Based on the Suhrs I've tried and the Warmoth I built - save up for the Suhr. You'll even get to play it first before you buy it. Suhrs are great, Warmoths are a roll of the dice, and when it's all done you'll have spent almost as much as the Suhr anyway. My experience with Warmoth was horrible. It was a $2000 experiment that failed. No, I didn't order crazy tonewoods, just alder and maple. I could have kept trying things (after swapping tone caps, changing the elex all around, and trying 4 sets of pickups, all that was left to try was swapping necks and bodies) but after a year it was time to give up on that good-looking but tonally dead non-player. Either the body or the neck (or both) were duds, or maybe it was the combination of the two. The satin finish was sticky, the Wolfgang contour was nothing like my Wolfgangs, it was a 2-piece body instead of the 1-piece I ordered, it took 5 months, not 8-10 weeks like they said it would, and while I waited I saw necks and bodies like the ones I ordered start appearing in their "showroom." Their customer service was awful, with 2 of the 3 people I talked to there being nothing less than jerks. You won't know how it's going to sound, feel, play, until you put it together. They give you 10 days to do that and figure out if you want it. Never, ever again. There are other parts companies I'd look into first (USACG etc.). The last Suhr I played was fantastic. To get close to that via Warmoth is tantamount to winning a large lottery. But I will never buy something as personal as a guitar without trying it out first again.
