Hello all,
We're now announcing the August, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest! August's contest will be "Owner 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 August's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from August 1st until August 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 Ddbltrbl
Body:
Black Korina on Black Korina Telecaster
Tru-Oil Finish
BK Black Guard 55 Stagger Pups
Gotoh Tele Bridge w/ Graphtech Saddles
4-way Switch
Neck:
Black Korina w/ Macassar Ebony fretboard
Tru-Oil Finish
Mini Schallers
SS6105 Fretwire
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut
DangerousR6 Neck Candy
Guitar #2: by Kuro Uma
Body is chambered ash\flamed maple with Turquoise dye and pinstripe
Bare Knuckle engraved Rebel Yell humbuckerand Slow Hand single coils
Wilkinson Trem
Backside has crossed flags and Fuel Injection logo dyed and inked.
Hybrid hardware
Custom "Bel Air" neck plate by Doug
Neck is birdseye maple
Metal "Bel Air" headstock logo
Turquoise inlays
Hipshot Griplock tuners
Gold frets
Tusq nut
Guitar #3: by Updown
Body and bits ….
Tele La Cabronita Solid (Sugar) Pine body.
Customised - rounded off the edges, made a contour heel etc etc
TV Jones Power'tron (Neck)
TV Jones Power'tron Plus (Bridge)
Bridge - American Standard Flat Mount
3 way toggle.
1 x Vol + 1 x Tone, orange drop cap.
Hipshot Chrome Knobs.
Chrome back Ferrules.
Schaller Strap Locks
Finished with a clear water base, then some shellac to try and darken bits.
Neck …
Warmoth Pro Strat neck, cut to a Warhead shape.
Birds Eye Maple / Ebony
NO In-lays
SS Frets 6105
Graph Tech Nut 1-11/16''
Compound Radius
Standard Thin
Clear Satin Nitro
Chrome Sperzel Lock Tuners
Custom Dougie Neck Plate … of cause !!
Custom Dougie Stainless Steel Rear Control Cover. Thanks Doug.
Guitar #4: by Patriot54
Warmoth swamp ash body blank - custom shape
Warmoth Mahogany neck/Rosewood fretboard
DiMarzio Super 3 at the bridge
DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in the middle
DiMarzio D-Activator Neck
Master volume, master tone, 5-way rotary switch
Dangerous R6 neckplate & truss cover
Chrome knobs w/ yellow crystals
Finished with Stew Mac red & yellow dyes
Guitar #5: by Great Ape
Thinline Telecaster; swamp ash, flamed maple neck & fingerboard, Barden bridge & bridge p-up, Duncan 'vintage' p-90 neck p-up, Q-parts stone knobs, Gotoh vintage style tuners, Trans-tint dye w/wood burned, hand painted border.
Guitar #6: by Dolando
Body - Deluxe 5 Jazz
Owner Finished with Tru-oil
Swamp Ash with zebra wood top
Contoured Heel
Rear Routed
Zebra wood control cavity cover
Neck - Deluxe 5 4+1
Owner Finished with Tru-oil (peghead veneer only)
Wenge Shaft wood
Ebony fingerboard
Zebra wood peghead veneer
Graphtech BlackTUSQ nut
Stainless steel frets (SS6150)
Mother of Pearl block inlays
Neck bushings
Hardware (Black)
Hipshot A style bridge 17.5mm string spacing (string through)
Hipshot O-ring knobs
Hipshot Ultralight Tuners
Hipshot 2 string and 3 string retainers
Schaller Strap locks
Electronics
Nordstrand MM5.4 bridge pickup
Nordstrand NJ5S neck pickup with custom 17.5mm bridge string spacing, in a 4 string neck pickup size
Nordstrand 3b-4b 3 band EQ preamp
3 way selector switch for parallel/single/series humbucker switching
Guitar #7: by Cagey
Body - Warmoth L5S
Owner Finished with nitrocellulose lacquer
5 layer binding front/rear by owner
Solid Mahogany
Neck - Warmoth Pro Canary/Canary
Unbleached bone nut
Gold frets (SS6100)
Cream binding
Threaded inserts
Hardware
Schaller mini-locker tuners
Wilkinson roller bridge
Bigsby B5 tailpiece
Schaller Strap locks
Electronics
Bill Lawrence L600 pickups
- 3.6H neck
- 4.8H bridge
1 vol, 1 tone, 3 way toggle
We're now announcing the August, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest! August's contest will be "Owner 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 August's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from August 1st until August 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 Ddbltrbl
Body:
Black Korina on Black Korina Telecaster
Tru-Oil Finish
BK Black Guard 55 Stagger Pups
Gotoh Tele Bridge w/ Graphtech Saddles
4-way Switch
Neck:
Black Korina w/ Macassar Ebony fretboard
Tru-Oil Finish
Mini Schallers
SS6105 Fretwire
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut
DangerousR6 Neck Candy
Guitar #2: by Kuro Uma
Body is chambered ash\flamed maple with Turquoise dye and pinstripe
Bare Knuckle engraved Rebel Yell humbuckerand Slow Hand single coils
Wilkinson Trem
Backside has crossed flags and Fuel Injection logo dyed and inked.
Hybrid hardware
Custom "Bel Air" neck plate by Doug
Neck is birdseye maple
Metal "Bel Air" headstock logo
Turquoise inlays
Hipshot Griplock tuners
Gold frets
Tusq nut
Guitar #3: by Updown
Body and bits ….
Tele La Cabronita Solid (Sugar) Pine body.
Customised - rounded off the edges, made a contour heel etc etc
TV Jones Power'tron (Neck)
TV Jones Power'tron Plus (Bridge)
Bridge - American Standard Flat Mount
3 way toggle.
1 x Vol + 1 x Tone, orange drop cap.
Hipshot Chrome Knobs.
Chrome back Ferrules.
Schaller Strap Locks
Finished with a clear water base, then some shellac to try and darken bits.
Neck …
Warmoth Pro Strat neck, cut to a Warhead shape.
Birds Eye Maple / Ebony
NO In-lays
SS Frets 6105
Graph Tech Nut 1-11/16''
Compound Radius
Standard Thin
Clear Satin Nitro
Chrome Sperzel Lock Tuners
Custom Dougie Neck Plate … of cause !!
Custom Dougie Stainless Steel Rear Control Cover. Thanks Doug.
Guitar #4: by Patriot54
Warmoth swamp ash body blank - custom shape
Warmoth Mahogany neck/Rosewood fretboard
DiMarzio Super 3 at the bridge
DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in the middle
DiMarzio D-Activator Neck
Master volume, master tone, 5-way rotary switch
Dangerous R6 neckplate & truss cover
Chrome knobs w/ yellow crystals
Finished with Stew Mac red & yellow dyes
Guitar #5: by Great Ape
Thinline Telecaster; swamp ash, flamed maple neck & fingerboard, Barden bridge & bridge p-up, Duncan 'vintage' p-90 neck p-up, Q-parts stone knobs, Gotoh vintage style tuners, Trans-tint dye w/wood burned, hand painted border.
Guitar #6: by Dolando
Body - Deluxe 5 Jazz
Owner Finished with Tru-oil
Swamp Ash with zebra wood top
Contoured Heel
Rear Routed
Zebra wood control cavity cover
Neck - Deluxe 5 4+1
Owner Finished with Tru-oil (peghead veneer only)
Wenge Shaft wood
Ebony fingerboard
Zebra wood peghead veneer
Graphtech BlackTUSQ nut
Stainless steel frets (SS6150)
Mother of Pearl block inlays
Neck bushings
Hardware (Black)
Hipshot A style bridge 17.5mm string spacing (string through)
Hipshot O-ring knobs
Hipshot Ultralight Tuners
Hipshot 2 string and 3 string retainers
Schaller Strap locks
Electronics
Nordstrand MM5.4 bridge pickup
Nordstrand NJ5S neck pickup with custom 17.5mm bridge string spacing, in a 4 string neck pickup size
Nordstrand 3b-4b 3 band EQ preamp
3 way selector switch for parallel/single/series humbucker switching
Guitar #7: by Cagey
Body - Warmoth L5S
Owner Finished with nitrocellulose lacquer
5 layer binding front/rear by owner
Solid Mahogany
Neck - Warmoth Pro Canary/Canary
Unbleached bone nut
Gold frets (SS6100)
Cream binding
Threaded inserts
Hardware
Schaller mini-locker tuners
Wilkinson roller bridge
Bigsby B5 tailpiece
Schaller Strap locks
Electronics
Bill Lawrence L600 pickups
- 3.6H neck
- 4.8H bridge
1 vol, 1 tone, 3 way toggle
yours looks cracking! Almost like a 3D printed guitar they've started to do...looks ace! 
ccasion14: And, I bet getting all those worms to go where you want them to was a lot of work! :toothy12:
