it would not be a Tonar thread without showing 'Kashmir': the green paisley tele:
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Re: Show Your Tonar!
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The Canary Strat Build
This is going to be a very, very nice guitar. Canary on mahogany, chambered, gloss finish by Warmoth. Neck is Canary with Black Ebony (UC) board, SS-bigboy frets and Wizard neck, and that pearloid swan dot thing. Pickups are oldschool handwound "Dawgtown" from a cool cat on E-Bay, "Gilmour A5" set. Pots are impedance matched CTS to .05% and I did not solder on them but used some lugs and ingenuity instead. It's a work in progress. The neck burnished beautifully. And the waterslide decal on the headstock is the best I've done so far. It's a real delicate thing to make it totally disappear correctly, and look like part of the finish. In this case the finished face of the headstock actually matches the burnished back and sides of the headstock and neck, so it looks 'factory' if you could call it that. I went the extra mile and did some tedious coppering as you can see. It was fun and challenging. And then my OCD kicked in and did some coppering of the back of the pickguard. Anyway, so far...
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Re: The Canary Strat Build
And here we go....I know the copper thing is debatable, but I had already bought it, so why not....
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Getting sick with it:
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AND THOSE INFAMOUS IMPEDANCE MATCHED POTS EVERYONE THINKS ARE A JOKE:
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OH YEAH BABY, LOOKIE:
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The GILMOUR set:
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And let's get a little nuts and paint that switch blade BLACK:
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Time to heat up the old Weller and let's melt some solder
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More to come...
Getting sick with it:
AND THOSE INFAMOUS IMPEDANCE MATCHED POTS EVERYONE THINKS ARE A JOKE:
OH YEAH BABY, LOOKIE:
The GILMOUR set:
And let's get a little nuts and paint that switch blade BLACK:
Time to heat up the old Weller and let's melt some solder
More to come...
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Re: The Canary Strat Build
And here we go again:
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BOLT THE NECK ON BAYBEE:
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WATERSLIDE GLORY:
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Anyways, a LOT more to do on this build. Gonna take extra care with that glossy finish when drilling for the pickguard, jackplate, and strap button screws. Also gotta do the Floyd Rose mounting routine. Then finalize everything and peel the plastic off the pickguard and send it to Cagey for the fretwork.
I absolutely love the Canary in gloss. After finding Warmoth, I don't know that I'll ever own anything else. I've got something wicked in mind for the next build. Gonna try to build one guitar a month. That's a reasonable pace dontcha think?
Nite.
BOLT THE NECK ON BAYBEE:
WATERSLIDE GLORY:
Anyways, a LOT more to do on this build. Gonna take extra care with that glossy finish when drilling for the pickguard, jackplate, and strap button screws. Also gotta do the Floyd Rose mounting routine. Then finalize everything and peel the plastic off the pickguard and send it to Cagey for the fretwork.
I absolutely love the Canary in gloss. After finding Warmoth, I don't know that I'll ever own anything else. I've got something wicked in mind for the next build. Gonna try to build one guitar a month. That's a reasonable pace dontcha think?
Nite.
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Re: Unchain My Heart
Thanks Cagey and Bagman67.
I appreciate your comments :-)
I appreciate your comments :-)
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Re: GAS Alert!!!!
Just ordered this guy which will have 2 Humbuckers, a Floyd, 24 fret Wenge neck.
https://www.warmoth.com/Showcase/images/bodies/medium/M1023a.jpg
Just gotta decide between the Arcade, Vortex or Warhead headstock.
https://www.warmoth.com/Showcase/images/bodies/medium/M1023a.jpg
Just gotta decide between the Arcade, Vortex or Warhead headstock.
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Re: Kustom Amps
My good buddy Ron from Uncle Spot Amps has a warehouse full of them. One of the best speaker cabinets I ever ran my Brownie Super through was a Kustom bass cab loaded with one 15" JBL and two 10's. Oh my!
What would you like to know.
By the way the tremolo circuit in the ones I have play is AMAZING.
What would you like to know.
By the way the tremolo circuit in the ones I have play is AMAZING.
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Re: Kustom Amps
Goddamned editor links do not work on Edge and I don't have flash installed for firefox. Bah! Anywho, I knew Uncle Doug did a video on it. I don't remember how deep he went into the amps but there you go.
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Re: The Canary Strat Build
I thought you might have liked those caps. If nothing else they look quite cool.
That's a cool clip. I've got it on DVD. One of the things that really comes across is that Jimmy, really enjoys music whoever made it. This really shows in this clip I think.
I need to check out that biography you posted the other day.
That's a cool clip. I've got it on DVD. One of the things that really comes across is that Jimmy, really enjoys music whoever made it. This really shows in this clip I think.
I need to check out that biography you posted the other day.
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Re: GAS Alert!!!!
Just gotta decide between the Arcade, Vortex or Warhead headstock.
I'd go Warhead, to compliment the curve of the lower bout - but I may be biased...
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Re: First build-need some help possibly along the way.
Probably a wise move... ![:occasion14:]()
Though I've thought a couple of times of replicating the old Frankenstein.
Though I've thought a couple of times of replicating the old Frankenstein.
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Re: New Goldtop Tele Deluxe project started!
That's a cool looking gold Axis Doug ![:icon_thumright:]()
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Re: You all best be sitting down before you look at this
It's growing on me each time I've looked at it.
Some of the really interesting parts of the grain will get routed for pickups and bridge.
Some of the really interesting parts of the grain will get routed for pickups and bridge.
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Re: First build-need some help possibly along the way.
Anybody with a steve morse guitar willing to tell music man they're stop bar broke or went missing and needs a new one? ![:glasses9:]()
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Re: First build-need some help possibly along the way.
I got to thinking, since that guitar fetish bridge sits 1/16" higher than a traditional bridge and calls for angling the neck 2.5 to 3 degrees in the positive direction to be able to use it, wound it be anything to have them recess the whole bridge location that 1/16 of an inch to bring it all back to normal and if that was possible would that have any negative side effects?
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Re: First build-need some help possibly along the way.
I own a Morse guitar, so perhaps I can clarify the above a little.
The current bridges are Tonepros Tuneomatic, and these fit to the body with studs. This is recessed so it sits lower to the body which is flat.
The tailpiece is attached via three screws. The base of it sits flush with the body surface. The three screws go through the tailpiece in between the holes that the E and A strings pass through on the bass side, the B and E strings on the treble side, and the third in the centre between the D and G strings.
So I would say if you can get a Morse style tailpiece, if a body is made for a recessed TOM, no angle pocket and ask Warmoth not to drill any string through holes, angled staggered or straight then you are almost there.
Then all you need to do is make sure the Tuneomatic bridge is the correct size for the body, taking into account thing such as metric versus imperial and so on with the correct stud sizes.
Then for the tailpiece it would be a case of finding the centre line of the guitar, placing ...
The current bridges are Tonepros Tuneomatic, and these fit to the body with studs. This is recessed so it sits lower to the body which is flat.
The tailpiece is attached via three screws. The base of it sits flush with the body surface. The three screws go through the tailpiece in between the holes that the E and A strings pass through on the bass side, the B and E strings on the treble side, and the third in the centre between the D and G strings.
So I would say if you can get a Morse style tailpiece, if a body is made for a recessed TOM, no angle pocket and ask Warmoth not to drill any string through holes, angled staggered or straight then you are almost there.
Then all you need to do is make sure the Tuneomatic bridge is the correct size for the body, taking into account thing such as metric versus imperial and so on with the correct stud sizes.
Then for the tailpiece it would be a case of finding the centre line of the guitar, placing ...
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Re: Cool Hardware on Order and Ideas for Next Build
The strat body is too rotund and vintage for that bridge and pickup combo imho. That bridge makes a statement and a strat body takes it away. I really think a Royale, Velocity, Diamondback, Z, Iceman, Soloist, or even a Musiclander would be far better choices. The hardware is just waaaaaaay too progressive for the strat.
Man, the only one you mentioned that I could even consider would be the soloist. The body itself, finished in satin is actually $40 cheaper than the one above. I like the F-holes though. I think the regular strat could pull it off. I dunno. It's late. Here is the soloist in that style:
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I like the Soloist better. It's a more modern style which would be in keeping with the modern bridge, and it doesn't have bug houses pick traps f-holes. Plus it's $40 cheaper? Party!
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October 2015 Guitar of the Month Contest Submissions
We are now announcing the October 2015 Guitar of the Month contest! October's contest will be "Owner/non-professionally Finished" and requires at least a Warmoth neck or body to qualify.
Please read the GOM rules, which have been refined, with some slight changes, and are posted in a sticky in this forum area.
Submissions must be sent, to uwfgom@gmail.com, and contain two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. Send your submission in plain text email. Your photos must be attachments to the email. Your unOfficialWarmoth Forum user name must be included in the body of the email.
In turn, your images will posted to this message, which is October's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until October 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, discussion about the submissions can take place below.
Please do not post additional photos in any replies to this thread. Links to other UW threads or external sites are fine. Links will...
Please read the GOM rules, which have been refined, with some slight changes, and are posted in a sticky in this forum area.
Submissions must be sent, to uwfgom@gmail.com, and contain two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. Send your submission in plain text email. Your photos must be attachments to the email. Your unOfficialWarmoth Forum user name must be included in the body of the email.
In turn, your images will posted to this message, which is October's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until October 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, discussion about the submissions can take place below.
Please do not post additional photos in any replies to this thread. Links to other UW threads or external sites are fine. Links will...
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Re: First build-need some help possibly along the way.
Stratamania, the bridge is a Tele style bridge that fits the classic style or what not, it apparently just sits a 1/16" higher than the ashtray type bridge with the TOM piece.
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xaviere-Tele-Roller-Bridge-for-Vibrato-System_p_4418.html
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Xaviere-Tele-Roller-Bridge-for-Vibrato-System_p_4418.html
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