guitar/bass of the month question..STATEMENT AND VOTE ENDED....

[bendeg]

I'm going in circles here and still don't know HOW to enter a contest.

My baby is an all Warmoth but I didn't assemble it...A bit ashamed of that because a lot of you do that themselves (congrats by the way to ALL of you) and I just had to click, pay and take away...Way too easy...

If I MAY enter the contest, could someone explain the process please ?


I have much respect for people being able (and daring) to do that themselves. And saying "I don't have the needed tools" is not a real good argument : nobody needs so many tools that they won't fit even in a small appartment and you can ask a friend for a tool, etc...If you really want to do it yourself, you can => people doing that (dying OR finishing OR routing OR assembling) themselves should be chosen first. This is finally the goal of Warmoth : to provide items that don't exist on the market and, obviously, that you have to finish yourself...

I mean, if two (or more) categories exist, all Warmoth or not, the one who finished it him/herself should win in priority, because this is a critical step in the process and he/she should be congratulated for that effort.

 

[Cagey]

The GOTM (Guitar of the Month) contest is pretty straightforward and  informal, and the only prize is the recognition of your peers and having your fiddle's picture in the upper right-hand corner of the header for a month.

Entering is simple. DMRaco starts a thread at the end of each month where you may post entries. An entry is just a pair of pictures that shows the instrument off in its best light. After some number of days, he closes it for entry and lists/shows them all at the start of the thread with a poll so you can vote on your favorite. So far, there have only been two requirements, and he specifies one or the other at the start of the entry period: owner finished or factory finished. The instrument doesn't have to be all-Warmoth, but either the neck or body should be. This is a Warmoth forum, after all. Unofficially <grin>

So, you look 'em all over, decide which one you'd take home if you could have only one of the lot, and vote for it. After several days of voting, the poll is closed, and the instrument with the most votes wins.

I don't remember the GOTY contest last year. If I was even here, it went by me and I don't have any details. But, I suspect it's just the 12 winners from the previous year in a run-off.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell. It doesn't really matter if you built the fiddle or not; these things are all pretty much just screwed/bolted/soldered together and set up. There really isn't that much to it. It's like a 15 piece model where the pieces are big and obvious and will only go together one way. Owner-finished is, of course, a different story. That takes various amounts of skill, even for the simplest finishes.

So, it's more of a beauty contest than anything else, with all that implies <grin>

 

[dmraco]

I'm going in circles here and still don't know HOW to enter a contest.

My baby is an all Warmoth but I didn't assemble it...A bit ashamed of that because a lot of you do that themselves (congrats by the way to ALL of you) and I just had to click, pay and take away...Way too easy...

If I MAY enter the contest, could someone explain the process please ?


I have much respect for people being able (and daring) to do that themselves. And saying "I don't have the needed tools" is not a real good argument : nobody needs so many tools that they won't fit even in a small appartment and you can ask a friend for a tool, etc...If you really want to do it yourself, you can => people doing that (dying OR finishing OR routing OR assembling) themselves should be chosen first. This is finally the goal of Warmoth : to provide items that don't exist on the market and, obviously, that you have to finish yourself...

I mean, if two (or more) categories exist, all Warmoth or not, the one who finished it him/herself should win in priority, because this is a critical step in the process and he/she should be congratulated for that effort.

IM me with any specific questions on GOTM

 

[bendeg]

Ok, I get it now.

Thanks.

 

[line6man]

I'm going in circles here and still don't know HOW to enter a contest.

My baby is an all Warmoth but I didn't assemble it...A bit ashamed of that because a lot of you do that themselves (congrats by the way to ALL of you) and I just had to click, pay and take away...Way too easy...

If I MAY enter the contest, could someone explain the process please ?


I have much respect for people being able (and daring) to do that themselves. And saying "I don't have the needed tools" is not a real good argument : nobody needs so many tools that they won't fit even in a small appartment and you can ask a friend for a tool, etc...If you really want to do it yourself, you can => people doing that (dying OR finishing OR routing OR assembling) themselves should be chosen first. This is finally the goal of Warmoth : to provide items that don't exist on the market and, obviously, that you have to finish yourself...

I mean, if two (or more) categories exist, all Warmoth or not, the one who finished it him/herself should win in priority, because this is a critical step in the process and he/she should be congratulated for that effort.

IM me with any specific questions on GOTM

Your IM address is not listed.

 

[dmraco]

sorry....PM.... :toothy11: