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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Mar 7, 2021 12:25:05 GMT -5
Correct. Fender has been shipping amps upside down since the early days. It is so when they're being carted around on rolling conveyors, on dollys and so forth, they are less top heavy, as Bopper says.
Are you sure the box wasn't "road worn" in transit? Chances are good they shipped it to you in whatever box they got themselves, so it likely has two trips to the box. If one was in slushy weather, they can get real ugly.
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Post by LVF on Mar 8, 2021 10:17:47 GMT -5
No way the condition of the box was done during it's most recent transit. Maybe they had a deal with customers to send the box back after delivery so they could reuse? Anyway, I am guilty of changing the direction of this thread from its titled purpose and all questions have been answered about the shipping of this amp I think. So, we should get back to the titled subject if there is anymore about that to be had. Thanks folks, for wising me up about the amp thing.
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Post by LVF on Mar 10, 2021 13:32:12 GMT -5
It occurred to me that I had not shown the backside since I completed assembly so, here it is. It is shown it what seems to be the trendy thing these days to not have a cover over the trem hardware. I do have a cover for it but, it requires drilling the holes and at this point, it looks pretty clean with no cover. How to you like yours? I'm on the fence about it.
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Post by Leftee on Mar 10, 2021 13:43:30 GMT -5
I put one on. No need pulling out belly hair.
TMI?
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Post by LVF on Mar 10, 2021 14:09:20 GMT -5
One of the things I mentioned earlier was that I had mistakenly put the neck and bridge pickups in each others place so, I decided to correct that while it was also prudent to continue the neck adjustment according to the Warmoth instructions. It quite interesting to me that doing an adjustment on a home assembled guitar is not a 'one and done' thing. It's a constant tweak of all the hardware. The neck has an initial adjustment made with the main adjuster located on the body end of the neck in which you adjust the neck until it is flat. This has the affect of rendering the side adjuster in the pic its full range of fine adjustment when it comes time to do that part. When I began adjusting the neck, I noted that it had a bow in it. I gave the main adjuster two, gradual, full turns and noted that the neck now had a back bend in it. Taking one turn out of the neck rendered it flat as per the instructions. After assembling the guitar and stringing it up, you could start doing the other adjustments in the bridge to adjust string height and so on. I noted that even after stringing the guitar, the neck remained straight. According to Warmoth, the guitar has to settle and be rechecked for everything. Doing the pickup swap afforded me the perfect time to do this as you need to loosen the strings and leave them that way for a while and then tune back up and check the neck for flatness once more. The guitar, once again, had a bow in it that was easily taken out using the fine adjuster on the side of the neck. Job done...for the moment.
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Post by LVF on Mar 10, 2021 14:39:28 GMT -5
I put one on. No need pulling out belly hair. TMI? I'm sure I'll end up putting the cover on. As time and adjustments go by, this guitar is really starting to sound good. However, I think at some point I'll restring it with tens and it would seem that I have a ton of Elixir's at hand so... TMI? Educate me...
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Post by Leftee on Mar 10, 2021 15:34:21 GMT -5
Too much information?
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Post by LVF on Mar 10, 2021 16:33:27 GMT -5
Heh, no more info needed on that!
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Post by LVF on May 31, 2022 17:25:46 GMT -5
I'm resurrecting this thread because I've made a change to this guitar. I bought a push/push switch so that the 'options' could be activated. Originally I decided not to do this because I didn't have a need for a 'boost' switch which I thought the wiring diagram showed. The pickups are Seymour Duncan Stacked Plus Single Coils. At the time, I didn't feel I needed a 'boost' switch. However, had I bothered to read what the switch was really for, I would have put it in. It doesn't boost the bridge pickup which I had assumed was the purpose of the switch. It gives more pickup pairing options. When I was ordering the pickups and pots and such for the 'Agave Blue strat', I decided to order a push/pull pot for my Warmoth strat. Except instead of a push/pull, I ordered a push/push Which turns out to be more appropriate. Here are the selections that get added to the stock selections. Pushing on the Volume knob elevates the knob for the new selection and you can only work the knob with the volume turned all the way down to put it in either position. The positions on the blade selector is No. 1 is closest to the neck. So, with that in mind, In the first position, The neck and bridge are active, In the second position, all pick ups are active, third position has the same arrangement as the fourth position which is unchanged from the stock position and the fifth position is also unchanged from stock. So, the real change is in the first two positions with the third position mimicking the stock 4th. I was looking see if the first and fourth positions had similarities in sound because the fourth position gives you the signature strat sound everyone is familiar with. There is some similarities to a degree. In the no. 1 position it's brighter with a boldness with a touch of the signature sound. It's good, I like it. Now, putting it is no.2 position [volume knob elevated], all three pickups active, both tone pots are also active. Many tone adjustment combo's available. This will be an interesting position to explore. This was a good addition to this guitar as it's changed it's character with these new addition's. Maybe I should've read about the purpose of the switch instead of assuming. Had I done that, the switch would have been installed in the beginning. Better late than never, I guess.
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