April 2020 Guitar of the Month Submissions

[GOM]

We are now announcing the April 2020 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 added to this message, which is April's submission thread.

Submissions will be accepted from now until exactly 7 days from now (please check this post's date and time), 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. Links will not be included in the entry descriptions.

Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.

Include your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name.

Owner or other non-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 Fat Pete

Medium Density '66 Freak Out Tele

Body:
4 piece MDF chambered sandwich construction
PlangentPly® tone plywood block under the bridge
Hand cut '66 soundhole with Mothers Of Invention Freak Out decoupage insert
Rattle can Ford metallic jade green finish

Neck:
Warmoth Modern Construction Tele
Goncalo alves shaft and fingerboard
Unfinished
1 11/16" nut width
Clapton profile
6150 frets
Earvana nut

Electrics:
Both pickups are P90 style, hand wound in the UK
Neck in HB form factor by Alegree
Bridge in Tele form factor by Catswhisker
Standard 3-way Tele wiring with 500k pots on reverse mounted control plate

Hardware:
Unbranded aged control, bridge plate and vintage-style tuners
Compensated brass bridge saddles
3-ply parchment pickguard
Graph Tech string retainers

Guitar #2 PhilHill

Barbequed Tele

Body;
Warmoth Tele body in Swamp Ash
Charred and Leather dyed with Tru Oil finish

Neck;
Fender Strat neck from 60th Anniversary Power Strat.

Electrics;
Fender Tex Mex Telecaster pickups.
CTS 250k Pots, Switchcraft Selector switch.
Orange Drop Cap .22uf, Switchcraft Output Jack

Hardware
Gotoh Tuners
Fender 6 foot Tele Bridge
Fender Tele Control Plate and Switch Tip
Ernie Ball Control knobs
Vintage Forge Pickup Ring and Jackplate
Icon Plates Neck Plate
Strap Lock strap pins stolen off an Ibanez Acoustic.

Guitar #3 Rick

StratoMaster Deluxe (Ovation Edition)

BODY
Jazzmaster Alder (chambered body from the showcase)
7/8's jack side hole
Routed for three humbuckers
Tummy cut and Forearm contour.

BODY HARDWARE AND ELECTRONICS
Gotoh NS510T steel saddles, zinc block
2 point trem 10.5 spacing
String Saver Classic saddles with insert
Tremel-no
Rail Hammer Anvil Bridge Humbucker Chrome
Rail Hammer Chisel Neck Humbucker Chrome
CTS500K Pots 
MJ1  Mono Jack, By Switchcraft
SJP1C  Square Side Jack Plate, Chrome
S1 Pickguard Screws, Chrome                 
S4  Neck Screws, Chrome
Hipshot O-Ring Guitar or Bass Control Knob, Polished Chrome (Volume)
Hipshot Mini O-Ring Guitar or Bass Control Knob Chrome  (Tone)

Free-way 3b3-01 Switch wired for
bridge
bridge and neck parallel
neck
bridge and neck series
bridge and neck out of phase series (very nasally)
bridge and neck out of phase parallel (slightly nasal)

Dunlop dual design strap locks chrome
Felt under jack plate               
Felt washers under strap pins 
Blue shell jazzmaster pickguard by Warmoth

BODY FINISH
Aussie Ocean Turquoise made from
a wudtone dye kit, T-bird, plus extra pigment and a bottle of sparkle (12 coats)
Followed by 23 coats of Tru-Oil

NECK
Warmoth, Superwide Strat, Right Handed Reverse, Birdseye Maple,
Indian Rosewood, Wolfgang profile, 21 frets, stainless frets,
Arizona Turquoise Stone Dots, GraphTech White TUSQ XL - Standard Nut

NECK HARDWARE
Engraved Neck Plate (with black plastic pad)
Hipshot Grip-Lock 6 in line Left Hand staggered post Chrome locking tuner with UMP plate 
Hipshot Button Set A12 Amber

NECK Finish
Sunset Orange Amber with highlighted birds eyes.
Keda 5 dye powder kit (First Coat Dark Amber, Second Coat Orange Amber)
Tru-oil 15 coats

Daddario Strings 10’s

Weighs 7Lbs  3.2 oz

Guitar #4 Great Ape

Tele body-alder
Neck-roasted maple
pickups-Seymour Duncan vintage P-90,
Seymour Duncan Antiquity Hmbkr
Wood burned & hand painted

Guitar #5 Dano

Red VIP

Body:

Model: Hollow Carved Top VIP
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: 2
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple / Maple on Maple
UC Front Laminate: LT3083
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: V-T-Tog (PRS)
Bridge: Gotoh 510, Angled Pocket
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut
Binding: Black Binding

Owner Finished - Front Nitrocellulose Lacquer on of Red Dye.  Back – Nitrocellulose Lacquer on Vintage Amber Dye

Neck:

Style: Warmoth
Construction: Modern Tiltback Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: 3A Flame Maple
Fingerboard Wood: 3A Flame Maple
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
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 Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Owner Finished Nitrocellulose Lacquer on Vintage Amber Dye

Gotoh 510 Angled Pocket Wraparound Bridge
Grover locking 18:1 Tuning Keys
Seymour Duncan P-Rails with Triple Shot Pickup Rings
CTS 500k pots and .022uF Tone Cap
3-way toggle switch

 

[GOM]

Fat Pete kicks off this month's contest! Good luck!

 

[rgand]

That's a good way to start, too. :icon_thumright:

 

[GOM]

Welcome PhilHill to the contest!

 

[mayfly]

After seeing the first entry I decided just to not enter. 

 

[Jebberz]

Only 2 entries and I already don't know where my vote will go... both are magnificent!

 

[PhilHill]

I'm afraid I have to admit to a mistake in my description, the Tele has Grover tuners, not Gotoh. Sorry, I think I've gone senile but right now I can't remember. :dontknow:

 

[rgand]

We'll forgive the tuners. That charred finish looks great.

Now we have a Tele cook-off!

 

[PhilHill]

We'll forgive the tuners. That charred finish looks great.

Now we have a Tele cook-off!

Thank you. The finish was an experiment at the start, didn't know how it would turn out. But I have to admit, it's not bad. All that sweating over nothing. :doh:

 

[aussieowner]

After seeing the first entry I decided just to not enter. 

Likewise.

 

[rgand]

After seeing the first entry I decided just to not enter. 

Likewise.

You won't be out anything. If you don't win, you can enter it again another time. Good competition is what makes these GOMs interesting. It's all in fun anyway. :icon_thumright:

 

[PhilHill]

Really, what do you say people? Throw some pics up here. Two competitors is only fun in a drag race, or strip poker. I don't honestly care if I win or not. Just by putting the entry in lot's of people see my guitar so I win anyway.  :icon_thumright:

 

[mayfly]

I was just about to ender my Warmoth XII, but then I realized that I didn't actually paint the thing myself (my bass player did it). 

Consider yourself lucky Fat Pete!

 

[Verne Bunsen]

I was just about to ender my Warmoth XII, but then I realized that I didn't actually paint the thing myself (my bass player did it). 

Consider yourself lucky Fat Pete!

Well, it is “owner/non-professionally finished”, so unless your bass player is a pro I would think it would still qualify... Just sayin’...

 

[Fat Pete]

I was just about to ender my Warmoth XII, but then I realized that I didn't actually paint the thing myself (my bass player did it). 

Consider yourself lucky Fat Pete!

Well, it is “owner/non-professionally finished”, so unless your bass player is a pro I would think it would still qualify... Just sayin’...

I'll just say that too, so unless your bass player's also an ace sprayer, get that 12 entered.

I mean, obviously my Tele is almost impossibly cool - it's one of my builds, what do you expect?* - but  it's still made of MDF; the paint cost more than the body and the paint was cheap.

*If that doesn't annoy a few people into entering, I give up.

 

[rgand]

I was just about to ender my Warmoth XII, but then I realized that I didn't actually paint the thing myself (my bass player did it). 

Consider yourself lucky Fat Pete!

Well, it is “owner/non-professionally finished”, so unless your bass player is a pro I would think it would still qualify... Just sayin’...

I'll just say that too, so unless your bass player's also an ace sprayer, get that 12 entered.

I mean, obviously my Tele is almost impossibly cool - it's one of my builds, what do you expect?* - but  it's still made of MDF; the paint cost more than the body and the paint was cheap.

*If that doesn't annoy a few people into entering, I give up.

:laughing11:

 

[PhilHill]

I was just about to ender my Warmoth XII, but then I realized that I didn't actually paint the thing myself (my bass player did it). 

Consider yourself lucky Fat Pete!

Well, it is “owner/non-professionally finished”, so unless your bass player is a pro I would think it would still qualify... Just sayin’...

I'll just say that too, so unless your bass player's also an ace sprayer, get that 12 entered.

I mean, obviously my Tele is almost impossibly cool - it's one of my builds, what do you expect?* - but  it's still made of MDF; the paint cost more than the body and the paint was cheap.

*If that doesn't annoy a few people into entering, I give up.

:laughing11: :laughing11:

Bravo, Bravo!

 

[GOM]

Rick and Great Ape take us up to 4! Good luck guys and keep 'em coming!

 

[Dano]

Some really interesting creations this month!  Mine is pretty pedestrian but it plays nice!  Good luck to all.

 

[GOM]

Dano enters the contest! Wish him luck!