New Warmoth Guitar Build! I'll show ya the whole journey.

Avi Shabat (guitar repair Ninja in LA) shabatguitars.com/contact/
www.warmoth.com
#Luthier #Warmoth #Build

[@sheridanseale9647]

I just wanna say how BRAVE it was to post this video.

[@RobertBakerGuitar]

Man I had to come back to hear that 800 again. BEST TONE EVER!

[@LordFingers1]

yes, thats some great tone. EMGs at that!

[@michaeltoren]

I like the grain peaking through the color. It adds texture.

[@bladebone9531]

What I love about this is that you just went for it. People overthink stuff, this was a refreshing antidote to that... and it worked out great. Guitar looks awesome (love the orange and black theme) and sounds really good! Thanks for the video.

[@BigHairyGuitars]

THANK YOU Blade! That's exactly the spirit in which I approached this. At worst, I'd have a pile of wires and wood. At best, I'd have a guitar that I worked on. It turned out great, I learned a ton, It was a great project.

[@markferguson3745]

There's something to be said for " just going for it" when creating music; in my estimation, a lot, actually.But when it comes to building functional tools with specific tolerances, it's generally a recipe for disaster. I'd recommend small mods, working your way up in complexity; given the general level of mechanical skills I've witnessed, taking it slow is the move.

[@Raunline]

I worked there for a couple years. Built up 3 custom guitars. They all play amazingly!

[@jteixeira8725]

“Would you like me to work on your guitar too”? 😂😂😂 🤘🏻

[@independentthinker.273]

I wound up going with threaded inserts for the neck screws. Originally when Warmoth sent me all the parts they didn't send me the shorter screws that I needed. What they did send me was some filed down screws that wouldn't thread into the wood that instead tore up the wood. So I wound up taking the unfinished guitar to my guitar luthier and let him do the final work. He installed threaded inserts for all four screws for the neck pocket. I've had that neck off that guitar at least 50 times in the 20 years I've been playing it. Never had to worry about the holes stripping out because of his installation. Also he did all the fret leveling that needed done including hand rolling the edges of the fretboard. This has been my main guitar since 2002. It's a Dann Huff inspired strat with an original Floyd, hot stacks for the neck and mid, and a Duncan JB. If I were to ever build another guitar I probably do the same thing all over again. One of the best things I did at the time of assembling it was install Fender/Schaller locking tuners. I already have the Floyd Rose locking nut. This just made the string change that much faster. I can change the entire set of strings in 10 minutes that includes tuning them to pitch. Sadly I'll have to find a new luthier since my go-to guy passed away several years ago from cancer. Rest in peace Mike Gardner of Gardner Guitars.

[@MichaelZola]

This was an awesome build video from start to finish. I like how you got the tech to do the finishing work but were able to personalize it as a blank. Best of both worlds for a custom instrument. Fantastic hardware and electronic selection. That was a great sound demo at the end, the EMG’s sound superb!

[@todd6726]

It looks fantastic and sounds even better. Great job Michael!

[@Tone-Quest]

Guitar looks awesome and sounded amazing too!!! Good job to you sir and your village. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@ericolson326]

"Apparently sanding just straight up removes the paint." 😆

[@Nghilifa]

That comment almost gave me a heart attack 😂

[@stevp372]

I done a Warmoth build myself back in April. I love it so much it's become my number 1. Fantastic quality and service from the Warmoth guys

[@therangersinger]

Hell I play my warmoth more than my Suhr. Personal attachment I suppose.

[@Acekorv]

Awesome build. Like it! In the end everything went well and it sounds great. Totally up my alley of how a guitar should sound.

[@donsmith5385]

This is why we need Shop classes back in LAUSD schools!

[@aliveandfilming2]

I'm impressed the neck fitted like a glove onto the body .. thats excellent.. and you gave props to your friends 👏 kudos on that

[@understated_5969]

Buidling a guitar is such a great experience - This one will always be special to you!! And of course - Avi is the best!

[@EddyLenz]

The finished guitar looks and sounds awesome! Really enjoyed the video :D

[@VacantCityDrifters]

i admire your honesty ... very useful lesson in being extra careful about planning every little step of your work before buying anything let alone starting work ... and yeah, it nails that 80s hair metal tone

[@kevinsharpe8457]

Love the result . Wow!

[@1truechamp46]

This video came at the perfect time. I was only looking at warmoth last night considering doing a build. Nice to see someone else cocks up as much as I do! Excellent video!

[@narvul]

One of my first guitars was a Warmoth HSS + FR superstrat and 35 years later I still play it and it's still in my top 3 of guitars.

[@MatteoFarindolini]

Super cool and fun video as always, Mike! Plus, the color is awesome!

[@FirestormAudio]

Whoooo! I love my Warmoth build. Congrats!

[@isaacjohnson.]

Michael you are hilarious-love your sense of humor. Actually the orange came out great. I loved watching-that seemed exactly how my first build will go, so I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.

[@cnutella9947]

I'm in the process of building a guitar from scratch. Not that I'm above ordering from Warmoth, I just had the opportunity to do so. I can agree whole-heatedly as an amateur, it takes a village. Congrats on the new badass axe.

[@ass_jay]

Oh this takes me back a good 20 years

[@RyanChenMusic]

+1 for avi shabat and guitar groomers/shabat guitars. Excellent quality and craftsmanship, and an awesome guy all around.

[@pcbullets8726]

Nice! There is some personal satisfaction putting one together for sure. Warmoth stuff is great. I have one of their necks on my MIJ strat, love it!

[@dwightkschrute0441]

Sound amazing! Wanting to do a warmth build very very soon, trying to soak up as much videos and info as I can! Thanks for the video!

[@doublea7054]

It's very gratifying playing an instrument you built.

[@er5il]

sounds beautiful!

[@Jay-sy5yf]

Awesome mlord! I built a custom Warmoth for my 18th birthday. Still got it. That was 25 years ago!

[@smokepeddler]

Looks good, sounds great. Congrats

[@paulbeharrell]

Love it! 🤘🏻😎🎸

[@BPToneReview]

“It takes a village” love it man, looks and sounds great 👍🏼

[@dwayneyule1987]

I love the "hopefully" consensus. Dad-rock personified, love it!

[@explosiononimpact]

I'm diggin the Eminence Front vibe while putting the bridge together

[@karlschihl6655]

like your humor and your the guitar turned out great! nice job thanks for sharing - just getting my order together for a double neck

[@vikramjitbanerjeetuki]

My Warmoth strat still is the best strat in my collection,it's exactly what I dreamt it would be ❤️

[@dan_perry]

Killer axe! The color reminds me of my 540pII when I first got it in '89.

[@John_Doe657]

End result looks and sounds awsome 👍

[@markplourde3122]

Love the Eminence Front style riff during the bridge install portion... has a very "Risky business" vibe to it. Very cool

[@KleyDeJong]

Nice build! With all my parts builds there is always an unforeseen issue that needs to be fixed, so yours seems pretty par for the course. Glad to hear you sorted it all out. Sounds killer!

[@BenJ2827]

I just built a Warmoth and sprayed shell pink nitro in my garage - I thought I was unprepared and rushed but you have made me look like a pro!😂

[@jpcody123]

Nice “Get up” snippet at the end!!

[@jaimemontesdeoca9386]

Awesome!! Not sure if it was supposed to be funny, but hilarious in a good way. Nice job!!!

[@davidnuzzaci2459]

You're very lucky to have "good friends" close!!!! It dose "Rock"

[@Arfshesaid457]

That tone is insane(ly good).

[@mattltech]

Love that huge 80's tone :)

[@RoccoPezzin]

Loved this video dude haha! The guitar turned out great, really dig that color!

[@dougwebb485]

Built dozens of warmoths good stuff

[@SteveZinn]

You nailed the intro and tone to Van Halen Get Up at the end. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone else play that before, awesome! Cool guitar!

[@Clinthopanonymous]

Love it!

[@LMerchant01]

Sanding sealer,sand, primer, wet sand, get some 2 part paint like spray max 2k or nitro if you so choose, wet sand , seal with clear coat, wet sand and then buff to mirror finish. I am no pro though.

[@MrIbanezguitarist199]

Your tone 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@michaeldiamond76]

I like it. I have a similar build of my own getting painted professionally right now.

[@hemmygrant]

I have 4 warmoths, incredible. Two Rosewood reverse headstock strats with chunky necks, so great to play

[@vaughanband]

Funniest video ever Michael!! 😆 cracked up. Thank you for making my Sunday morning. The guitar sounds 👍🏼 great.

[@tribunation]

I've watched the end of this video about 30 times over the last couple days... ... aaaand I ordered my first Warmoth. Soloist body in swamp ash. Roasted maple neck with reversed headstock and ebony fingerboard.

[@d.andrews6687]

That guitar is gorgeous! It reminds me of the guitar George Lynch used in parts of his REH instructional video. The music playing under the painting and construction was great, too!

[@edovinus]

I love this video! I've been thinking of building a guitar using Warmoth parts for ages, but never pulled the trigger. I think you could have gotten the lighter McLaren shade of orange if you had sprayed a white base coat first. But great job! People should post more of this kind of content!

[@brianmckenzie1318]

I’m digging it!!! What I like is that it is something personal, that you built for yourself, so it has value to you! Who cares about all the others who are complaining about this and that! It’s not for them! Would they have criticized EVH for not painting correctly? LOL!! Excellent job, I may have to give one of these a go for myself! In honor of your new axe, I’m going to open a few similar colored Reeses’s packages since it’s Halloween!!!!

[@vromanempire2145]

1988 had a orange Ibanez RG550 black hardware love it🤘🤘🤘

[@aliveandfilming2]

I had a good laugh at your upside down stringing lol 😆 I would ve done the same so excite about the built .

[@simontemplar3359]

That's a beautiful instrument you created there. Congratulations! Hilarious commentary, and you ran into some real world stuff like when a part doesn't quite fit, or isn't quite as described, but the only thing you can do is go around it. I love what you came up with, and I really dig the orange. It might be nuclear, but it's class. thanks to @Robert Baker for suggesting your channel. Stay well!

[@MrClassicmetal]

Hah, I recognised that _Hey Angel_ riff! 😁 Great build man, very inspiring!🤘🏼😎🤘🏼

[@ClintCurtis]

Great tone

[@gilmarriner3011]

Great! I think that a wood sealer would have taken care of the grain, but I think it looks just as good with it. Nice job dude, I‘ve done 3 builds from Warmaouth and have been happy with each one.

[@eljefeguapobarbon]

Very cool! 🤙🏼

[@leftyzappa]

Dude. You played the intro to Get Up. That alone was worth the whole video - which is excellent 😸

[@matthewmargetts8516]

Really entertaining video.

[@patrickkem689]

Two years old,,,but still just as cool as the same day it came out!

[@sheldonkorpett1708]

Great video. Planning on doing my own build with Warmouth shortly

[@alejandroaguilar4693]

I have a soloist type entirely from Warmoth and a Highway 1 Strat with a Warmoth neck and I love them both, such a great concept and company, both of them were worked on by Andy Greenberg from ElRayo guitarworks in San Diego who did a stellar job with both guitars, the strat has the second tone knob wired as a neck pickup blend knob so I can get all three pickups on at the same time and some tele-like sounds (jb Jr on the bridge, stock fender middle and a Classic Stack Plus on the neck), the Strat is my Number 1 guitar!

[@simonpedersen4853]

Love it Michael. I've done the same a good few times and fucked it up and learnt along the way. It's so gratifying when you get it right and end up with a life instrument you can call your own :-)

[@torustravel7680]

Great Work. Keep growing,,,, :)...

[@luisownerbr]

Hell yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah dude, warmoth is the shit! Can't wait to get one.

[@Joel_Eakins]

I knew it would sound good but that neck SA is amazing.

[@ozoneswiftak]

That is great paint. I painted my whole car with it. And it looks incredibly good. You wouldnt believe me if i show it to you. I also paint my charvel the gold with kona base. Looks amazing. 2x

[@davidyates8880]

I've been contemplating a Warmouth build. This instructional video has confirmed my gut feeling that I will need some help...a lot of help :)

[@greekfreak1980]

You can actually pay Warmoth to do all the painting,doesn´t cost that much money and they also have lots of guitar bodies on sale,which are already painted. Their paint department is top notch btw. so I would rather pay the extra dollar for a body that is already painted by a pro. The real tricky part,in putting a guitar together,is definetely the electronics/pickups.

[@markinthemix6055]

Very much enjoyed this. I have built a few Warmoth guitars. The bridge is always the toughest decision for me. Warmoth offers Gotoh, Wilkinson, classic tremolo options. You chose Wilkinson.

[@bigdavedave9865]

Great vid!

[@ak_zombie]

That neck pickup! Wow!

[@LordFingers1]

good god, but those emgs sounded so epic! whoa!

[@davidmcgravey9858]

Nice throwing in the Get Up intro there at the end!

[@JHPRS]

When you have a tapered heel, there are usually two screws that are shorter than the other two. Sounds like you put one of the longer ones in where a short one bolonged, thus pushing up the fret.

[@BigHairyGuitars]

I definitely screwed in the shorter ones. BUT, I originally used screws that weren't FROM Warmoth, there were purchased based on the same measurement as the Warmoth. SO, that was probably the issue. I'd just get Warmoth's next time.

[@garycoates4987]

man that guitar is KILLER,, dig that Orange, spray paint like EVH , I've built so many warmoth and fender partscaster guitars, learn something every build ,, you did a great job btw

[@pavelsaidl8010]

I quite like it. Is nice

[@StevenBrown-me]

This is so great. 🤘 Also, I misread your title as “From Strat to Finish,” and was then disappointed when I realized that it doesn’t say that 😄.

[@TheMarxist70]

Nice who homage. One of the first live shows I got to.

[@joses.a.2]

Nice!!

[@ondrejholiencin8555]

This sums up the experience nicely! Not the best wood choice considering you didn’t want grain and didn’t use a filler but I prefer it this way. I like the colour and EMGs! I forgot to tick the tapered heel in my order and now I’m happy I didn’t.

[@wakjob961]

Did three Warmoth builds...love them. Nice tight neck pocket fit. Plays & sounds amazing. P.S. you have mad soldering skills! ;-)

[@michaelmitchell5909]

Sounds awesome Mike...emg are my favorite...filler primer, 2-3 coats to take out shallow woodgrain Mike....although the grain showing thru the orange looks really good as well man!...nice job

[@briangradysyndrome]

xyz nice, just ordered custom warmoth myself

[@pselden2103]

The licks you were playing at the end were stupendous. All’s well that ends well. Sounded great! Also loved your self-deprecating humor throughout. Funny! Dunno if you dare reply with a comment naming the tunes you were inspired by ... all for educational purposes, mind you ... but it would be appreciated ... by me anyway.

[@BigHairyGuitars]

There are 2 tunes I played bits of at the end. Hey Angel, by Dio, and Get Up by Van Halen.

[@aarontunes]

Nick build!

[@Locoandchooch]

I’m so jealous, during lockdown I wanted to do this, but Warmoth was out of a lot of neck and bodies. Looks good 👍🏼

[@chrisday5341]

Shit yeah! Enjoyed the hell out of it! Been kicking around the idea of a Warmoth Jazzmaster build for quite some time. Might have to do it. Nice Toto solo BTW haha

[@rwhitten577]

Nice guitar! Warmoth does sell the offset screws for the contour heel. No issues on my tele with it. Also highly recommend Wudtone finish - wipe it on with a rag and let it dry. Very thin yet durable finish that lets the grain through for a cool look!