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Is this tele neck to high?
So I recently built a partscaster out of a Warmoth neck and body. This is my fist electric build (assembly). Im trying to get it set up and intonated. The first thing I noticed was that the neck doesn't come all of the way down to the pickguard like my other tele.
Is this ok? I have no idea what the actual height should be and if this is just do to differences in neck design or pickguard.. Any thoughts?
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Acoustics: Yamaha A3R Epiphone Masterbilt DR-500MCE Electrics: Warmoth Tele Amps: Blues Jr. AC15HW |
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Sorry I tried to post an image but its not working. Thought I could use google photos. What hosting site do you recommend?
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Acoustics: Yamaha A3R Epiphone Masterbilt DR-500MCE Electrics: Warmoth Tele Amps: Blues Jr. AC15HW |
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Heres a link I think should get you the pic. Any time I try posting as a image nothing shows up..
https://imgur.com/a/lOD2g78 Yea I figured it had to be right but wasn't sure if there were different options that might be missmatched..
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That's certainly been my experience. I recently put together a telecaster style guitar with a Warmoth neck and body. Perfect. And I added a Warmoth neck to a Fender Strat body. Again, perfect.
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Anybody ever have a slight gap between the lip that sticks back on the neck, after the last frett and the pickgaurd? I don't know maybe that's perfectly normal? I wish I could post some pics but haven't figured out how to..
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Warmoth makes two styles of Tele bodies. Vintage and modern. The vintage has a shallow neck pocket floor depth and the modern has... a modern Tele neck floor pocket depth. When ordering a body from them, you must specify the pocket depth. Standard neck pocket depth is 5/8”.
http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies...PocketPop.aspx |
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Adaw without seeing a pic it’s difficult to make out what the problem is. I’m new to the forum and had my trouble sharing pictures but eventually I managed it. Go to imgur, go on your menu on upper right screen, click on “Images”, select the image you want to show. On your right there will be a list of codes. One is “BBcode”. Click on “copy” and then paste here WITHOUT using the “image” tool of the forum. Just paste in the body of your message. It should work. Some space between the neck heel and the margins of the neck pocket is quite normal in a Fender guitar. Too tight a fit usually results in finish cracks. Just depends how much tho |
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There has to be a slight gap. The basic reason is they, Warmoth, don't know what hardware you're going to necessarily use, and there has to be neck angle adjustment clearance if needed. If it were touching when fully fastened, but you needed to shim the neck angle forward from the headstock end, you'd be exerting pressure, via the overhang, on the pick guard, and if you then tightened the back two neck screws (closer to the body), something would have to give. Regards, Howard Emerson |
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Thanks Radiofm74. That did the trick.
Here is the picture. Just not sure if that gap was normal or not. Seems like the action is really high and just wanted to make sure everything was ok there before I started with a normal setup.. Its completely possible that the neck and body are mismatched because I had no idea there were different depths when I ordered..
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Acoustics: Yamaha A3R Epiphone Masterbilt DR-500MCE Electrics: Warmoth Tele Amps: Blues Jr. AC15HW |
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Check this out for measurements: http://www.tdpri.com/threads/fretboa...t-heel.331139/ Enjoy your nice tele! |
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Thanks everyone for the replies!
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Acoustics: Yamaha A3R Epiphone Masterbilt DR-500MCE Electrics: Warmoth Tele Amps: Blues Jr. AC15HW |
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