We are now announcing the August 2017 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 added to this message, which is August'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 DMRACO
Body:
Custom Purple Heart and Ambrosia Maple 12 piece body. (Concept borrowed from B3Guy)
Duncan pickups
Brass mounting plates and Neck plate from Doug
Wilkinson Bridge
GFS Brass tuners
Gloss Nitro finish
Single volume and three way toggle.
Custom LED lights that offer over a dozen different colors.
Neck:
Warmoth Standard thin maple Warhead neck with Purpleheart fret board and Gold frets and abalone dot inlay
Satin poly finish on back and Gloss Poly on headstock.
Guitar #2 2zee
The "Perfect Mirror"
Neck :
- modified Fender maple/rosewood
- 25 1/2" scale, standard thin profile, 7.25 radius, vintage construction
- TUSQ XL Nut 1 5/8"
- 6105 frets(nickle)
- Gotoh vintage Kluson type tuners
- perfect mirror decal
- clear gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
Body :
- Warmoth alder 2P 3lbs,11oz
- Callaham Vintage S Model Bridge Assembly for lefty
- tremolo springs allocated with Raw Vintage and Callaham
- chrome plated brass 2mm neck plate
- stainless steel neck attachment screws
- Schaller straplocks
Color :
- hand painted on fiesta red
(all paint specially mixed in reference to remaining fragment of the original guitar)
Electronics :
- Lindy Fralin Woodstock69set pickups
- OAK 5Way switch
- 1 x vol, 2 x tone (front & mid, rear)
- CTS250K lefty vintage potentiometers
- Montreux Retrovibe Caps "F66"
- Switchcraft jack
- american cloth wire
- Kester44 solder
Guitar #3 timezon3
Details:
Body (Warmoth) -
alder with quilted maple cap
stained purple with Deft Gloss clearcoat
Fender American Standard tremolo
Electronics -
Lollar Blond pickups
wired with master volume, master tone, blender pot
Neck (Warmoth) -
modern construction, 1-3/4" nut width
purpleheart with ebony fretboard
new Supernova inlays
SS6105 frets
hipshot open-back locking tuners
no finish
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 August'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 DMRACO
Body:
Custom Purple Heart and Ambrosia Maple 12 piece body. (Concept borrowed from B3Guy)
Duncan pickups
Brass mounting plates and Neck plate from Doug
Wilkinson Bridge
GFS Brass tuners
Gloss Nitro finish
Single volume and three way toggle.
Custom LED lights that offer over a dozen different colors.
Neck:
Warmoth Standard thin maple Warhead neck with Purpleheart fret board and Gold frets and abalone dot inlay
Satin poly finish on back and Gloss Poly on headstock.
Guitar #2 2zee
The "Perfect Mirror"
Neck :
- modified Fender maple/rosewood
- 25 1/2" scale, standard thin profile, 7.25 radius, vintage construction
- TUSQ XL Nut 1 5/8"
- 6105 frets(nickle)
- Gotoh vintage Kluson type tuners
- perfect mirror decal
- clear gloss nitrocellulose lacquer
Body :
- Warmoth alder 2P 3lbs,11oz
- Callaham Vintage S Model Bridge Assembly for lefty
- tremolo springs allocated with Raw Vintage and Callaham
- chrome plated brass 2mm neck plate
- stainless steel neck attachment screws
- Schaller straplocks
Color :
- hand painted on fiesta red
(all paint specially mixed in reference to remaining fragment of the original guitar)
Electronics :
- Lindy Fralin Woodstock69set pickups
- OAK 5Way switch
- 1 x vol, 2 x tone (front & mid, rear)
- CTS250K lefty vintage potentiometers
- Montreux Retrovibe Caps "F66"
- Switchcraft jack
- american cloth wire
- Kester44 solder
Guitar #3 timezon3
Details:
Body (Warmoth) -
alder with quilted maple cap
stained purple with Deft Gloss clearcoat
Fender American Standard tremolo
Electronics -
Lollar Blond pickups
wired with master volume, master tone, blender pot
Neck (Warmoth) -
modern construction, 1-3/4" nut width
purpleheart with ebony fretboard
new Supernova inlays
SS6105 frets
hipshot open-back locking tuners
no finish
