Perfect Warmoth Strat Style Guitar | Setup & Playing Hear the Tones in Action

Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

How to: Create your perfect Strat Style Guitar. Setup & playing the guitar through Marshall 1959HW & Mesa Boogie RK II... Hear the final results! | Part 12

Contents:

Start 0:00
Intro & Preamble 0:16
Neck Relief 2:22
Warmoth Neck Frets 3:30
Earvana Nut Height 4:43
String Height/Action 5:11
Pickup Height 7:05
Intonation 8:16
The Results Overview 11:18
Check for Choking 12:08
Other Completed Work 12:48
Summing Up 13:50
Future Guitar Builds 15:52
Track 1 Played 18:07
Example Tones 21:41
Track 2 Played 27:39

What you will learn:
Is this guitar worth building?
What was the overall cost?
Is setup easy to do?
How does this guitar sound?
Can anyone do this?
Is the series complete?

Other videos in the series:

Full Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2HoYOlX1LULsuc9lfqQCvRMj3ZGxsaur

Part One: youtu.be/zFlXC2RJ2EQ Dye The Body
Part Two: youtu.be/4ym_6WpSvds Dye The Neck
Part Three: youtu.be/t5OBM2RosiY Routing for Fender Clapton Mid-boost Pre-amp
Part Four: youtu.be/wb5La9ybdTA The ABM 2 Point Tremolo - later returned
Part Five: youtu.be/JrDhkQRBwDE The Figured Maple Pick Guard
Part Six: youtu.be/B1vG4lkyH4Y Sealing the Water Based Dye
Part Seven: youtu.be/xaTp-_xrHWk Babicz Full Contact Hardware Tremolo
Part Eight: youtu.be/-jLRkg3WFjc Using acrylic clear coat for the body and neck
Part Nine: youtu.be/oDOpSgLCtaI Final Buffing The Parts
Part Ten: youtu.be/tEY15uBxiUE Fitting the Tremolo & Tuners & Overcoming MAJOR Problems
Part Eleven: youtu.be/SFU7rxyWGwI Electronics - Fitting Pickups & Mid-Boost Board
Part Twelve: youtu.be/fjw1SK3-bkI Setup & playing of the finished electric guitar

This final TWELTH video shows simply how I set up the guitar and I explain how the methods I used were successful for the entire guitar completion.

Overall the setup was not difficult on this guitar. It helped by using parts from a trusted supplier - Warmoth. The body and neck are both licensed and made to Fenders exacting authorized specifications and that made things simple to build and simple to set up.

Then at last I actually got to play the guitar through a Marshall 1959HW head and WAZA attenuator - and what a sound. I also used a Mesa Boogie Road King II also using microphones to the desk. What you hear is exactly what I recorded.

There is also a 'mystery amp' used in the 'track 1' section and I would love you guys to tell me what it is I used? Think of it like a sort of contest to see how many guys do tell which amp it was and who gets that right. I can't wait for your answers :)

In this Part 12 I end the series by setting up the guitar and then example playing it in real time. Check for yourself whether the mid control I have included in this design makes this guitar particularly great or not!

After my networking problem (lasted weeks) finally I have stability throughout the studio and home and even my main server is behaving :)

This video series has been completely funded by me, written and developed from scratch also and is not sponsored in any way. I purchased everything for the guitar. I made this guitar for personal use only. I trust that this series of videos inspires you too to have a go at creating a guitar yourself.

I have spent considerable time creating these video series at my expense:

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