How To Assemble a Beautiful Guitar

[@howardskinner4916]

Much thought and planning took place before I built my Warmoths. Good advice here. Thanks, Aaron!

[@zyxwfish]

On one of my friend’s guitars years ago was just sitting there with a missing string and saddle. The hardware was all chrome. I happened to have some random black saddles at home. I took the guitar and put on alternating black and chrome saddles. It came up looking really cool actually!

[@neverbemoved74]

Great video, Aaron! I could have sat and watched for 15 more.

[@PFDarkside]

Great video. One missing item: Match your headstocks!!! Warmoth will paint your headstock black or match your body color. They will also put a matching veneer on it! So many Regals look great until you get to a raw headstock that would be so much better with black, matching color or matching veneer!

[@warmoth]

Agreed!

[@yikelu]

Love this. I spend untold amounts of time with Kisekae guitar to figure out the aesthetic I want. I never thought I would care so much about aesthetics on guitars until I started assembling them.

[@christopherhenke5545]

Really would like a body PLUS pickguard visualizer on the website

[@RuthlessMojo]

I just purchased a Tele body and neck for my dream build yesterday. I’ll drop two humbuckers in it. Wide range humbuckers. Put all gold hardware on it with locking tuners. Adjustable brass nut. Probably go with a nebula or abstract design for the finish with a coat of clear epoxy to give it some glossy pop.

[@theoversouls]

Brilliant, Aaron - really enjoyed this!

[@catsofsherman1316]

It's nice that you were able to put your art school education to use in this video

[@warmoth]

I knew it would come in handy some day! :D

[@jamesonpace726]

I dunno Art, but I know what I like....

[@warmoth]

Then you know Art enough, I would say! :)

[@moose6666]

I still like the prototype shirt 🤘🏻

[@chrishartley8867]

Good insight on builds. Thanks

[@randallscott6]

A video showing natural bodies with natural necks would be cool

[@OgamiItto70]

_Guidelines._ Art has _guidelines._ And _principles._ You _can_ ignore them--maybe it'll work out. But you ignore them at your peril. Personally, I like the Eighties shredly superstrat design ethic: Slab body painted in a vivid primary or secondary color (red, blue, yellow, purple, orange or green) with black knobs, bridge, tuners, neckplate and pickguard (if needed), black-painted headstock face with contrasting logo or brand on it. Simple. Striking. Practical. With this scheme it doesn't really matter whether you get a maple fretboard or rosewood or ebony, they all look good. Just get contrasting fretmarkers. Or no fretmarkers.

[@Robstafarian]

Ignoring aesthetic guidelines and principles is at least as significant to art as following them. I do enjoy the contrast of your message with its broken grammar, though.

[@OgamiItto70]

@@Robstafarian What I wrote was a comment on a video. That's like a caption for a photo: it needn't be written in strict accordance with the Style Manual. Furthermore, ignoring the guidelines and principles of art is the cause of the overabundance of _bad_ art. Just ignoring all those guidelines and principles is not a viable tactic for advancing an art form, it has to be done with _discretion_ and _discernment._ Otherwise the result is crap. (See: Sturgeon's Law.) Hence why I said "ignore them at your peril."

[@Expertshot777]

Hey Aaron. Just want to say love the videos. Im getting final details ready to place an order on a warmoth build. In a few of your older videos (woodmounted pickup install one) you had a mahogany soloist body with a torquoise dye maple top and clear finish on the back with some light wood accent line or binding. If you still have this guitar could you please let me know the full finish spec for it? when i attempt to spec it on the website it will only allow me to pick torquoise or transparent blue finish on the back. Thanks!

[@mnemonik61]

Oh lol, I have another one: a "blackout" Carvin DC125 I picked up cheap in the early 90s, was supposed to be some shredder's signature model according to the seller. It WAS black with the then-new very pointy 'reverse hockey stick' headstock, black hardware and plastics on the lone M22SD and it had a black Kahler Pro trem. _BUT the dude paid an extra $20 for the maple fretboard-- when ebony was stock!_ 🙄 edit: words is hard!

[@LuísJoel-s7k]

I wonder if the pearloid binding you guys offer is white or kind of yellowish. Can someone clarify, please?

[@allanmakela3011]

On strats tried different things,but always come full circle,stock looks the best for me

[@Robstafarian]

I bought a red peal pickguard for a black body, several years ago, because Warmoth did not and still does not sell red tort like your first Warmoth project seems to have (I was working from a specific inspiration at the time.).

[@yatzyac]

I ordered a Kiesel a few months back and I encountered a lot of things you talk about! I couldn't get anything to look just right with roasted maple- everything either kinda matched but not all the way, or stood out just a little bit but didn't really pop.

[@MiguelMakesMusic]

great video, choosing one flashy part and working the rest of the guitar around that follows a well established design 'rule' that applies to all kinds of creative designs. also why is purple such a rare guitar color?

[@warmoth]

Dunno, because I love purple guitars. You and I need to BE the change we want to see in the world!

[@SHENDOH]

Warmoth needs a virtual builder

[@warmoth]

Our license agreement with Fender specifically prohibits us from selling "kits" and therefore we completely avoid any builders that show neck and body together.

[@BessieBopOrBach]

Aaron, speaking of art: how come painted necks aren't an option on the web customizer? It's my main hesitation about ordering at this point.

[@warmoth]

Because it is a fairly rare request, and the amount of work it would take to program and maintain a full range of finish options for necks in the visual builders isn't worth the expense. But.....a painted neck is always only a phone call (or email) away!

[@michaelcooper2799]

Take it from someone who made this mistake, don’t get black inlays on on roasted maple. You can’t see shit on a dark stage

[@IrateWizrd]

Is the roast really that dark?

[@zyxwfish]

What’s odd is warmoth has black inlays on 9 out 10 roasted maple necks

[@chocomalk]

Yeah and it's pretty much the standard for show builds, I wish they would use cream.

[@michaelcooper2799]

@@IrateWizrd mine certainly is!

[@randallscott6]

I guess art is subjective...There is something for everyone

[@T._Matthew_Phillips]

HOW to assemble a beautiful guitar? With genuine WARMOTH PARTS!! :D

[@sixsledges5474]

I wish your finished custom bodies and necks were just a bit cheaper 😢

[@DimKAt21]

I don't think there's a recipe, you can have simple and extravagant at the same time

[@martinclayton7260]

Your stuff us only any good if you want a bolg on neck, but a lot of us don't!

[@warmoth]

Agreed! I can't think of anyone who wants a bolg on neck!

[@nick_ashley]

Bolt on is just as good as any other construction. I'd even argue it's better to be able to separate the body and neck than not.

[@FrazySting]

Need a how to assemble a versatile guitar guide.

[@warmoth]

You mean a how to assemble a "versatiler" guitar guide? ;)

[@FrazySting]

@warmoth the versatilest even

[@brizzieleif5258]

For me a white Fender Strat, white pick guard nothing else. Or a white Charvel with chrome hardware and zebra pick ups. No vomit green splatter paint jobs or gold hardware, basically nothing like an Australians nightmare. The Human League Fascination video, the guitar is all battleship grey

[@mknewlan67]

For me it’s a black strat with a black pickguard with black knobs, nut, pickups. Edit to add a deep red pickguard on black would look sick too.

[@brizzieleif5258]

@ The all black aerodyne Strats look pretty cool

[@Nick-jy4zf]

10:56 This more than anything is what makes a custom/modded guitar not appeal to me at all aesthetically, like random gold parts sprinkled in among otherwise chrome hardware

[@GhostpainOG]

The thing about personalized custom guitars is that they are personalized. As someone with an advanced art degree and a love of industrial design, soooo many custom builds just make my eyeballs itch. But if the person who designed it loves it, I'm not yucking anybodies yum.

[@mnemonik61]

@ 10:48 ...or you can just be like Fender and not give a sh!t whether your "aged white" matches your "parchment," lol. Or do a "mint" guard with white covers and knobs! 🤣 Edit to add: this drives me _insane_ , btw. I'm spending WAY too much time trying to build my own fiesta red / maple neck Strat and have all the plastics match the 1-ply guard. 🙄

[@warmoth]

I feel your pain. Mojo sent.

[@R1GAMBLER]

I like cheese. Why does it cost so much? Sandwiches without cheese don't taste good. 🧀

[@warmoth]

Agreed.

[@TisTheDamnStickSeason]

Not First!

[@snouter]

First!

[@AnonAmouse-d2t]

Thumb up for the Frazetta reference!

[@warmoth]

My all time fav fantasy artist, and it's not even close. The sense of motion he captures in every human figure, even when they are at rest, breathes life into his paintings like no one else. All Boris Vallejo's figures look like posed mannequins in comparison (though he does great skin tones).