The pictures don't do the top justice. Terrified of wrecking it with a botched stain job I left it au naturel and couldn't be happier. The neck was a custom order, a Warmoth 24 3/4 mahogany thin-back with a brazilian rosewood fretboard with MOP dot inlay and stainless frets. I put a pair of Seymour Duncans in it - Jazz in the neck, Custom 5 in the bridge - and the tone is pure butter. Can't wait for my chambered LPS! Thanks for all the help. Carlos Lorenzo<br />Here's a picture of my third Warmoth guitar. One piece mahogany body with gorgeous wild maple top from the Showcase, 24.75" mahogany/ebony neck with '59 roundback profile and 12" straight radius, Benedetto PAF/A6 pickups and special switching where one of the tone controls has been replaced by a rotary switch that gives me some interesting additional combinations, such as three coils in series and the neck pickup wired in parallel. I wanted a very full and warm but articulate jazzy sound, but also a good classic rock LP tone, and I'm more than happy with the result. It has an amazing wood resonance that makes it sound almost like a semi-hollow when played clean, while dirty sounds have all that endless sustain, midrange grunt and full-bodied bass of the original. As usual the craftmanship and finish of the body and neck are simply perfect.<br><br> Once again, many thanks to Warmoth! Bruce Erikson<br />I finally have my LP done. The body is mahogany with a flame maple top with transparent red dye. The neck is also mahogany with trapezoid inlays on a rosewood fretboard. The tuners are locking/ trimming planet waves. The pickups are Paul Reed Smith and are killer. There's a PRS McCarty Archtop in the neck and a PRS McCarty Treble in the bridge.<br><br> The sounds of this guitar are unbelievable. Eric Cellini<br />Here is photo or two of my home brew lps body with a warmoth rosewood neck. The body is made of African Mohogany & painted with DuPont hot hues series blazing copper. Pick-ups are SD Phatcats. They sound great! I think the color compliments the rosewood real nice.<br><br> Thanks Dan at Warmoth for your help with the neck. Steve Reichert<br />This LPS is my first ever guitar/woodworking project. I did a lot if research on the internet, followed the instructions, and spent hours and hours on prep. I purchased the neck and body unfinished from Warmoth. The neck is 24 fret, Mahogany with an Ebony fretboard. The body is a Mahogany with a Quilted Maple top, I went with the hollow option. I got the finishing materials from Luthiers Mercantile International, I used KTM-9, a water based finish, very easy to use and it came out great. I used Dimarzio pickups, an Air Zone in the neck position and an Air Norton in the bridge position. All black hardware, Sperzel locking tuners and Dunlop straploks. This guitar came out so nice I can hardly believe it myself. It was a lot of work and I doubt I will ever put that much effort into building another. Thanks Warmoth! Aronson Michael<br />Warmoth supplied me with this mahogany LPS body with flame top, mahogany 24-3/4" neck with ziricote fretboard and abalone dots, as well as the Gotoh bridge. I finished it with Colortone dye and aerosol nitrocellulose lacquer. The pickups are Lollar P-90's. The nut was added by Scott Fore, an excellent guitar tech (and National Flatpicking Champion). Scott set up the guitar and it plays beautifully. This bridge provides fantastic sustain, and the pickups have tone to the bone! Thanks for another great project, Warmoth!!<br><br> Sly Knight<br />I think you'll agree with me when I say that this baby looks like a million bucks. I order this hollowed burl maple LP body from the Warmoth showcase along with a sweet neck (koa with rosewood fret- board and abalone dots). When I opened the packaging my heart almost stopped. But what's more is that this guitar sounds amazing. With Seymour Duncan pickups (Jazz and JB) this guitar is so versatile. I play jazz, classic rock, blues, and funk and this guitar couldn't be more perfect. I recommend Warmoth to every guitarist I meet. This guitar has been a dream come true. Christian De Miguel<br />Today I picked up my guitar from the number 1 guitar store in Z?rich Switzerland, it's called "Gitarren Total". As you can see the black korina body looks very nice on that koa/kingwood neck. I put on the usual bridge system and the oldschool tulip tuning machines and of course security locks. Everything we put on is made of nickel, to get that oldschool style when it ages. I do own a Gibson Goldtop reissue 57 custom shop which has these nice burstbuckers on it, so we built them into the warmoth-axe aswell! And it sounds great!! Absolutely killer guitar!<br><br> Thank you Warmoth for building this nice axe and GitarrenTotal for the assembling! Jackson Roos<br />Thanks again, and I look forward to doing more work with you guys in the future! Jim Franklin<br />My guitar started as unfinished parts from Warmoth. The body is Mahogany with a Flame Maple top, with the body hollow cut-away option. The neck is Mahogany with a Rosewood fingerboard, and block inlays. I put in Planet Wave locking tuners, and a tune-o-matic bridge and tailpiece. It was important that I did the finishing (for better or worse), because this was MY guitar and very personal. After the normal "prep" work, I used Bright Red Trans Tint Dye, to bring out the natural beauty of the wood. Many coats of Nitrocellulose lacquer, wet sanding, and polishing later got me to the point where I had my local guitar shop do the wiring of the pickups and controls. I put in Seymour Duncan, Antiquity pickups. This is the FIRST guitar I have built. For anyone thinking of doing it , there is no greater reward than knowing every inch of the instrument that you are playing and having the satisfaction of knowing that YOU did it yourself. This guitar rips!!! The sound and tone quality are truly amazing. I need to thanks my friends at STUTZMAN'S GUITAR CENTER, in Rochester, N.Y. I took the guitar to them on Friday afternoon, and they had it completely wired, set up and ready to play the next day. Everyone that sees this is blown away, saying that it looks better that anything that comes out of the Gibson factory. I think that's a complement???.Thanks again to the folks at Warmoth (and especially Jay) for making this project not only very rewarding, but fun as well. This will NOT be my last Warmoth guitar!! Joe Feloni<br />This guitar was put together for me by master luthier Steve Morrill of High Tech Electronics in Lawrence Ma. I put him to the test to incorporate a lot of electronics into this guitar while trying to maintain a Les Paul thick sound. He and you came through for me big time. I have been using Warmoth parts for almost 20 years now and you guys gave me exactly what I asked for. Beautiful and functional pieces of wood that are effortless to play on and just plain out sing!! I use 6100 frets exclusively . The neck is rosewood with a rosewood fingerboard bound with cream binding, routed for a 1 5/8" floyd locking nut. The body is mahogony with a maple top. Black with cream binding, routed for a recessed Floyd tremolo system. The electronics are complicated to explain but in short are a Seymour Duncan 59 in the bridge position and a mini 59 in the neck which is mounted with a Fernandes Sustainer pickup which has its controls behind the Floyd bridge. This guitar also has a Roland GK2a 13 pin synth pickup mounted between the bridge 59 and the Floyd bridge. The electronics are all mounted internally in the rear routes Steve installed at his shop. It has a master volume and tone knob ,a volume for the synth and a knob to mix in the neck mini 59 in with the Sustainer to give an over the top sound to the sustainer when it is on. This guitar ROCKS!! It is versatile, which is imperative for what I do and is probably the best instrument I have put together with your parts in my 27 years of playing!! Thank you and Steve for making my vision come true!<br><br> THANKS SO MUCH!! WARMOTH ROCKS!! Leo Kelly<br />Here's a Warmoth LPS Body and Warmoth neck. I wanted a Les Paul with a Floyd Rose and did I ever get it. It's a hollowbody, mahogany\maple top and it just screams!!! Kudos to master luthier Paul Munden for putting it together and setting it up! Mark Warren<br />I had the neck fitted with stainless steel frets. The pickups are Bill Lawrence L500's.<br><br> Best wishes, Christopher Kiefer<br />Here are a few pictures of a just-completed LP Junior with 2 P-90's and finished in a Heritage cherry burst. The top was done in nitrocellulose lacquer over a dyed yellow maple top. I sanded the top back to the field, and then applied a yellow nitro toner .I used Trans-tint both for the yellow dye and the cherry toner. I used a Paasche airbrush for the burst. The back and sides are finished in cherry nitro over mahogany. The headstock is lacquered black with my own logo inlaid.<br><br> Kent Armstrong P-90's with high-end electronic parts give it an awesome tone palette. The neck dropped in like a charm, with very little adjustment needed for a great low-action neck. My client wanted a flat top LP - he didn't like the feel of a carved top, so this is just to show you can do it flat and still get "that look". Will Hilton<br />This is a one-of-a-kind dream guitar!!! - carved top flame koa hollow body. Great style....even better sound. I am a very pleased customer of Warmoth! Robert Taft<br />Back in January 2005 I ordered from you, a LPS Mahogany chambered body, solid carved spruce top, with natural binding.. I also had it routed with one pickup and no bridge or tailpiece route. When I ordered it, I could hear someone in the background saying "Is he sure". Well I'm sending you a pic of my finished guitar. I wanted something different from the typical LPS. This guitar has a Warmoth LPS Mahogany chambered body, solid carved spruce top, natural binding. Ebony tailpiece, ebony fingerguard, ebony bridge. Warmoth 1 3/4" wide, 25.5 scale maple neck with ebony board, 12" radius. One Seymour Duncan Jazz Neck pickup. The top finish is your black sunburst. I'm very pleased with the way this guitar turned out. I'm primarily a straight ahead jazz player in the vein of Pat Martino or GBenson...not saying I play as well as them...just the style. This guitar nails their tone. I wanted something that I could play at higher volumes and a guitar that I didn't have to worry about taking to a gig i.e. my Benedetto or my L-5 . This guitar has a good acoustic sound and plays clean. With an H&K Tube Factor in the chain it does handles the fat gritty blues as well. I use .13-53 gauge TI strings and the action is suberb. I've been too busy these days with my day job to start another but that is drawing to a close so the next one will be similar but with two mini-humbuckers. Take care r/rob taft Alexie Zante<br />Here's the specs: mahogany body, quilted maple top, maple neck (w/ Wolfgang back shape), ebony fretboard, 6105 stainless steel frets, Gotoh 18:1 tuners, Schaller Floyd Rose bridge, Seymour Duncan pickups (Custom 5 Trembucker and Alnico Pro humbucker, bridge and neck positions respectively), and Dunlop Straplocks.<br><br> Major assembly done at the Trading Musician in Seattle. Final installations and setup done by myself.<br><br> It's tone is monstrous. Thanks for helping put together a great guitar. Brian Wendt<br />This is my Warmoth LPS. My first, but certainly not last, creation. Both the neck and body were from the Showcase. The LPS body is Alder with a Flame Maple top and Honey Burst finish. The Variax neck is Padouk with an 1-5/8" Ebony fretboard, standard thin back, graphite nut, and no inlays. For hardware, I used Gotoh tuners and TOM/STP. The pickups are Seymour Duncan SH-6 in the neck and bridge. For the first few days after completion, I didn't want to touch it. Now I can't put it down. This guitar has more chunk, sustain and ambiance than any guitar I've played. Needless to say, she puts my Jackson and other guitars to shame. Many thanks to Karl and the others for all their help and outstanding craftsmanship. Carlos Lorenzo<br />This is my Warmoth #5. I built it for one of my bandmates. It's a chambered mahogany back with a flame maple top and mahogany / rosewood neck, both custom made and spotlessly finished by Warmoth in clear gloss to show off the natural beauty of the woods. The flame top, very light and figured mahogany back and flame mahogany (!) neck are unbelievable. All the hardware is from Warmoth and the pickups are DiMarzio Air Classic (N) - Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues (M) - Air Norton (B). The third knob is a 2-position rotary for a total of 9 pickup and coil combinations. The sound is full-bodied, resonant, very warm and with great sustain, while keeping some semihollow "snap" and good definition in the single-coil settings, so it's an extremely versatile blues / rock / funk machine. Mark J. Wojtowicz<br /> This project goes back quite a while. I was currently playing for a couple of years, and my beat up Harmony just wasn't cutting it for me. Needed something new, but I didn't want something "out of the box" that would take me months if not years to feel at home with. After turned to the idea of actually creating one of my own, I found a Warmoth ad in the back of a guitar magazine. Countless hours were spent scouring the website. Geez, I went from a soloist style; I think there were even a few days I was considering a tele. I opted for the LP in the end, for it's pure class; that and I was pumped for an LP's tonal qualities.<br><br> Once I received the body and neck on Valentine's Day, well, it was love at first sight . I feel the level of craftsmanship and magnificence that was sent to me can never be equaled. My eldest brother, Paul, wrote in an email after seeing the pictures, "?it's like jewels, like lava, like the sun." The pillowy-ness of the quilted maple is truly that mesmerizing.<br><br> Construction was extremely fun. Would have been even more fun if I wasn't a punk 16 year old without any experience in carpentry, much less electrical work (I do remember soldering in some power tech class when I was like 14 or so, and I also remember permanently melting away a part of my fingerprint in the process) So I guess if your reading this, then yes, you too can do it. I simply took my time with it, and guess what, she plays like magic.<br><br> I was really focused on playability in addition to the artistic qualities during the project. Why would I invest so much money to build something I would end up 'wrestling' with? The beauty with Anna is that for as solid as she sounds, she feels so fluid and quick. It's something I have never experienced before. It's such an abstract quality that is hard to measure, but it makes playing other electrics at the local Guitar Center so frustrating.<br><br> Her tone knocks my socks off as well. In the bridge I have the Seth Lover model, for that slightly overdriven tone, and in the neck I have the standard '59 special; both Seymour Duncan's. The versatility is outstanding. Got the classic LP tone, and if I tinker with the controls, I can squeeze somewhat of a bulky, rough-and-tumble strat tone out of it. I also enjoy rolling it all off and playing with no treble whatsoever. I know this expression is used way too much, but the tone is so thick I can cut it with a knife. It's literally suffocating. Makes me gasp for air.<br><br> I know this is unusually long for a gallery writeup, but if you've gotten this far and have never dealt with building your guitar, I sincerely suggest you consider it. The pure joy in every step is worth it. Plus you can save a bunch of money creating something totally unique, custom fitted, and much more importantly, something personal. I'm a firm believer that you gotta be connected to the guitar you play. A guitar is a living, breathing entity, you know. Not to mention, it'll improve your playing greatly.<br><br> But anyways, thanks Paul. Our unending, late-night phone conversations over this project were just awesome (I have a feeling that there's gonna be more in the future involving your 5-string Gecko bass or whatever your dreaming up). Plus you got me playing in the first place, so I am eternally grateful. And Dad, I think you actually picked up the payment for the hardware. That was awesome.<br><br> Thanks city of Wilkes-Barre for employing me at the city pool, each one of your hot and sweaty minimum wage hours went to this. Lastly, whosever hands this guitar passed through in Puyallup, you made me a happy man. It's seriously a dream come true.<br><br> Bill Harwell<br />Here is a double cut LP style I built using a Warmoth body and neck. The pickups are Duncans and the tuners are Schallers and the neck is brazillian rosewood with abalone dots and a bone nut. The guitar sounds awesome. Christian Rokseth<br />I received the body on Friday and put it together the same day.<br><br> Excellent work on the body! I am very satisfied with the guitar.<br><br> Sending you a picture of the guitar. Feel free to use it on the online builders gallery.<br><br> Regards Paul Chambers<br />Inspired by the guitars of the late Tony Zemaitis, this guitar was experimental from the start, and well worth it. The body is one-piece mahogany, and the neck is mahogany with an ebony fretboard. The finish is hand rubbed shellac, tinted with saffron. The pickups are Seymour Duncan, with an un-potted '59 in the bridge, and a Seth Lover in the neck. The pickup rings are from Specialty Guitars and are made of ebony. The tone of this guitar is simply amazing, it is snappy, yet warm and full. The sustain is also amazing. This guitar sounds so good, and is so playable and responsive, that it is hard to put it down. All of this is proof that there is no substitute for quality components crafted from premium woods. Special thanks to William at Warmoth for all of his help and suggestions.<br><br> Thanks as well to Chuck at Cellino's Guitars, and Ron at the Guitar Service Center for their help. Specialty Guitars, LLC PLC1@yahoo.com Fran and Javi <br />These are the two guitars that we made from Warmoth pieces. Both of them sound great and powerfull, we compare them with A Gibson SG and a Gibson Les Paul Standard and don?t have anything to envy to them, on the contrary our guitars sounds better and the taste of the neck is incredible.Only prompt the people who?s watchin this to make a guitar with this guys, they are very kind to solve any doubt you could have and give a hand in all they can. Christopher Kiefer<br />Here is a photo of a 1960 LP Special I made with a Warmoth body and neck and Lindy Fralin P-90's. Great tone and sustain from your tonewoods. Next will be a 1960 double cut in TV yellow. Jim Packard<br />I think you need more LPs in your gallery, with all the wonderful work you guys do. Special thanks to Garrett, Bob and all the people whose hands my guitar passed through before arriving at my door!<br><br> Mahogany neck & body, heel carve, hollow rosewood fretboard, cream dots, black tuners black neck and back, Inca silver top (1/2" black burstover) Lace P-900 noiseless pups Wilkinson/Gotoh adjustable wraparound bridge Electrosocket side jack, SG-ish knobs Control pots like a strat, it's more comfortable. Very useful and toneful controls! The two tone knobs are push-pull for pickups out-of-phase, and series. Very roomy cavities, very light axe for its size. Weighs similar to a strat, maybe less! Sounds like a successful half-breed between a Les Paul standard and a thinline Tele. It can do jazz, blues, rock, and metal! Super versatile, with sick tone and sustain. Dressed to kill! Bold, simple, elegant, sharp, and well worth twice the cost. A true custom axe.<br><br> I've built other Warmoths before but this time I got it right. Building Warmoth guitars helped me learn more about myself as a player, and I've come to realize that less is more. My next dream: hollow mahogany LP with flame maple neck/fb and abalone dots, wilkinson trem, control VxT5, humbuckers, shoreline gold body! It will kick the butts of all P*S Singlecuts. Steve Roach<br />I've been enamored with the Les Paul Special and Junior for years. I've also been taken with the figured maples and carved top guitars. This beauty has it all! I have been lucky enough to posses the skills and equipment to nearly capture the beauty of this art by Warmoth. Wonderful quilt maple under burnt cherryburst on a transparent red back of mahogany with a korina neck and rosewood fingerboard neck that has an uncanny color match. Dual Duncan Custom P-90s with a 5 way super-switch, two volume and one master tone controls. The natural masked binding is a nice finishing touch. The remaining hardware includes locking Schaller tuners, a Gotoh 510 bridge and stainless steel frets. As you can see, the finishing department at Warmoth is amazing! Their talented staff delivered my money's worth. The most difficult part of this project was waiting for the shipment of parts & pieces to arrive. This is my third project guitar and the first to have all Warmoth wood. I have another in the works and an earlier project I'll share soon. Jimmy Johimbine<br /> Clive Whitwood<br />Hi Warmoth,<br><br> I have attached a photograph of my LP guitar made with your parts and I have to say I am absolutely delighted with the quality and workmanship of your products. The tone is like a bell with bags of sustain and the neck has a superb feel. The AAAAA quilted maple top was worth every single dollar although the Photo doesn't really do it justice. Thanks once again from a very satisfied customer<br><br> Regards James Kuehn<br />The original body was a solid LPS from you but I greatly modified it to thin arch-top. The neck is one of yours - 24 and SS frets. I wanted a guitar like this for years and being left handed, the only way to get one was to build it myself. Your parts are excellent and this project turned out great. The inlayed sound holes really add a rich tone that I haven't experienced with solid-bodes.<br><br> Thanks for your help, Chris Williams<br />I was checking out all the cool guitars on the site and realized mine wasn't up there! So here it is- I like to call her Bluebird for obvious reasons. I made her from soup to nuts with mostly Warmoth components, notably the body and neck- Double cutaway Les Paul with mahogany body with flamed maple top, and a birdseye maple neck with rosewood fretboard. The finish was done with a blue dye and several hundred coats of clear laquer, followed by several more hundred hours of fine sanding and hand-polishing. I bought a book on guitar repair by Dan Erlewine that takes you through the whole process step by step. Making a guitar from near scratch is something I'd recommend to everyone, the reward is just that much sweeter. I was a complete novice when I started, but the guys in the shop talked me through much of the preparation and planning- I couldn't have done it without their help. They even deciphered my chicken scratch of how I wanted the top drilled. As you can see, it turned out great! Curtis Novak<br />I have been doing vintage restorations for almost 20 years now and have been intrigued with the Gibson TV finishes for some time, but good or bad however you look at it Gibson owners don't get this stupid idea... "I bet if I sand this finish off and refinish it with a motor oil colored stain it would look so cool!" Never having the opportunity to restore a destroyed finish combined with getting tired of testing on Mahogany blocks waiting for the opportunity to refinish the real thing, and my experiments with making my own custom P-90 pickups, A customer asked me to build him a Les Paul TV from Warmoth parts. This will kill to birds with one stone the TV finish and also I will have a Mahogany body guitar to test drive my P-90 pickups in. Here it is. Dan Kaplowitz<br />Well, first off I'd like to say she is absolutely the best guitar I have ever played! She is a flat topped korina LP, with a flame maple top. I used a reddish brown stain on her and it just blew me away after I had put the finish on her. I wanted to stain her a red originally but I'm glad I didn't. I did mess up the finish in a few places but that's no big problem, I plan to go over her again some day and refinish her. She's got a mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard with trapezoid inlays, which is amazing because the wood has a flame type design running up it. When I saw that neck in the Showcase I knew I would have to get it! I did the same procedure on her neck as her body, stained and finished. I had a professional set the neck and inlay a nut. The wiring I was planning to do myself but ended up screwing up (seeing as how this is the first time I have ever done such a thing) and had the same guy do it. Everything else was done by me. By far, this is the best neck I have ever played on! Her tone is INCREDIBLE! I'm a metalhead so I equipped her with a duncan Invader in the neck and a JB model in the bridge. I can't believe it, I go into Guitar World, pick up a 3,000 dollar PRS and say to myself, "Mine is better". Believe me, if you got the time, connections, and are willing to do the work you WANT TO buy, make, steal a Warmoth guitar! I'm never buying a factory made guitar again, NEVER! I'd rather spend the time to make another, I doubt anyone makes as good a neck shape as Warmoth (and yes, I have compared it to Gibsons and Fenders). It's just perfect for me! Eric Yeich<br />This LP style body is mahogany with a 5A quilt top and a Tigers Eye nitrocellulose finish. It has a contoured heel. The rubs making up this particular Tigers Eye were chocolate brown, orange and yellow. Different lighting brings out the colors in the finish in different ways. It's really outstanding. Check out "Spence Body 4" and "Spence Body on fire" for exle.<br><br> The 3D aspect of this quilt top is breathtaking. I asked Sean to have a very special top picked out for this project and a finer one couldn't have been found I'm sure. The neck is AAA birdseye maple with graphite nut, Warmoth headstock, medium jumbo frets, ebony fretboard, inlays of abalone shell, mother of pearl, brass and a cubic zirconium in the lighthouse on the 17th fret. The tall ships are the Pride of Baltimore and the Pride of Baltimore II. The lighthouses and skipjack (sailboat on the first fret) are found around the Chesapeake Bay. The hardware is gold plated Warmoth hardware with Schaller locking tuners. The pickups are DiMarzio Evolution bridge and neck humbuckers with a Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro in between. The wiring has a 5 position switch with single tone and push pull volume knob which switches the phase of the single coil, all adding up to 7 distinct tones. I can lay claim only to the design and drawings of the inlays. The craftmanship is Warmoth and Stringed Instrument Repair and I am more than happy with the results.<br><br> Thanks again to all of you who helped me with this project. Michael Pennock<br />This is the Warmoth Les Paul I put together in July of 2001. The body and neck are mahogany and the top is flame maple with an amber dye. The body has the hollow option. I have loaded the guitar with an EMG 81 & 89 and the bridge is an original floyd rose. This guitar sounds huge and none of my other guitars even come close to the tone and sustain this guitar has.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth! Mike Aronson<br />This is my Warmoth LP. I saved up enough for the body, which was the main investment: Mahogany with AAA carved flame top, cherry burst finish and the natural mask "binding" option. Warmoth did an incredible job! Then I scraped up enough for a set of Tom Holmes humbuckers (forget the Antiquities) and went to work with my soldering iron, setting the pots/caps up so the volume and tone controls work independently. When that was ready, I'd saved enough for the neck-mahogany, standard contour, brazilian rosewood, and 6150 frets. This is a LP with a bit more spank and, believe it or not, more sustain than any stock LP I've tried. Two things I might change: slightly wider frets, and the neck & body should be stained at the same time for a perfect match (minor details). Can't wait to make a gold-top with a fatback neck and some Harmonic Design P-90's!<br><br> Miki <br />'m obsessed with zebrawood as you can see. The zebrawood-veneered neck is maple, with compound radius rosewood fingerboard and no face dots. I like simplicity above all! It is one of the best necks I've ever tried. My favourite body design also got zebrawood in the front of course. Behind the beautiful top my favourite tonewood (alder) works together with a SD Invader and a damaged & repaired '59 (Actually, that was the hardest part of the work...). I painted it with 25 ultra-thin coats of clear satin nitro & a special epoxy-based satin lacquer over ebony stain (it took over 3 months...), with some natural binding. All the gadgets are from Warmoth, except for the humbuckers. The sound? My primary aim was to reproduce the tone of my magnificent EVH (also zebrawood laminated & custom made) but - surprise - the Warmoth project turned out to be better in everything. My native tone is quite unique with mind-boggling wired pickups that is not easy to describe. The LPS bites like a Tele, but meaty like a Gibbo. It has very unique tone with an immense amount of mids and extreme clarity & response. Beautiful, yet aggressive. Beautiful and aggressive. Searching for the "Reel 'Un", I've tried everything in the last 15 years I could, but there were only 3 guitars that could match the overall feel: a set-neck PRS, a MM EVH and a Seymour-loaded, custom shop Double Fat Strat - but none of them were zebrawood laminated. The cheapest piece of them was a bit under $1500. My LPS was a bit under $700 all completed, ready to play. Any questions? At the end I could write words like 'satisfied' or 'excellent' but they wouldn't describe how deeply I'm addicted now. It is the axe of my dreams, but I have many other dreams about axes. Now I know the best way to make them real.<br><br> Thanks to: my friend Norbert 'Freebird' (yep, a Skynyrd fan) Szentivanyi who brought this baby to me from the States, my father who has many skills I lacked and matt@Warmoth.com - Matt thanks for your assistance! And, thanksWarmoth Guitar. You rule! Tuukka Salo<br />My first Warmoth project was this amazing Les Paul style electric guitar. Features: Schaller M6a tuners, a Tusk nut, a 25.5" maple neck (standard thin) with ebony fingerboard and HUGE 6100 frets, a Semi hollow Mahogany LP body with contoured heel, a Gotoh tune-o-matic and stop bar, EMG 81 and EMG 60 pickups, two volumes and one tone pot, a three way switch, Schaller strap locks, black gloss finish all over. At first I was also going to put in black humbucker mounting rings but then I decided to install the pickups EVH-style, and give the guitar a more elegant look. This guitar turned out to be the greatest instrument I have ever played! So I wanna thank all you guys at Warmoth for making it possible! Keep on rockin'! G. Stewart<br />Flame Maple on Extra Light Mahogany back<br> Cream Binding<br> Black-Red-Yellow burst<br> Gotoh tune-o-matic bridge and stop tail piece<br> Rio Grande BBQ bridge pickup<br> Seymour Duncan Alnico II neck pickup<br> 24 3/4 conversion Maple Warmoth neck with Black Ebony fingerboard<br> Block Inlay<br> Cream Binding Standard Thin contour<br> 1 11/16" Nut Width<br> Compound Radius<br> Stainless Steel 6105 Frets<br> Schaller Locking Tuners w/Hipshot string de-tuner<br> White Corian Nut<br> Sounds just like a great traditional Paul. Big and full with massive<br> sustain. My first Warmoth try and a huge success! It's on stage with me every weekend.<br> Mike DeCosimo<br />Here are the pictures of one of our new guitars with your neck attached. We have a neck on order in the finishing department under Patti Lutke for our next guitar. We plan on using your necks on most of our new guitars. We are getting ready to order another three necks. We have a very unique guitar and plan on growing rapidly. We hope you will enjoy the photos and hope they can be posted on your gallery.<br><br> Thanks for all your help and parts we purchased for these guitars. DeCosimo Guitars email at plutke@yahoo.com Ricco Pollan<br />The first thing I do is make it quite clear to people that this is NOT a copy of a LP, it is a custom built guitar (from the ground up) with a LP "shape" and that there are NO other similarities at all past that point. There is no other LP out there that you can EASILY play at the 22nd fret......at least not a "set neck" LP (because of the huge heel), and everyone loves this guitar now. They still think that a set neck guitar should cost more because of the brainwashing that the industry has done to players, but they certainly agree now that this is the only way to make a LP playable to the 22nd fret. I also made sure that they understood that it was the "scooped out" body back (exclusive to Warmoth) that actually made that possible, not the "bolt on" part of it, even though the bolt on neck DID add to the playability due to the lack of a heel. I also did NOT use a steel back plate to fasten the neck screws to. Instead, I used the Peavey steel inserts into the body (for appearance and better independant screw stability), so you just see beautiful wood and 4 screws instead of a massive ugly plate.<br><br> I also pointed out that your neck joint is VERY tight. It has absolutely NO slack at all, and it makes for much more sustain being bolted "bare wood to bare wood" than a set neck LP with a painted neck that also has glue inbetween the woods, dampering the sustain quite a bit. The main problem with common bolt on guitars that make people think they are just cheap copies is: cheap quality neck wood.....cheap "all at once" machine fret mounting without glue (whick pop up at high humidity changes)....... inferior quality fretboard material....... fake MOP plastic inlays......single "old school" trussrods instead of double adjusting ones.........and a LOOSE neck joint. Unfortunately, most people associate bolt on's with THAT scenerio, not what you have to offer! Everything on this guitar is "direct coupled", meaning bare wood to bare wood, even the pickups. No glue, support screws or springs anywhere. The screws you see on the pickup rings are simply the tops cut off and glued to the pickup rings. They have NO function. The pickups have stairstep pieces of rock maple screwed (not glued) to the body and the pickup is screwed directly to that stairstep piece of hard rock maple for much better sustain. I used the "Earvana" tuning system nut made of a high quality graphite-like material (very slippery), and this guitar keeps perfect tune no matter HOW hard I divebomb Kahler Pro series Tremolo! I also had a piece of Pao Fero custom shaped to fit under the Kahler trem lock nut for even more "wood to wood" sustain instead of using a cheap piece of plastic. The Kahler Pro Trem was custom installed, along with Custom Shop Hand Wound EVH pickups. The only thing I changed out from your electronics you sent me was the 3 way switch. I used a Switch Craft instead (standard on all Gibsons). It is a better fit that lasts longer than the chinese one. I kept the pots you sent me because Switchcraft told me that ALL pots sound and work the same, some just last a little longer than others........no problems there.<br><br> As you can see, I spared no expence on this guitar, and I think you can see just how beautiful it came out and it sounds even BETTER than it looks. Thanks again, and I will be buying again from you VERY soon! Jean-Marc Luck<br />his guitar was built in 98' with warmoth parts, by my friend Philippe VOZELLE, master luthier in Strasbourg, France. It's a LPS style body, with mahogany back and flame maple top, in red sunburst with an ivory bindind, the neck is a maple one with ebony fingerboard, abalone inlays and warmoth headstock style with grover tuning keys and a bone nut.<br><br> The pickups configuration is a little bit "original", because in the neck there's a Di marzio soapbar an in the bridge a Di marzio tone zone. One volume control for each pickup, one tone control and a push-pull to split de tone zone in single. So i can have a lot of different sounds. This instrument looks great and sounds great too. For me it's the "holy graal". With the soapbar in the neck position i have a great blues sound a pretty nice "muddy" sound. And with the neck pickup a total "rock sound", with so much sustain, if you play a note you mean it never ends.The guitar is also great for jazz, the ebony fingerboard is so accurate and provide a smouth sound. I'm playing guitar since 20 years and i was looking for an instrument you could't find in a store, so my friend Philippe tell me "take a look at warmoth parts, you will find what your looking for", i'll be right. The woods were top quality and the guitar also. Thanks to warmoth for the parts and long life to you. Leon and Elliot <br />Hello, - Elliot's is a LPS style double cut, mahogany body and flame mapple carved top, mahogany neck and ebony fretboard with a 13 degree angled LP peghead mapple flamed toped, two Benenetti P-90 (what the hell that works !!!!). 2 couples of home-made buttons. The button tuning machines are ebony and the nut is bone.<br><br> - Jean Claude's, as Leon, is LPS style double cut Koa body with Koa carved top,Koa neck and ebony fretboard with a 13° angled Warmoth style. 2 Benedetti P-90 as hot as Elliots', ebony buttons and bone nut two.<br><br> All these from the Warmoth Company perfect staff managed on telephone calls and mails, sended to us in Maryland last august for two Frenchies on US tour and according to Bill experience and our desires plus passion for guitars.<br><br> Thank you again and see you soon for a next project. Mike Preyer<br />A WARMOTH LP I BUILT ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO. IT"S COMPLETELY NATURAL, NO PLASTIC ANYWHERE, (EXCEPT FOR THE WIRING), WITH A "FLOATING" PICKGUARD AND A REMOVABLE ARM REST. BINDING AND PICKGUARD, ETC, ARE MADAGASCAR ROSEWOOD.



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