I need some stuff to go with my new Guitar, recommendations for amp, cable, strap all sorts

What do you guys think of Warmoth? (the custom guitar co. in the US)

My quest for a Candy Green Strat is starting to look pretty futile, but just for laughs I had a go at working through a custom on there, and it works out $1,065.20 including pretty much everything I would want, plus $117.12 delivery, so total $1182.32... About £711.84 by Google's reckoning...

Of course there would be customs charges on top of that, but I feel like it'll still work out comparable to something like a US Standard, and for a much more unique instrument. I think the Customs rate for an Electric guitar/bass is 3.7% so that would add an extra £26.34... Then adding on the VAT brings the grand total to £885.82... (Unless I'm very much mistaken) That's actually not too bad...

What do you guys reckon?
 
See, normally I'd have totally agreed with that, but my latest guitar (the Korean Epiphone LP) I bought it without trying it from Ebay... And I couldn't be happier - it certainly needed a setup and a bit of tweaking to how I like it but otherwise it was fine...

I gotta say I'm tempted...
 
uncle_rufus said:
What do you guys think of Warmoth? (the custom guitar co. in the US)

My quest for a Candy Green Strat is starting to look pretty futile, but just for laughs I had a go at working through a custom on there, and it works out $1,065.20 including pretty much everything I would want, plus $117.12 delivery, so total $1182.32... About £711.84 by Google's reckoning...

Of course there would be customs charges on top of that, but I feel like it'll still work out comparable to something like a US Standard, and for a much more unique instrument. I think the Customs rate for an Electric guitar/bass is 3.7% so that would add an extra £26.34... Then adding on the VAT brings the grand total to £885.82... (Unless I'm very much mistaken) That's actually not too bad...

What do you guys reckon?
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Go for it mate,

Can't be any worse than a mass produced Korean VTR :p

I like the idea too....Building a black strat with maple neck:cool:
 
I was going with a Candy Green Strat, black 3lyr pickguard, seymour duncans with white covers (2x customs in the neck + middle and a hot in the bridge, or maybe a lil' 59), white knobs + switch tip... Plus all the nice tummy cut, forearm contour etc... Chrome hardware and schaller strap-locks... And a nice vintage tinted satin maple neck, gotoh tuners, black dot inlays...

The trouble is there's just so much choice on that site!!!

I really like the idea behind their compound radius neck, it seems to be highly regarded (the fingerboard is more rounded by the headstock and flatter at the body end with a conical shape overall)
 
uncle_rufus said:
I was going with a Candy Green Strat, black 3lyr pickguard, seymour duncans with white covers (2x customs in the neck + middle and a hot in the bridge, or maybe a lil' 59), white knobs + switch tip... Plus all the nice tummy cut, forearm contour etc... Chrome hardware and schaller strap-locks... And a nice vintage tinted satin maple neck, gotoh tuners, black dot inlays...

The trouble is there's just so much choice on that site!!!

I really like the idea behind their compound radius neck, it seems to be highly regarded (the fingerboard is more rounded by the headstock and flatter at the body end with a conical shape overall)
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My problem with WMs are that for that money you can get a mint as new USA strat in virtually any configuration whether a HSS delux or SSS standard or even a Gibson LP Standard/Trad etc.
 
Here you go, pretty poor attempt

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I like it... not sure what's going on with the bridge area - maybe I selected things slightly wrong the second time
 
Fender had something ocean green in Deluxe Lonestar range in 2013 catalogue
 
uncle_rufus said:
Here you go, pretty poor attempt



I like it... not sure what's going on with the bridge area - maybe I selected things slightly wrong the second time
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:/ for the money. Looks like something going for £60 in my home bargains atm in that colour but hey ho.

No doubt when Warmoths come together well you get an excellent guitar. However, as with any kit build you still need to get the neck fitted 100% perfectly, possibly level some frets and possibly re-cut the nut to get to an action you like. At worst there are £250 of tools needed for that work and at best its £100 at a competent luthier.

I have seen and played a number of poorly finished Warmoth kits over the years by people who think finishing one is as easy and simple as building some lego and ultimately have nothing better at the end than you can get on a £200 Squier Strat.

If you have to have a unique guitar, have a luthier make you something.

You can buy a 2012/2013 USA Standard SSS or HSS Stratocaster for about £600-£900 of ebay at the moment. Ones that either are new old stock or look like new and have hardly been played. They have the SKB hard case and all the un-opened case candy. The USA strat necks are awesome and you are guaranteed (providing you try before you buy off ebay) perfection. Take the finishing kit and elecs off, swap the body for the Warmoth body, sell the Fender body for £250-£350 and it will probably come in cheaper overall.

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Just to be clear, the only reason I am suggesting the above and raising this is you have gone for a strat-a-like, so I assume you want a strat, even down to the headstock.

Had you gone for one of the many non-strat styles Warmoth do I would only be cautioning on the finishing / action.

If you want a strat, buy a strat. Otherwise at the end of the day, even if you put fender decals on it, you have something that looks like a strat, plays like a strat but is, much like homage/rep watches not the original.
 
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Scrutinize said:
:/ for the money. Looks like something going for £60 in my home bargains atm in that colour but hey ho.
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Haha :D It's certainly going to be a love-it-or-hate-it guitar that's for sure... The finish doesn't look quite so hot in their little mock-up applet, but here's a stock picture of it where you can see how the colour looks a little better (but still if you hate the green you hate the green ;))

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I'm inclined to agree with what you said though - I didn't appreciate that the Warmoth stuff requires assembly (and I absolutely wouldn't be able to do that properly myself)... But buying the body alone and a decent US Standard and then just swapping it out is a pretty good idea...
 
Why not buy a Strat and get it painted?
I remember my Dad in the 60s getting my Uncle Jimmy to spray his Strat with a blue/black tone car paint.
I did it in the 70s with an orange Tele I had and sprayed it black.
 
Scrutinize said:
:/ for the money. Looks like something going for £60 in my home bargains atm in that colour but hey ho.

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I will not be taking you seriously until you post some pictures of the guitars you have built.

A question " have you got any pics?"

Reply "Yea loads"

Doesn't fill me with...well anything...Make me eat my words
 
easyrider said:
where?:)
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You can get any autospray shop to do it one it is stripped. £150 for an excellent custom job. Or find a local art studio that specialises in spray painting.

If you want to spray it yourself, buy a cheap £20 body off ebay to try first.

Here is one of mine (~200 hours worth), Swamp ash body, maple neck, HSH (Irongear Tesla Shark humbuckers and Texas Loco single coil), 5 way switch with push pull coil split on the volume. Cellophane still on the pickups if you wondered why they look a bit odd.

This was for a commission for a mate but turned out so good, I couldn't sell it in the end. This is also the last guitar I will be getting the router out to make for some time due to work and time pressures. Sorry for the pants photo.

vbTWn0
 
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^^ That's really impressive :) Though I bet your mate was crushed!!!

"Sorry, you can't actually have that guitar you commissioned me to make you... but in other news Check out my awesome new guitar :D"

I did think about just getting the body re-sprayed but I wasn't sure how much it would cost, and whether it would really give that great of a finish
 
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