April 2019 Guitar of the Month Submissions

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We are now announcing the April, 2019 Guitar of the Month contest!  April'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 April'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 fdesalvo

-Showcase Candy Apple Red body
-Birdseye Maple/Rosewood neck finished in Tru-Oil
-Ilitch Noise Cancelling Backplate. 
-Gotoh Locking Vintage Tuners
-Gotoh 510 Trem
-Graphtech Nut
-1-5/8" Graphtech nut
-22 SS6100s
-Rocketfire Total 60's Pickups

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Guitar #2 RoboNarples

Body:
Model: Chambered Carved Top Regal
Orientation: Right handed
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Flame Maple / Maple on Mahogany
Rout: Rear Rout
Bridge: TOM/STP, Angled Pocket
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel
Binding: Ivoroid Binding
Top Finish: Tropicana Tilt Fade
Back Finish: Clear
Finish Type: Gloss Finish

Neck:
Style: Stratocaster
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Quartersawn Goncalo Alves
Fingerboard Wood: Goncalo Alves
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: 59 Roundback
Fret Size: 6150
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: None

Hardware:
Neck Pickup: EMG 81
Bridge Pickup: EMG 85
Bridge: Gotoh Tune O Matic Bridge, Chrome
Stop Piece: Gotoh Stop Tail Piece, Chrome
Tuners: Gotoh Magnum Lock Traditional 6-In-Line

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Guitar #3 Mattt

- One-piece Mahogany body, clear satin finish. Contoured heel and battery box.
- Wenge neck, unfinished, with unique choice Macassar Ebony fretboard, side markers only, stainless steel frets, Wolfgang profile, 1 5/8" nut width, 10-16" compound radius
- Schaller locking tuners for easy string changes
- Kahler locking nut with integrated string retainer bar
- Kahler hybrid tremolo
- Single ply matte black warmoth pickguard
- Seymour Duncan Blackouts pickups
- 3-way switch and volume/tone/tone
- Schaller s-lock strap locks

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Guitar #4 Dayviewer

Warmoth 'Jazzcaster' / 'Offset Telecaster' body, alder, matte apricot flake.
Warmoth 28,5 inch scale roasted maple Telecaster neck.
Stainless steel frets.
Fender Locking Tuners
Bare Knuckle Pickups - Black Dog Set, coil split with the tone knob
Gotoh Humbucker Telecaster Bridge
Parchment Pickguard.
Currently set-up in Drop A, with a 13-72 Ernie Ball Baritone Slinky Set.

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Guitar #5 Mayfly

Transcontinental Tele

Luthier's Mercantile double bound alder Telecaster body.
Custom Nitro burst by Tonar
Joe Barden Telecaster bridge with compensated brass saddles.
Warmoth roasted flame maple neck with SS frets, rosewood fingerboard, threaded inserts, and groovy Hipshot locking ultralight tuners.
Lollar '52 Telecaster pickups.
Warmoth pickguard.
Allparts hardware.
CRL switch and CTS Pots.  Cap from the parts drawer.
Parsons/White b-bender, installed by the man himself.
Electrosocket from Bagman's award winning telecaster of the year, Bête Noire!

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Guitar #6 Robin Joseph Leon

Warmoth Telecaster Thinline 72 body

Routed for middle pickup,dual input and battery box myself
Flame Maple Top
Mahogany body
Tigers Eye dye finish
Tobacco Burst back finish
Natural Masked binding

Graphtech piezo saddles

Warmoth Modern Stratocaster maple neck
Wizard Thin shape
Clear Satin Nitro Finish
6105 frets
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL nut
Black dot inlays
Chrome Fender Locking tuners (with brass bushings)

Selfmade black matte HSS ’72 Thinline pickguard
Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker bridge pickup
Seymour Duncan Classic Stack plus middle pickup
Seymour Duncan Duckbucker neck pickup

6 (!) way Oak Grigsby switch (added lowest setting is bridge + neck)
2 Fender TBX tone pots, one wired to neck and one to brigde
Push/Push volume pot for series/parallel neck
Built in Seymour Duncan triple shot for bridge pickup
Dual inputs, one for piezo, one for electric signal
Schaller strap locks

Hybrid hardware

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Guitar #7 LushTone

Neck:
-Warmoth 24.75" conversion Warhead neck
-Raw/burnished roasted maple/Indian rosewood fretboard
-1 11/16" Graphtech nut
-12" straight radius
-Clapton neck profile
-6100 evo gold frets
-Gotoh tuners
-Custom anodized aluminum cover by fretsonthenet

Body:
-Fender basswood body (Surf Green)
-Callaham "modern spaced" bridge (Gotoh saddles)
-Fender loaded pickguard
(greasebucket circuit, Texas specials/Atomic bucker)

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Guitar #8 LoxFL

Body:

Vintage Telecaster
Solid Swamp Ash
Daphne Blue Gloss Finish

Neck:

Vintage/Modern Telecaster
Maple with bonus Flame
1 3/4" Nut Width
Standard Thin
22 SS6105 Stainless Frets
10-16" Compound Radius
GraphTech White TUSQ XL
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish

Hardware:

Warmoth Gloss White .09" Pickguard
Vintage Tuners
Vintage string Tree
Vintage Tele Bridge with Brass Saddles
Vintage 50's Knobs
Vintage Strap Buttons
Vintage Neck Plate
JonesyBlues 1950B Bridge Pickup
JonesyBlues Esquire Wiring with CRL 3 Way Switch, CTS 250K Pots, Cloth Wiring, .05 Paper in Oil Tone Caps

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Guitar #9 exaN

-Quilt maple on swamp ash body, vintage tint
-Standard thin maple/maple neck, vintage tint
-DiMarzio Chopper T + Twang King, 1 volume 1 tone

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Guitar #10 Dano

Popsicle Toes

Custom Built Body

Model: Hollow Carved Top Mooncaster
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: 2
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple / Maple on Maple
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: -Tog-V-V-T-T-X (Mooncaster)
Bridge: TOM/STP, Angled Pocket
Stud Install: Use inserts from bridge on order
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel
Binding: Black Binding
Top Finish: Red Dye
Back Finish: Transparent Red

Seymour Duncan P-Rails with Triple Shot. Triple Shot rings wired to switch each pickup to four alternatives;
single coil rail pickup, P-90, both in series and both in parallel giving you a total of 24 permutations with 2 pickups.

Custom Built Neck

Style: Warmoth
Construction: Modern Tiltback Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: 3A Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: 3A Birdseye Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Black Pearloid Celtic Cross
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: Clear Gloss

Grover 18:1 Locking Tuning Keys

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Gentlemen,

If I may, here is the build thread for my entry: 
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=25398.msg365712#msg365712

and here's the paint thread:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=23577.msg345445#msg345445
 
WOW!  I just entered my pride and joy in this contest, only to realize after viewing the competition, that i am way out of my league.  There are some incredible instruments presented in this forum.  Anyway, congratulations to all of the talented folks who built such beautiful pieces of art and musical splendor!  I know their guitars will bring them as much pleasure as mine will bring to me.  May the best axe win!  :cool01:
 
Dano said:
WOW!  I just entered my pride and joy in this contest, only to realize after viewing the competition, that i am way out of my league. 

I'm pretty sure that every entrant feels that way every month...  :headbang:
 
Dano said:
WOW!  I just entered my pride and joy in this contest, only to realize after viewing the competition, that i am way out of my league.  There are some incredible instruments presented in this forum.  Anyway, congratulations to all of the talented folks who built such beautiful pieces of art and musical splendor!  I know their guitars will bring them as much pleasure as mine will bring to me.  May the best axe win!  :cool01:

Dude - my sentiments exactly haha. "Looks like I picked the wrong month to quit sniffing glue!"  Regardless of what outcome presents itself, I've got some inspiration for future builds from these gorgeous axes.  I also picked up an unhealthy fascination with Daphne Blue  :tard:.
 
If there's ever a Guitar-Name-of-the-Month-contest, "Popsicle Toes" should definitely win! :eek:ccasion14: :icon_biggrin:
 
I had a '52 Tele I painted that same light blue color back in the late 70's / early 80's. Put a birdseye maple Schecter neck on it back when they were good American made stuff.
 
Hi guys and gals. I am new to Warmoth and I am in the process of building my first guitar. I may be full of questions  to help me out with my build , so thanks in advance!!
JeffC
 
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