We're now announcing the April, 2014 Guitar of the Month contest! April's contest will be "Owner/non-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 posted to this message, which is April's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from April 1st until April 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by mark1178
BODY
Model: Warmoth Body Blank
Style: Custom Designed by me
Finish: Wudtone Amaranthine
Wood: Swamp Ash
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Bridge: TOM/STP, Angled Pocket
Pickups: GFS Loudmouths neck/bridge
Humbucker Rings: Seymour Duncan Triple Shots
Controls: 2 500k Volume pots, 3 way toggle
Bridge: Stewmac Rollerbridge & Stop Tail Piece
Strap holders: Dunlok StrapLoks
NECK
Style: 22 fret Vortex
Construction: Warmoth Pro Angled Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Back Shape: 59 roundback
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech White TUSQ - Standard Nut
Inlays: No Inlay
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Wudtone clear neck finish
Tuners: Hipshot Locking Tuners


Guitar #2 by Dolando
Body - Gecko Narrow 5
Owner finished with Tru-oil
Mahogany with flame koa Top and a maple accent line
Mahogany wood control cavity cover
Neck - Gecko Narrow 5
Owner finished with Tru-oil (peghead veneer only)
Wenge shaft wood
Ebony fingerboard (with gecko Inlay)
Flame koa peghead veneer
Graphtech BlackTUSQ nut
Unlined fretless
Hardware (Black)
Hipshot A style bridge 17.5mm string spacing (string through)
Hipshot Ultralight tuners
Schaller strap locks
Electronics
Delano SBC 5 HE/S-4 Quad coil humbucker wired with a secret sliding switch mounted on the control cover for parallel/single/series humbucker switching.


Guitar #3 by Kuro Uma
Body is figured black korina\UC flamed walnut top with maple line
Bare Knuckle Juggernauts
Megaswitch P-model 5 way
Graphtech Ghost loaded Floyd Rose
Inlaid with a flamed maple rampant lion
Ebony knobs and all black hardware
Custom neck heel and recessed bolting
Finished in Tru-Oil
Neck is a Indian rosewood\UC ziricote fretboard, angled paddle head cut to custom headstock design
Multiple veneers layered. flamed maple, burl redwood, flamed walnut and ebony initials.
Heel shaped to match the custom neck pocket
Flamed maple/ziricote truss cover with Hipshot Griplock tuners
Fleur-di-Lis design inlaid with maple and redwood into fretboard
Both fretboard and headstock are bound with flamed maple.
All black hardware


Guitar #4 by ihnpts
The "Rusticaster" - built to my brother's requested specs to combine many features of his favorite guitars.
Warmoth vintage modern tele neck, 1 piece maple, right hand reverse, 1 5/8", standard thin profile, black TUSQ nut. Lightly finished in TruOil, Wilkinson vintage style tuners in black.
Pine body from a builder out in Maine, stained w/minwax amber something, finished w/several coats of semi-gloss wipe on polyurethane. I added a tummy cut and a shorter, less strat-like forearm contour, per my bro's request. Also: straplocks!
Electronics: Seymour Duncan stacked P-90 (humbucker) at the neck, Seymour Duncan Telecaster lil '59 bridge, 5 way switch: neck split, neck full, both HBs, bridge full, bridge split. Wilkinson tele bridge w/compensated saddles. All black hardware from guitarfetish.com


Guitar #5 by Ddbltrbl
The Nylon Telecaster:
Body:
Birdseye Maple on Mahogany Carved Top Telecaster
Wipe-On Poly Finish
Gotoh Tele Bridge w/ Graphtech Ghost Saddles
Neck:
Birdseye Maple w/ Macassar Ebony fretboard
Wipe-On Poly Finish
Gotoh SG38 Tuners
SS6150 Fretwire
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut (Self Cut)


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 posted to this message, which is April's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from April 1st until April 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by mark1178
BODY
Model: Warmoth Body Blank
Style: Custom Designed by me
Finish: Wudtone Amaranthine
Wood: Swamp Ash
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Bridge: TOM/STP, Angled Pocket
Pickups: GFS Loudmouths neck/bridge
Humbucker Rings: Seymour Duncan Triple Shots
Controls: 2 500k Volume pots, 3 way toggle
Bridge: Stewmac Rollerbridge & Stop Tail Piece
Strap holders: Dunlok StrapLoks
NECK
Style: 22 fret Vortex
Construction: Warmoth Pro Angled Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Back Shape: 59 roundback
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech White TUSQ - Standard Nut
Inlays: No Inlay
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Wudtone clear neck finish
Tuners: Hipshot Locking Tuners


Guitar #2 by Dolando
Body - Gecko Narrow 5
Owner finished with Tru-oil
Mahogany with flame koa Top and a maple accent line
Mahogany wood control cavity cover
Neck - Gecko Narrow 5
Owner finished with Tru-oil (peghead veneer only)
Wenge shaft wood
Ebony fingerboard (with gecko Inlay)
Flame koa peghead veneer
Graphtech BlackTUSQ nut
Unlined fretless
Hardware (Black)
Hipshot A style bridge 17.5mm string spacing (string through)
Hipshot Ultralight tuners
Schaller strap locks
Electronics
Delano SBC 5 HE/S-4 Quad coil humbucker wired with a secret sliding switch mounted on the control cover for parallel/single/series humbucker switching.


Guitar #3 by Kuro Uma
Body is figured black korina\UC flamed walnut top with maple line
Bare Knuckle Juggernauts
Megaswitch P-model 5 way
Graphtech Ghost loaded Floyd Rose
Inlaid with a flamed maple rampant lion
Ebony knobs and all black hardware
Custom neck heel and recessed bolting
Finished in Tru-Oil
Neck is a Indian rosewood\UC ziricote fretboard, angled paddle head cut to custom headstock design
Multiple veneers layered. flamed maple, burl redwood, flamed walnut and ebony initials.
Heel shaped to match the custom neck pocket
Flamed maple/ziricote truss cover with Hipshot Griplock tuners
Fleur-di-Lis design inlaid with maple and redwood into fretboard
Both fretboard and headstock are bound with flamed maple.
All black hardware


Guitar #4 by ihnpts
The "Rusticaster" - built to my brother's requested specs to combine many features of his favorite guitars.
Warmoth vintage modern tele neck, 1 piece maple, right hand reverse, 1 5/8", standard thin profile, black TUSQ nut. Lightly finished in TruOil, Wilkinson vintage style tuners in black.
Pine body from a builder out in Maine, stained w/minwax amber something, finished w/several coats of semi-gloss wipe on polyurethane. I added a tummy cut and a shorter, less strat-like forearm contour, per my bro's request. Also: straplocks!
Electronics: Seymour Duncan stacked P-90 (humbucker) at the neck, Seymour Duncan Telecaster lil '59 bridge, 5 way switch: neck split, neck full, both HBs, bridge full, bridge split. Wilkinson tele bridge w/compensated saddles. All black hardware from guitarfetish.com


Guitar #5 by Ddbltrbl
The Nylon Telecaster:
Body:
Birdseye Maple on Mahogany Carved Top Telecaster
Wipe-On Poly Finish
Gotoh Tele Bridge w/ Graphtech Ghost Saddles
Neck:
Birdseye Maple w/ Macassar Ebony fretboard
Wipe-On Poly Finish
Gotoh SG38 Tuners
SS6150 Fretwire
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut (Self Cut)

