We are now announcing the August 2015 Guitar of the Month contest! August'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 August's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until August 7th, 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.
Non-professionally finished instruments 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 by TonyFlyingSquirrel
Warmoth Baritone Neck, Maple Shaft/Rosewood Fingerboard, 6100 fretwire. Owner finished in True Oil.
Tele body, Owner Finished by covering in laced Deer Hide (Buckskin) with beaded rosette, dentaliam shells.
Pickups; Neck/GFS Neo Vin 7, Bridge: locally custom wound "Bari-Twang" humbucker by John Carlsen Jr (www.carlsenguitar.com)
Electronics: 500k Push/pull Vol. pot (coil tap/bridge), 500k Tone pot (Push/Pull=Phase) with .022 Sprague orange drop cap, 3 position Tele p/u selector switch.
Guitar #2 by Pelagaard
Warmoth Bass VI
Neck:
Wenge, Warmoth Bass VI profile
Bubinga fretboard
SS6150 frets
no inlay, side dots only
Graphtech Black Tusq XL nut
vintage tuners
Body:
Black Korina Bass VI body
Deft semi-gloss lacquer finish, no grain fill
Hardware:
GFS Mean 90 neck and bridge, GFS Brassbottom 7k middle
Master Volume, 500k pot
Master Tone, 500k pot, .01uf and .022uf caps in parallel for a total of .032uf
Individual On/Off switch for each pickup
Modified Mustang bridge (the one Warmoth sells)
Standard Jazzmaster tailpiece, spring removed and locked into place
Neck plate from Dangerous6 (black plate with Nautilus x-ray)
Guitar #3 by Fat Pete
Wilkinson 'Half-Moth' XII
Body:
Guitarbuild.co.uk 2-piece swamp ash Strat body. Routed for vintage trem but converted by me for Gotoh 12-string bridge.
EMG 89 with toggle for 'single coil' mode and standard volume and tone.
Strat pickguard (that had the pickup hole in the wrong place) hacked into just a control cavity cover.
Recessed trem cover and battery box.
Finished in Wudtone 'Surfer Girl' with silver highlights.
Neck:
Warmoth canary/pau ferro '65 12 string.
6105 frets.
Graph Tech nut.
Generic (Sung-Il?) chrome locking tuners.
Laser-cut acrylic Wilkinson logo.
DR6 neck plate.
Guitar #4 by aashishrajesh
Neck (Warmoth):
Vintage/Modern Construction
Maple
Indian Rosewood (dark) Fretboard
Cream Face Dots
White Side Dots
Clear Satin Nitro
Graphtech Black Tusq XL nut
Vintage Tuners (gold)
Body (Warmoth):
Swamp Ash Body
Koa Top Wood
Ivoroid Binding
Wipe-on Satin Finish (minimal coating)
Klein Jazzy Cats Pickups
Internal wiring and volume pots - Elek-trix 5-way Blender Wiring Harness
VS 100 Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo (gold)
Vintage Style tuners by Gotoh (gold)
Rosewood Pickguard by B.Hefner
Guitar #5 by line6man
Homemade scratch built body, consisting of a Curly Black Walnut solidbody core, 3/8" Figured Pomelle Bubinga laminate top, and 1/8" Curly Maple accent line. Stratocaster style shape, with HSH pickup routing, recessed Schaller Floyd, one volume, one tone, and two pickup selector switches. Black hardware, including a custom neckplate by DangerousR6. The control cavity cover matches the lam top and accent line.
Warmoth Indian Rosewood neck with Macassar Ebony fretboard. Stratocaster headstock, SS6150 frets, no inlay, standard thin contour, Floyd nut and Schaller tuners.
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 now until August 7th, 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.
Non-professionally finished instruments 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 by TonyFlyingSquirrel
Warmoth Baritone Neck, Maple Shaft/Rosewood Fingerboard, 6100 fretwire. Owner finished in True Oil.
Tele body, Owner Finished by covering in laced Deer Hide (Buckskin) with beaded rosette, dentaliam shells.
Pickups; Neck/GFS Neo Vin 7, Bridge: locally custom wound "Bari-Twang" humbucker by John Carlsen Jr (www.carlsenguitar.com)
Electronics: 500k Push/pull Vol. pot (coil tap/bridge), 500k Tone pot (Push/Pull=Phase) with .022 Sprague orange drop cap, 3 position Tele p/u selector switch.
Guitar #2 by Pelagaard
Warmoth Bass VI
Neck:
Wenge, Warmoth Bass VI profile
Bubinga fretboard
SS6150 frets
no inlay, side dots only
Graphtech Black Tusq XL nut
vintage tuners
Body:
Black Korina Bass VI body
Deft semi-gloss lacquer finish, no grain fill
Hardware:
GFS Mean 90 neck and bridge, GFS Brassbottom 7k middle
Master Volume, 500k pot
Master Tone, 500k pot, .01uf and .022uf caps in parallel for a total of .032uf
Individual On/Off switch for each pickup
Modified Mustang bridge (the one Warmoth sells)
Standard Jazzmaster tailpiece, spring removed and locked into place
Neck plate from Dangerous6 (black plate with Nautilus x-ray)
Guitar #3 by Fat Pete
Wilkinson 'Half-Moth' XII
Body:
Guitarbuild.co.uk 2-piece swamp ash Strat body. Routed for vintage trem but converted by me for Gotoh 12-string bridge.
EMG 89 with toggle for 'single coil' mode and standard volume and tone.
Strat pickguard (that had the pickup hole in the wrong place) hacked into just a control cavity cover.
Recessed trem cover and battery box.
Finished in Wudtone 'Surfer Girl' with silver highlights.
Neck:
Warmoth canary/pau ferro '65 12 string.
6105 frets.
Graph Tech nut.
Generic (Sung-Il?) chrome locking tuners.
Laser-cut acrylic Wilkinson logo.
DR6 neck plate.
Guitar #4 by aashishrajesh
Neck (Warmoth):
Vintage/Modern Construction
Maple
Indian Rosewood (dark) Fretboard
Cream Face Dots
White Side Dots
Clear Satin Nitro
Graphtech Black Tusq XL nut
Vintage Tuners (gold)
Body (Warmoth):
Swamp Ash Body
Koa Top Wood
Ivoroid Binding
Wipe-on Satin Finish (minimal coating)
Klein Jazzy Cats Pickups
Internal wiring and volume pots - Elek-trix 5-way Blender Wiring Harness
VS 100 Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo (gold)
Vintage Style tuners by Gotoh (gold)
Rosewood Pickguard by B.Hefner
Guitar #5 by line6man
Homemade scratch built body, consisting of a Curly Black Walnut solidbody core, 3/8" Figured Pomelle Bubinga laminate top, and 1/8" Curly Maple accent line. Stratocaster style shape, with HSH pickup routing, recessed Schaller Floyd, one volume, one tone, and two pickup selector switches. Black hardware, including a custom neckplate by DangerousR6. The control cavity cover matches the lam top and accent line.
Warmoth Indian Rosewood neck with Macassar Ebony fretboard. Stratocaster headstock, SS6150 frets, no inlay, standard thin contour, Floyd nut and Schaller tuners.
