2012 Guitar of the Year Contest Submissions (8 entries)

[GOM]

The year has come and gone, and 2012 had some really special guitar of the month winners.

In January each year, GOTM staff re-submits each month's winner from the past year, for special consideration as Guitar of the Year.  In 2012, we didn't run the contest for a few months, but all winners will be listed.

Without further adieu,

May 2012
Entry #3: by Hannaugh

30" Scale Bass
Swamp Ash Daphne Blue body
Tortoise shell pick guard
Walnut knobs
Fender lite vintage shape tuners
Custom Warmoth "W" logo engraved bridge plate by Doug
Gotoh 510 bridge
Roadhouse Jazz Bass hum-cancelling pickups

Bubinga and Pau Ferro neck
Stainless steel 6150 Frets
Installed white corian nut
Abalone dots
GHS Bright Flat strings

June 2012
Guitar #8: by Patriot54

Body: Solid maple Warmoth Strat, rear rout, HSS pickup rout.
Neck: Warmoth Maple fretboard and neck, CBS headstock, standard thin neck, stainless steel jumbo frets. 25.5” scale, 1.75” nut width

Finish: Custom tribal artwork is woodburned into the front of the body, fretboard and headstock. Back of the body is finished with ebony and walnut stains. The whole body and neck are clear coated with Tru-Oil.

Electronics: DiMarzio Steve’s Special Humbucker at the bridge, DiMarzio Area 58 in the middle and DiMarzio Injector at the neck position. Standard 5-way switch, one master volume and one master tone control.

Hardware: Grover tuners, side-mounted vintage cup jack. Fender American Standard hardtail, Dangerous R6 custom neckplate

July 2012
Guitar #6 by Bagman67

Bête Noire
Double-bound black swamp ash Telecaster body by finished by Warmoth
Cream binding
Cream three-layer pickguard
TxH pickup routing
Gotoh modern Tele bridge
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound tele bridge pickup with coil tap
GFS Dream 90 neck pickup
Four way switch:
1 - bridge
2 - bridge/neck series
3 - bridge-neck parallel
4 - neck only
Mini-switch adds tapped option for all positions with bridge pickup engaged

Warmoth Pro Telecaster neck
Boatneck profile
Warmoth-instaleld black Graphtech nut
Planet Waves locking tuners
6115 frets
No inlays
Macassar ebony on flame maple
Finished in tru-oil by yours truly
 
Assembled and wired by yours truly, final setup by Keith Holland Guitars in Los Gatos, CA (recommended highly)

August 2012
Guitar #2: by Marko

Black Korina Thinline
Quarter Sawn Rosewood Top
Goncalo Alves Neck
Brazilian Rosewood Fingerboard
Custom Made P90s pickups by Jon Moore - tonefordays.com

September 2012
Guitar #4 by dwiller

Body Specs:
Black Korina body
Spalted maple top
Ivoroid Binding
Recessed TOM string through
Tobacco burst top and bottom
720 mod
Neck Specs:
Wenge with canary fretboard
1 3/4" nut with Graphtech XL
standard thin
SS frets jumbo
abalone dots
sperzels
Hardware:
Threaded Neck Bolt kit from Onyx Forge
Two-tone (Black/Chrome) Sperzels with Faux Ivory Tuner Buttons
Chrome Warmoth Logo
Try-layer Cream/Black/Cream Truss Rod Cover with Bronze colored screws
Chrome Hardware - TOM bridge, String Ferulles, Gibson Explorer Jack Plate, Strap Buttons with cream felt washers
Of course a custom neckplate in chrome from our good buddy Doug.
Amber Speed Knobs
Cream toggle switch
Rear Ivoroid custom humbucker rings
Zebra Humbucker "Walter" set from Madhouse Designs in Cali
Wiring, Pots etc., from Warmoth
Setup for 10-52s
Additional photos of the build and guitar:

October 2012
Guitar #2: by Philosopher

Body: Wenge on Mahogany/Soft Finished by me
Pickups & Wiring: Crunchlab/Liquifire, 3 Way Switch, Individual Coiltaps
Hardware: Gotoh Humbucker Tele, Schaller Strap Locks

Neck: Wenge (Standard Thin), Ebony Fretboard, 6100 frets, Warmoth Radius
Hardware: Grover 18:1 tuners, Graphtech TUSQ XL Nut

November 2012
Guitar #3: by DMRACO

Warmoth Mahogany Body Blank
Warmoth Maple Neck, Angled Paddle with Pau Ferro board
Flame/Spalted Cap
Antiqued Copper Hardware
Alnico Humbuckers
Floyd Rose Original
Custom Made copper accents and control cavity covers
Tobacco brown burst
All body shaping and finish work done by DMRACO

December 2012
Guitar #1 (MAY runner-up): by Black Dog
Body:
Spalted Maple over Black Korina w/ Black Binding
Honey Burst finish by Tonar
Neck:
Black Korina w/ Macassar Ebony FB by Warmoth
Honey Burst Headstock & Oil Finish by Tonar
SS6100 Frets
Electronics:
TV Jones Power’tron Neck
TV Jones Power’tron Plus Bridge
Fender S-1 Switch
Caps: 2 X .0033uF
          1 X .0033 uF + 1 X .001 uF
Hardware:
Rutter’s Half Bridge
Glendale Twang Saddles
Glendale Retro Rockets String Ferrules
Sperzel Locking Tuners w/ Black Pearloid Buttons
Bling-Bling
Custom Neckwear by Dangerous

 

[Great Ape]

JEEZ!!! D'ya think you could make it just a little MORE DIFFICULT TO CHOOSE JUST ONE??!!
Damn incredible group of instruments there--you should ALL be truly proud!

 

[DustyCat]

Nice lighting/shadows job on the Congratulations Black Dog...click here to view!  :icon_thumright:

 

[dmraco]

No disrespect to billy-Bo.....but I won november

 

[GOM]

Corrected, and no offense meant.  Thanks for bringing that to our attention.  Putting the list together was a lot of cut and paste with several browsers open at the same time... just human error.

GOTM staff apologizes for the error.

 

[bagman67]

That baby-blue bass has got me worried... but then, so do all the other axes.  Great company!

 

[bluestometal]

It's quite hard to pick up just one  :toothy10:

 

[dmraco]

Corrected, and no offense meant.  Thanks for bringing that to our attention.  Putting the list together was a lot of cut and paste with several browsers open at the same time... just human error.

GOTM staff apologizes for the error.

None taken.  I made MANY errors in the years I ran the contest.  Tough to keep all the browsers synced!  I still have issues with polls!!!! :dontknow: :doh:

 

[DangerousR6]

No disrespect to billy-Bo.....but I won november

Kinda threw me for a loop there a moment, 'cause I couldn't figure out why my Billy Bo was in this.... :icon_scratch:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Well Doug, Billy Bo may not have had it's own month in the top right, but it's all win!  I voted for it every time I could, which may be a curse, because historically I haven't picked winners.

  :dontknow:

 

[DangerousR6]

Well Doug, Billy Bo may not have had it's own month in the top right, but it's all win!  I voted for it every time I could, which may be a curse, because historically I haven't picked winners.

  :dontknow:

Why thank you Gary, I appreciate that.... :icon_thumright:

 

[AutoBat]

I can't recall if I voted for Billy Bo every time, but it was always a very strong contender.

 

[bbl4ck]

I have always been envious of Billy Bo!  It is a sweeeet geetar indeed  :headbang1:
:rock-on:

 

[DangerousR6]

Thanks guys, it's not for everybody. It took me awhile to warm up to the shape, but it grows on you.. But then again I like strange and out of the ordinary stuff... :laughing7:

 

[dmraco]

LETS VOTE!!!!!

 

[-CB-]

Really hard pick a winner.  Too many good choices. And lots of Teles.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

I think I voted for all these guitars at least once before  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[DangerousR6]

I think I voted for all these guitars at least once before  :icon_jokercolor:

Me too, and I pretty much have a connection with 5 outta 8 of them...So if one of them win, I win too... :toothy12:

 

[hannaugh]

Wow, only one Strat all year.  But what a Strat!  And I agree, lots of lovely Teles.  I still love that spalt and that black and white Tele.  Not a bad pick in the bunch though.

 

[Updown]

:dontknow:  ...... how about an 8 way tie ..... 

It's just to hard to decide, my brain hurts  :icon_biggrin:

All Bloody Beauties, if ya ask me  :icon_thumright: