my warmoth opinion

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:19 am

ok, so granted i only have experience with 1 warmoth neck but!
as some of you konw i purchased the bronco jr from mickie( i made the body, he bought the neck from warmoth and assembled everything)
the guitar is awsome, i set it up and played the shit out of it for a few minutes before work and after work and my only gripe is the neck.
1. the 3rd position dot is off centered and since they use cnc machines its a program problem that needs to be fixed.
2. the rosewood veneer is off centered and looks bad if you pay attention, once again i bet its a cnc program error.
3. the frets have ZERO wear on them but yet i fret out on random frets on variouse strings leading me to believe that the frets weren't really leveled but merly set in by machine and considered "good enough"
4. this is just a suspicion but i think the roswood was a bastard peiece that was too thin at one end and too fat at the other so instead of doing it right, they just did it, but i could be wrong becuz i have not measured it.
and also, gfs p-90s suck balls, get mightymight they sound a million times better and they are cheaper by like 5-6 bucks.
i can say this with confidence becuz i have a gfs p-90 in the bridge of my tele(hate it) and its in the bronco jr( not to my liking)

but all in all, the neck has a decent feel to it and i have felt worse.

Ninja Mike 808 · Post by **Ninja Mike 808** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:26 am

What's "fretting-out"?
Also, can you drop a link to Mighty-Might?

Excellent review, though now I'm scarred cause I've heard so much negative press about Warmoth.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:00 am

fretting out is when you have clear notes and out of no where you have a dead note or a note that does not sound as clear as the rest.
personally i think warmoth is shelling them out too fast and they are hiring people for cheap and just random people, not really "luthiers" or people that have a knack for this type of gig.
im actually starting to think about re-fretting/re-radiusing the fretboard to make it feel more like my j.s../tele.
but then again, its nice to have something with a different feel to it.

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:09 pm

My warmoth Neck is perfect, but I bought it 6 years ago, and its koa/ebony so they prolly had to really make sure everything worked together before shipping it out.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:11 pm

yeah, i have seen what i thought was a warmoth neck(i couldn't take it off)
but it was really nice, it was turdseye with i think ebony, but like i said im not sure if it was or not.
and the one that i have is pretty straight up, nothing too fancy about it cept the scale.

r40f · Post by **r40f** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:39 pm

where can i order mighty-mites? (i live in the us)

thanks

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:04 am

just go onto thier site.
and there is a store called jc's guitars that sells ALOT of mighty might stuff for REALLY cheap.