We are now announcing the August 2022 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.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 Spud
Guitar "Kosmo"
Warmoth Tele Hybrid Ash
Warmoth conversion neck maple CBS
6115 stainless, Fender/Schaller staggered, locking tuners
Duncan Lipsticks
Gibson 57 Classic
CTS Pots
Switchcraft 5way
22 AWG cloth pushback
Sprauge Cap
Custom "Kosmo" neckplate
Aluminum Gold pickguard
Alloy Knobs
Labrador headstock decal
Finished, wired, and setup by Spud
Guitar #2 ragamuffin
"The Gold Digger"
Body: roasted swamp ash "Hybrid Strat" finished in tru oil, yellow tortoise pickguard
Neck: ziricote on canary baritone tele neck, 1-11/16 tusq nut '59 roundback profile
Electronics: Supro goildfoil pickups, volume, treble, bass cut knobs.
Hardware: Hipshot locking tuners, chopped tele bridge with swiveling/adjustable saddles, brass parts from Forney Custom
Guitar #3 hardrockguy
Neck:
- Warmoth Arcade 24 fret
- Vivian Campbell Nightswan Moonglow Inlays
- Off-menu High-Grade Roasted Flame Maple
- Sperzel gold locking tuners with alternating red/purple locks/posts
- Gotoh gold locking nut
- 5 coats of tru-oil applied on the rear of the neck
- (Not shown) threaded inserts (EZ-Lok)
Body:
- Warmoth Korina Soloist with 2 humbuckers (Suhr SSH+ and SSV)
- Flame top
- 5-way selector for series/parallel options
- Tesi Killswitch
- modified Gotoh 1996T bridge (no, they do *not* fit a standard FR route!)
- 45 degree bevel with deep bevel reveal on the two sides and the bottom of the horns
natural binding
- Custom contoured neck heel with countersunk ferrules for high-fret accessibility
- triple sanded back adaptation of PRS Dragon Burst for the finish with purple/red/gold
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.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 Spud
Guitar "Kosmo"
Warmoth Tele Hybrid Ash
Warmoth conversion neck maple CBS
6115 stainless, Fender/Schaller staggered, locking tuners
Duncan Lipsticks
Gibson 57 Classic
CTS Pots
Switchcraft 5way
22 AWG cloth pushback
Sprauge Cap
Custom "Kosmo" neckplate
Aluminum Gold pickguard
Alloy Knobs
Labrador headstock decal
Finished, wired, and setup by Spud
Guitar #2 ragamuffin
"The Gold Digger"
Body: roasted swamp ash "Hybrid Strat" finished in tru oil, yellow tortoise pickguard
Neck: ziricote on canary baritone tele neck, 1-11/16 tusq nut '59 roundback profile
Electronics: Supro goildfoil pickups, volume, treble, bass cut knobs.
Hardware: Hipshot locking tuners, chopped tele bridge with swiveling/adjustable saddles, brass parts from Forney Custom
Guitar #3 hardrockguy
Neck:
- Warmoth Arcade 24 fret
- Vivian Campbell Nightswan Moonglow Inlays
- Off-menu High-Grade Roasted Flame Maple
- Sperzel gold locking tuners with alternating red/purple locks/posts
- Gotoh gold locking nut
- 5 coats of tru-oil applied on the rear of the neck
- (Not shown) threaded inserts (EZ-Lok)
Body:
- Warmoth Korina Soloist with 2 humbuckers (Suhr SSH+ and SSV)
- Flame top
- 5-way selector for series/parallel options
- Tesi Killswitch
- modified Gotoh 1996T bridge (no, they do *not* fit a standard FR route!)
- 45 degree bevel with deep bevel reveal on the two sides and the bottom of the horns
natural binding
- Custom contoured neck heel with countersunk ferrules for high-fret accessibility
- triple sanded back adaptation of PRS Dragon Burst for the finish with purple/red/gold
