I was at a mates place a few months ago and spotted an old disused Warmoth strat there.
He got it second hand some years ago and gigged with it quite a lot. It no longer worked and he was quite sad about that and I convinced him to give me a go at it.
From initial inspection of the body, it had been originally painted some bone or beige colour which had been sanded off at some stage and no finish had been applied.
Hence hours and hours of gigging sweat gave it this look. I really could not tell what wood it was made from?
He did not mind at all that I would get rid of that look.
The neck and frets were fine, all of the hardware was good - except no back plate and the scratch guard was warped.
The volume knob was busted but other than that the electrics were good. In fact it was equipped with a nice set of kent armstrong lipsticks!