We are now announcing the August, 2021 Guitar of the Month contest! August's contest will be "Warmoth/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 until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, 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.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
Include your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name.
Warmoth or other 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 Voxic
Warmoth 5 string P bass in black korina finished in purple to clear burst with natural binding and:
- Warmoth 4+1 wenge neck
- Pau Ferro fretboard
- black binding
- abalone side dots
- black block inlays
- Hipshot bridge and machine heads
- Seymour Duncan NYC bass pickups with on-on-on toggles that will do series, parallel and coil split
- DR Black Beauties strings
Guitar #2 -VB-
"Ultra-ish Jazzmaster"
Body:
Warmoth Jazzmaster, Alder, Chambered (with F-Hole)
Warmoth Candy Turquoise finish
Black Binding
White Pearl Pickguard
Black Mastery Bridge and Vibrato
Neck:
Warmoth Jazzmaster Neck, Modern Construction
'59 Roundback Profile, Birdseye Maple on Birdseye Maple
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish
Black Binding
Black Mother of Pearl dots
Gotoh Magnum Locking Tuners
Electronics:
Revel Vintage Jazzmaster Pickups
Lower circuit:
250K Linear Volume, 250k Log Tone (S1)
S1 Switch in Tone Pot puts pickups Out-Of-Phase
Switchcraft 90degree Toggle
Upper Circuit:
1Meg Linear Volume
500k Reverse Log Tone
Upper Slider Switch combines pickups in Series and switches to upper Volume/Tone controls
Guitar #3 JPOL007
Neck
Style: Warmoth
Construction: Gibson® Scale (24-3/4") Conversion Tiltback
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Mahogany
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6100 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Sperzel (25/64")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 24-3/4" Conversion
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: No Inlay
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Shellac under Tru-oil covered by high gloss wipe on poly
Tuners: Sperzel 3 + 3
Body
Model: Custom made
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Flame maple on Alder
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: 3-V-T
Bridge: Stetsbar Hardtail Tremolo
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Finish: Transtint green dye applied by me / Southern Polyurethanes Universal Clear Coat applied by Tony Reiter
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Jazz neck, JB Bridge / pickups wired for split coil
Guitar #4 Unzbuzzled
Warmoth walnut-on-walnut P-bass body, rear-routed electronics with contoured heel, forearm contour, and tummy cut with gloss finish.
2015 Fender MIA P-bass neck
Fender vintage '63 reissue P-bass pickups
Hipshot nickel A-style bridge
Fender American nickel-plated tuning pegs, neck plate, ferrules, strap pegs, and string tree
Fender MIA nickel tone pots, volume pots, and input jack
Ernie Ball slinky flats .050-.105
Assembled by Michael Twist
Guitar #5 Gil Music
Guitar name: Mr. Brown
- Warmoth Strat body with Flamed Koa top, Alder back and dark accent line in clear gloss finish
- Warmoth Strat neck with Wenge neck, Wenge fingerboard and stainless steel frets
- Lace Sensor Ultimate Triple pickups
- 7-way wiring (5-way switch and push/pull tone pot for neck on/off)
- Gotoh tremolo bridge and tuner
- Buckeye Burl knobs and switch tip
Guitar #6 Mjh36
Soloist
Alder/Flamed Maple Body
Black-Red-Yellow Burst
Roasted Maple Neck
59 Roundback Profile
6150 Stainless Steel Frets
1.650" Nut Width
Gotoh 510 Tremolo
Gotoh Locking Tuners
Bootstrap Pickups
Push-Push Tone for Neck+Middle in Series
Aaron Signature Oversized Strap Buttons
Guitar #7 Blackouts
Telecaster Deluxe
Neck & Body Warmoth Showcase
Neck : Maple / Maple Standard Thin
10-16 Compound Radius
CBS Headstock
Sperzel Staggered Locking Tuners
Clear Satin Nitro
6105 Frets
Rothko & Frost Logo
Body : Alder
Shoreline Gold
Vintage Spaced Bridge
CTS Pots, Orange Drop Caps
Schaller Straplocks
Chrome Selector Switch, White Vol/Tone Knobs
The Creamery "Classic '71" Hand Wound Wide Range Humbuckers
Weight : 7.5 lbs / 3.4 kg
Guitar #8 Lbpesq
Body:
-Warmoth custom chambered
-Custom contoured heel
-Rear-loaded
-Unique choice Flamed Koa top
-Black Korina body
-Originally finished by Warmoth in satin, later buffed to gloss by Dan Ransom Guitars
Neck:
Modulus Blackknife Graphite
Electronics:
Alembic STR/AE-1 Pickups (active pickups with low pass filter and added "Q" switch)
Hardware:
Babicz Full Contact bridge
Schaller tuners
Neck and back-plate mounted with machine screws and inserts.
Guitar #9 DieterDeux
Baby Blue Baritone
Warmoth Jazzmaster Body
Mahogany
Daphne Blue
Warmoth Baritone Scale Strat Neck
Rosewood on Rosewood
Standard Thin
Abalone Face Dots
6150 Frets
Blue Shell Pick Guard
Lollar P90 for Jazzmaster
Mastery Trem and Bridge
Gunstreet Modern Jazzmaster Wiring Harness
Fender Locking Tuners
Fender Pure Vintage '65 Jazzmaster Knobs
Stringjoy Baritone Light 13.5-62
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 until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, 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.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
Include your UnOfficialWarmoth Forum user name.
Warmoth or other 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 Voxic
Warmoth 5 string P bass in black korina finished in purple to clear burst with natural binding and:
- Warmoth 4+1 wenge neck
- Pau Ferro fretboard
- black binding
- abalone side dots
- black block inlays
- Hipshot bridge and machine heads
- Seymour Duncan NYC bass pickups with on-on-on toggles that will do series, parallel and coil split
- DR Black Beauties strings
Guitar #2 -VB-
"Ultra-ish Jazzmaster"
Body:
Warmoth Jazzmaster, Alder, Chambered (with F-Hole)
Warmoth Candy Turquoise finish
Black Binding
White Pearl Pickguard
Black Mastery Bridge and Vibrato
Neck:
Warmoth Jazzmaster Neck, Modern Construction
'59 Roundback Profile, Birdseye Maple on Birdseye Maple
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish
Black Binding
Black Mother of Pearl dots
Gotoh Magnum Locking Tuners
Electronics:
Revel Vintage Jazzmaster Pickups
Lower circuit:
250K Linear Volume, 250k Log Tone (S1)
S1 Switch in Tone Pot puts pickups Out-Of-Phase
Switchcraft 90degree Toggle
Upper Circuit:
1Meg Linear Volume
500k Reverse Log Tone
Upper Slider Switch combines pickups in Series and switches to upper Volume/Tone controls
Guitar #3 JPOL007
Neck
Style: Warmoth
Construction: Gibson® Scale (24-3/4") Conversion Tiltback
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Mahogany
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6100 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Sperzel (25/64")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 24-3/4" Conversion
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: No Inlay
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Shellac under Tru-oil covered by high gloss wipe on poly
Tuners: Sperzel 3 + 3
Body
Model: Custom made
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Flame maple on Alder
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: 3-V-T
Bridge: Stetsbar Hardtail Tremolo
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Finish: Transtint green dye applied by me / Southern Polyurethanes Universal Clear Coat applied by Tony Reiter
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Jazz neck, JB Bridge / pickups wired for split coil
Guitar #4 Unzbuzzled
Warmoth walnut-on-walnut P-bass body, rear-routed electronics with contoured heel, forearm contour, and tummy cut with gloss finish.
2015 Fender MIA P-bass neck
Fender vintage '63 reissue P-bass pickups
Hipshot nickel A-style bridge
Fender American nickel-plated tuning pegs, neck plate, ferrules, strap pegs, and string tree
Fender MIA nickel tone pots, volume pots, and input jack
Ernie Ball slinky flats .050-.105
Assembled by Michael Twist
Guitar #5 Gil Music
Guitar name: Mr. Brown
- Warmoth Strat body with Flamed Koa top, Alder back and dark accent line in clear gloss finish
- Warmoth Strat neck with Wenge neck, Wenge fingerboard and stainless steel frets
- Lace Sensor Ultimate Triple pickups
- 7-way wiring (5-way switch and push/pull tone pot for neck on/off)
- Gotoh tremolo bridge and tuner
- Buckeye Burl knobs and switch tip
Guitar #6 Mjh36
Soloist
Alder/Flamed Maple Body
Black-Red-Yellow Burst
Roasted Maple Neck
59 Roundback Profile
6150 Stainless Steel Frets
1.650" Nut Width
Gotoh 510 Tremolo
Gotoh Locking Tuners
Bootstrap Pickups
Push-Push Tone for Neck+Middle in Series
Aaron Signature Oversized Strap Buttons
Guitar #7 Blackouts
Telecaster Deluxe
Neck & Body Warmoth Showcase
Neck : Maple / Maple Standard Thin
10-16 Compound Radius
CBS Headstock
Sperzel Staggered Locking Tuners
Clear Satin Nitro
6105 Frets
Rothko & Frost Logo
Body : Alder
Shoreline Gold
Vintage Spaced Bridge
CTS Pots, Orange Drop Caps
Schaller Straplocks
Chrome Selector Switch, White Vol/Tone Knobs
The Creamery "Classic '71" Hand Wound Wide Range Humbuckers
Weight : 7.5 lbs / 3.4 kg
Guitar #8 Lbpesq
Body:
-Warmoth custom chambered
-Custom contoured heel
-Rear-loaded
-Unique choice Flamed Koa top
-Black Korina body
-Originally finished by Warmoth in satin, later buffed to gloss by Dan Ransom Guitars
Neck:
Modulus Blackknife Graphite
Electronics:
Alembic STR/AE-1 Pickups (active pickups with low pass filter and added "Q" switch)
Hardware:
Babicz Full Contact bridge
Schaller tuners
Neck and back-plate mounted with machine screws and inserts.
Guitar #9 DieterDeux
Baby Blue Baritone
Warmoth Jazzmaster Body
Mahogany
Daphne Blue
Warmoth Baritone Scale Strat Neck
Rosewood on Rosewood
Standard Thin
Abalone Face Dots
6150 Frets
Blue Shell Pick Guard
Lollar P90 for Jazzmaster
Mastery Trem and Bridge
Gunstreet Modern Jazzmaster Wiring Harness
Fender Locking Tuners
Fender Pure Vintage '65 Jazzmaster Knobs
Stringjoy Baritone Light 13.5-62
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