Jose Cuervo

Cro, I expect you've found a way to install the Wilkinson trem by now, but if not, the diagrams on the Warmoth pages suggest a distance of 56mm between the post holes for a Standard trem bridge, and 56.8mm for the Wilkinson/Gotoh trem.

Warmoth bridges

Does anybody out there know what Fender's TBX pot does to a strat's tone?

Thanks.

Yo, Drak...

Thanks for the advice. I Picked up a little bottle of Tru-Oil at WalMart and put 7 or 8 thin coats on the neck. Used 0000 Steel wool to buff down to a satin finish, and it seems like a good hard finish. Very easy, too. On the bottle, it mentions their "Gun Stock Wax" as a supplement (which turns out to be a blend of carnauba wax, beeswax, and silicone). Would this improve the feel of theneck, or can I pass on that one?

The pure tung oil I'm putting on the Koa body has a really nice effect on the color and luster of the wood, and feels very nice, but the body feels vulnerable. I may add a coat or two of the "Homer Formsby" version of tung oil, which apparently contains hardeners - it dries a lot quicker and harder. More like Tru Oil, I think. I just finished a black Korina body with about twelve coats of it and I got the impression I could get a "laquer-type" finish pretty easily.

Thanks very much for the info. I'll see if I can get Jason's opinion before I try anything. I assume, based on the gun stocks I've seen, that the Tru-Oil is not a high-gloss finish?

You wouldn't believe how hard and smooth this Bocote is...so hard that it's used for the fretboard as well as the rest of the neck. It's a Mexican variety of Rosewood, and Warmoth actually states on their website that this particular wood needs no finish (it's like Padouk and some of the other African hardwoods in that regard). They also confirmed that the warrantee is good on this neck even without ANY finish, let alone a "non-hard" finish. The guys at Warmoth aren't crazy about Tung oil, and that may be why none of them can tell me how it will take to Bocote. But I'll put some Tung oil on the neck anyway, and will let you all (and the Warmoth guys) know how it works out. Now, I just have to decide between the Formsby stuff with hardeners (drys fast, almost too fast) and the pure (Behlen) tung oil.

Hello,

I'm putting together a Warmoth P-bass, and the neck is solid bocote with a bocote fretboard. It's a very striking appearance, and a very hard wood, which Warmoth says will be OK without a finish. But I was considering the possibility of a tung oil finish. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience regarding this combination?