Aaron, completely off topic, but I will often watch videos I'm not even all that interested in because you're just such a joy to watch. Warmoth, this is my humble request to let Aaron build AND keep at least one guitar a month for our viewing and educational pleasure 🤠
There's an "off-menu item" that stumps me as to why it's not "on the menu:" The Kahler rout. It's purely a CNC shaping option and a $10 charge. And it's been available since _at least_ the Nineties.
@@89ji76 Aaron commented in the unofficial Forums for the past few years since the Meadowhawks with AANJ have been released, it is too much work with their work load.
Will Warmoth ever have better neck heel joint access? I think doing something like what Fender did for the neck heel on the American Ultra Strat would be a good call to do if possible, Warmoth!
Makes a lot of sense, and in many cases goes without saying. The only thing that has me scratching my head is that the whole point of going with a Warmoth is for the “endless” options, you can’t get from the big brands (and hopefully at a more affordable price). Short of that, the only part that still doesn’t make much sense to me is. The 4A flame maple selections. Or, on a neck a 4A baked maple option. From what I’ve seen those are still off menu. Short of that, I could definitely see where this could become a 3-headed monster in some cases.
How about a 7/8 scale tile back paddle head? I have my own headstock design that I want to use, knowing that it would be a no warranty/no return item since I’ll be cutting into it.
I completely agree with the examples you gave especially with different/higher end woods, and having painted headstocks. However, I’m still confused on why the single inlay at the 12th fret isn’t an “on menu” option. I’m assuming the inlays are cut with a cnc machine. The only thing that would be changed is the coding for how many inlays you want cut out, and I’m assuming that Warmoth already has the coding for that since they offer the inlay at the 12th fret as an “off menu” item.
Does Warmoth offer reverse split P pickup routes? And in both the neck and bridge positions? Or even a standard split P pickup route in the bridge position?
Not necessarily an ‘off menu’ thing, but I’d love to see set neck offerings. I’ve built 4 warmoth guitars and would love to do more but I can’t justify having anymore bolt ons 😅
Very interesting. I have probably built 50 different dream guitar and neck combinations over the years on your online tool, and always been hesitant to pull the trigger on my first custom built guitar. I think this reinforces to me that I should try to call in and talk to somebody and maybe they would guide me to a better path than being stuck in analysis paralysis... I have stressed myself out to an unhealthy degree just picking between various dyed color options. It's just so tough to choose, especially given the fact that this is something I would only be able to purchase once every few years.
My biggest question is why there are different wood options for different necks? For example, I wanted a Warhead neck with flame roasted maple, but I can't choose that on the website... But if I switch the neck to a "normal" Strat replacement then I can have that wood
I just spec'd out that very neck, Warhead roasted flame maple shaft and fretboard, no nut and no finish. No other extra-cost options. $322usd in June '24.
I once tried to order a modern tiltback neck with a goncalco alves (I think? this was 30 years ago) shaft wood, and I was told they couldn't do it because the wood was too oily to glue the scarf joint. But a Strat neck doesn't have a scarf joint, so then it isn't a problem.
Great video as always Aaron. Thanks for going over this. I'm one of the people who asked about what was the universe of off menu stuff just to get an idea. Whenever I'm thinking of ordering a new neck with a mahogany shaft I always ask if they can get roasted mahogany for the neck shaft . So far the answer has been no, but maybe one day I'll be lucky. I have noticed that some woods have disappeared from custom body builds. Can I ask, Koa tops seem to have disappeared from Stratocaster builds. Are they unavailable in the quality that you need or have they just become too expensive to offer? Thanks
I hope to find that neon colors are available off menu when I can afford another one (I managed to buy the last neon blue satin body in the showcase, a Soloist body, years ago.).
Hey Aaron. Appreciate your task of being Warmoth public face! I'm located in Italy and have been in US for many years, First as a student at GIT in the late '80s and then as algorithm designer at Eventide in the 2000s. I am a guitarist by trade and got familiar with your amzing products in 1989, when there was no internet and Warmoth had a paper catalog in white and light blue. Love those days. I have 6 Warmoth guitars... which are 3 Strats, 2 Teles, 1 Jazzmaster and I'm about to order my seventh one, a very personalized Tele. You mention words like "customer experience", "sustainability", and others. Well, I tell you what... the "off menu" concept is a VERY BAD choice against any customer's experience as people feel like they don't have the full information available and need to know who knows which secret way to get something not disclosed BUT possible. Yes I understand that something can't be always available, like woods. Sure... but not everything off menu is in such category. You should think of a way to disclose what's available at a specific moment, create the template for that on the custom builder and make it go public when those specific things are available and hide them when they're not. Any decent web designer, even a kid, can do that very easily. Maybe add a dedicated page for the off menu stuff to disclose it . The offerings should be in clear and not hidden. Feels very bad like it is now. Here's a simple example.... and I believe this is one of the easiest things to implement. When building a body and choosing the wood for it... WHY the customer can't choose an "EXTRA LIGHT" slab? He can choose "ONE PIECE" (for swamp ash only) but no extra light. I had to wander thru the Showcase and understand you have EXTRA LIGHT under the BODY UPGRADES list... and I had to think about what you mean by that and the price. I came to the conclusion that by that you mean a body below 4 pounds and the extra cost is 40$... now why can't that be put in the custom builders with definition of "light" and price? You can also state "subject to availability - contact us for confirmation". A customer can create a personalized body and save it. That is a numbered document you can quickly review and confirm the availability of the extra choices or not... so the customer goes ahead and buys it. Why should I need to call and pay for intercontinental fees or email and wait for a couple of days? How hard is to simply store a project, submit it automatically to your folks and get a yes or no back in a reasonable quick time? Yes, I am aware of the dozens, hundreds and even thousands different details you may be able to offer or not and it can get very complicated very quickly... but hey, honestly it feels like Warmoth is kind of lazy in doing things that would much improve the customer experience, hiding behind thin paper. Another one? You won't ship mahogany to many EU countries. That's ridiculous. Everyday dozens of guitar companies, from small to big... ship mahogany guitars to EU countries. Gibson, PRS, Sire, Guild, Heritage, Ibanez, Yamaha, Taylor, Harley Benton and the list goes on forever! Even your competitor Musikraft ships mahogany and you guys used to too. Why this ain't happening anymore? 'Cuz you don't want to do little paperwork to ship mahogany? Once you have the document set for a country, you'll use it forever. It's not that hard at all. And think of mahogany furniture! That's TONs of it moving every day. Gotta keep up with this global thing going on... it's just a matter of will. I would have ordered at least 3 more guitars with mahogany and paduk IF you had let me... so you are losing money on this. Why should I call an US friend or relative and ask him/her to receive my Warmoth part and put it in the luggage when he/she will do the next flight to my country? Should we really do this "Prohibition Days" thing for a slab of ol' stinking wood? Talk to the boss and let him know these things are not good for Warmoth. Maybe it's time to make a bit of an effort and get off the everyday comfy habits of doing things... getting back to a more dynamic way. It surely won't hurt! Always remember this... the many people in US and world countries who love Warmoth, and they are many many many, would love you guys even more and appreciate your efforts in improving your biz with MORE biz with you. It's a two ways beneficial flow of actions/consequences. So please, make the right choices. Cheers from the mediterranean sea.... and always in a friendly way to the amazing Warmoth world!
You're literally scolding Warmoth for not bowing to your miniscule demands, that's hardly "friendly". Sounds like you just want to cry about something. I don't find anything at the Warmoth site on the International Shipping page that says anything is restricted, let alone mahogany. Wahhh.
@@KainzMusic Once your shipping data have been entered and you proceed to checkout and pay, the system shows a warning with this text: "Attention international customers: please ensure that your order does not contain organic materials which we are currently prohibited from shipping outside of the USA. These include Abalone, Mother of Pearl, Bone, Mahogany and Padouk. If your order does not contain these materials you may proceed with checkout. Shipments of these products within the USA are not affected." So, there it is. Warmoth has shipped mahogany everywhere for ages and it's only in the recent years that has stopped doing so. Every other company ships it. So it is possible. This is not bowing from a company. It's making customers happy and sell more guitar parts. A I said I'd have bought several other guitars if mahogany shipping was possible. And I'm STIL buying other woods parts. So, please stay away from this as you have no point here.
I'm going to share my experience with Warmoth's off-menu items. I have two. The first is a Warmoth long scale bass neck with Wenge shaft and Bocote (NLA) fretboard. The off-menu options were a right hand reverse headstock (Which, at the time, was not an on-menu option for this neck), and tuner hole delete. The second is a Musiclander guitar body, one-piece Black Walnut, routed for humbuckers, control cavity delete, bridge rout delete, forearm contour and tummy cut delete. In both cases, I'm thrilled with these purchases. Spike is definitely your go-to guy when you want something outside the norm.
@@schmoemi3386 unfortunately you cannot do that, I’ve tried using the custom builder several times, perhaps if you call in but even then I don’t believe you can as the angled portion of the route of the Tele bridge pickup would be too close to the stud for the TOM bridge. When others like Reverend Guitars do it on their Buckshot model they move the position of the Tele bridge pickup route a tad closer to the neck, from what I understand.
I've never understood why a painted neck or painted headstock has never been a standard menu option to actually see in a drop down menu on the custom build page. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Very intriging,old days,go buy a strat,settle for black,red,blue,white,a sunburst came in,gone in 60seconds,like all the new woods,non Dupont colors,and availability,like the cars you see now
sucks that you guys are still not doing mahogany, mother of pearl, etc for internationals when other guys like musikraft, sound guitar works have no issues
Musikraft doesn't have half the neck options Warmoth has, not to mention their list of "Administrative Charges" for their off menu items. I'm sure there's a reason you aren't shopping there?
@@KainzMusic musikraft has way more neck profiles... and you think warmoth off menu options are free? warmoth inlay options are fucking shit they have cream and black dots as a standard and the rest are "premium inlays" for the cheesy pearloid you find on beater guitars. musikraft and others builders website are fossil engines but at least internationals can get real pearl, rosewood, abalone etc etc without bullshit restrictions. dont even start on warmoth's ridiculous shipping costs compared to soundguitarworks. so, what again?
We need headstock adjust truss rods on modern construction necks for lefties. I can't believe all you offer is body adjust truss rods for lefties. It's an antiquated design that sucks in practice. I would have bought a couple full instruments from you guys, but that instantly drives me elsewhere.
@@dumpedcabledumpedcable116 The extra wood at the nut does make a difference in my experience, but regardless, why would heel adjust compromise playability? Popping the neck is quick and easy when you're used to the procedure. If you don't want to pop the neck, there are plenty of options for quick and easy adjustments. Heel-adjust Teles just need the pickguard removed. On other styles, either add an adjust channel when spec-ing the guitar, or use a Music Man-style wheel nut. Simple stuff.
@@trev3971 I have very strict action preferences. Keeping the neck perfect is not negotiable. Removing the neck, or pick guard or anything else is a waste of time. Period. There is a reason no modern instruments designed for maximum playability use that design. It sucks.
We are not able add the side adjust mechanism to lefty Modern Construction necks because Gotoh does not make a lefty version of it. For a lefty neck with headstock adjustment you need to order a Vintage/Modern Construction neck.
The have the put the truss rod in, but don't be too worried about it, it's the same piece of wood just cut into the fret board and neck. If you call and ask they can confirm this when you're buying
@@skotz3336 with single piece necks you put the TR in from the bottom and seal it with a skunk stripe. I've seen such necks from Warmoth before. It's a pure aesthetic thing. I have an old custom shop strat with a single piece birdseye maple neck, but it's too thin for my taste.
Putting the 1/2 inch output jack hole back on the menu for the telecaster body can't be that hard. Seriously, we're talking about drilling a half inch hole rather than 3/4 or 7/8. How hard can that be? And would there really be an overwhelming amount of people choosing that option?
Your explanation of point 2 ("The custom builders are crazy-go-nuts!") was kinda lacking, imo. There are webapps out there that are build on literally hundreds of thousands of conditional (IF) statements. As a software engineer myself, I don't really see the examples you gave as particularly "difficult" to add to the online builder -- now, that's not to say that there aren't, perhaps, **logistical** considerations after the order is placed; I don't know what your production line looks like, but just saying, "it's too hard for the website," makes me think you just have lazy-ass engineers building your site.
Off-menu options feel like you have built a relationship with the shop, you're the regular and known person. Like instrument stores throw a pack of strings or a strap as a freebie on top of your instrument purchase and the shop guy tips you on some new cool items. A big burger chain might not quite be that special relationship, but I guess that's more of a "I've been accepted in the cult".
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Aaron, completely off topic, but I will often watch videos I'm not even all that interested in because you're just such a joy to watch. Warmoth, this is my humble request to let Aaron build AND keep at least one guitar a month for our viewing and educational pleasure 🤠
Thanks so much!
There's an "off-menu item" that stumps me as to why it's not "on the menu:" The Kahler rout. It's purely a CNC shaping option and a $10 charge. And it's been available since _at least_ the Nineties.
Same with an Evertune.
Any chance of a regular mail option? A $30 pickguard turns into a $60 pickguard with shipping and taxes.
About that all access neck joint though 🤔🤔🤔
I feel thats gonna be years? Its a completely different line of neck making.
Agreed…I really like the new rounded over neck joints on some modern guitars!!!
@@Timanator I would’ve thought so too but they literally just did it on a limited release!
Coming soon?? 🤞
@@89ji76 Aaron commented in the unofficial Forums for the past few years since the Meadowhawks with AANJ have been released, it is too much work with their work load.
Will Warmoth ever have better neck heel joint access? I think doing something like what Fender did for the neck heel on the American Ultra Strat would be a good call to do if possible, Warmoth!
Seconded! I keep asking for this on Warmoth bodies and I keep getting told “maybe someday…”
Completely agree with all the logisitics compliexity. Which is also the main reason most of us like Warmoth, its the options.
I don’t know how you guys do it, but I think you do a fantastic job 👍
Well said…
Good to see you again, liked the information.
Makes a lot of sense, and in many cases goes without saying. The only thing that has me scratching my head is that the whole point of going with a Warmoth is for the “endless” options, you can’t get from the big brands (and hopefully at a more affordable price). Short of that, the only part that still doesn’t make much sense to me is. The 4A flame maple selections. Or, on a neck a 4A baked maple option. From what I’ve seen those are still off menu. Short of that, I could definitely see where this could become a 3-headed monster in some cases.
How about a 7/8 scale tile back paddle head? I have my own headstock design that I want to use, knowing that it would be a no warranty/no return item since I’ll be cutting into it.
I wish rolled fingerboard edges were an on or off menu option. That’s the only negative to an otherwise great neck.
I always wondered why P-Bass replacement necks were never made in the 1.75” width. It was the standard from Fender for decades.
All I would ask of warmoth would be to add more baritone conversions (like for the jazzmaster neck 😉) and add olive green to the color list.
I completely agree with the examples you gave especially with different/higher end woods, and having painted headstocks. However, I’m still confused on why the single inlay at the 12th fret isn’t an “on menu” option. I’m assuming the inlays are cut with a cnc machine. The only thing that would be changed is the coding for how many inlays you want cut out, and I’m assuming that Warmoth already has the coding for that since they offer the inlay at the 12th fret as an “off menu” item.
Does Warmoth offer reverse split P pickup routes? And in both the neck and bridge positions? Or even a standard split P pickup route in the bridge position?
Not necessarily an ‘off menu’ thing, but I’d love to see set neck offerings. I’ve built 4 warmoth guitars and would love to do more but I can’t justify having anymore bolt ons 😅
Very interesting. I have probably built 50 different dream guitar and neck combinations over the years on your online tool, and always been hesitant to pull the trigger on my first custom built guitar. I think this reinforces to me that I should try to call in and talk to somebody and maybe they would guide me to a better path than being stuck in analysis paralysis...
I have stressed myself out to an unhealthy degree just picking between various dyed color options. It's just so tough to choose, especially given the fact that this is something I would only be able to purchase once every few years.
We NEED more 6 string bass options, PLEASE!!!!!
Special run of neons and crackles! :D
Rolled edges, Aaron. Do it. You know you want to…
My biggest question is why there are different wood options for different necks?
For example, I wanted a Warhead neck with flame roasted maple, but I can't choose that on the website... But if I switch the neck to a "normal" Strat replacement then I can have that wood
I just spec'd out that very neck, Warhead roasted flame maple shaft and fretboard, no nut and no finish. No other extra-cost options. $322usd in June '24.
It's on the website now. But I understand what you're saying as roasted flamed maple tops aren't offered but I've seen pictures of them.
I once tried to order a modern tiltback neck with a goncalco alves (I think? this was 30 years ago) shaft wood, and I was told they couldn't do it because the wood was too oily to glue the scarf joint. But a Strat neck doesn't have a scarf joint, so then it isn't a problem.
Great video as always Aaron. Thanks for going over this. I'm one of the people who asked about what was the universe of off menu stuff just to get an idea. Whenever I'm thinking of ordering a new neck with a mahogany shaft I always ask if they can get roasted mahogany for the neck shaft . So far the answer has been no, but maybe one day I'll be lucky.
I have noticed that some woods have disappeared from custom body builds. Can I ask, Koa tops seem to have disappeared from Stratocaster builds. Are they unavailable in the quality that you need or have they just become too expensive to offer? Thanks
can yall do an LSR roller nut prep on a baritone conversion neck!? 🙃
Add a binding option for headstocks.
I hope to find that neon colors are available off menu when I can afford another one (I managed to buy the last neon blue satin body in the showcase, a Soloist body, years ago.).
Unfortunately, Neon colors aren't on the menu any more, as semi-transparent finishes (like good-ol butterscotch blonde, Mary Kaye white... 😭 )
@@schmoemi3386 I wrote "available off menu".
I’ve called in and emailed as well quite a few times, Warmoth’s been very helpful every time ( aka Spike ). Good guy and very knowledgeable 🤙
Hey Aaron. Appreciate your task of being Warmoth public face! I'm located in Italy and have been in US for many years, First as a student at GIT in the late '80s and then as algorithm designer at Eventide in the 2000s. I am a guitarist by trade and got familiar with your amzing products in 1989, when there was no internet and Warmoth had a paper catalog in white and light blue. Love those days. I have 6 Warmoth guitars... which are 3 Strats, 2 Teles, 1 Jazzmaster and I'm about to order my seventh one, a very personalized Tele. You mention words like "customer experience", "sustainability", and others. Well, I tell you what... the "off menu" concept is a VERY BAD choice against any customer's experience as people feel like they don't have the full information available and need to know who knows which secret way to get something not disclosed BUT possible. Yes I understand that something can't be always available, like woods. Sure... but not everything off menu is in such category. You should think of a way to disclose what's available at a specific moment, create the template for that on the custom builder and make it go public when those specific things are available and hide them when they're not. Any decent web designer, even a kid, can do that very easily. Maybe add a dedicated page for the off menu stuff to disclose it . The offerings should be in clear and not hidden. Feels very bad like it is now. Here's a simple example.... and I believe this is one of the easiest things to implement. When building a body and choosing the wood for it... WHY the customer can't choose an "EXTRA LIGHT" slab? He can choose "ONE PIECE" (for swamp ash only) but no extra light. I had to wander thru the Showcase and understand you have EXTRA LIGHT under the BODY UPGRADES list... and I had to think about what you mean by that and the price. I came to the conclusion that by that you mean a body below 4 pounds and the extra cost is 40$... now why can't that be put in the custom builders with definition of "light" and price? You can also state "subject to availability - contact us for confirmation". A customer can create a personalized body and save it. That is a numbered document you can quickly review and confirm the availability of the extra choices or not... so the customer goes ahead and buys it. Why should I need to call and pay for intercontinental fees or email and wait for a couple of days? How hard is to simply store a project, submit it automatically to your folks and get a yes or no back in a reasonable quick time? Yes, I am aware of the dozens, hundreds and even thousands different details you may be able to offer or not and it can get very complicated very quickly... but hey, honestly it feels like Warmoth is kind of lazy in doing things that would much improve the customer experience, hiding behind thin paper.
Another one? You won't ship mahogany to many EU countries. That's ridiculous. Everyday dozens of guitar companies, from small to big... ship mahogany guitars to EU countries. Gibson, PRS, Sire, Guild, Heritage, Ibanez, Yamaha, Taylor, Harley Benton and the list goes on forever! Even your competitor Musikraft ships mahogany and you guys used to too. Why this ain't happening anymore? 'Cuz you don't want to do little paperwork to ship mahogany? Once you have the document set for a country, you'll use it forever. It's not that hard at all. And think of mahogany furniture! That's TONs of it moving every day. Gotta keep up with this global thing going on... it's just a matter of will. I would have ordered at least 3 more guitars with mahogany and paduk IF you had let me... so you are losing money on this. Why should I call an US friend or relative and ask him/her to receive my Warmoth part and put it in the luggage when he/she will do the next flight to my country? Should we really do this "Prohibition Days" thing for a slab of ol' stinking wood? Talk to the boss and let him know these things are not good for Warmoth. Maybe it's time to make a bit of an effort and get off the everyday comfy habits of doing things... getting back to a more dynamic way. It surely won't hurt! Always remember this... the many people in US and world countries who love Warmoth, and they are many many many, would love you guys even more and appreciate your efforts in improving your biz with MORE biz with you. It's a two ways beneficial flow of actions/consequences. So please, make the right choices.
Cheers from the mediterranean sea.... and always in a friendly way to the amazing Warmoth world!
You're literally scolding Warmoth for not bowing to your miniscule demands, that's hardly "friendly". Sounds like you just want to cry about something. I don't find anything at the Warmoth site on the International Shipping page that says anything is restricted, let alone mahogany. Wahhh.
@@KainzMusic Once your shipping data have been entered and you proceed to checkout and pay, the system shows a warning with this text: "Attention international customers: please ensure that your order does not contain organic materials which we are currently prohibited from shipping outside of the USA. These include Abalone, Mother of Pearl, Bone, Mahogany and Padouk. If your order does not contain these materials you may proceed with checkout. Shipments of these products within the USA are not affected." So, there it is. Warmoth has shipped mahogany everywhere for ages and it's only in the recent years that has stopped doing so. Every other company ships it. So it is possible. This is not bowing from a company. It's making customers happy and sell more guitar parts. A I said I'd have bought several other guitars if mahogany shipping was possible. And I'm STIL buying other woods parts. So, please stay away from this as you have no point here.
Any chance we'll get a b/g-bender option one day?
Aaron , one of my dream is a tele body with strat body edge radius roundness , would it be possible as off menu option?
And one of my dreams is the opposite: a Strat body with Tele radii. (Actually, a 7/8 Strat-style body.)
Aaron, can you do a Jay Jr bass as a hollow with F hole?
Hey Shaggy, never mind this off-menu stuff, how do you get invited to the secret, after party?
my crappy kingdom for a maple superbass J neck with abalone blocks (I’lll supply the abalone sheet!)
I'm going to share my experience with Warmoth's off-menu items. I have two. The first is a Warmoth long scale bass neck with Wenge shaft and Bocote (NLA) fretboard. The off-menu options were a right hand reverse headstock (Which, at the time, was not an on-menu option for this neck), and tuner hole delete. The second is a Musiclander guitar body, one-piece Black Walnut, routed for humbuckers, control cavity delete, bridge rout delete, forearm contour and tummy cut delete. In both cases, I'm thrilled with these purchases. Spike is definitely your go-to guy when you want something outside the norm.
i have a question sir why Warmoth doesn't offer modern bridge hole options on tele bodies.
I'd like a Tele replacement body with a Tele bridge pickup and a TOM bridge and angled neck pocket...
Pretty sure they can do that...
@@schmoemi3386 unfortunately you cannot do that, I’ve tried using the custom builder several times, perhaps if you call in but even then I don’t believe you can as the angled portion of the route of the Tele bridge pickup would be too close to the stud for the TOM bridge. When others like Reverend Guitars do it on their Buckshot model they move the position of the Tele bridge pickup route a tad closer to the neck, from what I understand.
@@jc6721 If they do it then of course "off-menu", i.e. you have to ask.
I've never understood why a painted neck or painted headstock has never been a standard menu option to actually see in a drop down menu on the custom build page. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
.84 neck profile! .80 too thin, .86 too thick! .84 just right!!!
Very intriging,old days,go buy a strat,settle for black,red,blue,white,a sunburst came in,gone in 60seconds,like all the new woods,non Dupont colors,and availability,like the cars you see now
sucks that you guys are still not doing mahogany, mother of pearl, etc for internationals when other guys like musikraft, sound guitar works have no issues
Musikraft doesn't have half the neck options Warmoth has, not to mention their list of "Administrative Charges" for their off menu items. I'm sure there's a reason you aren't shopping there?
@@KainzMusic musikraft has way more neck profiles... and you think warmoth off menu options are free? warmoth inlay options are fucking shit they have cream and black dots as a standard and the rest are "premium inlays" for the cheesy pearloid you find on beater guitars. musikraft and others builders website are fossil engines but at least internationals can get real pearl, rosewood, abalone etc etc without bullshit restrictions. dont even start on warmoth's ridiculous shipping costs compared to soundguitarworks. so, what again?
Mahogany used to be no problem until recently... 😖
At least offer a matching paint option when ordering a neck
We need headstock adjust truss rods on modern construction necks for lefties. I can't believe all you offer is body adjust truss rods for lefties. It's an antiquated design that sucks in practice. I would have bought a couple full instruments from you guys, but that instantly drives me elsewhere.
Antiquated yes, but it *sounds* better!
@@trev3971 Even if that was true, which I doubt, your guitar can sound like gold, but if it's playability is compromised, your guitar sucks.
@@dumpedcabledumpedcable116 The extra wood at the nut does make a difference in my experience, but regardless, why would heel adjust compromise playability? Popping the neck is quick and easy when you're used to the procedure. If you don't want to pop the neck, there are plenty of options for quick and easy adjustments. Heel-adjust Teles just need the pickguard removed. On other styles, either add an adjust channel when spec-ing the guitar, or use a Music Man-style wheel nut. Simple stuff.
@@trev3971 I have very strict action preferences. Keeping the neck perfect is not negotiable. Removing the neck, or pick guard or anything else is a waste of time. Period.
There is a reason no modern instruments designed for maximum playability use that design. It sucks.
We are not able add the side adjust mechanism to lefty Modern Construction necks because Gotoh does not make a lefty version of it. For a lefty neck with headstock adjustment you need to order a Vintage/Modern Construction neck.
is it possible to get single-piece (modern type) maple necks?
The have the put the truss rod in, but don't be too worried about it, it's the same piece of wood just cut into the fret board and neck. If you call and ask they can confirm this when you're buying
@@skotz3336 with single piece necks you put the TR in from the bottom and seal it with a skunk stripe. I've seen such necks from Warmoth before. It's a pure aesthetic thing. I have an old custom shop strat with a single piece birdseye maple neck, but it's too thin for my taste.
@@sch2412 Yeah, but he's asking about their modern construction. haha I think the skunkstripe is pretty.
Title sounds like some Seinfeld routine.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Putting the 1/2 inch output jack hole back on the menu for the telecaster body can't be that hard. Seriously, we're talking about drilling a half inch hole rather than 3/4 or 7/8. How hard can that be? And would there really be an overwhelming amount of people choosing that option?
What’s the best way to fine out if you have a option available?
Was this a serious question?
Your explanation of point 2 ("The custom builders are crazy-go-nuts!") was kinda lacking, imo. There are webapps out there that are build on literally hundreds of thousands of conditional (IF) statements. As a software engineer myself, I don't really see the examples you gave as particularly "difficult" to add to the online builder -- now, that's not to say that there aren't, perhaps, **logistical** considerations after the order is placed; I don't know what your production line looks like, but just saying, "it's too hard for the website," makes me think you just have lazy-ass engineers building your site.
They’ve had website issues for the last couple years so I can only assume their dev team might not be the right guys to take on this scale of project.
@@bruzanHD This scale or any other.
The "New" website does nothing as well as the old one did, at least on the customer side.
@@jefft7968 Agreed, I was trying to be nice with my wording haha.
@@bruzanHD 🤣🤣🤣
I wish Floyd Rose Pro route was an option on a strat body.
Well yeah, that's what "off menu" means, like duh....
Off-menu options feel like you have built a relationship with the shop, you're the regular and known person. Like instrument stores throw a pack of strings or a strap as a freebie on top of your instrument purchase and the shop guy tips you on some new cool items. A big burger chain might not quite be that special relationship, but I guess that's more of a "I've been accepted in the cult".
Please make warmoth amplifiers 😅
Will you make a 3/4 scale neck i.e. duo sonic?
Duo Sonics use a Mustang/Jag neck.
@@UncleSlam1776 duo sonic came with 22.5 scale neck fender no longer makes that scale
@@UncleSlam1776 Original Duo-Sonics were 22.5", the 24" scale is for Duo-Sonic IIs and modern Duo-Sonics.