NGP - Purple Wuilt

[Don O]

New guitar build project. So, this is my Warmoth build number 4 (Wrat, Purple Wurl and Black on Wue). It’s actually the first Warmoth body I bought in August last year, but I used the first purple heart neck on the Purple Wurl project. I liked the PH fret board so much I ordered a second custom made one, this time with a mahogany neck wood, to match this body. Given the nice maple Quilting on this one, I named it Purple Wuilt.


I started the assembly a few weeks ago, as I thought I had ALL the parts needed to complete the project. The pup rings took a little time to carefully change the flat bottom to the body contour. I used a Dremel with a sanding drum. As I was about to mount the Lindy Fralin pups, I discovered they shipped them with the wrong thread size. They shipped 3mm metric thread instead of American standard. I almost send them a WTF email (they ain’t cheap), but decided to just get the correct screws myself. Just put the strings (Elixir 10-46) on it yesterday and will be doing the wiring today and tomorrow. The neck feels great and it play acoustically very well.


DOC’s 2019 “Purple Wuilt”

Warmoth Showcase body VIPP372
Quilt Maple on chambered Mahogany
Warmoth Custom Hobre neck CN39443
Mahogany neck, 25-1/2” scale
Purple Heart fretboard
10-16” Coumpound Radius
Ivoriod binding
SS6150 stainless frets
TUSQ XL nut
1 3/4” nut width
Lindy Fralin pups
P92 9200t Bridge
P92 8200t Neck
AlNiCo V magnets
Purple Heart pup rings
Purple Heart TRC
Schaller M6 tuners
Gotoh 510G bridge
Ivroid strap buttons
CTS 250K/500K concentric pots
Tesi kill switch
Allparts gold knobs
Switchcraft 3 way switch
Switchcraft ¼” jack
Elixir 10-46

(I have not figured out why this site rotates some pictures...)

 

[Don O]

And a few more...

 

[eSGEe]

DUDE that is FAR OUT!!!!!!

I saw those when they came out (the multi color quilts) think I may have started a thread here on them ---

well done!!!

 

[Inspector #20]

Such excellent attention to detail

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Looks fantastic.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Very nice!

 

[Chubbles]

That's georgeous!

 

[Session 5]

Absolutely Stunning!!

 

[jtcnj]

Nice work!!
How do you position your pick up rings / mounting holes straight / correctly?
I had a hard time with that.

 

[CabanaBoy]

That is a super nice top and finish.

 

[67plexi]

Nice the gold hardware set's it off.

 

[Tony M.]

Nice lookin' guitar.
How's it sound?

 

[Don O]

Nice work!!
How do you position your pick up rings / mounting holes straight / correctly?
I had a hard time with that.

For the neck pup I use a feeler gauge, using a bunch of the blades to get the desired distance from the neck. I drill one hole with the gauge between the neck and the pup ring. I then screw that one in and move to the other side and repeat using the feeler gauge.

Once that one is square, I use a small metal ruler and position the bridge pickup from one side of the bridge pup. I drill and screw that hole and then move to the other side and use the same distance and drill then screw.

 

[Don O]

Got the wiring done today. I gotta learn how to record some day as these Lindy Fralin P92s have a great clean sound through the Mesa. Maybe I’ll work on my recording chops next weekend to be able to showcase these pups. Meanwhile, here’s some more shots from today.