NGD: Warmoth Jazzmaster

[ThePhilosopher]

I was able to get this assembled by my local tech (the amount of careful routing/sanding to remove some of the paint buildup is well beyond anything I'd ever attempt). Some mediocre photos for now until I can get some quality time to stage everything just right.

Full specs of the Warmoth build are below, Lollar pickups, Gotoh Magnum locking tuners, Mastery trem, bridge and string trees.
I've got a cream colored switch tip on order for the selector.

Construction Solid Core Wood Mahogany Body Upgrades Three Piece Right / Left Handed Right-Handed Control Cavity Top Rout Neck Pickup Rout Standard Jazzmaster® Bridge Pickup Rout Standard Jazzmaster® Jack Rout None Bridge Rout Type Tremolo Bridge Rout Jazzmaster Tremolo w/ Jazzmaster Bridge Mounting Holes Standard 4-Bolt Neck Pocket Shape Strat® Body Contours Forearm Contour, Tummy Cut Paint Category Flake Top Color Green Flake Back Color Green Flake Satin or Gloss Gloss

Construction Modern Shaft Wood Maple Fretboard Wood Indian Rosewood Nut Width 1.650" (42mm) - Vintage Medium Right / Left Handed Right-Handed Neck Back Profile Standard Thin Fretboard Radius 10" - 16" Compound Number of Frets 22 Fret Size & Material SS6115 - Wide & Tall (Stainless) Tuner Hole Size Gotoh/Grover (13/32" - 11/32") Inlay Shape Standard Dots Inlay Material Cream Side Dots White Side Dots String Nut Standard Nut - GraphTech Black TUSQ XL Mounting Holes Standard 4-Bolt Neck Heel Shape Strat® Shape Finish Green Flake

 

[Asdrael]

Looking good! In love the color.

How are those P90 treating you? What do you plan to play on it mostly?

 

[budda]

Yeees

 

[ThePhilosopher]

They're not P90s, just JM pickups - I'm playing a mix of ambient, hard rock, post-rock/metal on this guitar. Though, I tried MOP on it with the purple aggression setting + boost on my G20 and it's pretty nasty for metal as well. It's my only guitar (ATM) tuned to standard.

 

[ADADAD]

Looks awesome!
What were the issues with the paint that required professional help?

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Just buildup in the cavities from the finishing process, additionally the channel between the pickups runs at a diagonal in the Warmoth bodies, but the wiring harness was built for going straight across between the pickups. My guy route under the neck pickup instead of trying to cut through triangular piece of wood that remained between the pickups.

 

[Grindspine]

Nice, I have been considering a Warmoth build for a while to use some of my spare guitar parts out of the bin!

 

[wheresthefbomb]

That green sparkle is gorgeous. Congrats.

 

[Concerto412]

Yum. That green sparkle looks fantastic, and I love the little details like the nickel kill switch and white rhythm-slider.

 

[ThePhilosopher]

Nice, I have been considering a Warmoth build for a while to use some of my spare guitar parts out of the bin!

Do it, I'm thinking about building another MJT/Warmoth hybrid, but a Jazzmaster this time.

 

[Masoo2]

They're not P90s, just JM pickups - I'm playing a mix of ambient, hard rock, post-rock/metal on this guitar. Though, I tried MOP on it with the purple aggression setting + boost on my G20 and it's pretty nasty for metal as well. It's my only guitar (ATM) tuned to standard.

Are these the Lollar 58s or the 63s?

Curious to know your thoughts and if you happen to find them perhaps too bright / brittle for ambient and post-metal type stuff or just right

Unsure if I want to go JM set or perhaps a JM90 bridge + JM neck for my upcoming Warmoth Jazzmaster...I keep going back and forth between the two without coming to a solid conclusion

 

[ThePhilosopher]

I believe these are the 58s (there's no indication of model on the box or the bottom of the pickups). I don't find them overly bright at all; they have more bight and are definitely less full sounding that my P90s, but that's what I wanted out of this guitar (and there's always the tone knob).

 

[phillybhatesme]

Well done on the finish. Great color choice and it looks spectacular.

 

[AkiraSpectrum]

wow that looks wicked!