We are now announcing the September, 2022 Guitar of the Month contest! September's contest will be "Warmoth/professionally finished" and requires at least a Warmoth neck or body to qualify.
Please read the GOM rules, which have been refined, with some slight changes, and are posted in a sticky in this forum area.
Submissions must be sent to uwfgom@gmail.com, and contain two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. Send your submission in plain text email. Your photos must be attachments to the email. Your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name must be included in the body of the email.
In turn, your images will added to this message, which is September's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, discussion about the submissions can take place below.
Please do not post additional photos in any replies to this thread. Links to other UW threads or external sites are fine.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
Include your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name.
Warmoth or other professionally finished instruments only this month.
Sorry, but entries that do not meet these requirements may not be included in the contest. If you're having technical difficulties, get in touch! (But only about contest entries please!)
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 killswitch95
Darkhorse
Neck:
CBS Stratocaster® Replacement Neck
Construction: Modern
Shaft Wood: Maple
Fretboard Wood: Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16" (43mm) - Modern Medium
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Neck Back Profile: Standard Thin
Fretboard Radius: 10" - 16" Compound
Number of Frets: 22
Scallops: Full Scallops
Fret Size & Material: SS6115 - Wide & Tall (Stainless)
Tuner Hole Size: Planet Waves (13/32")
Inlay Shape: Standard Dots
Inlay Material: Black
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
String Nut: Standard Nut - GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Heel Shape: Strat® Shape
Finish: Vintage Tint Gloss (Maple/Maple)
Body:
Poplar (Squire Classic Vibe 70's HSH Rout Body)
Bridge: Wilkinson 5+1 Black Vintage Style Trem with Steel Block
Saddles: Graph Tech String Saver Saddles
Springs: Floyd Rose Noiseless Springs
Trem Claw and Screws: Floyd Rose Brass Trem Claw and Screws
Electronics: 6 Way Push/Pull Split HH from Obsidian Wire
Neck: Seymour Duncan Cool Rails for Strat (Top Coil Active on Split)
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Black Winter (Bottom Coil Active on Split)
Pickguard: Warmoth 1 Ply Black with Neck Single, No mid, Uncovered Humbucker Bridge, Blade, 1 Vol, 2 Tones, Vintage Bridge Cut
Knobs: Tesi Strat Knob Set 'None More Black'
Straplocks: Hennessy Strap Locks Black
Neck Plate: Custom Ouija Board Neck Plate by GuitarHeads
Guitar #2 Spud
"Last chance Sal"
Warmoth Alder Strat Body, Warmoth finished
Fender American special trem
Black stainless saddles
Anodized gold pickguard
Two Seymour Duncan ap-1 pro alnico 2 singles
Rail Hammer Hyper vintage alnico 5 bridge
Switchcraft 5 way
CTS-250K pots
Sprauge orangedrop cap
22awg push back wire
Neck
Warmoth vintage modern strat neck
maple/maple
Fatback reshaped to boatneck
6100 stainless frets
Gotoh tuners
Guitar #3 Stratamania
Body:
Showcase Body from October 2019
Wood: High Grade Flame Maple Top on Mahogany
Binding: Natural Masked Accent
Top Finish: Green Burst
Back Finish: Clear
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Showcase neck Feb 2021
Stratocaster, Modern Construction,
Right Handed, Figured Mahogany, Indian Rosewood Fretboard,
1-11/16" Nut Width, Standard thin, SS6150 (Stainless),
Schaller (25/64") Tuner Ream, 22 frets, 10-16" Compound
Radius, Cream Face Dots Inlay, White Side Dots, 25-1/2" Scale,
Warmoth Poly Gloss finish was stripped to bare wood and redone with Tru-Oil and the nut replaced with a bone nut by myself.
Hardware:
Schaller M6 135 Locking Chrome Tuners
Schaller Security S-Locks
Wilkinson WVS130/2P Chrome Bridge with Locking Saddles
Gotoh/Wilkinson Bridge Studs supplied by Warmoth
Black Pearl Pickguard
Q-Parts Dome Black Chrome and Abalone Volume and tone knobs
Black Tremolo Cover
Pickups:
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Trembucker, Nickelcover
Middle: Seymour Duncan SSL-2 RW
Neck: Seymour Duncan Red Devil
Wiring:
Master Volume (with Treble Bleed) and Tone
1. Bridge
2. Bridge and Middle
3. Middle
4. Bridge and Neck
5. Neck
Please read the GOM rules, which have been refined, with some slight changes, and are posted in a sticky in this forum area.
Submissions must be sent to uwfgom@gmail.com, and contain two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. Send your submission in plain text email. Your photos must be attachments to the email. Your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name must be included in the body of the email.
In turn, your images will added to this message, which is September's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, discussion about the submissions can take place below.
Please do not post additional photos in any replies to this thread. Links to other UW threads or external sites are fine.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
Include your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name.
Warmoth or other professionally finished instruments only this month.
Sorry, but entries that do not meet these requirements may not be included in the contest. If you're having technical difficulties, get in touch! (But only about contest entries please!)
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 killswitch95
Darkhorse
Neck:
CBS Stratocaster® Replacement Neck
Construction: Modern
Shaft Wood: Maple
Fretboard Wood: Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16" (43mm) - Modern Medium
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Neck Back Profile: Standard Thin
Fretboard Radius: 10" - 16" Compound
Number of Frets: 22
Scallops: Full Scallops
Fret Size & Material: SS6115 - Wide & Tall (Stainless)
Tuner Hole Size: Planet Waves (13/32")
Inlay Shape: Standard Dots
Inlay Material: Black
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
String Nut: Standard Nut - GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Heel Shape: Strat® Shape
Finish: Vintage Tint Gloss (Maple/Maple)
Body:
Poplar (Squire Classic Vibe 70's HSH Rout Body)
Bridge: Wilkinson 5+1 Black Vintage Style Trem with Steel Block
Saddles: Graph Tech String Saver Saddles
Springs: Floyd Rose Noiseless Springs
Trem Claw and Screws: Floyd Rose Brass Trem Claw and Screws
Electronics: 6 Way Push/Pull Split HH from Obsidian Wire
Neck: Seymour Duncan Cool Rails for Strat (Top Coil Active on Split)
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Black Winter (Bottom Coil Active on Split)
Pickguard: Warmoth 1 Ply Black with Neck Single, No mid, Uncovered Humbucker Bridge, Blade, 1 Vol, 2 Tones, Vintage Bridge Cut
Knobs: Tesi Strat Knob Set 'None More Black'
Straplocks: Hennessy Strap Locks Black
Neck Plate: Custom Ouija Board Neck Plate by GuitarHeads
Guitar #2 Spud
"Last chance Sal"
Warmoth Alder Strat Body, Warmoth finished
Fender American special trem
Black stainless saddles
Anodized gold pickguard
Two Seymour Duncan ap-1 pro alnico 2 singles
Rail Hammer Hyper vintage alnico 5 bridge
Switchcraft 5 way
CTS-250K pots
Sprauge orangedrop cap
22awg push back wire
Neck
Warmoth vintage modern strat neck
maple/maple
Fatback reshaped to boatneck
6100 stainless frets
Gotoh tuners
Guitar #3 Stratamania
Body:
Showcase Body from October 2019
Wood: High Grade Flame Maple Top on Mahogany
Binding: Natural Masked Accent
Top Finish: Green Burst
Back Finish: Clear
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Showcase neck Feb 2021
Stratocaster, Modern Construction,
Right Handed, Figured Mahogany, Indian Rosewood Fretboard,
1-11/16" Nut Width, Standard thin, SS6150 (Stainless),
Schaller (25/64") Tuner Ream, 22 frets, 10-16" Compound
Radius, Cream Face Dots Inlay, White Side Dots, 25-1/2" Scale,
Warmoth Poly Gloss finish was stripped to bare wood and redone with Tru-Oil and the nut replaced with a bone nut by myself.
Hardware:
Schaller M6 135 Locking Chrome Tuners
Schaller Security S-Locks
Wilkinson WVS130/2P Chrome Bridge with Locking Saddles
Gotoh/Wilkinson Bridge Studs supplied by Warmoth
Black Pearl Pickguard
Q-Parts Dome Black Chrome and Abalone Volume and tone knobs
Black Tremolo Cover
Pickups:
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Trembucker, Nickelcover
Middle: Seymour Duncan SSL-2 RW
Neck: Seymour Duncan Red Devil
Wiring:
Master Volume (with Treble Bleed) and Tone
1. Bridge
2. Bridge and Middle
3. Middle
4. Bridge and Neck
5. Neck
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