(When they say that about Eddie Van Halen, I think they mean it as a compliment in my case, I suppose it means I won't transcend my limitations simply by adding more bitchin' technology.) My point here is this: beyond truly unworkable guitars and amps, reliability is as important, and perhaps more so (for me, ymmv) as a lot of the bells and whistles either company presents to the market. I pretty much sound like me no matter what guitar I'm playing and no matter what amp I'm plugged into. I'm frankly not so good a player that I realize any particular advantage from a compound radius, and I can't hear the difference between a maple-capped mahogany body and an alder body, and a maple fingerboard sounds like rosewood sounds like ebony to my indifferent ear. All the rest is a matter of individual taste and preference. Sold the damn thing under pressure from the wife now she's gone too, and I got no more Carvin! But I digress.Ĭertainly you can go nuts on options either with Warmoth or with Carvin, with the two option sets failing to overlap in ways that annoy folks from either camp - but what I think can consistently be said of the two companies is that they have very high quality construction, and very consistent performance. I've owned a plain vanilla, black with white pickguard, all-standard-options Carvin Bolt-T, and it was hands-down the best Strat-copy (and best strat-anything) I have played in 25 years of swingin' an axe. What am I leaving out? Carvin's delivery time for a finished instrument is 5 to 9 weeks! Their finish prices seem drastically lower but it is added to an inflated base price for a body. Carvin won't do block inlays on Maple boards. finished instruments), it seems Warmoth far exceeds Carvin's options especially when it comes to fretboard radius, neck profile, wood options in every category, bridge routing, headstock and body shapes, fretwire size, neck inlay, etc. While Carvin does offer a few thing W doesn't (neck-thru, but refer back to parts vs. With assembly left to being customer sourced, either DIY or a service provided by a 3rd party, you can certainly have a finished instrument with every piece being purchased from Warmoth. There are obvious differences in the 2, the biggest being that Warmoth strictly offers replacement parts and not finished instruments. But in both forums, the other company often comes up especially when it comes to custom options being offered for guitars and basses. Warmoth" is less appropriate of a title than "Carvin or Warmoth." I'm fairly active on this forum and more of a lurker on the other.
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