Ibanez soloist for Folk Music?

Phunkyphred said:
As much as I love acoustics my hands can't do it anymore. :( So purely looking for light touch electrics. My sx telecaster isn't bad but the neck is bulky.
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I'm not sure what your budget is, but I put a couple 7/8 scale Warmoth Strats together and they are the absolute best, smoothest, easiest playing guitars I've ever used...if you would like, I could put one together for you, including full fret leveling and setup, spec'd out any way you'd like...
 
jelloman said:
I'm not sure what your budget is, but I put a couple 7/8 scale Warmoth Strats together and they are the absolute best, smoothest, easiest playing guitars I've ever used...if you would like, I could put one together for you, including full fret leveling and setup, spec'd out any way you'd like...
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I may have to take you up on that sometime!W look and sound amazing but it is overwhelming.
 
Phunkyphred said:
I may have to take you up on that sometime!W look and sound amazing but it is overwhelming.
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I've built over a dozen different guitars, most through Warmoth...if you think through it carefully as to what you want and need the guitar to be before you start working on their site it gets less intimidating...

The 7/8 scale guitars are limited to Strat and Tele shapes with a single headstock design on a 24 fret 24.75" scale...then it's simply a matter of choosing how to configure it...

These are mine...
2018-05-20_05-16-26 by jelloman 1965, on Flickr
...the pickups on the one on the right, however, have recently been changed out to a pair of Duncan PhatCat P90s...
 
jelloman said:
I've built over a dozen different guitars, most through Warmoth...if you think through it carefully as to what you want and need the guitar to be before you start working on their site it gets less intimidating...

The 7/8 scale guitars are limited to Strat and Tele shapes with a single headstock design on a 24 fret 24.75" scale...then it's simply a matter of choosing how to configure it...

These are mine...
2018-05-20_05-16-26 by jelloman 1965, on Flickr
...the pickups on the one on the right, however, have recently been changed out to a pair of Duncan PhatCat P90s...
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Non maple fretboards... Did we just become best friends? I think so!!!
 
jelloman said:
I like Rosewood fretboards because they tend to make the neck a bit thinner, look amazing, and feel right under my fingertips...
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Yeah I love rosewood. I don't know if it's in my head.. but I just feel I play more fluidly on them. Whereas I'm goose stepping on a maple. Stomp stomp stomp.

I had a guitar at one time that was a made in Japan telecaster body w s s h pickups a Floyd rose edge and a rosewood neck w jumbo stainless steel frets. I FELT LIKE I COULD FLY on that.
 
Knox in Box said:
Isn't a Godin Multiac exactly what you would need? Not sure of the neck profiles on them though.
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While those seem cool, I just figured I'd move away from acoustic. My acoustic electric piezo never really sounded great so I'm suspicious. Though I do know David Byrne used one on tour and I believe in studio for one of his albums and it sounded decent. (I believe it was the great intoxication)
 
jelloman said:
I've built over a dozen different guitars, most through Warmoth...if you think through it carefully as to what you want and need the guitar to be before you start working on their site it gets less intimidating...

The 7/8 scale guitars are limited to Strat and Tele shapes with a single headstock design on a 24 fret 24.75" scale...then it's simply a matter of choosing how to configure it...

These are mine...
2018-05-20_05-16-26 by jelloman 1965, on Flickr
...the pickups on the one on the right, however, have recently been changed out to a pair of Duncan PhatCat P90s...
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You only have 2 - 7/8 guitars? Slacker.
 
I know you just snagged the Ibanez (nice looking guitar), but here are my 7/8 Warmoths. I'm not sure I'll ever go with anything else after building these.

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I can attest to both Jello & Chads Warmoths being great guitars. I played one of Jellos (the red one, I think?) and that black Tele of Chads. Both played amazingly well :)
 
Phunkyphred said:
What do you play with only bridge pick-ups? Are those coil tapped?

They look gorgeous.
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Thanks!

No coil taps, but they are not high output humbuckers (Railhammer Hyper Vintage and a DiMarzio Bluesbucker). The music I play is all over the place. When its just me playing, it can be post rock, alt country, punk, stones-ish rock. When I jam with my neighbors, it's mostly classic rock or 80's metal.

A few years ago I realized I never used the neck pickups on the guitars I had, so when I built the Warmoths, I decided since I never used them, why spend the money on putting them in there.
 
Jbird said:
I can attest to both Jello & Chads Warmoths being great guitars. I played one of Jellos (the red one, I think?) and that black Tele of Chads. Both played amazingly well :)
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Thanks!

That tele was pure luck. I had no intention of building a guitar, I was just browsing the Warmoth's stupid deal page and saw the body for $165 already painted. I hadn't built a Warmoth in probably 10 years before that one. It turned out so much better than I expected, I ended up with 2 more :grin:
 
Jbird said:
I can attest to both Jello & Chads Warmoths being great guitars. I played one of Jellos (the red one, I think?) and that black Tele of Chads. Both played amazingly well :)
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Thanks Jay! Yes, it was the red one...the brown one only made it to the last barn jam that you didn't make it to...
 
Chad said:
Thanks!

No coil taps, but they are not high output humbuckers (Railhammer Hyper Vintage and a DiMarzio Bluesbucker). The music I play is all over the place. When its just me playing, it can be post rock, alt country, punk, stones-ish rock. When I jam with my neighbors, it's mostly classic rock or 80's metal.

A few years ago I realized I never used the neck pickups on the guitars I had, so when I built the Warmoths, I decided since I never used them, why spend the money on putting them in there.
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Still sounds amazingly versatile!! Very cool.
 
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