Warmoth Tele Body

It's a Tele...what features? This one was purchased 06/04 from the Warmoth Showcase. Two piece white korina with a Warmoth applied clear finish, standard Tele pickup routes and bridge, and rear routed control cavity. I installed a Stew-Mac bridge, Tom Anderson TD3+ bridge pickup, and a Levinson Blade Tele neck pickup in...the neck. I recently purchased a Warmoth Tele neck for this body that I already left a review for.

UNREAL!!! I can't believe how good white korina sounds. From now on, all my guitars are made from this wood. Swamp Ash used to be my favorite, not anymore. This thing has got tone galore. I have an old Epiphone tube amp that sounds awesome with this guitar, and I also have a Peavey Classic 50 2x12 that sounds almost as good. I wish I could chicken-pick, because this guitar would be the shiznit for that. It works great for rock too, mainly because the bridge pickup is quite hot. It pushes the tubes nicely clean and I can get it to break up real sweet when I turn the volume up. Nice and thick, but it still has a little tele twang. The bottom line is that the tone of this guitar starts with the wood, and white korina is the tops!!!

The clear finish was perfect. The white korina looks quite nice done this way. Warmoth does a superb job of finishing. The Warmoth neck I bought was a perect fit. No gaps anywhere, everything perfectly flush.

It's a Tele. I could use it to beat the guy trying to steal it in between sets, and never miss a song. Good solid wood with a great finish, I expect it to be on this earth long after I have departed.

I wanted a Tele because I never had one, only Strats. I also wanted to try Warmoth stuff and see if I could build my own guitar. I'm very happy with the results!!! I can't say enough about how good white korina sounds, I am impressed. It looks pretty in a clear finish as well. Beauty AND tone :o))) With what I spent on this project, I could have bought a used American Tele, but where is the fun in that? There is something to be said for building your own guitar and bringing it to life...

Tele body, Black Korina wood, hard tail strat bridge, strat neck route, p90 pickups, standard Tele controls. Where else you gonna get all that. Everything fit perfectly too.

This doesn't sound like my standard swamp ash/antiquity PU warmoth Tele at all. It is a really fat (with lots of sustain)thick "Gibsonish??" sound. But it has Gibson P90s in it and they seem to have a lot more output than duncans. I used a warmoth strat neck that I bought from the thrift shop a couple of years ago and even the maple/ebony neck it still sounds fat.

It came perfect from warmoth, I had no issues at all. All of the parts fit snug, I had to make no modifications to anything, The wood was sanded nicely and had beautiful grain and it is pretty light too. I put about 10 coats of tung oil and a lot of elbow grease on it and it looks realy good. I laquer finish would have been awesome on it too.

I would take this to the desert island and not worry.

They have always taken great care of me at Warmoth.

Bought as a thrift shop body with a humbucker @ bridge, no neck pup, prefinished by Warmoth. Top lam is spalted maple over black painted alder sides and back with white binding. This is the most amazing spalt top I've seen and impresses everyone who sees it. Finished it with a Warmoth style neck because of the top adjutable truss rod, 3M clear mylar pickguard (STEW-Mac), hey the woods tooooo beautiful for anything else and if you install it right you have to look real hard to see it. All gold hardware with a Gibson classic plus, gold of course.

When I first bought the body I did'nt like the idea of having only a bridge pup, but the body was too good looking and hey when you only need to buy 1 pup you can splurge. The gibson sounds great, chek out joe bonamassa's dvd playing a tele w/ 1 pup. Not totally as versatile as a h-s-h but my priority was looks not versatality

Having built 5 warmoth guitars over the last three years I've had no problems with their products. Just remember that there are many design criteria that go into building a beauful guitar, matching neck and body wood, hardware and pups, thats why I've built 5 because the first 2 were a learning process that did'nt end up as they started out and I had some spare parts.

Since I'm not a pro this guitar won't leave the house that often, the back does seem suseptibe to scratching (clear over black) but that's why I usually stay away from black guitars. My other 4 Warmoths were bought unfinished and I do them in TruOil which is very durable but not for all woods.

Playing too long. Decided to start building my own because I love Strat bodies, gibson necks, truss rod adjustment at the nut, humbuckers. Teles did'nt really turn me on but when you see a piece of wood like this........ Everyone that sees this ax creams!!! I checked out alot of custom shop webs and nothing came close, and with the neck, pup there'no way but to build it yourself and this is what Warmoth gives you, the ability to build you dream.

3 lbs 12oz of the smoothest, most beautiful swamp ash you can imagine. Absolute perfection. Why would anyone buy a crappy overpriced Fender? WHY WHY WHY???

Haven't had the set-up done yet, so I don't know. With the Warmoth Fatback neck and Lindy Fralin Broadcaster pickups I got, I can't imagine it will be too bad.

All routs were 100% accurate, no nicks, scratches... I took the body out of the box and was about to hit it quickly with some superlight steelwool, and then thought "Why? It's perfect now." Just had to stain it. (That's whwre you save all the $$$)

I've had the displeasure of working "on the horns" before, and can tell when someone isn't enjoying their job, and talking to people. These guys like their job. They helped me make certain that I had all the components I could possibly need to finish the guitar, but didn't try to sell me extras I wouldn't need. Even TALKED ME OUT of a more expensive component that they didn't feel was justified at such a price. THAT'S HOW THE WORLD SHOULD BE. It's true though -- they need an 800 number. But then, yahoos like myself would call at all hours just to talk about guitars, i.e. "Hey man, wouldn't it be cool to have a hollow Les Paul made outta walnut with a ..." "Yes sir, that would indeed be 'cool'".

I have a Les Paul, Strat, and Gibson doubleneck, so I wanted a very light, comfortable guitar. This body is so light, that when I put the completed guitar in its gigbag and lift it, I almost can't tell that there's a guitar inside. I was trying to re-create a Nocaster Relic that I played once, which had a superlight body and fat neck. It was $2,000. Thanks to Warmoth, I got the same thing (if not better) for about $560 TOTAL. Plus, I will always know that no one else on the planet has this guitar, and will have the satisfaction of knowing I built it myself (my dad did the finish -- I would have botched it.) Go to warmoth.com RIGHT NOW and give them money.

I'm not sure how to rate"Features" with a numbering scale--this is an exact replacement body for a Telecaster, so the features aren't more or less than you'd expect. Mine is a very light swamp-ash body, plain, standard configuration. I'll give it a 10 numerically because I'm absolutely pleased with it. Mine weighed 3lbs 12 oz; there were a couple more in the "Thrift Shop" listings that had slightly prettier grain but I decided on the lightest one available.

I'm amazed at how much this body changed the sound of my plain Mexican-made "Standard Telecaster." The sound is much brighter and cleaner overall, but I've been pleased to find that the guitar isn't any more "shrill"--just cleaner. The mid-tones seem much richer now--the neck pickup sings. The body is very lively--it's a delight to play.

I was pleasantly surprised; I took my Tele apart and put the parts on this body with no problems or surprises. (Actually, there was no hole for the rear pickup wires to pass to the control cavity, but that was no bother to drill.) Everything fit *perfectly*. I didn't even have to readjust the height of the string saddles. I wouldn't have believed it was possible. Reassembling and setting up the guitar was about as easy as changing strings a couple of times.

I put the finish on it myself; just a couple of coats of satin poly. I love the look of the swamp ash and I was eager to get it up and playing--so much for my planned butterscotch nitrocellulose finish! :-) Again, this was just a body, and it's as reliable and as durable as a nice piece of swamp ash can be.

The folks on the phone were very helpful, and seemed to go out of their way to make sure I knew exactly what I'd be getting, etc. Couldn't be better.

I've been playing casually for 25 years; my main other guitar is a '91 American Strat, dead stock. I've always wanted a Tele and found a bargain on a Mexican one--then I couldn't resist the Warmoth body when I saw their website. I'm extremely pleased with this body and I'm thinking seriously about ordering one of their ultra-light Strat bodies for my other guitar. The Tele body turned out to be perfectly made, went together with no problems, sounds great, and it was a heck of a bargain at the price. I'm extremely pleased with it.

Warmoth Tele body...swamp ash, prepainted..purchased from Warmoth Thrift Shop..Features limited..hey, it's a Tele body, that's all I wanted.

not put together yet..gonna have Rio Grande pickups in it..and a '52 reissue neck from Fender..it will be a great sounding guitar, I'm sure. I'll write a critique on the pickups and neck after I use it!

Okay, I know..I bought the body from the Thrift Shop..and got a great deal on a swamp ash prepainted body...and this guitar will not be a "showpiece", it will be a workhorse...BUT the finish was pretty awful. I asked Warmoth people if, since it was priced so low, there was anything wrong with it, and the guy said, "No, it is a beautiful body". The body might be, but the paint job is terrible! some small bubbles, a chip, and just generally a terrible paint job. It will not bother me, because after I get the guitar all together, it's gonna get banged around in the clubs anyway..gonna have some belt buckle scratches, etc from use. But, if you are trying to buy a Warmoth body for a fancy guitar to show off with, make sure you keep all your reciepts

It's build solidly, though fairly lightweight..being swamp ash..I'm sure it will last a long long time. Would always have a backup anyway..gotta keep your butt covered during a gig.

Everybody I've talked with at Warmoth is pleasant, helpful, and seems to know what is going on there...with the exception of the guy who said the Tele body "was beautiful"...I've sent emails with questions, and they are answered quickly and professionally. I could return the guitar body, because it does have a warrentee, but like I said..I want to get this guitar put together, and start using it..

Been playing forever..tons of other gear, doesn't matter here...I should have specifically asked about the guitar's finish, I guess. If I was trying to put together a showpiece guitar, I would sure do that next time. I will definately do business with Warmoth again...I really like the lightweight of the ash..as compared to the Tele I'm playing now, which I love..but is extremely heavy.. If I had the chance to buy a prepainted tele body from Warmoth again for $129, I darn sure would do it..and build another guitar...you can never have too many, right?!

I have two light-weight swamp ash tele's (both with warmoth necks too) that have traditional top rout with Duncan little 59er in the bridge and cheap-o duncan in the neck (hey the original tele neck pick up was pretty tame, right?). I got the clear blonde finish on both and they kick butt! Very lightweight and sweetest tone! I use 'em for funk, blues, fusion, straight-ahead jazz, whatever! You can get almost any custom feature you want on these things (binding, heel cutaway, tummy tuck, different pick up config, rear route, whatever) so I give warmoth tele bodies a 10.

These guitars play and sound better than anything being made these days (I got these about 4 years ago). Sound great through any amp -- that could partly be me, too, :)

Well, I had a tech build one and I build the second one. Pretty easy just screw the neck on and go. Actually the frets need to be leveled and dressed to play right (and I'm talking easiest playing guitar ever). I bought one body on custom order and the other through the thrift shop, can't tell the difference (except in price). Warmoth finishes are better than any production guitar finish - no exceptions!

I treat these guitars like dirt even though I love 'em. They got dents and such but isn't that just like a tele? I bought most of the hardware and electronics from warmoth too and its all excellent too.

Very friendly on the phone. Never needed to contact them after buying. I'll give 'em a 10, what the heck.

I've played about 15 years and settled on teles becuase Les Pauls are too heavy and dark sounding and strats sound great but seem difficult for me to play and seems to hang funny on me (really). I've heard people say the tele is harder to sound good on because its a "no frills guitar", you really gotta use you hands and your guts to sound good. I like that! After you get done buying and the parts and having it assembled you pay about what you'd pay for a decent american made Fender, only it sounds and plays better and you get a REAL custom shop instrument (i.e. you actually get to specify what you want on the guitar!)

Body wood: ALDER Binding: Extremely well done single ply white Finish: Black Urethane, very well done (tiny bit of 'fish-eye' around rout for control cavity; easily corrected. Body style: Tele, rear rout controls, twin humbucker (a'la Schecter Pete Townshend Tele style) Bridge cut: Standard Tele mount (humbucker bridge plate)
A "9" only because of the tiny amount of finish buffing I had to do. Other than that, dead on perfect!

Typical full, meaty tone with two Duncan humbuckers.

This was the first body I had ordered from Warmoth not "off-the-rack", so to speak. Both of the previous bodies I had used (also Tele-style, albeit standard configuration) came with absolutely no flaws in the finishes. The black body, as I mentioned above, had the smallest bit of 'fish-eye' cratering around the rear control cavity rout. This was EASILY corrected by hand in a matter of ten-fifteen minutes. The cut on all Warmoth bodies is perfect; I have found no problem in mating up both American Fender, and "Stewart-MacDonald" necks tightly and perfectly aligned; all holes drilled for hardware (bridge, etc.) also are performed after the finish has been rubbed-out, so they're not only perfectly aligned, but they're nice, clean cuts, too.

The urethane finish (touted to be identical to the current PPG brnad finishes used by Fender)seem pretty durable to me; I haven't subjected either of the guitars I've built to 'club abuse', but I see no reason to worry about premature checking, or hazing, which is so common with lacquer finishes. Would you use it on a gig without a backup? Absolutely! They know what they're doing.

When you order something from them, you're gonna talk to a small, very smart staff that knows what they're doing, and how to translate pretty strange telephone requests into something downright gorgeous. Have spoke with three different people there, and all three have went out of their way to make sure I was getting exactly what I needed.

How long have you been playing? What other gear do you own? Since 1979.....several Rickenbackers, Line 6 amp, other odds and sods. What do you love about it? What do you hate? What is your favorite feature? The fact that someone with reasonable skills can assemble and tweak-out a quality instrument for a fraction of what a 'custom' guitar would have cost. Did you compare it to other guitars? Which ones? Why did you choose this one? Not really able to compare, since it was being built, piece by piece. I did have a good idea of what I wanted, and I think I hit it on the head. Anything else you'd like to share? I know Warmoth, WV, AllParts and others have some rather famous 'distractors' out there...one HUGE web site seems to condemn them, only to turn right around and admit that they do quality work.....I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Warmoth to anyone with the skills to do it themselves. Hell, it was way more fun putting it together than it is playing it!