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M'yello.

I'm considering building a super-custom yet minimalist Telecaster-shaped guitar with Warmoth. I'm not sure why it never occurred to me in the past... I'm a super-custom kind of guy, or at least one who is horribly anal about exactly what I'm getting in a guitar and then usually disappointed because it's not EXACTLY what I want.

Anyway... I'd love to see your Warmoth creations and/or read your Warmoth success stories.

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Oh oh I can play...I will post pics of my strat when I get home.

Man, I'd rock a Tele with no pickguard, no neck pickup, no controls. Just a side jack and a straight-signal bridge pickup. Like a stripped-down Esquire.

Also, probably these contours (which I believe you can order from Warmoth)

Wow... that one looks really nice. Is that yours?

A Tele with no pickguard and only a bridge pickup sounds really cool... I just gotta have the neck pickup, though.

My plan (that I forgot to mention), is an all mahogany Telecaster with a P-90 in the neck and a Tele bridge-pickup shaped P-90 in the bridge. Super-white body to match the pickguard. And then to contrast the body I would want a really really dark (almost black) rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, kinda like the one posted above... I wonder if it's actually that dark or it just looks that way in the pic.

Not sure about the carved contours... can't make up my mind. Probably not, though. Stripped down Teles are so slick.

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i think this would sorta count: i've shown this off around here often...the elwood smuggler tele.
this is a warmoth neck on a USA custom body.
i got the warmoth neck unfinished as they only use a poly finish and i prefer nitro (btw, i like the way it smells and ages...i have no prob with the sound of poly).

IMO, USA Custom supply much better products but i'm not about to dog warmoth as they make fine shite as well. USA custom sticks more to vintage specs and that appeals to me although maybe not to you.
anyway......

i finished the neck in a very light amber nitro...the body is straight up 2 piece ash done to vintage specs with the wiring route that i turned into the pickup slot. i did the extra routing ton the body and pickguard...the finish is red over silver very lightly. glendale wide intone saddles (aluminum on the E/A..brass on the D/G and B/E) on a glendale vintage cut bridge. all slothead screws and bakelite pickguard...glendale true vintage spec knobs and output jack.

if i ever get back into a job where i can afford such things i want to do an all-rosewood George Harrison Tele...they were doing some pretty nice bodies awhile back. i'm unbearably fussy about straight and consistent grain, though...they'd wind up hating me with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.

Man I love that smuggler.... That one you posted is badass too Mathias!! Digging those contours.

CBA713 wrote:Wow... that one looks really nice. Is that yours?

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kosta wrote:Man I love that smuggler.... That one you posted is badass too Mathias!! Digging those contours.

Not mine, but I dig those contours.

I'd probably finish a "vintage" blond, chip it mostly off, and then used a rubbed walnut finish to get the aged look: (again, not my guitar)

For the Esquire-that's-been-on-the-road-for-50-years look.

If you're going to Warmoth, CBA, you get a lot more choices for fingerboard wood than Rosewood. Darker than rosewood, I'd recommend in this order (of usually) more darkness:
Bubinga
Kingwood
Pau Ferro
Macassar Ebony
Wenge -- this is a personal favorite for fingerboards and whole necks, but Warmoth rarely has boards big enough to make a whole neck. The coarse grain feels great! I have a travel acoustic with a full wenge neck and it's so damn awesome.
Ziricote
Ebony

masked elwood wrote:i think this would sorta count: i've shown this off around here often...the elwood smuggler tele.
this is a warmoth neck on a USA custom body.
i got the warmoth neck unfinished as they only use a poly finish and i prefer nitro (btw, i like the way it smells and ages...i have no prob with the sound of poly).

Hmm... when I was doing a virtual build of my Tele neck earlier today, Warmoth offered a satin nitro finish on the neck... that's what I would prefer, too.

Yerp, here it is right here:

"Our satin finish is a NITROCELLULOSE finish; the appearance is dull or matte. This is a more functional type finish which is appreciated by some for its faster, slicker feel." (their caps even, not mine)

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I prefer satin over gloss finish on necks. That said, both of my favorite electrics have gloss necks.. and I'm not about to take steel wool to them

mathias wrote:If you're going to Warmoth, CBA, you get a lot more choices for fingerboard wood than Rosewood. Darker than rosewood, I'd recommend in this order (of usually) more darkness:
Bubinga
Kingwood
Pau Ferro
Macassar Ebony
Wenge -- this is a personal favorite for fingerboards and whole necks, but Warmoth rarely has boards big enough to make a whole neck. The coarse grain feels great! I have a travel acoustic with a full wenge neck and it's so damn awesome.
Ziricote
Ebony

Yeah, ebony was also a choice I was considering... that would at least guarantee me a pretty much black neck. Any ideas about an ebony fingerboard on a mahogany neck? I'm planning on choosing mahogany for everything, FYI, because my Les Paul Faded Special w/P-90s is all mahogany. Not sure if it's a good idea, but I don't see why it wouldn't be.

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The Tele in the middle is a Stewmac body and a Warmoth neck:




This one is a Guitarmill body and another Warmoth neck:

Oh god damn that second one is sexy.

Telemaster is a guitar I wouldn't mind building and rocking, too. Love that body shape, plus the twang fits my style. I'd probably have to photoshop together a "Twanglecaster" logo for the headstock.

mathias wrote:Telemaster is a guitar I wouldn't mind building and rocking, too. Love that body shape, plus the twang fits my style. I'd probably have to photoshop together a "Twanglecaster" logo for the headstock.

Guitar Mill does FANTASTIC work too! I had them make this one out of pine... When it arrived I just kept touching it, I think I hugged it too! I was afraid to paint it but that turned out!