We are now announcing the August, 2016 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 a maximum of 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 8th, 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 Gravity Jim
Guitar name: Zencaster
Warmoth chambered mahogany/mahogany body, finished in Danish oil and beeswax (no wood filler).
Warmoth neck, compound radius 10-16”, select ebony fingerboard, 6105 frets, abalone dots, bone nut, vintage-tint satin finish (by Warmoth).
EMG X-series pickups, wired Vol., neck Tone, bridge Tone.
Solid ebony pick guard (and matching back plate) in gloss nitro by Rocco Guitars.
Gotoh vintage-style bridge plates, GraphTech saddles, Calaham block and custom trem arm.
Schaller locking tuners with ebony replacement keys.
Can’t remember where I bought the neck plate, but engraved on it are two kanji characters representing “beautiful gift,” the common kanji descriptor for “Zen.”
Cloisonné yin-yang badge from a shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Custom headstock decal ink-jet printed, featuring a Fender-like logo based on my signature. (Note the soft drop-shadow under the sig.)
This isn’t a recent build: the finish is completely waterproof, but it took two years to fully cure, with fresh coats of beeswax being applied over 10 coats of Danish oil… at first it was waxed once a week, then eventually twice a month, once a month, every other month, etc. It now only requires a reapplication once a year or less. The goal was to create a finish that gave the guitar the vibe of an old cello.
Guitar #2 Swarfrat
Warmoth chambered Black Korina strat, tung oil finish
Warmoth roast maple baritone fatback neck with GD6100 gold frets, ebony fingerboard
Wilkinson VS100 tremolo
GFS Memphis humbuckers
Roland GK2
Guitar #3 Tweed
Body: Warmoth showcase Ash, Minwax blue stain, Minwax Wipe On Poly
Neck: Warmoth boatneck Purpleheart, Pau Ferro fretboard
GFS hardware and electronics except for Warmoth Modified Bridge, tailpiece
Guitar #4 Ninjachef
WGD Quilted Maple with a Amber Flame finish
Warmoth neck Roasted Maple
Zircote fretboard
Mother of pearl dots and side dots
DiMarzio Dominion Pickups Neck and Bridge
Custom Backplate
Custom Neckplate
Push/pull coil split
Gotoh Tuners
Orange Annodized knobs
DAddario NYXL strings
Guitar #5 Kuro Uma
Body is figured black korina\UC flamed roasted maple
Bare Knuckle Black Hawk and Cobra
Graphtech Ghost loaded Floyd Rose
Ebony knobs and all black hardware
Custom neck heel and recessed bolting
5MW girlie tattoo...
Flamed roasted neck and fretboard. angled paddle head cut to custom headstock design
Heel shaped to match the custom neck pocket
Hipshot tuners
Black block inlays and binding
All black hardware
Guitar #6 crunch777
Model: Jazzmaster Bass 4
Orientation: Right handed
Wood: Swamp Ash
Pickup Rout: P Bass® (Standard Split Set), J Bass® (Bridge, 3 3/4")
Contours: / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
A couple of years ago I took a pawn shop 2005 MIM Blue P-Bass and started to make is more black by replacing parts. I finally decided to buy a jazzmaster bass body and make it black to get it even more black!
This is a Angelus Black Leather Dye with Tru-Oil.
Warmoth pick guard.
Fender P-Bass MIM Neck from 2005.
HipShot tuners with drop tuner.
Quarter Pound P with Hot Stack J pickups.
2 volumes, no tone
Babicz Bridge
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 a maximum of 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 8th, 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 Gravity Jim
Guitar name: Zencaster
Warmoth chambered mahogany/mahogany body, finished in Danish oil and beeswax (no wood filler).
Warmoth neck, compound radius 10-16”, select ebony fingerboard, 6105 frets, abalone dots, bone nut, vintage-tint satin finish (by Warmoth).
EMG X-series pickups, wired Vol., neck Tone, bridge Tone.
Solid ebony pick guard (and matching back plate) in gloss nitro by Rocco Guitars.
Gotoh vintage-style bridge plates, GraphTech saddles, Calaham block and custom trem arm.
Schaller locking tuners with ebony replacement keys.
Can’t remember where I bought the neck plate, but engraved on it are two kanji characters representing “beautiful gift,” the common kanji descriptor for “Zen.”
Cloisonné yin-yang badge from a shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Custom headstock decal ink-jet printed, featuring a Fender-like logo based on my signature. (Note the soft drop-shadow under the sig.)
This isn’t a recent build: the finish is completely waterproof, but it took two years to fully cure, with fresh coats of beeswax being applied over 10 coats of Danish oil… at first it was waxed once a week, then eventually twice a month, once a month, every other month, etc. It now only requires a reapplication once a year or less. The goal was to create a finish that gave the guitar the vibe of an old cello.
Guitar #2 Swarfrat
Warmoth chambered Black Korina strat, tung oil finish
Warmoth roast maple baritone fatback neck with GD6100 gold frets, ebony fingerboard
Wilkinson VS100 tremolo
GFS Memphis humbuckers
Roland GK2
Guitar #3 Tweed
Body: Warmoth showcase Ash, Minwax blue stain, Minwax Wipe On Poly
Neck: Warmoth boatneck Purpleheart, Pau Ferro fretboard
GFS hardware and electronics except for Warmoth Modified Bridge, tailpiece
Guitar #4 Ninjachef
WGD Quilted Maple with a Amber Flame finish
Warmoth neck Roasted Maple
Zircote fretboard
Mother of pearl dots and side dots
DiMarzio Dominion Pickups Neck and Bridge
Custom Backplate
Custom Neckplate
Push/pull coil split
Gotoh Tuners
Orange Annodized knobs
DAddario NYXL strings
Guitar #5 Kuro Uma
Body is figured black korina\UC flamed roasted maple
Bare Knuckle Black Hawk and Cobra
Graphtech Ghost loaded Floyd Rose
Ebony knobs and all black hardware
Custom neck heel and recessed bolting
5MW girlie tattoo...
Flamed roasted neck and fretboard. angled paddle head cut to custom headstock design
Heel shaped to match the custom neck pocket
Hipshot tuners
Black block inlays and binding
All black hardware
Guitar #6 crunch777
Model: Jazzmaster Bass 4
Orientation: Right handed
Wood: Swamp Ash
Pickup Rout: P Bass® (Standard Split Set), J Bass® (Bridge, 3 3/4")
Contours: / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
A couple of years ago I took a pawn shop 2005 MIM Blue P-Bass and started to make is more black by replacing parts. I finally decided to buy a jazzmaster bass body and make it black to get it even more black!
This is a Angelus Black Leather Dye with Tru-Oil.
Warmoth pick guard.
Fender P-Bass MIM Neck from 2005.
HipShot tuners with drop tuner.
Quarter Pound P with Hot Stack J pickups.
2 volumes, no tone
Babicz Bridge
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