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Mark Behme<br />Front and back views of this six-string electric guitar. Schaller tuners at the peghead, a Stetsbar whammie bridge, Hot humbuckers at 13.6 kOhms with enameled covers, pickup selector, and volume control. Enamel and oil finish on maple and ebony fretboard. Alan Day<br />Home built 7 string Lap Steel. All the Hardware on this Guitar including the pickup was Supplied by Warmoth (arriving in Cape Town within 36 hours of ordering!!!) except the Pearl dots, the wood and the brass nut that was hand made. Maple body hand finished with Woodoc. Alan Day<br />Two piece body beautifully made by Warmoth from Walnut. Altered slightly by owner to add a slight Strat&reg; contour for more playing comfort. Hand rubbed "Woodoc" finish. Brian May DiMarzio signature Pups. FR trem (later blocked. Modulus Graphite neck. Head has been veneered with Walnut. Massive tone and sustain. Would not however combine this neck & body again due to heavy neck / balance issues when playing standing up. Used mostly for Bottleneck work. Joshua Calisti<br />This is my first build. I love Jazzmaster's and forever wanted to create my custom "Josh-Master"... - Alder Jazzmaster body with walnut top - CBS Strat® style maple neck/fretboard. 9.5 radius, vintage frets. - Traditional two humbucker setup - Schaller Nashville Roller Bridge This project exceeded my expectations. It came out to be one the best guitars I own. Feels and sounds great. Warmoth was great in helping me accomplish my goal. Thanks again! chris von Chamier<br />Explorer body bought in 2006, painted by Kirk Taylor (James Hetfields moto, car and guitar artist), I bought the neck from Warmoth back in 1989!!! Dimarzio DP153 humbucker, single is from Seymour, and hardware from Warmoth. This guitar is a BEAST!!! Best playing guitar I own! Thank you Warmoth! Alexander Eggel<br />See through "Firebird Custom Plexi". The neck is a 22 fret, 24 3/4 scale, 13 ° L.P. from Warmoth. Pickups: Seymour Duncan super distortion SH-6. Sound: a lot of power, nice bass and long sustain. This baby definitively rocks! John Leek<br />This is a guitar I wanted to look and sound like an Ibanez Destroyer. There are some minor differences but I think it turned out well. It has a swamp ash body with top rout option with thin "vintage" type pickguard. It has a Gotoh-TOM bridge and stop tail piece, 2 Golden Age Humbuckers in neck and bridge position. The neck humbucker is wound to 8.4k ohms and the bridge is wound to 9.4k ohms. Both pickups I modified with Alnico 8 magnets just like the Ibanez Super 70's. These are wound a little hotter than the Super 70's but they sound great. Both have their own volume control and one tone. The neck is maple with Indian rosewood fret board, pearl dot inlays, stainless steel jumbo frets, and black peg face. Both body and neck are finished in vintage tint gloss. I also have the chrome pickup covers but I like it better without them. I'm very happy with the way this turned out. Jerry Ehni<br />A green Warmoth-SG. All Gotoh hardware. Mack ****<br />Upon the realization that I buy and sell guitars all too frequently due to high expectation and eventual dissatisfaction; I’d set out to create something that didn’t previously exist- a guitar that ACTUALLY makes me happy... And it seems the only thing that really ‘blows the proverbial skirt up’ is my own imagination… Here is what has lived in my imagination for a long time: Classic Dano shapes (modified to my liking), kooky Airline/ Supro inspired aesthetics, raunchy weighty LP/LP Jr impact. The long scale is an excellent foil to the warm mahogany (chambered body). A dual lipstick Seymour Duncan; lovingly created as per my request by MJ and Mr. Duncan @ the Seymour Duncan Custom shop, is reminiscent of a F’bird mini-hum and its the engine that really drives this thing. I lovingly refer to it as the DAMN-O! Clearly Warmoth is not just the usual Leo-parts shop but can TRULY be a full on Custom Shop to build your very own dream monster that anyone would easily confuse for ‘high street boutique’. Cheers to Spike and Rob for makin’ it all right in the end. DAMN-O!!! Jerry Ehni<br />Baritone made from Warmoth body blank and misc parts. Dyed orange and finished with Satin Polyurethane. Larry Rapoport<br />The Guitar of the Dead - JM mahogany body, hand inset with painted tin Mexican Day of the Dead figures honoring close relations recently gone. Seymour Duncan p-rails, wrap around bridge, plays and sounds terrific. All Warmoth parts - thanks guys! John pasqualicchio<br />Maple veneer on an Alder body blank supplied by Warmoth with recessed bridge and all cavities cut and a paddle head neck with jumbo frets. Then I cut out my original design for body and headstock. Thanks Warmoth. Alex Santilli<br />This guitar I built has a body made from Cherry and poplar. It has a chambered body. And it features a sunrise acoustic pickup. I bought the neck from Warmoth. It was a paddle neck. It has a beautiful mellow tone. And thanks to the neck. Very smooth action. Jason Morris<br />This is my version of a Gibson SG-X style guitar, and I think it turned out a lot better than I could of ever expected. This was my first build and I guess I just got really lucky but things worked out really well for me. I painted the body with Daphne blue nitrocellulose paint that i ordered off ReRanch. The pickup is just a JB so nothing special there, it has a coil tap switch right behind the tone knob. For the people that care, because I know I do, here are the specs: it's a 1-piece mahogany body with the 1.5" option (no contoured heel). The neck is a standard thin mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard and 6130 "medium jumbo" frets, and a corian nut. The guitar is 24.75 scale with 24 frets. Gotoh SG38 tuners, TOM bridge, black Gibson speed knobs, CTS500K pots with a .047 Capacitor, and a Switchcraft jack. If you wanna know anything else mention it somewhere in the forum and I'll try and answer your questions. Victor Rubio<br />swamp ash body,maple on maple neck,abalone fret markers and abalone witch hat knobs.org.Floyd Rose trem,Rockfield Fatass pickups(one still on back-order)24-fret extension,EMG active boost switch.lazer etched late mother's original art work (a labor of love).poly finish.my first Warmoth went off without a hitch.Thanks, for more info on my guitar e-mail me at thebigugly@msn.com Eric Ledbetter<br />Like so many other players unhappy with the "stock" guitars put out by the big boys,I decided to see what Warmoth had to offer. and man o man, I couldn't be happier! I wanted a '62 Jazzmaster@reg; style guitar because they are in my opinion, the best guitars ever. They are the best in terms of playability, look, feel, and sound.(hear it through a Marshall: www.myspace.com/dayafterdinosaur) but I wanted to choose my color, neck radius, and pick up configuration, and having one built made the most sense to me. This beauty is my main guitar now and I hope to one day have Warmoth make me another gem! Maurice Brines<br />THE WIZARD: VW flamed koa carved top, mahogany back. Nitro finish. Custom inlay work. Rick Baum<br />SG, 1 3/4 Mahogany body, 25 1/2 scale Mahogany neck, 11/16 nut, ebony fretboard, mother of pearl Celtic cross inlays, white binding, straight angle neck pocket w/recessed Floyd Rose, Grover tuners, set of Gibson 500t pickups, CTS 500mg pots, white nitrocellulose paint with clear nitrocellulose finish. Blows away any SG I've ever played and costs a fraction. Jeremy Wood<br />JM body and Pickguard from Warmoth. Everything else is sort of from everywhere else. Liverpool pickups, with secret switching via the tone knob and upper switch (to split/select single coil config). Paint was done by a friend, turned out amazing! Mark Pawlyszyn<br />SG body shape plus CBS Strat&reg; Style guitar neck, with huge fret wire. The body is one-piece mahogany with a humbucker in the bridge and a P90 in the neck. It is finished in trans red nitro. The neck is also mahogany, with an ebony fingerboard and graphite nut. It has a concentric tone/volume knob with master controls for everything. It is strung with 10s and the actions is super fast. :) Stan Stan<br />Warmoth Does It Again!! I always wanted a Jazzmaster but couldn't afford it. I went the cheapo route and got a used SX SJM-62 and ordered all the parts from Warmoth to modify it and turn it into a Jazzmaster.... but it didn't, uhhh, work out.... so I logged onto the Warmoth site and found this Alpine White Jazzmaster body and ordered it immediately. Then began assembling other parts: A Squier Master Series Maple Neck with rosewood fretboard (someday will swap for a Warmoth neck) an American Jazzmaster Mint Pickguard, bridge and Tremolo (YES Fender Pickguards can fit on a Warmoth Jazzmaster body BUT ONLY if you are comfortable doing some routing with a dremel, it's no drop in) and all the wiring and parts as well as the Seymour Duncan Antiquity II's were purchased from Warmoth. I finally have the Jazzmaster I always wanted, and the Warmoth Body (AGAIN!!) is resonant and looks amazing.... what?? a Jazzmaster with sustain??? YES.... thank you Warmoth (only complaint: speed up the shipping process please I drove my wife crazy for two whole weeks waiting for this beauty!!) Michael Cash<br />Warmoth neck and body blank. Mahogany, Custom paint, Sounds amazing. Mark Behme<br />The "Offender", a silvery-colored, carved, baltic birch ply body with two Lace Alumnitone pickups. Reversed strings into a Wilkinson floating tremolo with a locking feature. Output is passive or active through an EMG Afterburner switch. Filippo Cimatti<br />This is my dream guitar, that's all. It sounds incredible and looks great. The only complaint i have is the weight...but aside from that, this is a dream come true. mick simson<br />The new SIMSON WARBIRD,with Warmoth neck,birdseye maple,pau ferro fretboard,full scallop. Body carved from solid Queensland rock maple.Pickups are DiMarzio Evolution, wired in parallel to their individual tone pot, gives each pickup separate tone control.Three position USA Fender selector. Floyd Rose trem. Planet Waves auto-trim locking tuners. Custom case made by Simson, featuring crushed black velvet, sculptured inlay. Plays like an absoute dream, exactly what I dreamed of in a guitar. Many thanks to you dudes at Warmoth. I only use the best to make the best!! Bernd Jordan<br /> Hi! This is my first Warmoth Guitar! **** Alder body /// Seymour Duncan SH6 Humbuckers/// Strat&reg; Style Maple Neck / Ebony fretboard **** This Guitar is amazing! The best Guitar I have ever played!!! ****Thanks Warmoth :-)**** Bill Gerakas<br />Warmoth Star Body 5A Flamed Maple on Alder Finished in Green Dye Top, Candy Green Back, and White Binding.Fitted with Seymour Duncan Blackouts and Schaller Fixed Bridge with Fine Tuners.Explorer Maple neck,Wizard Contour,SS Jumbo frets on Jet Ebony board. Flamed matching peghead veneer,Schaller locking tuners and Candy Back Finish. Massive tone from this beast. I own another 3 axes all customized but none sound as big. Thanks Warmoth, next build coming soon.Big thanks to Jason Fazio JLS guitars...it screeeams! to Scha Ariel Saadat<br />Warmoth Pro Tele&reg; Style Guitar neck with a Indian Rosewood fretboard and a maple neck and the headstock has a matte black finish. I made the body my self, it has 2 chrome Seymour Duncan P-90s (which are set up to be one pick up together) and a hot rail single coil pick up at the neck. It has a matte black finish. Thanks Warmoth! Timo Happonen<br />This is my first guitar project. A Gibson EDS1275 replica, with mahogany body and maple necks. Necks are Warmoth 24 3/4 conversion necks with trapezoid inlays and white bindings. Originally the angled paddle headstock blank was a couple inches short for the 12-string headstock so the paddle had to be lengthened before routing it into shape. Headstock surfaces are veneered with black ebony. Pickups are Gibson originals. 6-string brige and tailpiece are from Gotoh, 12-string from ABM mueller with intonation adjustment for every 12 strings individually. The guitar sounds very good and plays pretty nicely. Thanks for the good quality necks. Rick Mariner<br />HaywireCustomGuitars.com-Warmoth SG Special! The body is a Warmoth mahogany & neck is a Warmoth Maple with an Ebony fret board with Stainless Steel frets, The face dots are the same size and material as the neck dots. The nut is graphite. The tune-o-matic bridge is a Gotoh and the tuners are The big Grovers. There are six Telecaster&reg; ferrules in the back. Chris Holt<br />Here is my first Warmoth project. It's a mohogany jazzmaster&reg; style body in alpine white. The neck is a CBS style maple neck with fat back contour, rosewood finger board, star inlays and a corian nut. The pickups are Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB in the bridge and SH-2 Jazz in the neck. Mini 2 way selector switch and 2 fender deluxe style knobs that control the volume and tone. Vintage fender style tuners and hardtail bridge. This guitar plays amazing and the parts are very well made. I love the tone I get from this guitar! Tom du Pré<br />FuzzblasterII: Body and pickguard from Warmoth. The body is swamp ash, with a danish oil and beeswax finish. The neck is maple with an ebony board from Mighty Mite. Pups are Bareknuckle BKP91s, TonePros bridge and tail piece. Warmoth were great with my order, contacting me a couple of times to make sure they had understood my specification exactly right, and I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Aaron Luttrell<br />This is my work in progress. I got a swamp ash Jazzmaster&reg; style guitar from the showcase and did a lot of the routing myself. It has a Fernandez sustainer at the neck and a Screamin' Deamon at the bridge (oops, I need the F-spaced version). The Jazzmaster&reg; style guitar was a nice body because it allowed me to place all the electronics, including the sustainer battery, in the large control cavity. By the way, I have the metal flake baby "v" on the misc. page but you guys have my name as Luttrelllutt? I also have the Strat&reg; style guitar listed by Aaron. Warmoth has allowed me to learn a lot about guitars and make guitars that otherwise I would not be able to find. Thanks Aaron Luttrell J.C. Thomas<br />Thanks For The parts and all your help Warmoth, This Guitar turned out Ryche nice. Brandon Kowalik<br />Look at it...that's what I did to it, in my garage. Jon Peltron<br />Ibanez RG series, stripped and repainted Super Gloss Onyx Black. Custom Brass dipped Paul Reed Smith Santana Humbuckers. Black powder coated PRS bridge. Personalized collaboration of Ibanez, Gibson,and PRS electronics. Ibanez and PRS hardware all coated and brass dipped to match Black Brass theme. Tony Flying Squirrel<br />Z body:mahogany, KL/Hetfield Neck:Maple/Rosewood/Standard Thin. GFS Power Rails/Bridge, Dimarzio Mo'Joe/Neck, Original Floyd Rose, Tuned to D DGCFAD<br> Body and Neck were given to me by a coworker, pickups by another coworker, got the tuners from someone on the forum, bought the Floyd & put her together. Plays like butter, sounds like steak!!! Noah Ritzmann<br />My first homemade Guitar. The sound is great and the look is better than expected. Almost everything is from Warmoth. Thanks a lot! Clifton Gully<br />My Warmoth. Mahogany body with satin finish, satin mahogany neck. Jazzmaster body with the explorer headstock. 2 humbuckers. i wanted an LP in the shape of a Jazzmaster that plays like a shred guitar. I got exactly that, and it is awesome. It has gibson pickups, gotoh tuners, jumbo stainless steel frets, tune-o-matic bridge, brass nut, single volume, two tones. I had an eagle's head engraved in the body right behind the bridge. Very subtle, and very classy. Great guitar, I put the finish on myself, built it, and set it up myself. I did all the wiring as well. It plays great, my current favorite electric that i own. Already planning my next Warmoth. Ricardo Lagos<br />this is my baby Sheldon Smith<br />Graffiti yellow basswood Z body, original floyd, Bill Lawrence L900XL in bridge, sustainiac in neck, Full scalloped 24 fret reverse jackson maple/maple neck.<br> <br> This guitar is the most amazing thing I've ever played, and putting it together was an awesome experience I'm reminded of every time I pick this beauty up to play. Joseph Deines<br />Alright, this is my 4th project guitar but first from Warmoth. The body is black Korina with a cream-bound quilt Maple top that I died red first, followed by yellow, to give the fire color seen. Neck is Wenge with a scalloped Macassar Ebony fretboard. Quilt Maple headstock veneer dyed to match the laminate top. Pickups are Bill Lawrence L500R and L500XL, tuners are locking sperzels, and bridge is an original Floyd Rose. To complement the Floyd, I've installed a Hipshot Tremsetter in the spring cavity. Custom headstock decals made by BestDecals.com. The name of this guitar: Neverender. Malcolm Connell<br />Got this for almost a song off Ebay. The Warmoth components were superb but the original hummies had to go. Karl Redlich threw on a set of new PRails and routed the bugger so that all kinds of strange and dark sounds can be had. It is really quite a dark and broody tone. I call it the Swampbeast on that basis. Chip Homer<br />Warmoth L5 style body finished in Icy Blue metallic. Maple/Ebony neck with MOP dots. Warmoth style headstock. The whole concept of this guitar was to keep everything as light as possible, so I went with the sting thru, recessed tuneomatic bridge which has such a slick look! One single fhole, two stacked knobs, and a Strat&reg;-style 3way switch. The clinchers are the Lace Aluma P90 pickups. So thin and light made of lasercut aluminum, absolutely zero noise, and yet still all of the growl and squawk of P90's. The whole guitar ends up having a 50's Hot Rod kind of look to it. Again Peter Stokes did an amazing setup job. If you're ever in Boston, pay him a visit. It's worth it. Matthew Murdock<br />I bought this guitar not long ago from what I believe is the second owner. Whom ever built this Id like to talk to cause, this is the nicest axe Ive ever played. Warmoth SG body and I believe a Warmoth LP pro neck with MOP dots. Floyd rose original setup with a Dimarzio Air Norton neck hum and a Dimarzio Tone Zone bridge hum. I would like to know more about it and after seeing the quality I am planning to build a Warmoth of my own very soon. Thanks to whomever for the guitar. joe burg<br />all parts including the 7 string body and neck are from Warmoth. joe burg<br />bought 2 routed body blanks to do this project with Zach Boblitt<br />Quilted Maple Honey Burst<br> Cream Binding<br> Black Sides/Back<br> Maple Maple Neck with Satin Finish<br> Schaller Locking Tuners<br> Floyd Rose<br> Neck Pickup: Duncan Alnico II Pro<br> Bridge Pickup: Duncan Custom Custom<br> Knobs: Dice<br> <br> The guitar sounds, looks, and plays like a dream. Just about everything is Warmoth parts, and they are all top notch. The knobs, I think, are the only things that are not from them. Ask the sales staff any question you have they are very nice and know what they are talking about. They certainly helped me out a lot with all 8 million questions I had. Thanks. Love my guitar. Mark Behme<br />"Dicey Clown" A baritone length clown themed guitar with through-the-body green-glass eyes that transmit the back light through to the front for a &quot;flashing&quot; effect. Body is hard ash and painted with enamels. Maple through-the-body neck with ebony fretboard and peghead carved as a clown hat with an eightball top. Multicolored Steinberger tuners finish the hat. Hotwound humbuckers are painted into the teeth of the mouth and mounted from behind to make a very clean look see back detail photos. The piece also has a Wilkinson tremolo, miniswitch for coiltap, two tones controls 0.05 cap and Black Ice gain tone. Dice knobs complete the look. Mark Behme<br />"Nutjob" Theme comes from a hood/radiator cap ornament for hot rods of the 50's vintage. Sporting a T.V. Jones Powertron Plus PAF, Hipshot Esting bender, Steinberger gearless tuners, and a Schaller roller bridge. Maple and ebony through-body neck and mahogany body painted silver. Head stock carved as flames. Doug Rice<br />Here is my Jaguar. Actually it is a Jazzmaster that is made to look like a '66 Jaguar. I always wanted a late 60's Jaguar but I did not like the short scale. The only way was to order a Jazzmaster body without any control or pickup routs and make them myself. It is an alder body painted Inca Silver. The neck is a Warmoth Pro CBS with matching silver headstock, ebony bound fret board with block inlays. I put in Dimarzio Area 58 and 61 pickups. It was a lot of work but it came out great. Thanks again for making another guitar dream come true. regis winn<br />This is my skull and bones guitar. It was crafted from a Warmoth routed alder body blank. All parts are Warmoth and it plays great. Duncan screamin' demon, real floyd rose, grover tuners. It was my first carving job and it came out great. It took 5 months of routing and carving. I made the design with pictures of real bones overlayed on the picture of the body blank from Warmoth's site. I traced the design on the wood and carved away. I also reshaped the reverse head stock to be more banana like. I painted the body by hand with acrylic paints. It took multiple colors and layers to get the desired effect. I couldn't be happier with the results. Matt Arnold<br />I was going to get a Les Paul until I saw this body. Flame maple, mahogany body with a birdseye maple, ebony neck. The picture doesn't do it justice. It's absolutely beautiful. The firebust finish on flame maple is insane. Best of all, the tone and sustain that it puts out is unreal. I know people say that the TB11 Seymour Duncan is not for a mahogany body, but in this guitar, it sounds exactly like Jimmy Page's Les Paul. It's going to be my first Warmoth of many. Timothy Johnston<br />A Jerry Garcia copy. Body and neck are from Warmoth and made from mahogany. I did all the brass inlay work and all the fret work myself. This is the first guitar I ever made. Brass binding also on the neck. The name of this guitar is Lighthouse. The electronic cavities are 23k gold with brass shielding plates. Under the Lighthouse emblem is a preamp made by Cae Sound CB2. Plant Wave tuners. The inlayed Rose on top of head stock has a silver inlay around it. Well now its all done, 10 months later. Thank you Warmoth. This plays like a dream come true. Cory Kendall<br />Warmoth neck and body blank. Wilkinson tremolo, graphite nut. Neil Dalphin<br />I built this guitar from a body blank ordered from Warmoth. Alder and a maple neck with rosewood fretboard from Warmoth. I finished it and added the scallops. The pickup is a Dimebucker and the bridge is that two hole tremolo that Warmoth sells. All together this thing sounds awesome, even though its my first guitar I built. I definitely want to do another this one was built to a small budget. Thanks for the help guys, it's awesome. Christopher Martin<br />This guitar has the V2 swamp ash body with the Jackson neck. I custom painted the guitar with Glasurit automotive, and the flames were airbrushed with House of Kolor green candy. The guitar is extremely lightweight and plays well. Howard Farmer<br />String through hardtail, walnut body and neck with pau ferro fretboard. Danish oil. Used a tele wiring harness and some GFS Mean 90's. Jeff R<br />L5S Mahogany Body With Walnut Top<br> Hollow Body No FHoles<br> Ebony Fretboard With Pearloid Block Inlays<br> Variax Conversion Neck 24.75 Scale <br> Compound Radius Fretboard<br> Seymour Duncan Seth Lover 59' Pickups Had them laying around from another guitar<br> Gibson 59' LP Chunky Neck<br> Ebony Control Knobs had these laying around<br> Control Cavities Lined with Copper Roof Sheathing Like Heavy Copper Foil<br> Sounds and plays pretty good!<br> nwrider1 at hotmail dot com Shane Gillis<br />Black Korina body with Danish Oil finish. Birdseye maple neck and fingerboard. Bill Lawrence 500 XL in the bridge position, and a Duncan Evolution in the neck. Original Floyd from one of my zillion past guitars from the 80s. With the help of a friend's excellent set up job this plays and sounds like a dream...or a nightmare, depending on your bludgeoned ear drums. Eric Hoerner<br />I took a 20th anniversary Strat&reg; style neck and put a trail super distortion at the bridge, super distortion dp 3 in the middle, and twang king reverse polarity at the bridge. the body was made and designed by me as well as the paint. Brian Kay<br />The body is a 1967 SG, I verified the serial # with Gibson. I bought it at a guitar show, it had been dropped and the head was broken off. Being a neckthru, it had to be made bolton capable. I own a Machine shop. I bought a piece of blond mahogany made a bolton insert, machined out a 3 x 9 pocket for the insert to fit in and glued it together. This SG also had front routing for the controls, and had 2 pu holes. I cut fillers from the mahogany and filled them in. The neck I got from you is excellent, birdseye maple/ebony explorer. It has EMG 81 pu, Kahler Hybrid trem, FR R4 lock nut, Sperzel locking tuners, Dunlop recessed strap locks. It's painted Candy Apple red with a Prizmatique clear coat. Can't see the Prizmatique in the pic, but outside in the sun, it's glows goldishred. Had a little prob with the Kahler getting the strings as low as I like them. Took the high and low Estring adjustment setscrews out, put them on a belt sander to make them 3/16 shorter, so that now when I adjust it way down, the setscrew tops don't touch the strings and cause a buzz!! It plays great and has probably as much sustain as any guitar I have, I have 21, 2 custom shop Gibsons, 2 custom shop ESP's, so me be HAPPY! My next project will prob be an explorer. Thankx again for all of your help. Brian Kay Mike Bourque<br />This is my first Warmoth project. Iceman mahogany body, finished in Black Cherry stain with 4 coats of Tru Oil. Neck is mahogany with a rosewood fretboard and abalone dot inlays. 24 3/4 conversion, standard thin with 6130 frets. Planet waves locking tuners, Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in the bridge, Alnico II pro in the neck, wire series/parallel/split/out of phase. Sounds amazing!! Mark Behme<br />Warmoth Arrow Neck, carved as crow wing. Warmoth Swamp Ash Body, carved, woodburned, dyed and finished. Seymore Duncan P90s. I have pictures of back of guitar also completely carved. Owner Liz O'Connell of Silver Spring. See my website: www.markbehme.com. I am a wood sculptor and I am working on other guitars...Thanks. Mark O'Brien<br />2008 Warmoth Jazzmaster Sytle Guitar... This Guitar has a 'real' 1965 Fender Neckplate as well as a 1965 Fender tremolo unit. Seymour Duncan Antiquity II Pickups, stainless steel frets, sperzel tuners, and authentic clothcovered wiring. My First assembly!! Taxi Briell<br />This guitar was built for my friend Cosmo Ohms. All his guitars were stolen last summer. They only left behind his 1965 Fender factory Jaguar neck. The outer switches on the lower switch plate are wired to independantley coil switch the DiMarzio Multibuckers. The center switch sums the pickups out of phase. There is a mute switch on the bridge control plate. This is an 8 sound guitar. All parts except the neck, ebony tuner knobs and bridge switchplate are from from Warmoth Lee Messer<br />Widow style guitar. George Lynch screamin demon w/ bridge reverse polarity switch, '58 humbucker and neckcoil tapped. Maple neck thru with Mahoghany wings. Grover tuners. Thanks to Warmoth for all the parts to make this monster breathe. Brandon Long<br />This is my most recent homebuilt guitar. The body is made of bamboo which sounds surprisingly great. I took a lot of liberties with the design, making something new, but also referencing some of my favorite guitar designs: weird sixties guitars, odd Fender designs, and of course the Telecaster&reg; Style. The finish is purposefully worn to give it more of a vintage feel. The neck is a Fender Strat&reg; style which can be found on Warmoth, the bridge is a classic Tele&reg; style bridge that I cut down to accommodate the humbuckers. The pickguard is made and cut from a rusted piece of metal that I found. 2 volume knobs, no tone does anybody need it, and a pickup switch. A lot of experimentation here, but it all came together to make one great looking and great playing instrument. Thanks Warmoth! Anuj Sinha<br />This is my first try at a custom job. Mahogany body, Seymour Duncans, traditional '57 set up for the wiring. Incredible action and construction. Metallic black cherry finish with all gold hardware. Rosewood on maple neck. Scott McCullor<br />This guitar started out as a Line6 Variax 300. I thought the red was boring so I painted it metallic blue over a lavender base and then a few coats of clear. Just Krylon and patience.<br> I've been having thumb problems and thought a thicker neck might alleviate it some. This is a purpleheart neck with a '59 back contour, Kingwood fretboard, Earvana nut, Steinberger tuners adn abalone dot inlays.<br> I expected the end result would be sort of a motley, strange looking beast but I'm surprised at how nice it turned out and I love the feel of that untreated purpleheart neck. The ugly wart on the bottom is a GK3 pickup for the guitar synth, but it was necessary. Matthew Shomphe<br />This is a Jazzmaster style guitar with a few modifications. First, it's a maple fretboard. Second, it has Lindy Fralin P90 pickups bridge +10%. Third, it does not have the rhythmn/lead circutry in place. Last, it has a Gibson style TuneoMatic bridge. <br> <br> John Wescott http://www.wescottguitar.com/ put it together for me, even swapping out the Warmoth bridge for the TuneoMatic one. <br> <br> Feels great, sounds like a dream! Jaime Williams<br />Lefty Explorer decked out in everyones hero attire. EMG zakk Wylde pickup set, shark fin inlays on maple/maple neck, mohogany body, schaller locking tuners, graphtec nut, excellent sound and sustain, will be getting more.. thanks for the only lefty explorers available Jaime Williams<br />RH Mahogany Explorer with EMG Zakk Wylde set, stop tail, and warmoth pro neck. Atreyu lookalike Ian Eric<br />Body Specs: V2 body in Mohagany, with recessed TuneOMatic and string thru-body option. TruOil finish thank you, Brian, for the suggestion!, all black hardware.<br> <br> Neck Specs: 243/4 conversion neck, maple-on-maple, with Warmoth headstock and Gotoh tuners. Skull & Crossbones inlay at 12th fret only. Custom headstock logo, made by yours truly.<br> <br> Electronics: Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded humbucker set JB SH4 at the bridge, Jazz SN2 for the neck. Independent volume controls with push/pull pots for coiltapping the Duncans. No tone controls dunno about you, but I never use the things anyway!.<br> <br> Thanks, Warmoth, for making such fine products. Everything on this instrument is so well-made and fit perfectly with no drama. I know once the neck settles in and the intonation is set that this will be one solid player for years decades to come. The suggestion of TruOil for the body was absolutely perfect, too. Can't wait to build the next one! Mark Vermette<br />A Jerry Garcia/Alembic style WGD, featuring a mahogany body, gorgeous ziricote top, and an unfinished wenge neck with a kingwood fretboard with oval inlays. A set of WCD Black Magic humbuckers and RS Guitarworks PRSstyle electronics complete the package. This guitar has an articulate voice with gobs of midrange, courtesy of the wenge neck, and a lot of spank when the Black Magics are in singlecoil mode.<br> <br> This is my 3rd build And I've got a Warmoth 7 String baritone project waiting in the wings. Dustin Hinkson<br />I call this guitar Chunk. The body was cut from a warmoth swampash body blank, its finished with an ebony stain and tung oiled.<br> The neck is maple with a rosewood finger board with the warmoth skull&bones inlay. It has carvin c22 pickups and a floyd rose tremolo with the eddie van halen dtuna which is awesome!. The pick guard was cut from aluminum diamond plate. This has been my main ax since I finished it, I use it for gigging as well as recording. Hear it at myspace.com/mmfband. Thanks Warmoth! Rick Landgrebe<br />This is the closest thing to a Trans. Mary Kay<br> Jazzcaster you are likely to see. In fact, this is the same guitar as my previous entry Sept. '07, except it now has a completely different pickguard with 3 Fender Vintage Noiseless pickups, 5 way selector, volume and tone, and a blender control mounted on the left upper bout that blends the neck and bridge p/u's together. I just love having a guitar with interchangeable pickguard assemblies. Thanks ,Warmoth, for making that possible. Daniel Twist<br />Here's my first two projects, a custom Jazzmaster&reg; style guitar and matching custom Jaguar&reg; style guitar.<br> For the Jazzmaster&reg; style guitar, I used an alder body, which was altered by a local luthier to become a hollow body, complete with Fhole. The neck is maple with a rosewood fretboard, complete vintage look with 3 bolt micro tilt design, CBS headstock, 6150 frets, a graphite nut and Grover mini locking tuners on the headstock. The bridge is an ABM graphite roller saddle style tuneomatic bridge, and the trem is a Bigsby B5. I used the celluloid tortoise shell pick guard, and plugged in 2 vintage Fender Humbuckers no offense to the reissues, but they are not the same pickup. It's wired like a '72 Tele Thinline&reg;, but with the cool looks of the Jazzmaster&reg;, and without all problems of the stock bridge and tremolo. The sound is incredible, versatile and rich. Thanks Warmoth for helping make my dream possible.<br> <br> I designed the Jaguar&reg; as a matching guitar to give as a gift to a close friend. The body is solid alder, with maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. I used the same tuning machines, bridge, frets, trem, and nut as the other guitar. I used Seymour Duncan Antiquity Humbuckers, as the Fender HB's were designed by Seth Lover inventor of the humbucker and the Seymour Duncan's are modeled closely after the old Gibson style PAF's designed by the same man. I wired it as a stock Jag, and was pleasantly surprised how the tone circuit responded to humbuckers in place of single coil pickups. It has all the grit and rumble of a Gibson, but with a little special something that lets you know that it is definitely a Jag. I'm very happy with the guitars, thanks for your craftsmanship.<br> cheers! Shane Gillis<br />Black Korina body with birdseye maple neck and fingerboard. I had an old Floyd Rose from the 80s that I kept around for some reason. Now i know why. Bill Lawrence 500 XL in the bridge and a Duncan Evolution in the neck. Danish oiled body 7 coats. I love this guitar and can't wait to build another! William Hunter<br />King Tut Flying V. Double representation for 2008: The Flying V 50th Anniversary golden and the public exhibition of King Tutankhamun in Cairo, Egypt. Gilded in genuine 24ct gold leaf, 3 coats. Q tuner pickup hand made in the Holland. Mammoth Ivory inlays Ankh custom size for each fret. Concentric volume/tone knob disguised as Vultures eye. Pyramid truss rod cover made in Mammoth ivory and Buffalo horn nut carrying 24 ct gold plated Optima strings size 1254. Made in 1 month after receiving it as a unfinished V and paddle head from Warmoth. The Warmoth crew milled a tight accurate job with excellent quality wood...everything went smoothly. All black enameled hardware. Steinberger tuners, Wilkinson bridge/stop bar. Over 150 hours invested in wood carving with hand tools alone. The colored parts are hand sculpted and blended polymer clay, baked, sanded, then glued in. Rob Guglielmo<br />My name is Rob and I am 17 years old. I built everything you see here myself minus what Warmoth graciously did for me [the neck]. I built this for my Senior Project in school. Here's a little about my axe:<br> Solid Mahogany basssized body completely custom cut and beveled. <br> Standard thin, 24 3/4 scale, Mahogany neck with an Ebony fretboard and Celtic cross inlays. <br> Custom cut headstock with Schaller locking tuner pegs. <br> Recessed jack mounted on the side of the body. <br> Stoptail bridge. <br> Custom cut tortise pickguard. <br> Three way switch: 2 tone, 2 volume with celtic cross knobs. <br> Seymour Duncan Parallel Axis Trembuckers original neck, distortion bridge. <br> All hardware is black. <br> Red metallic and black automotive paint. <br> Thanks to everyone at Warmoth for helping me with 96 percent of the materials for this guitar, you guys rock! David Salchak<br />Check out my new Jazzmaster-style build. It is an Olympic White body with Alpine White stripes. This is my 6th Warmoth. Do I get a special plaque or something? And guys, I have found that the argument, Well, I don't golf has been great for justifying guitar purchases to my wife. Try it out. Be sure to include how expensive and time consuming golf is. If you DO golf, then I am afraid you are on your own. John Munder<br />Here is my first Warmoth project. Body is the King V style shape with bevels and made out of alder. Neck is a 24fret Warmoth Pro made out of maple with a reverse Jackson style headstock and shark tooth inlays. Fretboard is ebony. I wanted to keep it simple so I went with a single EMG 81 in the bridge and a recessed original Floyd Rose tremolo with one volume knob. Warmoth finished the neck for me in gloss black and I applied the TruOil finish on the body myself. Let me just say that I am truly impressed with the knowledge of the Warmoth staff in helping me choose the right parts for my build and the quality of their parts completely exceeded my expectations. I was blown away at how easily the setup process went after the guitar was assembled and the fretwork is perfect and did not require any fret leveling. The action on this guitar is super low with not one fret buzz!!! I was also amazed at how much sustain this guitar has. People are always so concerned with setneck or neckthrough guitars vs. bolton necks but I have completely changed my opinion after playing this one. I've played quite a few US-made guitars and this axe plays & sounds equally well or in some cases better than guitars costing thousands of dollars more. If you are like me and spent years looking on their website not knowing whether or not to build one, do yourself a favor and DO IT NOW! You will not be disappointed. I will definitely build some more guitars in the future and after playing this guitar I don't know if I will ever buy something off the rack again...they are that good! Adam Williams<br />This is a Warmoth WGD body, cocobolo top, with a mahogany body beautiful!!. The neck is mahogany and ebony fretboard w/ inlay, gold frets. Special thanks to all at Warmoth, and especially Brian Nalls of jackofroses.com for their help! Brian made the tailpiece and switch plate cover. Unbelievable guitar! This guitar truly sings! Paul Foster<br />This is My first Warmoth Build, and like most who build these ... I wanted something the manufacturers dont do and not have the price tag of a custom shop<br> <br> I chose Swamp Ash for the Body, Mahogany for the neck and Ebony for the fingerboard.<br> <br> The quality is great, there is not a negative thing I can say about this guitar, It has GREAT projecion and the pop it gives off is VERY alive and acoustic sounding. <br> <br> I really liked how clean the cavities were routed and the individual wire paths for the pickups. <br> <br> This is the first of many ... Already started the next build<br> <br> thanks Warmoth! Peter Agras<br />This is a Warmoth L5s with a flamed Maple top / Mahogany back and Birdsey maple neck, rosewood fretboard. The headstock has a tobacco burst like the body. I put Lindy Fralin humbuckers in this one and love the tone. This is one of many Warmoths I have built and it is my favorite. Action, fit and finish are absolutely perfect, Thanks Warmoth! Lee Messer<br />Widow style guitar. George Lynch screamin demon w/ bridge reverse polarity switch, '58 humbucker and neck-coil tapped. Maple neck thru with Mahoghany wings. Grover tuners. Thanks to Warmoth for all the parts to make this monster breathe. elliot kremerman<br />all warmoth<br> <br> jackson pro style neck with angled headstock reverse headstock, 16 inch flat radius neck stainless steel frets, ebony fretboard on maple neck, corian nut<br> <br> alder v2 body h x h contoured heel<br> volume coil tapping, selector, tone<br> <br> hardware is<br> locking tuners<br> dimarzio x2n bridge<br> duncan distortion neck<br> 1 meg push pull coil tap volume<br> selector wired normal - double pole center venter selection makes parallel wiring on both pickups, each other way is normal<br> 500k tone with .022 cap<br> all shielded wiring and cavaties<br> <br> and a kahler fixed bridge 3300 fine tuner with stainless steel saddles - 3310 bill keaveny<br />Custom ordered left hand body, black korina with a koa top. The neck is bubinga boat contour with abalone dots in the bubinga fingerboard, graphite nut and 6130 frets. Pickups are SD jazz in the neck and a JB at the bridge. Sounds great, very jangly! Matt MacClain<br />Plan 916 Kustoms Explorer style Guitar.<br> Warmoth Pro Neck with Floyd Rose.<br> Schaller Mini-Locking Tuners<br> Schaller 456 Bridge.<br> House of Kolor/Plan 916 Kustom Sargent Green<br> Kustom Plan 916 Pickups built by Wade at MCP Leslie Miller<br />My first Warmoth project, definitely not my last! Swamp Ash rear route doubleneck with Seymour Duncans, a Joe Barden bridge and MIM Tele neck on the top, Clapton contour 12 string neck with stainless steel frets, vintage tint and abalone inlay - flawless, the jpg. doesn't do it justice - Gotoh bridge, Duncans again Matthew Reat<br />The specs:<br> <br> Quilt Maple on Mahogony body<br> Birdseye Maple Neck<br> Original Floyd Rose trem and nut<br> Gibson 500t and 496r pickups<br> Gibson Vintage tuners<br> <br> Thanks Warmoth for the help and the quality parts, my first project but not the last Eric Fink<br />Bruiser all black and blue<br> <br> This is my first custom guitar project. <br> <br> Body - Beautiful WGD body with blue dyed quilted maple on maple and all the contours. Matched blue dyed LP style head. Sunbursts nicely with a black back. When held up in certain light, shades of green show up. Reminds me of the turquoise waters in Mexico.<br> <br> Neck - The neck is LP conversion Maple with a Pau Ferro fretboard. I got the diamond inlays and my brother got me the neck binding for a Christmas present. Well worth it. It is awesome looking down on that binding when playing. <br> <br> Hardware I ended up getting the Planet Waves tuners and highly recommend them. I got the Schaller S456B for the bridge, and ordered Black chrome tuning knobs and strap locks to finish it off.<br> <br> Electronics - Dimarzio Super Distortion in the Bridge and PAF Pro in the Neck with this custom wiring configuration I do myself:<br> <br> Position 1 Neck<br> Position 2 Outside coils in parallel<br> Position 3 Neck and Bridge<br> Position 4 Inside coils in parallel<br> Position 5 Bridge<br> <br> Awesome guitar! Matthew Shad<br />I had this built for live shows with my group SHAD. <br> <br> It has a gorgeous koa top with matching headstock. Amazing gloss. Neck is also Koa. Back is Mahogany. Ebony necks with black binding and gold frets. Pickups are EMG '81/'85 Zakk Set. Gold hardware all around including locking tuners. A lot of locking tuners! <br> <br> My friend Jamie put this together for me and came up with the idea of putting the neck selector switch in the tele hot dog plate. Really keeps the look of the wood clean and is easy for me to get to during songs. <br> <br> The guitar is pretty heavy. Approx. 16 lbs. Yikes! But it's not that bad. Two song limit live!!! <br> <br> This guitar sounds amazing and is the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. I've been dreaming about this guitar for years and years and it was so rewarding to see it come to life. Warmoth did an outstanding job.<br> <br> If you're a fan of melodic pop rock, check out my group's mySpace site at:<br> <br> myspace.com/shadband Joel Bigler<br />Warmoth ZBody/Ash w/Zebrawood Top<br> Warmoth Pro Flame Maple Neck<br> Hipshot Hardware<br> Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucker<br> One volume control w/pushpull coil tap switch<br> Graphtech Nut<br> Dunlop Straplocks<br> Natural Oil Finish w/warwick wax<br> <br> This took about a week to construct by luthier Jordan Saunders. Chance Strickland<br />This is my first but definitely not last Warmoth project. This is a Strat&reg;-style guitar disguised as an Explorer. All of the parts came from Warmoth except for the pickups. The body is alder with an Arctic Burst finish. String-thru body with a Gotoh recessed Tune-O-Matic. Excellent flame maple Strat neck with a Graph-Tech nut and Schaller tuners. EMG 81/85 combo. This guitar is killer in both looks and tone. It is also the best feeling guitar I've ever played, and it NEVER goes out of tune! I bought Warmoth based solely on reputation, and I am so glad I did. Thanks for my new favorite guitar! james bunn<br />explorer, ibanez wizard shape neck, schaller 456 bridge - stud mount, fine tuning EMG 81/85.<br> i wanted a guitar with the best of both worlds.<br> tuning stability of a floyd rose type, and simplicity of a fixed bridge. along with a locking nut, it NEVER comes out of tuning.<br> it is a true shredding machine, and with the quality parts and materials warmoth sent me, i am looking forward to my next project. <br> thanks dudes!!!!! Paul Cary<br />Cary TS1. This is my first Warmoth guitar. I started it as a school project. I bought a pre-routed guitar body blank with a Tele&reg; neck pocket, universal Strat&reg; top rout and six-hole vintage tremolo. I cut out the design and did the dotcross abalone inlays my self. The neck is also from Warmoth. The neck has a maple shaft with maple fretboard, satin finish, and abalone inlays. I found some pretty unique tuners, they’re Steinberger Gearless Tuners. The pickguard was custom made by the Pickguardian http://www.pickguardian.com/pickguardian/. I wired it up with Seymour Duncan Vintage 54 Tele. neck pickup, Kent Armstrong OEM Hot Single Coil Rw/Rp, and Seymour Duncan JB Jr. bridge. I have a volume, tone, tone set up with a push-pull pot on the volume to separate the humbucker. Thanks to Warmoth, Steward MacDonald, and all the other companies that helped make this guitar. Myles Moss<br />here's the most recent addition to my arsenal... <br> Alder Explorer Style Body, <br> 16 Compound Radius Neck w/ A Jet Black Ebony Fretboard and Planet Waves Locking Tuners, <br> Wilkinson Recessed Trem, <br> Seymour Duncan Livewire Pickups <br> Metal Bridge & Classic Neck <br> Everything On This Guitar Is From Warmoth<br> The Only Non-Warmoth Thing About This Guitar Is The Paint Job Done By Bernie Rico Jr. <br> <br> This Was My First Project With Warmoth And Definately Won't Be My Last!!<br> I Couldn't Be Happier With The Results!!!<br> The Picture Doesn't Do This Guitar Justice At All... It's Way Better In Person!<br> <br> Thank You For Making Such Nice Guitars!<br> YOU RULE! Aaron Luttrelllutt<br />I call this my implement of destruction! Maple neck/ebony board/stainless frets. It has a red metal flake finish and black hardware. The original Floyd is nonrecessed and nonfloating to allow the Dtuner! The pickup is a Dimarzio Evolution. Yes it does make your ears bleed! This is my second Warmoth project and it makes the ---- on the wall at the guitar stores seem boring and redundant.<br> Aaron dave taylor<br />1993 custom-built-alleecaster copied from a prototype guitar that Albert Lee was playing circa 1990 in london...fitted with telecaster p/u and 2x strats...phase switch,and add 1+3 switch plus a string-bender Bbender...its slightly amber and has tortoise shell edge binding... Jaime Pawliuk<br />Warmoth mahogany body with mahogany neck, ebony fretboard with Stainless Steel frets. All ebony accessories nut cover, pickup rings and tuning knobs, sperzel tuners. EMG 81/85, tone pros bridge. Gregory Bogoshian<br />RockBeach Guitars Cicada <br> Goncalo Alves top and back<br> Cuban mahogany chambered midsection<br> 25.5 scale <br> Maple neck/compound rad. pau ferro fingerboard <br> 6105 SS frets <br> Dual humbucker with LP style controls Malcolm Paterson<br />7/8 body with an extra light swamp ash back, AAAAA wide flame maple top, and a tobacco burst finish. 24 fret 24 3/4" Maple neck with a brazillian rosewood fretboard and headstock laminate. Locking tuners were used with a Wilkinson tremolo. I also put 3 Seymour Duncan Alnico II pro humbuckers in all with trembucker spacing.<br> <br> The guitar sounds and plays great. The only problems I have had were at the output jack and at the nut. I have a switchcraft jack and I specified a 3/4 hole for it the site says to use 3/4 or 7/8. Once the guitar was painted, the jack did not fit in the hole properly, so I had to enlarge the hole. This could have been avoided by ordering a 7/8 hole. I have also had some problems with strings catching at the compensated bone nut which was not installed by Warmoth, this problem seems to be alleviated for the most part by more careful filing and lubrication of the nut slots. <br> <br> These problems are relatively minor, and I am very pleased with my purchase. I would recommend Warmoth to anyone who wants a guitar with different features from the standard off the shelf products.<br> <br> I have also been converted to using compound radius necks.<br> <br> Thanks Warmoth. Vedran Kosoric<br />I had wanted an SG for a while and could not find a manufactured standard model I liked. I had toyed with the idea of going custom but this would have cost a fortune and was completely unjustifiable. Then by chance I came across Warmoth and almost immediately I knew I had to build my own guitar with their help.<br> <br> And here she is. Loosely based around Pepper J Keenan's SG's he uses in Down and CoC. Its a dense mahogany body with a flame maple top and black red yellow burst. I mated it with a bubinga '59 profile neck and stainless steel frets, which are awesome. The ebony fretboard is really smooth and the neck is raw and unfinished. I put it together myself and did all the wiring which is flawless. It plays pretty damn good after I have assembled it intonation is perfect and truss rod did not need tweaking, but I'll take it to my local tech to fine tune the action for me. <br> <br> Pickups are Bare Knuckle Warpig and Mississippi Queen which are awesome and produce a monstrous grinding tone. This guitar was not built to be played clean! <br> <br> I sincerely hope this will not be my last Warmoth project, as I honestly I don't see the point of buying manufactured guitars anymore! Bill Keaveny<br />This one was built for my young friend Lloyd James. The body is Mahogany with a black dyed quilt top. Neck is birdseye/ebony. 24 frets and Schaller locking tuners. Neck pickup is a Seymour Duncan jazz, with a JB in the bridge. Rick Landgrebe<br />This is a Jazzmaster-style body finished Trans. Mary Kay White, w/angled headstock neck vintage tint gloss maple and rosewood fingerboard, 6105 frets. GFS Retrotron Memphis pickups, master volume and tone, tap switches for each pickup. Kluson reproduction tuners. Tuneomatic roller bridge, and a Les Trem vibrato tail. I'm lovin' this instrument. Definitely the nicest neck I have ever played. Thanks to GFS for making bitchin' pickups. Thanks to Troy for installing the tuners. Thank you, Warmoth, most of all for making this project come together so easily. Scott Zakaib<br />This is a guitar I built using a Warmoth 7-string Paddle neck, as well as two Seymour Duncan Pickups and a 7-string fixed bridge, all of which I purchased from Warmoth.<br> <br> The body is a 2-piece Mahogany slab I bought from a dealer in Sault Ste. Marie, ON, and carved myself into the shape shown, which I dubbed the Scarab Z107. Alistair Bell<br />My amazing 7S 7 string guitar! Plays like a dream, feels superb, looks astounding and sounds unbelievable! It has a mahogany body, with burl maple top, super 7 birdseye maple neck with pau ferro fretboard, standard thin neck contour, contoured heel on the body, tummy tuck and forearm contour, schaller locking machine heads, 1 volume and 1 tone control. Thanks again to everyone at warmoth for helping to make this dream guitar! Matt MacClain<br />Plan 916 Kustom<br> <br> Terror Edition <br> <br> Shaller 456 , Duncan Distortion , LP neck with Kustom head stock , black ghost purple paint by plan 916. Donnie Renner<br />This is my Warmoth Explorer that took about 8 months to build. <br> <br> The body is mahogany with tiger eye maple top. There is orange transparent finish on the top and natural finish on the back. It has white binding on the front and I gave it 2 tone controls and 2 volume controls unlike normal firebirds. It has a Rio Grande BBQ Bucker at the bridge and the Genuine Texas in the neck.<br> <br> The neck is mahogany with a rosewood fretboard. The frets are sized at 6100. <br> <br> <br> Thanks Warmoth! John Lakota<br />Everthing on this guitar I bought at Warmoth. I cut my own design from a Warmoth pre-routed body. The neck is a Warmoth, neck pickup is Duncan Full shred and the Bridge is Dimes. <br> Finish is Nitro Lacquer pattern after George Lynch paint job. Ben Thomas<br />Hey Guys! Thanks for checking it out! This is truly my dream guitar built 100% to my specs. I'll start at the begining.<br> <br> Orange Sparkle matching headstock<br> Grover Locking Keys<br> Corian Nut<br> Star inlay on maple neck with small frets<br> Schaller strap locks<br> Custom cut pearloid pickguard<br> Single Duncan invader neck<br> Mustang Control plate with 3 way coil tap<br> Racing stripe<br> Custom flame hardtail bridge<br> <br> She is a 25.5 scale monster that sounds every bit as good as she looks! I love everything about this baby. AJ Marik<br />Gold top Jagstang. I call it the HiFi Deluxe Edition. Stunning paint, wonderfully skinny neck, incredibly big humbucker sound, but still surprisingly Fender'y sounding. I love it to death! Detailed wiring schematic available for the asking via email ajmarik@gmail.com Daydream Guitars<br />Purple Heart/Lacewood body, Warmoth neck Matthew Nicola<br />This is my Warmoth Explorer with a Ken Lawrence headstock. It has an EMG hz h4 in the neck and a dimebucker in the bridge, but I am going to change to EMG 81's. Matt MacClain<br />VLAD By Plan 916<br> <br> Warmoth standard LP neck modified <br> <br> Duncan distortion <br> <br> Gotoh tuners and bridge <br> <br> automotive grade paint and clear hand sanded and buffed out<br> <br> Roman beveled edge front and back<br> <br> DR blue strings Christoph Wolper<br />Here's my Jazzguar. <br> It's basically a J-Master but I could not resist the shiny chromium part of the Jaguar. Unfortunately the scale length is not the same so I had to do the control cavities on my own. The pickguard covers it up nicely.<br> <br> Here's the specs:<br> J-Master body made from alder<br> <br> Modern vintage maple neck with rosewood fretboard, '59 contour, Schaller locking tuners<br> The headstock reads Kopie, German for copy. <br> It was to easy to turn the f into a k I could not resist it.<br> <br> SD vintage for JM Pickups,<br> 3 way toggle to choose the pickup, master volume and tone pots,<br> high cut switch for each pickup,<br> low cut switch for both.<br> <br> It turn out to be a great guitar. The neck is the perfect fit for my hand. I really love it! Parker Sloan<br />Hey dudes! Here it is, the world's first ever electric guitar made out of concrete. It not only looks good, it sounds fantastic. It only weighs 7.5 lbs and is way more resonant than you'd expect. Its got a sound all its own for sure. What a sweet neck! That ebony binding really kicks it up. Thanks for the neck and parts, couldn't have done without you!<br> <br> Parker Clark Huneycutt<br />It is a cross between Garcia's Tiger and Rosebud guitars.<br> Thank you Warmoth for helping me make a 25 year dream<br> come true....I love this guitar!! Clark Larry McGee<br />Smellycaster...found this no name maple neck and Alder(?) body in a dumpster, put on a Warmoth T-Style bridge and Warmoth pickguard stock, slapped in some 52 T-Style pickups I had laying around and made one of the twangiest sounding guitars ever for a total of $30. Rich Ingles<br />This Iceman is beyond belief, Eli Huebert did the set up and Warmoth provided all the gear. i don't know of another baritone Iceman in existence. The lows on this beautiful artwork are still being found. Tim Huddy<br />This is my custom guitar. I have designed it as a thru-neck guitar. The neck and body wings are made from African Padouk. The stripes are made from Northern Hard Maple. The guitar has several components from Warmoth, such as the bridge and tuning machines. The pickups are Seymour Duncan's. My fingerboard was made from Indian Rosewood.I recommend using padouk as a wood for a guitar because of its great workability and tone. Tom Preston<br />Black korina explorer style guitar. Medium brown stain on the body and neck. Signed by Metallica about 2 months after I finished it, which is good and bad. good because i got it signed, bad because this is the best sounding guitar i have! Nicholas Paley<br />I made this guitar for my GCSE design technology course at school. A little excessive but I got an A!<br> <br> Nick Paley 16 Matt Schaeffer<br />This J-master took me about eight months to build. The neck pickup is a Hot J-master and the bridge is a 51 Trembucker. The body is hard maple and the fretboard is ebony with block inlays. I handpainted all of the designs and mixed the green paint on the body myself. Jim Sayer<br />Swamp Ash SG, All gold hardware, Gotoh TOM and STP, Gold Gotoh tuners, Maple black gloss neck with Ebony fingerboard. Nicest looking and sweetest playing guitar ever. keep up the good work Warmoth. Barney Spector<br />This guitar was built around an Ampeg treble sustain pickup in 1970. No pots or switches, just direct to the amp. The man who sold me the walnut said it came from a tobacco barn down south. I should have bought the whole board. Barney Spector<br />This guitar is all maple. Warmoth neck and fingerboard very well made. I made it for my older son Gabe for Christmas in 2003. It's temporarily out of service while I repair a spot on the finish. Barney Spector<br />This guitar has a gold Fishman under the bridge, the idea being to give a guitar player who is used to a narrower neck a classical nylon sound. The body is purpleheart and very heavy. It was made for my younger son for Christmas 2003. John Myers<br />My guitar is the L5S, flame maple top with mahogany back,hollow with F holes,the neck is maple with rosewood. The pickups are Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates, neck and bridge. This guitar is loaded with tone, thanks for all your help. Scott B<br />This is my Warmoth family of guitars. I gig with these regularly, practice with them daily. They are reliable workhorses and I wouldn't trade them for anything. These guitars play great, sound great and the sounds I get from them are better than guitars that cost thousands more. <br> Thanks Warmoth for giving us musicians a way to make our own sounds come to life! Mike Magda<br />I wanted to build a guitar like a 1965 Fender Mustang to match my 1965 Ford Mustang, which is a black on black fastback with chrome-plated wheels and trim. Warmoth painted the swamp ash body and maple neck w/ ebony fingerboard, abalone face dots and graphite nut gloss black and provided the black pearl pickguard. In keeping with the chrome theme, I had the pickup covers and slide switches chrome plated to complement the chromed Schaller tuners. Pickups are Seymour Duncan Antiquity II models. Remaining hardware came from Warmoth and Guitar Parts Resources. Special thanks to Mark Dewey check out his Stat style guitars in the Gallery for helping with the wiring and assembly. joe Interlande<br />Jagmaster swamp ash body, tap pull pots, volume and tone, i finished it with tangerine metalflake. My 6th warmoth. Sander Wolff<br />Named the Sandblaster, this guitar features a beautiful Warmoth flame maple LP replacement neck with a pau ferro fingerboard, and a solid one-piece curly African mahogany body. The body shape is based, in part, on a Gretsch BST1000, with modifications to suit my playing style. It features Planet Waves locking string-cutting tuners, and a custom high-output Seymour Duncan 4-wire humbucker connected to a 3-way switch. The body shaping was done by my friend Randy Simon, the routing by Steve Soest, and final setup by the folks at World of Strings. Kevin A<br />This is the first guitar I ever put together. It's an alder body, finished in a flawless Sonic Blue. I cannibalized the maple necks off of two Fender Mexican Strats. I used the 2-Hole Vintage tremolo and the Narrow Spaced Strat fixed bridge. The pickups are just some old single coils I had around: a set of 1972's, a couple of 1975's, and an early DiMarzio Fat Strat for a little punch. I didn't want to load the guitar up with switches and knobs. So the switch, being double throw, selects the pickups for both necks. The trem neck has just a volume control, while the fixed neck has a volume and a master tone. The output jack is stereo, so a stereo cable must be used. It weighs 13.5 lbs, but it's pretty comfortable to play sitting down. Clark Huneycutt<br />It is a cross between Garcias Tiger and Rosebud guitars. The body is black korina and is laminated with indian rosewood.<br/><br/>Great tonal quality.I [expletive deteted] love it Thanks guys!! Pascal Vaucel<br />7s one piece black Limba body, loaded with Warmoth/Anderson pups.<br/> Super 7 maple neck with ebony fretboard & peghead veener.<br/> Everything from Warmoth, exept the 5 ways double waffer switch.<br/> MONSTER tone, versatile instrument !!!<br/> http://www.myspace.com/phasme1<br/> Sc@L. Jeffry Swertfeger<br />I designed this doubleneck in my head about twenty years ago when I was touring. I wanted one guitar that I could use that would give me virtually any sound I needed. I finally got around to it and thought I would share it with you. UNBELIEVABLE! The folks at Warmoth delivered EXACTLY what I requested. <br/><br/>The EMG custom electronics make this thing sing, from crystalline country tones down to the raunchiest rock I can think up. The Wilkenson Tremolo and LSR nut/Schaller locking tuners are a very nice touch as well. The custom Escalade white pearl paint and gold hardware make this thing an eye catcher on stage. This is truly a one-of-a-kind guitar and a dream come true for me. With much of the guitar hollow and the pearl tuner buttons, the guitar is surprisingly light and extremely well balanced. I am extremely proud of this one [as I am of all of my Warmoths]. If you hsve thought about building something outrageous...take the plunge. I could not think of a better company to team up with. Thanks again Warmoth! Newman Ramzel<br />This double neck was the 2nd guitar that I have created using Warmoth Parts which I purchased back in late 1997. With this particular guitar shown I was trying to go for a 1960's double neck "relic" Strat vibe which I feel I achieved with a few modifications. The body is made from alder, which due to weight if I had to do it all over again I would use sw ash. As for necks this instrument has two maple necks with rosewood fingerboards and each neck has its own unique contour. The 12 string neck uses the wide fat contour and has a bit of birds eye figure to it where as the 6 string neck has a thinner profile, larger frets, a light flame figure to it and it has the larger CBS style headstock. I used Kluson style tuners for both necks to give the instrument a more "vintage" feel even thought I am thinking of switching to locking tuners. I used Fender Texas Special Strat pickups for the 6 string neck and for the 12 string I used Kent Armstrong Lipstick Pickups since I was going for a more nausally sound which actually turned out really cool sounding. The only modifications to the body that I had to make after the fact were that I had to rout a hole under the bottom horn for the toggle switch control for neck selection since it was not already on the body (I should have specified it when I ordered the body) and when the 12 string pickup cavity was routed there was no connection from it to the bottom control cavity so I had to rout that after the fact as well. I finished the body myself with many coats of white paint and lacquer and it turned out pretty good, but for all the hassle I think next time I will just have Warmoth do the finish. For the bridges, on the 6 string neck I used a vintage 6 screw Strat style All Parts tremolo bridge in which I have replaced the standard saddles with Graphtec saddles. As for the 12 string neck I used a gotoh 12 string bridge. This guitar sounds really good and each neck has its own personality where as the 6 string neck seems very Straty and has a lot of twang to it (probably due to the Texas Specials). The 12 string has a more hollow sound to it and seems a bit dark (probably due to the lipstick pickups). I don't use this guitar much when playing with my band due to the fact it starts to feel heavy really quick but for recording in a controlled environment this guitar really rocks. Randall Owen<br />This is my first Warmoth project guitar. I found the Warmoth body on Ebay a few months ago. It came with the Bartolini Bass pickups and most of the hardware. I picked up a Warmoth P-Bass neck on Ebay also. The Strat neck I bought from Warmoth new, along with the Kluson tuners and bone nut for it, along with a few other hardware items. The body, sw ash, was unfinished, so I gave it 3 coats of Tung oil and finished it off with 3 coats of polyurethane. I had a set of Gibson 490's lying around the house that I wasn't using, so I installed them into the guitar side. In order to save space I used the stacked pots, 2 for each neck. I wired the necks so that they could both be active at the same time using a Gibson 3 way selector switch. The necks, of course, each have their own output jack. The guitar side of this axe really cranks while the bass has a real sweet tone. If I ever feel the urge to build another axe, Warmoth's going to get my business! Ryan Adam<br />Here are some photos of my Warmoth V2 body in action... The mahogany body is attached to an Ibanez RG-560 neck, has a Seymour Duncan '59 pickup, and Ibanez lo-pro edge tremolo and a single volume control... It's just like I always wanted, and since I'll never get one from Ibanez, I built it myself! Thanks. Stefan <br />Here is my first Warmoth project: It is a double neck Telecaster from alder wood in Lake Placid Blue. On the top I chose a Warmoth Construction Neck with a 12-string peghead from maple wood and a rosewood fingerboard. On the bottom I took a Warmoth Neck from maple with a maple fingerboard with Clear Gloss finishing. I used Kluson Standard Machines. The guitar comes with two Gibson Humbucker (490R + 498T) for the 12 string and with a Van Zandt Truebucker and a Van Zandt True Vintage PU for the 6 string. The choice of the pickups was very difficult. But I think I have done it right. The sound of this very special guitar is great. The 6 string comes with a pure blues and Vintage sound. On the 12 string I have the full and warm sound of the Gibson humbucker which is not to shrill in bridge position. I chose a Standard Tele wiring assembly with a 3 way switch for the PU?s and an ON/ON switch either for the 12 string or the 6 string. Thank you Warmoth for participation in building this wonderful instrument. Swertfeger <br />I call this my "Mid Life Crisis Guitar." I have always wanted a Rick Nielson/Cheap Trick Explorer and Hamer wouldn't build me one, so I came to you. This thing has been a labor of love right down to the Seymour Duncan '59ers. It gets a ton of looks, especially from us older duffers who were rocking with the boys from Rockford 20 years ago. It has a phenominal action and sounds too good to be true. Thanks again for the best quality out there! Tom Snediker<br />This maple/mahogany WGD body with a rosewood neck is my second Warmoth project. It sports three Joe Barden humbuckers that deliver powerful yet clean tone. The stunning top is AAAAA quilted maple, the back is AAA maple, and the center is mahogany. The parts arrived right in the middle of my thesis proposal so I got my friend and luthier, John McKenna to assemble this one -- THANKS! I want to send further thanks to Bill Cook of Warmoth for all his help. Walter Milden<br />I ordered the reverse headstock Explorer neck, compound radius with jumbo frets and a sw ash body blank. The gold Shaller machine heads are also purchased through Warmoth. The rest of the parts were replacements that I had purchased and used on a different guitar. That Includes: Bartolini pickups and a USA made Floyd Rose liscensed floating trem bridge. I did not want any plastic on this instrument, so I made the pickup rings, cavity and truss rod covers out of Brazilian Rosewood, same as what the guitar headstock is laced with. The body is quite a bit larger than a typical solid body electric, which adds to the massiveness of this guitar. Warmoth sent me a beautifully crafted neck and the piece of sw ash is exquisite. The glue line is in the center of the body and it is only 2 pcs. like it should be. I call it "The Club"<br><br> My second effort is Gibson influenced, recognized by the head stock shape and inlays. Not to mention the body scroll and florentine cutaway. I ordered the neck without frets and inlays as this was my pearl inlay training. I chose an old banjo inlay pattern. I did all the inlays and fretted the neck. The body was really a challenge as there is a lot of hand carving. It is an archtop, semi hollow. I used a 2 inch thick piece of Butternut, routed sound chambers (thus semi hollow) and glued a 1/4 inch book matched Walnut top to it. Again, no plastic. The Bartolini pickups are mounted with brass rings. I designed and built this instrument to be quite unique with fancy extras. This is why it took on the name, "The Ugly Stick" Zach Ragbourn<br />Just thought I'd send along a pic of my finished Warmoth project. This is an absolutely gorgeous 1-piece sw ash Jazzmaster body, cut for 3 single-coil pickups, a stop/tune-o-matic bridge and a recessed Strat-style jack. The photo doesn't really do justice to the perfect transparent royal blue finish, though. The neck's birdseye maple with an ebony fingerboard, and it feels so good, I may never put this guitar down! All the gold hardware is from Warmoth, and the pickups came out of a mid-80s Strat. It's the Jazzcaster of my dreams. This was my first Warmoth project, and it definitely won't be the last. Thanks for making this work out so perfectly. Adam Johnson<br />I just finished up my first Warmoth guitar project and it turned out brilliantly. What you see is a maple Warlock body with a 3 AAA quilt maple top that was dyed by Warmoth with their "bright blue" dye and finished with a black burst around the edges. The back is black, and the headstock was dyed and painted to match. The guitar color and wood figuring really come to life under bright lights and it seems to have a 3D effect when you view it from different angles. I bought the neck from Warmoth as well, and it's maple with an ebony fingerboard, and the headstock was veneered with the same quilt maple as the body. I bought (from Warmoth) and mounted a Schaller 456 fine tune fixed bridge and used the Gotoh tuners that Warmoth supplied as well. The bridge is very comfortable and makes palm muting a breeze. I had an EMG 81 mounted in the bridge position and it has the standard tone and volume setting for the two knobs you see. This guitar sounds fantastic! Very bright and clear and sharp (not harsh, just very clear) and it plays like a dream. It is not as heavy as I thought it would be, and actually feels lighter than my Ibanez RG-470 that is made of basswood. The neck (standard thin profile with 6105 frets) is fast, accessible and feels silky smooth to the touch. I had this guitar assembled and set up by the guys at Great Southern Music here in Houston (thanks Kevin!) and they did a wonderful job on it. If you love guitars, then take the time (about 3 months overall) and invest the money in a custom Warmoth project. You will never regret it, and you will be rewarded with a one of a kind custom guitar that quite literally, "was made for you...". Johan Versantvoort<br />Dear Warmoth team A few months ago I ordered a jaguar body and clapton guitarneck. and this is the final result.The guitar is equiped with two seymour duncan humbuckers and all the original switches and wiring diagram that goes with a Jaguar.I used a floyed rose bridge and gotoh tuners.Would you please put this picture in your gallery? Thanks in advance and best regards from Belgium. JD Miller<br />This is my first Warmoth guitar and I am quite pleased with it. Nowhere else could I find a flying V with the specs I wanted, so when I discovered Warmoth, I was very happy to be able to design a V the way I wanted it. <br/><br/>This V has a mahogany body, AAAAA flame maple top, black binding, contoured heel, cherry burst finish on top, and transparent red finish on the sides and back.<br/><br/>The neck is mahogany with an ebony fretboard, abalone dot inlay, standard thin neck contour, and flame maple veneer and cherry burst finish to match the body. It plays great, its tone is amazing, and it looks like an axe fit for a god.<br/><br/>Thanks Warmoth! Eric <br />Neck: warmoth 24 fret extension, yellow honey tinted, sperzel satin locking tuners. Body: Plexiglas handcrafted,standard weight . Pickups: 2 single coils bareknuckle mod.irish tour, 1 hambucker bareknuckle mod.emerald with volume push/push series,split . Pick engraved by Bea-Anjuna.com . Good neck, thank you . Spencer Chan<br />Dear Spike,<br/><br/>After almost a year, I finally was able to put together the V this past holiday. My actual day job has been so busy that I was unable to build it until recently.<br/><br/>But man, let me tell you, this bad boy sings! It's so bright and the sustain is awesome! I don't think I can use it for anything else other than shredding! Mike Manzione<br />Hello, here is my first and only (so far) custom guitar with Warmoth neck. Maple neck with Brazilian Rosewood board and painted black headstock. The custom headstock was great, although I probably would've been happy with the Warmoth style. 1-Piece Honduras Mahogany body with no trem. I designed the body over a few days in a full scale hand drawing. Seymour Duncan Custom and Custom Custom pickups, the bridge pickup being coil tapping.<br/><br/>The Warmoth neck plays excellently. I've adjusted the truss rod maybe twice in many years of playing. The action can be set very low and it holds rock solid tune. The neck was finished in satin at Warmoth, but has since been worn glossy long ago.<br/><br/>Thanks! Pier Paolo<br />It's two pieces alder body and a short scale neck with rosewood fingerboard and 6130 fret. The body didn't required a grain filler so I sprayed two coat separated by twenty minutes of sand and sealer ant then dry overnight. After sand dry with #320. I sprayed again two coat of sand and sealer. Let it dry overnight, I sand flat starting from #240 to #400 grade. Then I sprayed four coat of fiesta red color and flat again sanding wet from #600 to finish #1200. After dry overnight three hand of clear nitrocellulose laquer allow each coat to dry at least three hours and let dry until morning.The day after wet sand starting to #600 and end with #1000-1200, I've repeated the yesterday schedule. That for three days.After allowing the body to dry at least for two weeks, I started the final sanding and polishing. The grades required are #600, #800,# 1000, #1200, #2000. Then the final polishing.<br/><br/>The neck have a nitrocellulose laquer finish but I've sprayed 6 coats of laquer. <br/><br/>The pick up are the Seymour Duncan Antiquity II , the pickguard is mint green, all the cavity have been shielding with the copper tape, and the wiring is like an original 60 jaguar. Pier Paolo<br />It's a swamp ash body (two pieces) in nitrocellulose lacquer finish. It required a grain filler before the sand and sealer and then the same schedule process as above.<br/><br/> The pick up are Seymour Duncan Antiquity II, the hardware come from Warmoth and All Parts. Khaled Al-Kandary<br />BODY: Mahogany PAINT by friend :)<br><br> Neck : maple, maple fingerboard 24 frets Full Scallop NECK FINISHES VINTAGE TINT<br><br> Pickups 2 EMG 89<br><br> I got all the hardware and parts from Warmoth jast the knobs from the Q parts<br><br> Thanks Warmoth! Wes Caley<br />This is my first Warmoth project and will not be my last as I have decided to go with you guys for my parts for now on! The guitar is all mahogany and has a jet black ebony fretboard with sharkfin inlays and white binding with 22 nice big 6100 frets and a shaped body with the contoured heel option.The bridge is an old Kahler 2220C tremolo and it has a locking nut with the Gotoh SG38 tuners and all hardware is chrome.It has a Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge and a no-name for the neck.It was finished in Tru-Oil and has a black headstock.It is tuned down to B with D'Addario Jazz strings,gauge 13-56.It will probably never be possible that I will see another explorer like this one.<br><br> I was so amazed at this neck when I recieved it,especially when it was put together.The inlays look so beautiful and are just as good as any USA guitar,along with the rest of the parts you supplied me.I love the compound radius fingerboard and the standard thin contour is absolutely perfect for my hand.The frets needed nothing either and it plays very fast with a huge tone that is instantly recognizable.....to sum it up this is the best playing guitar I have ever owned! You have won over another customer for life right here!<br><br> Thanks for the great work! Bill Keaveny<br />Having caught the bug replacing a bass neck and then building a complete Jazz bass from Warmoth parts my latest Warmoth guitar has become a real one-off custom design. I have always loved the Jazzmaster shape but find the rest of the guitar a bit ordinary. The very rare occasions I encountered a left handed model always disappointed me. The body is just about the most comfortable shape you can hold but I found the pickups lacked what I was after and the bridge/tremolo design rather clumsy. As for the controls, well I think those little wheels are a bit silly and I'm a bit put off by lots of switches anyway. I love the layout of my so I decided to create a hybrid of my ideal instrument. I downloaded a few body pictures from Warmoths showcase and, using editing software, grafted telecaster routing onto a Jazzmaster body. I changed the neck pickup hole to a humbucker and moved the control cavity down the body to match the offset waist and dumped the whole hypothesis in Eric Wylies lap. It was no problem. We swapped a few emails regarding timber choice, grain coverage and availability. Every question I asked and every request I made was met with prompt and professional attention. I got exactly what I wanted and the guitar turned out beautifully. It looks, feels and sounds exactly as I hoped it would and I made it myself which makes it even more special. For the body I went for black korina and Eric was great in liaising with the body shop guys to ensure I got a beautifully grained piece. It has flames in it that I certainly didn't expect and I couldn't be more pleased. Four coats of Danish oil and plenty of elbow grease topped off with Carnauba wax has given the guitar a gorgeous satin sheen. I found my perfect neck in the Warmoth showcase. A left handed CBS in birdseye maple which I sprayed with satin clear poly. It complements the body perfectly. I had it fretted with 6230 wire and fitted kluson tuners so it's pretty much a vintage vibe which suits me just fine. The neck pickup is a Seymour Duncan 59 and the bridge a Seymour Duncan 1/4 pounder. They pair up beautifully and I don't have to touch the volume knob when I switch between them, very user friendly! All the other hardware came from Warmoth and is of good quality, fit and finish and nothing was missing. (pretty important when you live in Australia) Thanks again to Warmoth and especially Eric Wylie. You guys are doing a great job. I am already planning my next project so keep up the good work Carroll Williams<br />This is my take on Pete's "Tommy" and "Live at Leeds" era SG.<br><br> Lightweight (3 lbs, 11 oz) mahogany body, 1-1/2 inch body option, finished in dark red transparent by Warmoth. Pickups are Harmonic Design VP-90s, bridge is a Pigtail Music intonatable wraparound. Neck is Brazilian rosewood on mahogany, dark red finish too, Wolfgang profile with binding and trapezoid inlays. Grover keystone tuners, Buzz Feiten nut. For now I'm gonna enjoy this beautiful piece of mahogany and forgo the pickguard. I can always add one later. Expert assembly and setup by Denny Rauen at Rauen guitars in Milwaukee. Being a lefty, I have to custom order my guitars unless I want a black, MIM, which I don't, since nobody stocks lefties. With Warmoth I get a custom shop guitar for a production guitar price. This guitar is a total Rock 'n Roll machine.<br><br> Goes from beautiful, jangly cleans to full on overdrive roar and everything in between. It lacks nothing because I planned it all out top to bottom, and Warmoth's quality ensures me I'll get a properly made instrument when done. Denny told me he wouldn't even consider other after market suppliers besides Warmoth. This is my second Warmoth guitar, and I'm far from done. I'll definitely be back for more.<br><br> Thanks, David Berggren<br />This is a Maple/Walnut baritone guitar I finished in 2001. This was the first guitar I built and my first major woodworking project in general. As you can see by the scrolls, carved rims and the slightly off center bridge pickup, this project was a labor of equal parts love, whimsy, ambition and inexperience, among other things -- always an interesting mix -- like a greek tragedy. Luckily no one died because of this guitar, but being a baritone it is definitely the oddball and most rarely used of my guitars. But like the ugly duckling playing this guitar is learning to understand and value it's unique self. The neck was bought from Warmoth unfinished. Walnut with ebony fingerboard and one-way truss. I had a master furniture builder, Dale Schaffman of Cornish, New Hampshire help spray the lacquer finish on the neck and body. The neck has been very stable and consistent, which always amazes me because it seems so long and slender. It's strung with flatwounds 54's-14 tuned, B,E,A,D,F#,B. All this and the completely hollow two piece body make for a very unique sound. Low and woody -- some low notes almost sound like a upright bass with a pickup. But there's also more familiar guitar tones. Very slight angle in the neck pocket, 2-3 degrees The back walnut was from a tree formerly in the yard of Springfield, Vermont's Eric Tlacker. Pickups are "golden age" humbuckers with a coil tap. Gotoh tuners. The Maple top with some staining and flaming came from one 10 foot board I bought for 50 bucks from a specialty warehouse for this project. I've used that same board on three different guitars to date and gave away the rest. Pick up rings are made of walnut but have some very light tones in them so they blend well with the maple. The rear electronics cover is maple. Luca Del Villano<br />Hi guys, thank you very much for your outstanding customer support! Here is my J-Master, with body and neck from Warmoth, equipped with Jason Lollar P90 pickups and finished with a nitrocellulose lacquer. I want to thank Migi for the excellent set-up and Fabio for the professional wiring. This is really the guitar of my dreams and it has the best tone I?ve ever heard? Charles <br />Hey guys. Here's my finished Warmoth 7 string. Simply a remarkable guitar. A sincere thank you to the exceptionally friendly and knowledgeable sales staff. The crew in the Warmoth finishing shop did premium work on this guitar and the frets were installed with unparalleled precision. I couldn't be more pleased with the turnout. Julian Chuzhik<br />My name is Julian Chuzhik. I called up Warmoth Guitars about 5 months ago requesting a sepicific custom body job based on the ESP Forest series guitars. There were many options i wanted to include not compatable with ESP's however, like the 26.5" scale neck compatability as well as the Ibanez Edge Pro Tremolo routing. This was a 7 string project as well, since the 7 string Forest series has been discontinued for some time now. Swamp Ash body, Quilted Maple top. Red dyed with black side burst, single volume control. Everything went great, recieved my custom body right on schedule within 3.5 months. Thank you Warmoth and everyone who has made this project come alive, this guitar means alot to me. Jaroslav H?nig<br />Warmoth project: hollow L5S, black korina body, white korina top and neck, Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. Looks great, plays great, sounds great. Pickups are from Bare Knucle Pickups ? Strormy Monday at neck, Mule at bridge. These pups are awesome. Initially I used Kent Armstrong?s PAFs, which were pretty good, but later changed for Bare Knuckles, because they were even better. Brian McDonald<br />Just wanted to thank you for the great parts! I attached a picture (not very good) so you can see the finished product.<br><br> I can't imagine there's another SG like this one. Tom Viani<br />My first of many. Wanted a Guitar with no cut outs. Body & neck is one piece of laminated wood. Every thing else is from Warmoth. The peg head i call snake head shows the layers of wood. The sound's that come out of this guitar cannot be matched. Patrick K<br />Here's something I really wanted and just couldn't find anywhere else. It's a swamp ash body (finished by you) from the showcase, and an all-maple neck with 6105 frets (finished by me with a wipe-on urethane). It all went together without difficulty, and plays and sounds great. Push-pull pots and series/parallel wiring make for a ton of sonic variety, and no, it's not missing a knob... that's just a kill switch.<br><br> Thanks for the parts, I look forward to building another one. Ron Robertson<br />was looking at the misc. gallery on your website and wanted to know if you would like add this guitar that I built out of Warmoth parts. I built it over ten years ago from a Warmoth body blank and special ordered the neck and other parts also from Warmoth. I patented it a few years later. It is one of my favorite guitars.<br><br> Also, if Warmoth would like to add this body style to their growing list of guitars please contact me.<br><br> Thanks Scott Volthause<br />I ordered the parts for this guitar from you guys sometime in May or June of '05. Got the parts in July, and had the guitar built up and playing out in a couple weeks. This is honestly the best bang for the buck guitar I've ever had, and the build up was fun also.<br><br> This is my "RodMaster", which is a Jazzmaster body, rear route control cavity, dual hum (direct wood mount) and fixed vintage strat bridge, Pro neck w/CBS reverse headstock. Controls are master volume, with a 33pF cap for high pass when the volume is rolled off, and a mini toggle for bridge or neck p-up. All the hardware has been "aged" by hand, and the body was painted flat black.<br><br> The graphic was painted by friend/tattoo artist Hunter Spanks of Tattoo Devil Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina.<br><br> Can't wait to order the parts for my next project!<br><br> Thanks, J.P. Reali<br />Here is a photo of my Warmoth WGD. The body is mahagony with a walnut top. It has been stained to look like cocobola, which is the wood that Jerry Garcia's legendery "tiger" was constructed of. It plays and sounds incredible!!<br><br> Thanks to all at Warmoth for their help!! David Marr<br />Here is a photo of my Warmoth WGD. The body is mahagony with a walnut top. It has been stained to look like cocobola, which is the wood that Jerry Garcia's legendery "tiger" was constructed of. It plays and sounds incredible!!<br><br> Thanks to all at Warmoth for their help!! Joe Losacco<br />Here is the L5s I recently finished for a friend for Christmas. His wife made his holiday and you guys made a great looking guitar. The highly figured flame maple was beautiful. I added the natural binding to separate the natural mahogany back. The neck has a ebony fretboard with MOP dot inlays and matching flame maple headstock. The palm rest is also sports a natural mahogany finish with a high gloss clear coat. Thanks again.<br><br> Sincerely, Wm. F. Reardon, Jr<br />I wanted to go all Mahogany so as to mimic the sound of a good Gibson guitar. But used the Fender scale on the neck because I like the way a Strat is articulated! The body design is one I had made up after many attempts at an original style and design. I have custom made Seymour Duncan "Invader" pickups installed and have them wired exactly like an old Gibson with a 3-way toggle. One volume knob and one tone knob per pickup with either volume knob working as a master volume when toggle is in the middle position! The neck is Warmoth construction in mahogany with a rosewood fingerboard. I chose to have the STAR inlays so as to fit in with the theme. The headstock is a Jackson reversed because I think they look the coolest. I bought everything from you except the body which I had made and the pickups as I had to go straight thru SD for the custom work on the Invaders. Here is what I like to call the COSMIC FORCE: Randy Krieg<br />Well here it is. This is my Ibanez Rg style guitar. I built the body myself out of a maple body blank. When sanding down the body blank, I did not know there would be a little flame right under the surface. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. I contoured the heel just like and Ibanez as well. The next step was finding a neck. Since this was my first attempt at truely building a guitar with absolutely no experience, I knew I would not be able to build my own neck. I have been huge fan of Warmoth's phemonenal website/catalog for years and I knew they were the only ones for the job. The neck Came as a Paddle Head design and I carved it into a PRS headstock design. It is constructed of walnut with a beautiful rosewood fingerboard minus the inlay. There are some old Vintage Gresch knobs on the volume and tone Pots. Those knobs control a Seymour Duncan Lil 59 in the neck and a Duncan Distortion in the Bridge. This guitar screams and sports a hand applied tung oil Finish. Thanks warmoth, I am anxiously awaiting my next project with you. , Michigan Magnus Nordbye<br />This is my second guitar built from Warmoth parts. It features 2 Seymour Duncans, an Original Floyd Rose Tremolo, locking tuners and straplocks. All the candy any guitarist could need. But best of all, the wellbuilt and sounding neck and body made by Warmoth! Huge tone and light weight. Jaimes <br />Hi my name is Jaimes, my dad made this for me as a X-mas present. He is a structural Engineer but does a lot of stuff in his wood shop out back. His name is Daniel Nerf. I just thought everyone would get a kick out of it. It plays great! Everyone is soooooo jealous. He deserves some props for this one. Gerald Arthur Shea<br />Crappy picture - Awesome guitar<br><br> Body - Mahogany with flame maple top, black dye with burst transition Neck - Maple with rosewood, 28-5/8", abalone dots Electronics - 2 X Duncan Distortion, individual cocentric volumes, master tone with coil tap Hardware - Gold, Sperzel tuners, Hipshot Baby Grand bridge, Schaller straplocks The long scale is very lead-friendly. Very tight, present tone. This is my second Warmoth (Eagle Bass also in gallery). George Stragand<br />This guitar started as a Warmouth swamp ash Mockingbird body and maple neck. The single humbucker pickup is a Seymour Duncan '59 Model. All components are gold.<br><br> The story of this guitar is that my wife, Laurie, met the artist at the Albuquerque Ballon Fiestia (http://www.aibf.org/) in 2004. Ali Launer (http://www.alilauner.com/) had a guitar she beaded for her husband on display, and my wife came home so excited about it she was nearly begging me to pick up a guitar to have turned into a piece of art! After browsing the Warmouth website for ideas, the components gelled and I finally got the guts to order all the parts. Throughout the entire process, I resisted the urge to find out what my wife had planned so that at Christmas 2005 it would be a total suprise.<br><br> Ali Launer did amazing work! The bead colors were suggested, but the design and Colorado Abalone inlays are totally Ali's artistic creation. She even beaded the headstock!<br><br> I have a CD full of pictures of the work in progress, so I know step by step how the guitar came to be.<br><br> The guitar is a unique piece of art and 100% playable.<br><br> Contact Ali if you'd like your own at http://www.alilauner.com/.<br><br> Thanks Warmouth for the components to make this wonderful Christmas present a reality! Sam Deo<br />I'd like to share my Warmoth with you. It's a swamp ash body that has been heavily carved out in the shape of a skull, cross bones and rib cage with organs!!! The neck is a Warmoth Construction neck with a Jackson style head, birdseye maple and abalone inlay. You'll notice the lack of tuning machines, I'm using a Floyd Rose Speederloader so no machines are required. Th electronics are simple with a Dimazrion X2N and a tone and volume control. The guitar is a blast to play, sounds great and looks incredible. Colin Wood<br />Here is what I did with the guitar parts I ordered from warmoth. The project turned out as close to perfect as it could. I wired it myself through trial and error of about 2 days. Finally got it to work though. The setup and intonation is actually head on too. I am very pleased with the grade of the parts it turned out very well. Well I guess if you are to post it on the site I should give the technical rundown. The pickups are wired like a guitar with the ecception of the humbucker being able to go in and out of phase as well. I then wired the two 3 way slider switches to a Les Paul 3-way which then go to a concentric pot and finally to the output jack. I've been told that this was redundent but the purpose was really to enable a more conventional pickup selector (which is what I am most comfortable with), and to enable muting tricks more easily. I guess its all personal prefrence. I used the same capasitor as found in strats which actually seems to roll off quite a bit of tone. The pickups are vintage alnico and have quite a thick tone but can also be tricked into that nasily out of phase sound quite well too.<br><br> Finally, the only other unconventional things on the guitar are the reverse layout neck (if you make it that easy then why not!) and I bought a blank pickguard in order to cut out the pickups at a reverse stagger. I guess ultimately the theme behind the guitar was to build it with mostly left hand features but still have a comfortable shape to wear daily.<br><br> Thank you for making it so convenient to obtain the guitar that always existed in my head Warmoth.<br><br> sincerely, Glen Hyden<br />I could not fine the guitar I wanted off the shelf so through Warmoth I could build to suite. And here it is. I am thrilled w ith the quality of the Warmoth parts. I wanted 24 frets, a EMG 81 and a real Floyd Rose with the D-tuna on a flying V.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth! Tom Ice<br />This is my custom V2 I built with the help of Warmoth. It first started as an idea I had after seeing Alexi Laiho's new signature ESP. I always loved the Rhoads V that Jackson offered and decided to make something along those lines.<br><br> It's a standard Warmoth V2 body with 1 volume, 1 tone and an EMG afterburner. I also opted for the contoured heel option. The body is Alpine White, along with the back of the neck.<br><br> The neck is a Warmoth Jackson maple neck with an ebony fretboard and standard thin profile. I decided to go with a no inlay look to keep the guitar real simple looking. I had the headstock painted black as well. The tuners are Gotoh and it has an Original Floyd Rose with an R2 nut.<br><br> The pickups are a Zakk Wylde EMG 85/81 set. The EMG afterburner really makes these pickups hot and stand out. The quality of the guitar is amazing and it sounds superb.<br><br> Thanks for everything Warmoth! Joe Losacco<br />My name is Joe Losacco from East Brunswick, New Jersey. This my Warmoth SG. You guys supplied the body and neck. I finished this with epoxy for the grain fill which gives the wood a 3D effect when the body is moved from side to side. Burst Amber for the center with Gibson Heritage Cherry for the outer band. Clear coated in nitrocellulose lacquer. The body is all mahogany with a Pao Ferro fretboard, abalone inlays, and mahogany palm rest and headstock. I fitted Swineshead pickups with ebony bobbins and a 3 way toggle with custom made switch plate. It sounds great and looks great. Thanks for the beautiful woods. I hope these pictures are okay from my website, if not feel free to email me and I will send you the originals to post.<br><br> Thanks again. Rick Rivas<br />"I ordered a custom neck from Warmoth (24 fret, 24 & 3/4 scale, compound radius, Ebony Fingerboard/Maple and steel frets). This neck was for my first Guitar, first wood-working project for that matter - A Hollowbody Archtop Prototype (All Koa-Trey Anastasio Inspired).<br><br> First let me say that customer service was great and the people really helped to advise me on my selection. Second, because of all the custom features, it wasn't the cheapest route, but it was worth every dollar. Lastly, it came right on time as promised. I didn't have to do any work on the frets, they were perfect out of the box!<br><br> The quality is outstanding. The steel frets are a great choice for the neck. I've been bending and grinding my strings on these frets for a year and a half and still no sign of even the slightest wear. No fret jobs needed!<br><br> Also, compound radius is really cool feature.<br><br> My only complaint is the poorly placed burned-in brand on the back. Warmoth, does it have to be so large and high up on the neck?<br><br> I highly recommend Warmoth necks and will continue to use the necks in my future guitars. It saved me time and the headaches and I love the feel. Each set of hands prefers different sytle necks, plenty of options provided to satisfy everyone.<br><br> P.S. Jim Williford of Stringed Instrument Works implemented my Don Quixote design for the mother of pearl inlay on the headstock. I designed the guitar in Adobe Illustrator and followed the general guitar-building techniques of luthier Benedetto in his archtop book."<br><br> Barry Childs-Helton<br />Here's a shot of my first custom-built doubleneck, built around a Warmoth Double Neck body (with Warmoth pickguard) that I purchased from the Showcase in 2003.<br><br> Tom's Guitar Repair (under the direction of the late Tom Evert and his son T.J.) in Indianapolis prepared the body, had the clear finish applied, wired up the whole thing, an did final assembly and adjustment in March 2004. The bass neck is from a 1998 bass, which T.J. converted to fretless; the bass pickups are J-style Duncan Basslines. The bass volume and tone controls are on the outer rings of the stacked potentiometers; a mini-switch selects pickups; the tapewound strings are my favorites for fretless bass.<br><br> For the guitar, I used a standard neck, Baggs X-Bridge piezo tremelo (vintage specs), and guitar pickups (which are very compatible with the X-Bridge, so no additional preamp was needed for the piezo). The pot that is normally the rear tone control for a guitar became the volume control for the piezo; the inner knobs of the stacked pots control master volume and tone for the magnetic pickups. The large solid body does tend to darken the guitar sound a little, but the piezo can brighten that up with no problem. The resulting tone is actually a bit jazzier than I've heard on any other guitar.<br><br> A Roland GK-2a hex pickup for MIDI completed the guitar; I use it with a Roldand GR-33 synth (in particular, the Tin Whistle patch) a fair amount with Wild Mercy (http://wildmercy.com), the Celtic folk-rock band I've been with since 2002. To my delight, this instrument went beyond even my expectations from the beginning. It does everything I ask of it, and then some. It attracts attention on stage, but it's almost totally transparent to the player.<br><br> Kudos at Warmoth, to Tom's, and (of course) to Leo Fender. Horton <br />Hey warmoth,<br><br> My name is Horton, and I made a warmoth guitar. I found warmoh through google because I was looking for parts for my project and I decided to get all my parts from warmoth.<br><br> I got my parts about 6-8 weeks after I called in my order but I must say that it was well worth the wait. everything was in pristine condition when it arrived my doorstep.<br><br> when i got the parts I started building it right away, it took me about 3-4 days to finish my guitar with the help of mr. john jordan.<br><br> This is my first build guitar so I decide to go with the basics. My guitar has planet waves tuners on it, a maple ebony neck, w/gold frets, a floyd rose recessed tremolo, and fullshred seymour duncans.<br><br> I would really appreciate it if you could show the picture on your website, because I am really proud of this guitar. Todd Sukany<br />Another successful guitar monitored by Garett Baker. This is an L5S hollowbody. The back is Black Korina and the top is Bloodwood. Seymour Duncan P-90s are controlled by Warmoth pots and Sprague woman-tone caps. Gotoh tuners and bridge work keep the Wenge/Ebony neck singing. This guitar has an articulate tone that is warm but can growl with the big dogs. Garrett, the binding call is SUPERIOR! Thanks again. Russell Holmes<br />My name is Russell Holmes from Dallas, Texas.<br><br> First of all, I'd like to say thanks to Warmoth for making this project so easy. The wood and craftsmanship are genuine USA custom shop quality.<br><br> This is my first Warmoth guitar. The body is Black Korina, stained to a darker tone, finished with tung oil, sanded to 2000 grit, then hand polished. The wood is absolutely beautiful, and appears to have a slight quilted pattern. I didn't even know Korina could look like that!<br><br> I've been looking for YEARS for the perfect guitar, and knew I would never find it (especially left-handed). Now I finally have my dream guitar. I cut out the headstock myself, did the finish on the neck all in one night, and played a show the next day. People were totally blown away by how great the guitar looks and sounds. It feels incredible and the sound that comes out of that Black Korina is brilliant. I shaved down a Floyd Rose to fit inside a Floyd Rose Original cavity, and I placed a Seymour Duncan Dimebucker at the bridge. I'm still debating whether I should put a '59 or Pearly Gates in the neck. The neck is flawless with INCREDIBLE sustain.<br><br> This guitar is absolutely the most beautiful sounding, feeling, and looking instrument that I have EVER played on and I am VERY proud to own it. I didn't even spend as much money as I would have if I had bought a Gibson Explorer! Plus, this guitar has way better features, and I was able to customize every single detail about it. There is nothing that can compare with owning your own custom creation.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth. Jim Gallagher<br />Hey, just wanted to pass along some pictures of my guitar now that its all done. The woods look amazing, I couldn't be happier with how it turned out. The body is koa with a tung oil finish that I did with a wax top coat, and the neck is macassar ebony and padouk, unfinished. Schaller locking tuners, LR Baggs piezos, Seymour Duncan SH-2 and SH-4, stainless steel frets, the buzz feiten tuning system, and excellent woods from warmoth make an incredible guitar.<br><br> Erik at Sky Guitars in Denton, TX put it all together for me and did a great job. His website can be found at www.skyguitars.com. Damon Zak<br />I'm a first time builder, but yall made it easy to put together the "perfect" guitar. I could have started with an easier project but I decided to go all in on this one, and the result is beyond my widest expectations. <br><br> Started with a Koa body (because I have always liked the shape) solid 2 piece, rear-routed, construction. As you can see from the pic they matched the grains perfectly and chose gorgeous wood. I used primarily medium sheen orignal, Waterlox (tung oil based) finish and normal tung oil. 4 coats of Waterlox, then 2 normal tung oil (for thickness and gloss), then 3-4 more coats of Waterlox. Also put about 6 coats of Waterlox on the headstock of the Goncola Alves neck. As you may know these necks don't need a finish, but I wanted to match the color of the headstock to the body, and its in the ball park. The neck is a std. thin Gocola with an Ebony fretboard, and is extremely fast. Peghead is a CBS style, & neck is Warmoth Pro construction.<br><br> For hardware I deceded to do something a bit different, added a tele style cup for the input (easy to find w/out looking). Used a Gotoh Wilkinson bridge and Shaller Mini=Locking tuners. Sucker stays in tune no matter how much whammy I put on it.<br><br> In the pickup cavity I wanted something special. Its routed SSH (not normal J-Master), and I did a ton of research to come up w/ the best pickups. Put in 2 Lindy Fralin Woodstock 69 model pickups in the Neck and Middle positions. These have the reverse stagger pole pieces to emulate Jimi's 69 strat tone (boy do they). In the bridge I placed a WCR crcoils.com "Crossroads" model humbucker, which claims Clapton's Cream era tone (It nails it). Wiring one thing I struggled with, but finally got it after several stewmac orders & poring over countelss schematics. Its got a strat 5 way megaswitch, master volume and tone w/ a blend pot to get combo's of all pickups.<br><br> For this guitar I wanted the deepest tone with the broadest range. Wish you could hear it.. dives down to the depths of the ocean and then climbs out into the stratosphere, Hendrix to Clapton to SRV its all there... Koa J-master + Fralins + WCR = UNEARTHLY TONE.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth!! Wilfried Froehlich<br />Hi Folks!<br><br> Just wanted to send you some pics about what happened to one of your showcase Variax bodies.<br><br> The guitar always gets people stunned when they hear it, getting the sound of an amplified J 200 or an accoustic 12-string as well as the mellow tone of a Jazzbox or the hollow sound of a banjo all out of a guitar !!! :-)))<br><br> Black Korina, nitro-laquered body combined with an indian rosewood neck and the electronics of a Variax 500 make this guitar a special. Tom Walzem<br />The Neptunes is an instrumental surf band from central California. We play doubleneck guitars exclusively. To facilitate switching on the fly the necks are chosen by footswitch, with an onboard pull pot that activates both necks. Parts were originally taken from Mexican and Chinese basses to save money, over time, pickups and bridges have been upgraded. They sound great but they hurt your back after a long set. Check out our website at www.surfneptune.com for pictures and info! Eric Openshaw<br />Hi, My name is Eric Openshaw. I'm 18, from Salt Lake City, Utah. This is the first guitar I ever built nicknamed "The Beast". Many of the parts were bought through Warmoth. The body was custom built by me when I was a junior in high school. I got this guitar done in a 6 month period, with some help from a friend at Joe's Guitars who had some routing templates. Special features include a floyd rose locking tremelo, gotoh locking tuners, two Seymour Duncan humbuckers (bridge-original trembucker, neck-custom custom.) volume control and push pull tone control/splitter for a more hollow vintage sound. The paint was done by Dave Kindig of Kindigin'-it designs which is a car body shop. It gets played at just about every show I perform so it has some general wear on the back and some scuffs on the front.<br><br> Thanks and I hope you decide to post it on the gallery site.<br><br> Thanks again, Rich Perry<br /> Here is the "Excriminator" This "Axe" was constructed with a solid poplar body, Bloodwood Warmoth neck W\full scallop. Pickups are EMG 85 neck, 81 bridge, Shaller roller bridge, Sperzel tuners. Tone is great and the playabilty is exceptional. With strap it is extremeley comfortable and a real pleasure to play live. A custom case was also built in the shape of a coffin. Thanks to Warmoth for the great neck and the tuner spacing on the custom head stock worked out just fine. Aidenisa Flirt<br />I'm self taught, the body is maple, with the seymour duncan, its got the floyd...etc...this iwas my first attemt at a guitar. Kyle Alexander<br />The Alexander Eagle started life as a Warmoth 13 degree paddle head maple/ebony neck, and a mahogany coffee table. I am pleased with the design of the headstock, amazing that I did it with a bandsaw... The neck has a graphite nut and 6100 fretwire. All the guitarists I know can't belive how nice the neck is. The paint is inspired by old heraldic eagle designs. The pickups are DiMarzio's This is my first project, and it has turned out just great. The tone of the guitar is excellent, even unplugged. I can't wait to start my next project. G. Stewart<br />Extra Light 1 piece mahogany body (Painted black)<br> Gotoh 510 Bridge<br> Rio Grande BBQ bridge pickup<br> Seymour Duncan Jazz neck pickup<br> 24 3/4 conversion Mahogany LP neck with Black Ebony fingerboard (Painted Black)<br> Celtic Cross Inlay with extra inlay on the first fret (have to ask for it)<br> Pearloid Neck Binding<br> Standard Thin contour<br> Graphite Nut<br> White Pearl truss rod cover and pickguard<br> 1 5/8 Nut width<br> 10" Straight Radius<br> Stainless Steel 6105 Frets<br> Schaller Locking Tuners w/Hipshot string de-tuner<br><br> This is the thickest sounding SG you've ever heard! Partly because of the Rio Grande BBQ pickup and partly because the body is thicker than a traditional SG. It has awesome tone and is the nicest playing guitar I've ever had. It's now my main squeeze out gigging! Warren Long<br />The first is a Warmoth with a quilt maple top on a swamp ash body. Brown dye top and back. DiMarzio virtual vintage P-90s, vintage style tremolo.L<br><br> The neck is birdseye maple with abalone dots and Sperzel tuners. The wiring is Strat style with a 5-way selector. The guitar is smooth and warm, but has tremendous growl is you push the amp to break up. Really a tremendous guitar. For more information, go to www.davisguitarworks.com and email. rilano1 <br />Hey warmoth, here is my Ken Lawrence Explorer.<br><br> The body is mahogany. The Ken Lawrence headstock is of course the coolest part of this guitar. The Neck is made of mahogany with a rosewood fretboard. I used a bombay mahogany stain on the entire thing. All I can say is that this guitar rocks. Thanks for all the support Warmoth. Dan Kraft<br />I took up woodworking a year ago and wanted to combine my two hobbies by making a guitar. My only choice for a neck was Warmoth. The Warmoth neck looked beautiful right out of the box and couldn't wait to bolt it to the body. I built the body out of a really thick piece of maple that had both quilting and curling in it for a really cool effect. I finished the body with some oil and then put on about a dozen layers of lacquer. I used EMG-85 and EMG-81 pickups and only one volume knob to keep it simple and clean. All of the hardware is chrome. This guitar plays like a dream, I'll never buy another guitar from a store again. I plan on building another guitar later in the year, but for now I'm going to enjoy this one.<br><br> Thanks again. Erik Froese<br />The stain is tobacco brown. It took about 10 coats to get it that color. The wood was also treated with black grain filler to make the wood stand out even with the dark brown stain on there. We were going to burn the devil that you can see in some of the pictures into the head with a wood burning kit but it scared the crap out of me to risk ruining the head. For now its just penciled on there. The pickups are wired so they can be adjusted individually when both are turned on. The name of the talented guy who put it all together is Tommy Longobardi.<br><br> He did a bang up job.<br><br> Neck pickup: Dimarzio 59 SH-1n<br> Bridge pickup: Gibson 498T<br> Wotoh Bridge<br> Planet Waves locking auto-trim tuning machines.<br><br> Thanks again. Its beautiful. Alex Clark<br />This is my Warmoth guitar I built for a school project. The body is Swamp Ash with a Maple neck. Everything is from Warmoth except the Pick-ups. Warmoth is a great company that makes great guitar parts. The guitar it self was easy to build, the only tricky part being the finish. Everything is complete except the last Pick-up. Magnus Nordbye<br />Hi!<br><br> Well, here's my statement...<br><br> "This is my first guitar, and i'm glad it was built from Warmoth parts. Every little part arrived in three days, all in great condition."<br><br> "This wasn't so hard to do as i had thought. Connecting all the electronics was very time consumin for a beginner, but it was worth a while. Spraying was easy, when i used car laquer. Yellow base color with black details, seymour duncan pickups, tremolo, volume and tone."<br><br> "I'm really satisfied with the guitar. Couldn't be happier!"<br><br> "Wanna know more? Mail me at mnordbye@yahoo.no" S.L. Conaway<br />This is my Warmoth star body guitar, I wanted something really different and no company was offering exactly what I needed, except Warmoth. It has binding front and back and an original Floyd Rose tremolo. I got all the hardware and parts from Warmoth. This is my first build project and I am so happy with the tone, sustain and playability, that I am already planning my next guitar.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth. Ashley Moors<br />This is my first Warmoth guitar built in August 2003. It is a swamp ash firebird body with a maple baritone neck. All hardware was from Warmoth with Seymour Duncan pickups, an invader in the bridge and a jazz in the neck. The quality of the build and finish is awesome, and I can't say enough for the excellent service I received no matter how many questions I had. Thanks a lot, can't wait to build my next one. Jason Marlow<br />My father and I decided to build a guitar and this is how it turned out. It has a solid mahogany musicalander body and contoured heel. the neck is hard maple with a brazilian rosewood fingerboard. its scalloped from the twelveth fret up. my dad came up with this ingenius way of wiring the pickups to get all sorts of crazy tones. I have duncans, an sh-8 invader in the neck and a dimebucker on the bridge. schaller floyd rose tremolo system. It gets very oud and in-your-face, like rosie o'donald with a megaphone. Stefan Santoro<br />This is my first Warmoth guitar. All parts except the tuners are from Warmoth. I always liked specific vintage guitars going heavy. So I ordered the J-Master body with humbucker and Gibson-style bridge routing. It's White Korina with a Wenge lamtop. The neck is Walnut with an Ebony fingerboard, 25-1/2" scale, 1-11/16" nut width, boat profile, 10"-16" compound radius and 6150 frets.I stained and oiled the back of the body and left the top raw. The neck has a clear satin finish made by Warmoth. The pearloid pickguard is designed and cut by myself. I also cut the ordered L.P.-13°-peghead to a shape I had in mind. The two humbuckers (Seymour Duncan SH-2 / SH-4) are wired together with a 5-way-switch so I can also select the coilsplitts and parallel combinations of the splitted coils. Compared to my other guitar the sound is (of course) not as bright but quite vivid and clear and has a certain articulate 'brown' tone?.exactly what I wanted. The neck feels incredibly smooth and natural and the playability is really great. With a set of 0.010"-strings the bendings go anywhere. Playing this guitar gives me the impression that the harder I play it, the wilder it gets?.still keeping its temper?.and with a grin spreading its back even wider.<br><br> Warmoth, this Guitar is exactly what I wanted and more I expected.<br><br> Thank you very much. Nathan Condon<br />Flame Koa on Mahogany finished in clear nitro. A nice 3lb, 12oz body from the Showcase, treated in danish oil first because I couldn't spray during the winter. I designed the pickguard. Lace Hot Gold Sensors (sound great!) and standard wiring. Thanks for the awesome body. This is my second Warmoth experience and won't be my last! Will Hardy<br />Hello All!<br><br> I hope that you are able to open this image. This is my guitar. I used Warmoth and others (new and vintage parts). I had a luthier wire it up, as I found the wiring a bit too challenging for a newbie. The end result is a real nice sounding and playing guitar.<br><br> Thanks. Wilfried W. Froehlich<br /> Mark McQuaid<br />Hey Guys,<br><br> My name is Mark McQuaid from Winston Salem NC.<br><br> This is my second Warmoth guitar. It has a 2 piece black korina body I got from the showcase, finished with the same stuff they finish gun stocks with, then rubbed with 0000 steelwool until it's like glass. The bridge pickup is a Duncan JB, and the neck is a Duncan 59. The neck is Birdseye Maple, with an ebony board... Love the inlays !!!!! It's a very soundworthy wood... Beautiful warm tone with sustain up the butt!!<br><br> Thanks guys for your help in picking out hardware, and patience with the neck !! Nate Austin<br />Just thought I would send you a picture of my final project. Has a Fernandez Sustainer and built in MXR Phase-90. Thanks fellas. I can't wait to start saving and begin my next Warmoth project. Anders Pedersen<br />My very first guitar project ever!!<br><br> I've always loved the shape and look of this style of guitar, but when I tried one (a competition reissue), it was a terrible let-down... The finish was a bit cheap and nasty (no matching headstock, stripes looked like stickers etc.). The sound leaved a lot to be desiered, and it was made of basswood.<br><br> So I got all the parts from warmoth. Alder body, maple/rosewood neck, warmoth modifyed bridge 4 layer pickguard w mother of pearl, Kluson Tuners, graphite nut etc.<br><br> A friend of mines dad made me a pair of sligthly overwound, alnico 5, staggered, single coil pickups. They sound great!!<br><br> The finnish is a metallic lake placid blue with matching headstock. Custom made decal (It's an Anders :o) ) and handpainted Sonic Blue competition stripes. Lots of layers of lacquer (I've lost count). The neck was stained with a yellow/brownish stain for that "Vintage look".<br><br> It feels and sounds great!! Defenetly not my last Warmoth project!!<br><br> Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards Alex Smith<br />Hello my name is Alex Smith. I have purchased 3 Warmoth necks in the past year or so to make my dream guitars a reality. This Van Halen 1984 is my latest creation, and would not have been possible without the high quality parts from Warmoth. I installed a Duncan '59 neck pickup bolted directly to the body, and wired it to a 500k volume pot. On the volume pot, I installed a treble bleed circuit consisting of a .001 capasitor and 100k resistor between the input and out put of the pot. This gave the pickup a little more punch and tonal quality. I then install a new Floyd Rose Original Tremolo.<br><br> I am a firm believer that the neck makes the guitar. When I ordered my neck out of the Shocase section on the website, I new I was getting a quality product. When I pulled it out of the box I got a sweet surprise. The truss rod adjustment screw was located at the heal of the neck rather than the headstock. This is no big deal, but I noticed that it also had an allen screw out the side of the neck. I had never seen this before so I called Warmoth to find out what was up with the screw. They told me it was a new micro adjust feature that allows the user to adjust the neck once it is installed on the body. It was a major time saver on my setup. Plus it allowed me to really dial in the neck for peak performance.<br><br> Thanks to all at Warmoth for giving me the parts to make a major player. Not only have I gotten many compliment, I have gotten many offers to buy it as well. I just tell these people to call Warmoth, and build your own!<br><br> Until we do it again... Mathias Lerche<br />The guitar was put together from a Warmoth wenge/ebony neck(looove it!) and a body crafted from a solid 22kg block of aluminum. I made it as a school assignment at my 8. semester in industrial design and jused roughly 3 weeks for construction. The body was carved down to about 2,5 kg, using just about every tool availiable, with a wide edge for resting lightly on the thigh. The right hand wing follows the body with a dubble curvature for a comfortable arm rest and the jack-plug is hidden on the back and angled upward to ensure it stays plugged in no matter how hard you step on it. The challenge of the shaping was to remove as much material as possible to bring the weight down so the mass between the pickups was removed to enable the pickups to slide to whatever position one might prefer.<br><br> I found guitars, and indeed guitarists as well, to be very conservative concerning materials and shaping. I believe aluminum is somewhat ideal for guitarbuilding. This axe has loads of sustain and all the strings harmonics are allowed to ring through creating a very rich sound(part of this is of course owed to the Lace pickups).<br><br> Mark Vizcarra<br />My fourth Custom Aviation GuitarC (CAG), honors the new F/A-18F Super Hornet. My previous CAGs were the F-14 and F/A-18A. I was commissioned to build this for the Commanding Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron 102 "Diamondbacks" whose call sign is "SCAR" as can be seen on the neck. The body was sculptured out of spalted maple and routed for a single lead strat pickup. A Seymour Duncan Hot Rails was used. For the neck, I used a Warmoth Reverse-Jackson with red shark fin because the squadron's color is red and the design flowed with the aerodynamics of the body design. Schaller mini locking turners were used on the head stock. The volume and tone knobs were placed where the afterburning exhaust nozzles are in the F/A-18. Computerized graphics and airbrush were used for the neck/body art and no the vertical stablators on the outside of the bridge are not sticking out...it is flat, the art just looks three dimensional. All parts were purchased through Warmoth whose products and customer service are Top Gun! Thanks William! Commander, United States Navy Sean Folan<br />This is the "Double Dorje" and it was finished just last week. It has a Warmoth Musiclander body, made of korina. The neck is a Warmoth radius Clapton with an arrow headstock, also korina with an ebony fingerboard. The DD features Kluson tuners, a Fender vintage vibrato and Dearmond 2K pickups and a jazz bass control plate. I stained the body and korina part of the neck with a light oak oil, then hand applied 12 coats of nitrocellulose finish, and of course the endless sanding and polishing that go along with it. I wired the electronics and Mike Lull did the final assembly and also fabricated the pickguard to my design. I wanted a guitar with a vintage look and the playability and durability of a modern guitar. I got that and a whole lot more - it sounds amazing.. Michael Glowacki<br /> Well, here's my explorer. It's a 2 piece mahogany back with a flame koa top. Neck is made out of Koa with an Ebony fretboard. Has a Ken Lawrence headstock w/ Sperzel tuners. Gotoh stop-tail-piece and tune-o-matic bridge, 1 EMG 81 Humbucker, 1 Volume, Schaller Strap locks with a Levy M7GG3 strap. I can honestly say I've owned a few Gibson Les Paul Set-Necks, some ESP Neck-Thrus, and this Warmoth has more chunk and sustain than any other guitar I've owned. In fact, I'm thinking about my next project already. Matt Painter<br /> This is my swamp ash warmoth SG guitar. I had originally intended to paint this guitar black, but when it got here the grain in the wood was so beautiful, I had to stain it natural color. It sports black hardware and Sperzel tuners I purchased from Carvin. The pick-ups I purchased in a kit form Carvin, they are ok, but next time I will stick with Dimarzio's. It Stays in tune wonderfully and sounds great. The soundman for my band has an actual Gibson SG that I have used numerous times and I can tell you mine sounds and plays better. I definately would do business with the people at Warmoth again!!! They make fine parts!! My next project will be a flying V done in all black like the gothic series gibsons.<br><br> Anyone with any questions please feel free to email me!!<br><br> Thanks, Walter Schmidt<br /> Hello, After three long months I have just finished building my "Dreamcaster"!The body is swamp-ash with quilt maple top, the neck is tiger-stripe maple, quilt maple peghead top and perloid bound ebony fingerboard with block inlays. Color dyed turquoise body and neck. Sperzel locking tuners, Schaller vintage 2000 tremolo (a combination of Fender American Standard and Wilkinson). Three Classic 57 Gibson humbuckers, master volume, master tone (Fender TBX control), push-push (in-out of phase bridge pickup) with integrated volume for neck pickup again in order to have every possible soundcombination. Q-Parts chrome knobs with perloid top. A dreammachine sounding from jazzguitar to fendertwang! Kyle Jones<br />I had ordered the body from the showcase, which is a poplar body. The neck was a custom neck but nothing fancy.<br><br> Overall, I am very pleased with warmoths work on their bodys and necks and I will for sure be coming back to them for another project in the future.<br><br> My inspiration for this guitar is pretty obvious because I'm a Van Halen fanatic (like the rest of you out there) so I figured what the heck. Painting was the easy part, getting everything to fit and put together was the hard part but in the end it payed off.<br><br> Thanks Warmoth! Kyle Jones Clint Linder<br />Hello my name is Clint Linder.<br><br> For the past several years I have been moving from Louisiana and working out of state. In fact I had been in Bellingham, Washington for awhile. Over the course of this time I had purchased all I needed to build my first guitar from you at Warmoth. I made numerous calls to you, your staff there answered all the questions I could think to ask. I have finally got settled back home in Louisiana and was able to finish this 3 year project. The finish on the body was done by Tim's Guitar workshop in Baton Rouge La. I did everything else. The guitar is much better than I dreamed it was going to be. I figured my first guitar, there will be something that I would do wrong and it would not turn out exactly right. I even thought about bringing the parts to a pro to put it all together for me. But I talked myself into doing it. The guitar plays great. The Floyd dropped right in. The intonations where nearly perfect. Everything and mean everything, went right into place. I was so happy and thrilled when I plugged it in the first time. It sounds truly great. I am no Luthier by know means. I can only truly say the reason the guitar came out as great as it did, was because I bought quality parts. It was very easy to do. I believe the guitar looks showroom. I will in the future build another guitar, and when I do, I will be doing business with Warmoth. I no longer fear putting a guitar together myself. I look forward to my next project with you. So here are a couple of pictures, use them however you like. I am very well pleased. Thank you for your time and interest. George Tarnopolsky<br /> George Tarnopolsky My goal was to create the ultimate tribute to Kramer guitars, a "Fantasy Pacer Special." A custom Kramer-copy body was mated with a KWS hockey neck I bought from the Warmoth thriftshop. The neck is cut for a R2 nut, and fretted with stainless steel frets. I had finished the headstock off-white, applied a vintage-style Kramer decal and sprayed the neck with several coats of nitrocellulose, steel wool between applications. The finished guitar turns heads of guitar enthusiasts everywhere, and plays more comfortably than most of my other guitars. Thank you Warmoth for continuing the tradition of making such fine parts. Thanks for your help, Long Island City, New York July 2003 Jim Loveland<br />Here is Woody Woodpicker, constructed around a mahogany/rosewood Showcase Warmoth neck with stainless steel frets. Very nice, comfortable neck with a standard 10-16 radius. The body is completely hollow except for a bridge plate connecting the top and back and two tone bars connecting the bridge to the neck floating between the top and back. The body is 2.5 inches thick giving it a very full, deep, rich acoustic tone. The pickups are "real" Bill Lawrence 280 and 450 with a five way switch. The marquetry inlay is done with ten different wood veneers. The body was then finished with a wipe on poly, sanded to 800 grit and finished with four grades of polishing compound. July 2003 Sven Voigt-Christiansen<br />It allways was a problem to be a lefty. There are only a few guitars around for us lefties... I allways liked the Iceman, since it was first shown in 1978, I think... Of course there was no lefty-version...<br><br> A few years later I learned building classical guitars from a luthier in Hamburg/Germany... I mainly made classical guitars but some electric guitars too (a lefty Jazzmaster, some weired instruments) and allways wanted to build a baritone (since the mid-80th). Last year I thougt about combining the baritone-idea with the Iceman-layout but had absolutely no time to build it "from a tree"... And the main point: I wanted to PLAY one! So I found the Warmoth-site and was very happy to see, that Warmoth builds Iceman-bodies in lefthand version and baritone-convertible-necks too...<br><br> I received my parts some long weeks after my order (they had a lot to do, as I was told), but was very impressed of the quality... A luthier-friend told me in the past, but it was much better as I dreamed of.<br><br> I choosed a mahogany-body with a birdseye-maple-neck, cause I wanted a very heavy sound, with good mids... This baritone should not be made for clear or funky sounds... I wanted it to kick ass, to sound like a beast... This is why I choosed a set of Seymour Duncan "Full Shred"-humbuckers.<br><br> The wiring has nothing special in it: I took a classic toggle-switch to choose between the two humbuckers, added one volume- and one tone-pot and at last a on-on-on-swith, that splits the bridge-humbucker in the upper-position, the neck-humbucker in the lower and does nothing in the middle-position.<br><br> The body was finished with clear two-pack-epoxy-based lacquer, for the neck I used french polishing (shellac), ?cause I love the feel on classical guitars and wanted that on my baritone.<br><br> I experimented a lot with strings and found that special baritone-strings sound too much like a bass-guitar. The best results I got with using the 6 deeper strings of a normal 7-string-set.... My standard-tuning is b,e,a,d,f#,b... With this combination I get a very fat, deep and heavy sound, right heavy enough for metal-sounds and easy enough to play.... <br><br> Last not least: Thanks a lot for the good stuff you made at Warmoth... I prefer building necks and bodies for myself, but this is a lot of work without using a CNC-router... and if in the future my aim will be a quick playable guitar (I?m mainly no professional luthier, more a guitar-PLAYER), I will sure order Warmoth-parts again... Brent Sumner<br />Here is my latest project. A BC Rich Mockingbird copy made from Warmoth parts. The body is Blk Korina and Koa with a Transparent Amber finish. The neck is Blk Korina as well with a rosewood fret board. It has an original Floyd Rose, Grover Imperial tuning keys, a wizard contour neck, and a pre designed by myself. It also has Seymour Duncan pickups (Duncan distortion - bridge; JB in the neck). Both pickups can be played in Series, split, or parallel with the touch of a dedicated switch for each. It gets allot of attention and sounds as good as it looks. Brian Hames<br />This Explorer is the first guitar I've built. I ordered a basic Explorer with a high gloss black finish and mahogany wood, and routed for two humbucker pickups with a floyd rose tremolo. Also I ordered a paint to match neck made of mahogany as well with a rosewood fingerboard, stainless steel frets, and a 13 degree angled explorer head. The guitar features a EMG-89 dual mode pickup in the neck, and a EMG-81 pickup in the bridge, two volume controls, and a EMG-EXG accessory, which boosts the hi's and low's while cutting the mids. As for the diamond plate, I got the idea from James Hetfield of Metallica. The diamond plate is made out of scrap aluminum, on which I spent about 30 hours cutting, shaping and polishing, and what you see in the picture is the end result. And yes, it's heavy, it weighs 14 POUNDS. David Boyer<br />This was my first Warmoth project. I picked the body up off the Showcase and had the baritone neck made. The body is sw ash with three Stu Mac single coil pickups. I routed out the lower portion of the body to accommodate a Jag style pick up selector. The neck is Paduk the frets were leveled, sanded and the nut cut by Dave Rusan of Rusan Guitar works in MN. This is a far better guitar than I could have got buying an reissue Fender Bass IV. Probably is better than the originals. I'm already planning my next Warmoth guitar. Thanks. David Porter<br /> Built this guitar using Warmoth parts. I actually used a bass body blank for the body, and a paddle head neck. I enjoyed making this guitar and hopefully I will make many more. Thanks Warmoth for all the great parts. November 2001 Wilfried W. Froehlich<br />Having tried for quite some time to bring this project to life, I turned to Ken Warmoth who built the raw body according to a computer generated image that I had made almost nine months ago. He made it exactly to my desired specs. After receiving the body from Warmoth, I convinced Nik Huber, a good friend of mine and luthier near Frankfurt, Germany to carry on with the project. I intended to combine a classical and a electric guitar in a double neck instrument. The upper classical part had to be hollow and the electrical part solid, both combined in a body with a carved, flamed maple top , featuring a f-hole. Even though the upper part of the Double Tele custom body had to be hollow, Ken made it possible to have a tummy contour on the backside of the body! The upper back of the body was to house a Fishman transducer panel to control the classical part of the instrument. The lower , electrical part of the guitar had to have a conventional twin humbucking/ tremolo combination of routings and a big control cavity to conceal even the battery for the transducer system. Nik had to build the two necks, which had to be completely different in shape and style to demonstrate the diversity of the two different instruments combined in the Doubleneck. On July 6th 2002 this incredible instrument was on stage for the first time; playability as well as performance and looks provoked several fellow guitar players to ask for the instruments descent which I hereby reveal. Thanks again to Warmoth and especially to Ken who helped me bring my dream to life. Michael Heidegger<br />In May 2001 I had the idea to get a "BC-Rich Eagle" in leopard-design, same as Paul Stanley of Kiss played at the "Animalized Tour" in 1990. I spent a lot of time in searching for this guitar, without any success. In September 2001 I reached the home page of Warmoth and I was really surprised about the informations I found there. After checking all details with the great help of Ken Warmoth, I ordered the body "B140 Eagle" in mahogany and the neck also made of mahogany, with rosewood fingerboard. Two weeks before the expected delivery date I got the parts by UPS and I was very happy about the top quality of all the parts. Now, all the work is done, and it sounds great and looks exactly how I wanted to look. Great compliments to all at Warmoth. You're are doing a great job! James Conover<br />This guitar was made with Warmoth parts and it was completed in 1996. The body is Korina and the neck is solid ebony. I like the feeling of a super-smooth unfinished neck and ebony seemed like the logical choice, although I've never seen another guitar with a solid ebony neck. I had no idea how the guitar would sound in the end. I only knew that it was going to weigh a ton. Fortunately, it turned out to be absolutely AWESOME. I have many great guitars and this is my favorite. I used a tune-o-matic style bridge with roller saddles, LSR gearless locking tuning machines, and DiMarzio pickups...a Tone Zone in the bridge, and a Fast Track 1 in the neck. I carved the headstock shape myself, starting with an "arrow" shape. I did all of the assembly except for bolting on the neck and the final setup which I left to Mark Arnquist. Making guitars is a lot of fun, especially when they turn out well. I am extremely pleased with all of my experiences with Warmoth and I recommend them highly. Joel Rudnick<br /> This is my first Warmoth venture. I took a risk, and boy did it pay off! The guitar looks beautiful, plays beautiful, and sounds, well, beautiful. I am using two Lindy Fralin P-90's in it, which sound phenomenal as well. The neck really surprised me. It plays very smoothly. It plays better than my American Strat and easily rivals my PRS. I always had wanted a Jazzmaster, but disliked their bridges. The Gotoh-Wilkinson tremolo and locking tuners easily took care of that problem. It is the perfect median between Fender and Gibson. This has always been one of my dream guitars, and now I own it! John Stiltner<br />Custom built guitar made into the shape of a Cabo Wabo Tequila bottle. This guitar was autographed by Sammy Hagar at his Birthday bash in Cabo San Lucas on October 13, 2002. He gave this guitar a thumbs up. I used a Warmoth neck and solid maple body. This guitar has a '57 Gibson Humbucker pick-up. Start to finish took 22 days. As you can tell, I'm a big Sammy Fan! Thanks Warmoth you rock! Lawrence Kessler<br />Here is one of my Favorite Warmoth Projects. My 4th so far. Solid one piece Mahogany body with a Korina / Ebony Neck. I painted this with some sinister Horror movie Images and a couple of flaming eyeballs for good measure.Kind of like the Evil brother of Claptons famed Psychedelic 60's SG. I like real simple electronics, One Lawrence pickup , one Volume that's all I need. This body is a little chunkier than a standard SG so it's closer to a hybrid LP meets SG feel. And also balances nicely with the longer 25 1/2 scale length. Great for those Heavy detuned Sabbath Riffs! All my Warmoth parts have been great to work with. Fantastic Workmanship and crazy amount of options. Rock on Warmoth Michael Piper<br />I built this out of a Warmoth Alder body blank. It's all wood, carved down around 3/8". The top of the skull and the top finger bones are extra wood pieces glued on. I did all of the painting and airbrushing myself. It was a whole lot cheaper than buying an original. It was also alot of fun to build. Thank you all. Nicolas Pingnelain<br />I have been looking for a left-handed Mockingbird for ages, and I finally found Warmoth! So I decided to order all parts in order to have a great guitar. I took a mahogany Mockingbird body + a maple Les Paul 13 neck with ebony fretboard, with a thin wizard profile and stainless steel frets. All is satin black painted. The neck is perfect for my little hands and is excellent for shredding and heavy rhythm, and the stainless steel frets give a wonderful touch. I mounted a SH13 Dimebucker bridge humbucker + SHR1 neck Hot Rail for really massive sound. I also took the excellent mini-locking tuner by Schaller and the Schaller bridge with fine-tuners. It took me only one day to mount all my guitar parts and tune it, because every part was excellently designed by Warmoth. The combination results in a really warm and percussive sound which fits perfectly to my ears. A really great experience. Thank you very much. And a big thanks to Bob who helped me a lot while choosing all parts : you rule!



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