Fenders getting some love

brokentoeswalker said:

I want one of these.


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that hurts my eye and gives me a headache

DeafDumbBlind Kid said:

that hurts my eye and gives me a headache

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You think that's bad....

Wait till you hear me play !!

Uncle Vinnie said:

Is that ENIAC or your pedal board?

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Hey man,
Nobody can put together a pedal board like somebody who doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing.

Pedal board is very simple



For amps I like Orange, Soul Tramps and Fender tweeds.

Kamen_Kaiju said:

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Pedal board is very simple

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For amps I like Orange, Soul Tramps and Fender tweeds.

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Soul Tramps? Like our resident Soul Tramp?

Coupla family pics:

(Left to Right)
Warmoth Strat Junior - all Mahogany
2012 Japanese Thinline - Tim Shaws
2019 American Pro II P-Bass
Warmoth body Tele Custom - Fralins




(Left to Right)
‘99 Hardtail with Fralins
EBay Partscaster with WRHBs
‘93 American Standard, bone stock
EBay Partscaster with Dove P-90s

used to have a hardtail strat, loved it. but I also love a tremolo strat. Be interesting to see which comes my way first. I'm mostly leaning towards another rosewood fingerboard one, either way.

I’m a 335 guy, so I’m a Gibson fanboy. In solid bodies I’m probably really a fender guy at heart, but I like it here better than strat talk

DeafDumbBlind Kid said:

Soul Tramps? Like our resident Soul Tramp?

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yup, he makes absolutely killer amps!

brokentoeswalker said:

I want one of these.


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Owe,... that hurts. Make it stop!

Yes, that psychedelic checkerboard case looks cool as hell. I considered buying one as well. But then I realized, I don’t really want to attract attention to my cases.
Conflicted…

I keep meaning to pick up the Waylon Jennings Telecaster case that Fender makes. I like the orange interior and "fancy" exterior.

Leee said:

Yes, that psychedelic checkerboard case looks cool as hell. I considered buying one as well. But then I realized, I don’t really want to attract attention to my cases.
Conflicted…

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My first thought as well,... "badass case must have badass guitar". My tweed case for my paisley Stratocaster has a lot of that "look at me" quality as well. Fender always had some of the nicest cases.

Fender doesn't sell the Tweed Pro case anymore. I think it had some QC issues and according to one owner, would more or less be destroyed if it ever got slightly wet. I don't foresee carrying it in the rain.
I bought mine for about half what the Classic Series Tweed sells for. The Pro has two compartments, one on each side of the neck, and an orange interior. And it stinks of perhaps solvent or glue.
It looks nice on the outside, though.

Kamen_Kaiju said:

I keep meaning to pick up the Waylon Jennings Telecaster case that Fender makes. I like the orange interior and "fancy" exterior.

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My original Strat case from 64/65 with orange interior.

Wellll, I'll put in my .02.

ETA: Sorry about the wonky pics, frickin' phone camera.

Fender Custom Shop Strats weren't doing it for me.

Long story short, I went on Warmoth's website and ordered necks and bodies to build a couple of my own the way I wanted them.

First recreation was of a '66 Daphne Blue Strat I had, it had a big old fat neck, gray-bottom pick-ups, and played and sounded great. The second Strat I wanted was a recreation '69 in Ocean Turquois with a fat V neck. Frankly, I like the big headstocks of the CBS era Strats more than the Pre-CBS.

I love P90s so I ordered two sets of Strat-style P90 pick-ups from Pete Biltoft. The pick-ups sound somewhere between a Strat single coil and a Gibson P90, maybe leaning more toward a P90, with absolutely no 60 hz buzz, super quiet. As you will see in the pics, I wired a tone control for the bridge pick-up which takes out a lot of the angry bite of the neck pup.

I ordered two necks from Warmoth, both 1" @ 1st fret: A C-shape for the '66, and a rounded V for the '69, both with ebony fretboards with a 12" radius and small vintage frets. I chose the 12" radius so it would have somewhat the same feel of an LP. They both play like a dream, very low action and no buzz. The neck decals were provided by Lt. Dave as part of the build. He tinted and finished the necks, flawless.

When I ordered the necks you could pick the piece of ebony (or rosewood if you wanted) by viewing it full length and up close, unfortunately Warmoth no longer offers that.

The bodies were vintage contour alder. Warmoth offered Daphne Blue but not Ocean Turquois, so I ordered one body painted DB.

I ordered all repro vintage hardware from Fender, then sent the whole kit and caboodle to Lt. Dave to paint the '69 body in OT and plumb together the guitars. (Note here: I could have bypassed Warmoth and gotten the guitars made to order by going to Lt. Dave which I wish I had thought to ask before ordering from Warmoth, but when I saw 1" @ 1st fret, V shape, and ebony board I lost all my reasoning and hit the "buy" button). The OT paint was applied flawlessly.

I had both "F" stamped neck plates engraved with "112282" which is the date my dad died, and coincidently falls within the date range of a 1966 Fender.

Got a hard-on to put a tortoise shell pickguard on the '66, I like it but LMK what you guys think.

Uncle Vinnie said:

Got a hard-on to put a tortoise shell pickguard on the '66

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Two cosmetic treatments on a guitar that I have never liked - tortoise plastics and gold hardware.
Personal tastes, so there’s that.

Killer Warmoth builds though!

Leee said:

Two cosmetic treatments on a guitar that I have never liked - tortoise plastics and gold hardware.
Personal tastes, so there’s that.

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Uncle Vinnie said:

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I saved that GIF.
No telling when it might come in handy.

I've been thinking about putting the single layer black guard from my Epi Junior on the Gibson to see how it looks "murdered out."