Delberthot Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Well I've just had word that my neck and body are on their way from warmoth via UPS so should be here tomorrow. I cannot wait - just like goldie I've spent a lot of time working out which parts are going to be best for it and the moment of truth is almost here. The components that I have chosen are: gotoh resolite reverse tuners Lollar vintage SCPB pickup CTS 250k pots vintage cloth wiring paper in oil cap I may use one of the resistors that came with the cap gotoh 201 bridge Fender Bridge and Pickup covers. Schaller straplocks Maple neck with maple fretboard finished in vintage satin finish Swamp ash body finished in butterscotch blonde black scratchplate and chrome other bits. Optima chrome strings 45, 60, 80, 100 I'm planning on taking lots of pictures as I am building this one to show just how easy they are to put together and get set up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7string Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Sounds great. I've often looked at Warmoth and wondered how good they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstrike Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Sounds cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 They are absolutely fantastic. I was unable to find what i was looking for with any other brand of bass. With the combination of woods and other parts I have been able to successfully create the bass of my dreams. I have gone down this route for this bass as I wanted something with a more traditional melow sound as the gold Warmoth '54 is totally in your face. I've just checked on the UPS site and the body and neck are out for shipping from 7am this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 After parting with the princely sum of £100.38 I now have my body and neck. Its really hard to get the colour of the body right in a picture but here we go. I still need to get a nut for it and my strings aren't here either but apart from that I'm ready to start building it. The first thing to do will be to get the steel wool onto the frets to take the varnish off them. The building begins tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Looking cool, I've always wanted to try building a warmoth bass, but i can't afford it. glad your bits are here, i'm still waiting for some damn pickup screws! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 [quote name='Delberthot' post='279601' date='Sep 8 2008, 12:10 PM']After parting with the princely sum of £100.38 I now have my body and neck.[/quote] I'm sorry, but a lot of people are gonna ask this. £100.38? Is this an eBay transaction or direct sale from Warmoth? Even the Warmoth scratch/dent/overstocks (AKA Showcase) stuff wouldn't even get you a finished body for that price, let alone a neck and body. P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='279672' date='Sep 8 2008, 01:26 PM']I'm sorry, but a lot of people are gonna ask this. £100.38? Is this an eBay transaction or direct sale from Warmoth? Even the Warmoth scratch/dent/overstocks (AKA Showcase) stuff wouldn't even get you a finished body for that price, let alone a neck and body. P[/quote] I've got a funny feeling that is a sneaky brokerage charge levied by the courier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstrike Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='279672' date='Sep 8 2008, 01:26 PM']I'm sorry, but a lot of people are gonna ask this. £100.38? Is this an eBay transaction or direct sale from Warmoth? Even the Warmoth scratch/dent/overstocks (AKA Showcase) stuff wouldn't even get you a finished body for that price, let alone a neck and body. P[/quote] Import tax, you pay Warmoth before they build the stuff for you. Sexy looking stuff so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 [quote name='NancyJohnson' post='279672' date='Sep 8 2008, 01:26 PM']I'm sorry, but a lot of people are gonna ask this. £100.38? Is this an eBay transaction or direct sale from Warmoth? Even the Warmoth scratch/dent/overstocks (AKA Showcase) stuff wouldn't even get you a finished body for that price, let alone a neck and body. P[/quote] I'm assuming that was just the customs/import tax etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 Yes, Warmoth charged my debitcard on Friday for about £400- the £100.38 was VAT, duty etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 £400? That's not half bad, i might get one around christmas time instead of a used stingray... I'm assuming a more kitted out bass would cost a fair bit more though EG figured maple top with back routing on a jazz body, seymour duncan jazz pickups, possibly a preamp... etc etc, i might get a quote later... hmmmmmmm much to think about! Only thing is, it would have to be the right bass for me because i wouldn't see much of that back on a sale... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 that was just for the body, neck, neck plate, string retainer, scratchplate and gotoh 201 bridge. The machineheads, pickup, pots, jack, straplocks, wire, cap, nut, pickup & bridge covers were extra. In total, including shipping and all taxes, it probably came to about £650 in total which is just slightly more than the gold one came to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 I've just added a load of stuff up and including shipping, etc + £100 for import tax etc i'm looking at £700ish i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 [quote name='Delberthot' post='279790' date='Sep 8 2008, 04:16 PM']Yes, Warmoth charged my debitcard on Friday for about £400- the £100.38 was VAT, duty etc[/quote] That makes a little more sense, but even so £400.00 does seem a little light for all the parts you have. I'm not trying to make an issue of this, but be straight...it's no point saying £100.38, when it's closer to £700+. The guys (and girls) on this list who'll be following this thread will be keen to know how much everything cost (including shipping and taxes) as much as they're interested in the end result. I'm sure there's a few here that would happily go the Warmoth route in future. That said, good luck with the project. P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 8, 2008 Author Share Posted September 8, 2008 (edited) Suppose i could've been clearer but if you look at my post saying that it was out for delivery with UPS this morning, my next one was me saying that I now had the parts after parting with £100 to the UPS guy. Everyone else seemed to have got the impression that he £100 was an import charge of some kind and I did mention in my first post that the body and neck were on their way from Warmoth. I didn't mention any other parts. To elaborate - the parts that i got from Warmoth came to £500 including delivery, taxes & duty. These included: Maple neck with maple fretboard finished in vintage satin finish Swamp ash body finished in butterscotch blonde black single ply scratchplate Gotoh 201 bridge Neck plate, screws, pickguard screws an string retainer. Completely separately I bought: Lollar single coil pickup Fender bridge and pickup covers Control plate Paper in oil cap 250k CTS posts Fender jack Tusq nut Optima Chrome strings 45 - 100 This lot came to about £100. The other parts I had from previous basses Edited September 8, 2008 by Delberthot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisyjon Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Nice one on going for a nice P style bass. Thanks for the plentiful supply of pictures. Please do keep us up to speed with the build - I'm another one fancying a Warmoth build so am curious as to how it all goes. Cheers, Jon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 9, 2008 Author Share Posted September 9, 2008 (edited) I've been trying various parts against others and I have to say that the neck is a really tight fit - not so much so that it would cause a problem when fitting it but in that it is absolutely perfect. I've tried lots of basses and none of them have had such a tight fitting neck. The cut out for the scratchplate where it meets the control plate hasn't been cut correctly so they don't meet. I'll neet to draw round where it should go and cut out the small amount that needs taken out in order for it to fit. The CTS pot shafts are too thick for the control plate as well (neither part bought from Warmoth) so I'll get the drill out later and make the holes larger to accomodate them. I've worked out an order that I will be approaching the building of the bass - 1 - Mask off the fretboard and take the excess finish off the frets with 000 grade steel wool 2 - Fit the nut 3 - fit the machineheads 4 - attach the pots to the control plate (after enlarging the holes) 5 - take care of all the soldering of the 2 pots and jack socket. 6 - Fit the pickup and solder it to the pots 7 - Attach the control plate to the body 8 - Fit the bridge 9 - Fit the straplocks 10 - Attach the neck to the body 11 - Offer the scratchplate onto the body and work out how much to take off so that it fits round the control plate 12 - Fit the thumb rest 13 - Fit the strings and tune up 14 - fit the string retainer 15- check the intonation and action and file the nut if necessary 16 - fit the bridge and pickup covers There we go, 16 steps to get the bass up and running. I would normally be looking at a couple of hours to get it done but the strings won't be here until tomorrow so I have to stop after step 12. I'm taking care of the soldering and attaching most of the body parts before the neck goes on because it was a bit awkward the last time to maneuvere it with the neck attached. More photos to follow Edited September 9, 2008 by Delberthot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_citizenbass Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 this is gonna be sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7string Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Sounds like it's going to be a heck of a bass for the total amount you paid. I wonder if you could get a bass of similar quality for the same amount of money? Even if you could it might still need a set-up or a quick fret dress and you wouldn't have the fun of assembling it yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 (edited) Well most of the buld is going well so far. a couple of things have gone wrong however: The scratchplate hadn't been cut correctly here it meets the control plate but after a couple of minutes with a knife I had it fitting; the other thing that completely baffled me is that he I was installing the tuners I managed to snap 3 of the screws. Luckily only one per tuner. I found this really odd as I've fitted loads of tuners before but these ones seemed to snap with no warning and with no effort. I'm wondering if they are made of a lightweight soft metal to help keep the overall weight down. I'm going to email gotoh and see what they say. I'm not going to be able to get the screws out so I'll probably just superglue the heads back on to preserve the look. Getting the laquer off the frets was pretty straightforward as well. I couldn't find any masking tape so I used brown tape applied very lightly and used the steel wool to take the finish off the frets Edited September 10, 2008 by Delberthot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 As i mentioned, the holes for the pots were too small so I enlarged them. I was really amazed how easily the soldering went. I'm not exactly the best at it but everything just seemed to work straight away. Anyway, here's more pictures. I'm really amazed at how much birdseye there is in the neck as I only requested standard maple. I'm not going to post any more until it is ready and then I'll do some kind of grand unveiling or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 [quote name='Delberthot' post='281251' date='Sep 10 2008, 04:52 PM']the other thing that completely baffled me is that he I was installing the tuners I managed to snap 3 of the screws. Luckily only one per tuner.[/quote] At the risk of insulting your intelligence - did you drill pilot holes first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noisyjon Posted September 10, 2008 Share Posted September 10, 2008 Looking very good, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted September 10, 2008 Author Share Posted September 10, 2008 I did drill pilot holes for the screws but they still managed to break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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