Hello all,
We're now announcing the July, 2012 Guitar of the Month contest! July's contest will be for "Warmoth Finished" instruments.
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.
In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is July's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from July 1st to July 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by Death by Uberschall
KEANU
Hawaiian for "Cool Breeze", "The Breeze" or "Cool Breeze Over Mountains", depending on where you ask.
(not the actor)
Warmoth Body:
Flat Top Soloist
Slight brown burst to clear gloss
No binding, clean line to clear Gloss
1-piece Mahogany body
Unique Choice flame Koa top
Contoured heel
HxS pick-up routing
Recessed TOM routing
Angled string thru body
Warmoth Neck:
Warmoth Pro
Slight brown burst to clear gloss
No binding, clean line to raw finish
Canary neck
Black Ebony board
Warmoth "DbU" headstock shape
Flame Koa veneer from body laminate
1-11/16 nut width
'59 Roundback profile
Straight 12 radius
24 fret extension
SS6100 frets
No inlays/face dots
White side dots
Raw neck back
Hardware:
All black
EMG 81/SA
TonePros TOM w/locking shaft option
Gotoh tuners
Electrosocket
Single volume
CRL 3-way blade switch w/black knob
DR6 Top Notch Crap custom neck plate and truss cover
Guitar #2 by Super Turbo Custom Deluxe
-Flame Maple laminate on Mahogany
-double MM pickup route
-Ivoroid top binding
-blue dye top, transparent blue back (Warmoth finished)
-truss rod trench route, no neck removal for adjustments
-5 way blade switch route
-7/8" output side jack
Neck:
-Wenge/Jet Black Ebony
-no face dots, side dots only
-white corian nut
-3/8" tuner ream
-Fender right hand reverse headstock
-6130 nickel frets
Electronics:
-Carvin passive 4 conductor humbucking MM style pickups
-5 way switch
N parallel
N+B outer coils parallel
N+B full humbucking
N+B inner coils parallel (may change to bridge series humbucking)
B parallel
-500k CTS pots
-.022 mf orange drop cap
-shielded cavities
-my own design grounding bus to eliminate soldering to backs of pots
Hardware:
-DangerousR6 neckplate
-Hipshot string thru A type bridge (Fender AM Standard retrofit)
-Hipshot 3/8" Ultralites tuning machines
-Hipshot o-ring control knobs
-Hipshot 3 string retainer
-string thru ferrules
-Electrosocket Jack
-Schaller strap locks
Guitar #3 by gstring120
Body
7/8 Warmoth Strat Showcase swamp ash body
Contoured heel
Radiant finish
Neck
7/8 Warmoth Pro wenge neck with macassar ebony fingerboard
Right hand reverse headstock
Mother of pearl dots
Standard thin contour with 10-16” compound radius
1 11/16 nut
6150 fretwire
‘GregS’ decal on headstock
Hardware
Seymour Duncan Distortion (bridge)
Seymour Duncan Jazz (neck)
Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo
Schaller mini tuners
Three-way switch
All hardware finished in black
Guitar #4 by LushTone
Neck:
- Warmoth Pro strat
- Goncalo alves back and unique choice fingerboard
- '59 Roundback profile
- 1 11/16" nut width
- Bone nut
- 22 stainless steel 6105 frets
- No fingerboard inlays, side dots only
- No finish
- Gotoh 510 tuners
Body:
- Warmoth chambered strat
- One piece mahogany back
- Wild maple top
- Clear gloss back
- Tiger's eye dye top
- Glendale bridge plate and compensated titanium saddles
- Van Zandt Vintage Plus neck/middle pickups
- Van Zandt Blues bridge pickup
- Full electrostatic shielding
- 3-way switch, volume/tone/tone
Frets and parts assembled by Mike Lull's Custom Guitars. Set up using PLEK by Mike lull. Plays like a dream. Glendale tele bridges rock btw, best string definition I've found. Thank you Warmoth for superb craftmanship, materials and unrivaled custom options.
Guitar #5 by Patrick from Davis
Jazzblaster
Neck
Warmoth Pro Jazzmaster Neck
Wenge with a Rosewood board
'59 Roundback
SS6100 Frets
Compensated bone nut
Planetwaves Tuners
10-16" Compound Radius
Block Pearloid inlays
Body
Jazzmaster Shape
Warmoth Surf Green Finish
WRHB Pickup routes
Black Korina
Telenator Mod 2 Pickups
Red Tortoise Shell Pick Guard from Terrapin Guitars
Black WRHB pickup rings from Terrapin guitars
Callaham ABR-1 TOM
Gotoh Stopbar
V:V:T wiring with a tropical fish 0.022 uF mylar cap and a no load tone pot
Bakelite knobs from RS Guitarworks
Guitar #6 by Bagman67
Bête Noire
Double-bound black swamp ash Telecaster body by finished by Warmoth
Cream binding
Cream three-layer pickguard
TxH pickup routing
Gotoh modern Tele bridge
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound tele bridge pickup with coil tap
GFS Dream 90 neck pickup
Four way switch:
1 - bridge
2 - bridge/neck series
3 - bridge-neck parallel
4 - neck only
Mini-switch adds tapped option for all positions with bridge pickup engaged
Warmoth Pro Telecaster neck
Boatneck profile
Warmoth-instaleld black Graphtech nut
Planet Waves locking tuners
6115 frets
No inlays
Macassar ebony on flame maple
Finished in tru-oil by yours truly
Assembled and wired by yours truly, final setup by Keith Holland Guitars in Los Gatos, CA (recommended highly)
Guitar #7 by Televinklad
Neck:
Warmoth Strat Pro
Goncalo Alves with Ebony fretboard
Standard thin profile
10-16" compound radius
6100 nickel-silver frets
1 11/16 width
Locking Nut
Tuners:
Gotoh SG381-07
Pickups:
Neck: Tom Anderson H2
Bridge: Tom Anderson H3
Tremolo:
Recessed Gotoh 1996T
5-way superswitch wired as follows:
1) Neck Humbucker
2) Neck Inner Coil
3) Neck Inner Coil + Bridge Inner Coil
4) Bridge Inner Coil
5) Bridge Humbucker
EVH low friction volume pot
Guitar #8 by Updown
Warmoth finished Custom Built Strat Body with a Showcase (stunning) Neck.
Name …. Stoomtrooper
Body ... Strat
Chambered
Black Korina
Rear Rout
Mahogany Ply Top
Black Binding Top
Alpine White Finish
Rout is Recessed TOM with Angled string though.
Hardware …
Black Gotoh TOM Bridge
Black, Back & Front Ferrules
SD Cool Rails (Neck) with Black Ring
SD Hot Rails (Middle) with Black Ring
SD Dimebucker (Bridge) with Black SD Triple Shot
5 Way Switch, Black Tip
2 x CTS 500K Pots
1 x Vol, 1 x Tone
Orange Drop Cap
Black Knobs with (painted White Dot)
Black Side Output Jack
Black Schaller Strap Locks
Neck … Raw
Warmoth Pro
Pau-Ferro
Ebony / Macassar (Wow) Fretboard
1 11/16" Nut Width
Standard thin
10-16" Compound Radius
SS6115 Stainless Frets
MOP Dots Inlay
GraphTech Black Nut
Black Sperzel Lok Tuners
Custom Dougie Neck Plate, Black (painted etched area White by me)
Warmoth & Doug supplied the bits, I did the rest.
Guitar #9 by MichaelH
Name: 'Black Korina'
Warmoth Body from Showcase:
Les Paul Double Cutaway Carved Top
Black Korina on Black Korina
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish from Warmoth
Strat Controls
Warmoth Neck from Showcase:
Warmoth Pro Angled
White Korina with Ebony-Fretboard
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish
25-1/2 inch Scale
Standard thin Contour
1 11/16 inch Nut Width
22 frets with 6150 Fretwire
10-16" Compound Radius
Mother Of Pearl Dot Inlays
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL Nut
Hardware: (all black)
Planet Waves Auto Trim Tuners
Gotoh Stop Tail Piece
Schaller TOM Piezo Bridge
Schaller Strap Locks
Electronics:
5-Way-SuperSwitch
3 DiMarzio Push-Pull Pots 500kOhm (Volume / Tone / Piezo Volume)
Graph Tech Acousti-Phonic Preamp
battery Box build into back plate
Seymour Duncan Pickups
- Neck : SH2n Jazz
- Middel: STK-S4M RV/RP
- Bridge: Jeff Beck SH-4JB
Function of Push-Pull Pots:
- 'Volume' selects Humbucker (down) or Single Coil Mode (up)
- 'Tone' selects 'Tele-Mode' (down) or Middle Pickup (up)
- 'Piezo-Volume' selects Magnetic Pickups (down) or Piezo Pickup (up)
This may sound complicated ;-) ... but there are mainly three configurations:
1. All Push-Pull Pots down (Gibson, Strat & Tele Mix), 5-way switch selects
- Neck Humbucker
- Neck inner, Middle
- Neck inner, Bridge outer
- Middle, Bridge innner
- Bridge Humbucker
2. Volume & Tone Push-Pull up - Standard Strat configuration
3. Piezo Volume Push-Pull up - Acoustic Sound only
Guitar #10 by Thpinna
BODY
Super lightweight Flame maple over chambered swamp ash, direct from the showcase.
Caribbean Burst with a Blue dye back.
Natural Masked binding.
NECK
Dark Indian Rosewood fingerboard over Flame Maple neck
Vintage Modern Truss Rod
Standard Thin, 1 11/16 spread.
Graphtech nut
SS6105 fretwire
No Inlay - side dots only
Clear Satin finish
ELECTRONICS
Kinman Mk-3 pickups with Kinman's K7 harness ( )
Third knob is a volume blend knob for the neck pickup so it can be dialed in when in positions 4 and 5.
EVERYTHING ELSE
Cream pearloid pick guard with the Updown modification (thanks Updown! )
Sperzel Locking tuners
Wilkinson VS100 trem
Schaller Straplocks
Custom Doug Neckplate
Waterslide decal
Guitar #11 by Jcurl02
Tele Body Finished By Warmoth
Quilt Maple Top
Maple Body
Clear Gloss finish front and back
Cream Bindings Top and Bottom
Rear Route
EMG SApickups in a Strat Rear Route
(Shown with a Roland GK-3 Pickup temp mounted, please ignore)
2 tone 1 volume 5 way switch
Wilkinson Tremolo
3/4 side output jack
25 1/2 in scale
Neck finished by Warmoth
Vintage Modern
Tele Headstock
Flamed maple
Indian Rosewood fingerboard
1 11/16 TUSQ Black Nut
6150 Stainless steel Frets
Standard Thin profile
10-16 Radius
Clear Gloss
Guitar #12 by probot
Body:
Warmoth Strat
Chambered Basswood with Alder top
Mint Green 3 Ply Scratchplate
Alpine White
Neck:
Warmoth Strat Pro with Reverse Headstock
Quilted Maple back and fingerboard
'59 profile
10-16" compound radius
1 11/16 nut width
6100 nickel-silver frets
Abalone Dots
Bone Nut
Tuners:
Gotoh Vintage Tuners
Pickups:
Neck: Dimarzio DP408 VIRTUAL VINTAGE 54 PRO
Middle: Dimarzio DP408 VIRTUAL VINTAGE 54 PRO
Bridge: Dimarzio Tone Zone
Tremolo:
Standard two point American Tremolo
Controls:
Standard 5 way switch
1 x Master Volume (CTS)
Tone 1 controls single coils (CTS)
Tone 2 controls Humbucker (CTS)
Everything assembled/wired by myself - nut and final setup done by Trevor Buck (tech at PMT Birmingham Branch, UK)
Guitar #13 by chazfilter
TRIFECTA – Soloist Style Guitar
Three color theme: black, brown, and gold
Three pickup types: magnetic, piezo, and GK-synthesizer
Warmoth Body:
- Flat top Soloist – Spotlight Body
- Solid, one-piece quilted maple body
- Tobacco sunburst finish on both front and back (finished by Warmoth)
- Natural masked binding
- Original routs for Wilkinson tremolo, two humbuckers, and battery box
- Additional rout for GK 13-pin jackplate & interface
Warmoth Neck:
- Warhead Superwide (1-7/8” nut width)
- Wenge neck & pau ferro fretboard (unfinished)
- Standard thin profile
- Gold GD6150 frets
- Graph Tech black TUSQ XL nut
- Abalone dot inlays
- Gold Warmoth headstock decal
Hardware:
- Gotoh Wilkinson VS-100 tremolo (mounted flat for dive only)
- Sperzel satin gold locking tuners
- Stacked gold metal & black plastic pickup rings and custom neck plate
- Gold knobs with abalone inlays (to match neck dot inlays)
- Schaller gold strap locks & Slick hand-painted guitar strap
- Optima Maxima gold strings, 10-46
- Miscellaneous gold hardware
Electronics – magnetic pickups:
- Seymour Duncan PATB-2B Distortion Parallel Axis Trembucker bridge pickup
- Seymour Duncan PATB-1N Original Parallel Axis Trembucker neck pickup
- Oak Grisby 5-way, 4-pole superswitch, wired as follows:
Neck series / Neck parallel / Neck+Bridge series / Bridge parallel / Bridge series
- Fender TBX tone control
- Bourns 500 ohm volume pot with push-pull switch to bypass piezo preamp (Duncans only)
Electronics – piezo-electric pickups:
- Ghost piezo saddles for Wilkinson tremolo
- Ghost Acoustic-Phonic preamp
- Acoustic volume pot with push-pull switch to select either normal or dark acoustic tone
- ON/OFF/ON gold switch to select pickups: magnetics only, magnetics + piezo, or piezo only
Electronics – Roland/Axon-compatible GK-synthesizer signals:
- Ghost Hexpander GK-interface electronics
- Ghost GK 13-pin output jack
- Hexpander MIDI volume pot
- ON/OFF/ON gold switch to select outputs: guitar only, guitar + synth, or synth only
- Dual momentary switch to select either program up or program down
Guitar #14 by sduck
Body and neck are both from Warmoth, both were finished by them.
Neck - Angled Strat, Mahogany back and Black Ebony fingerboard, No Inlays, Clear Satin finish, Gold frets, Graphtec nut, Sperzel Locking tuners (black & gold)
Body - Chambered Strat, Mahogany back with Select Quilt Maple top dyed green, Rear Routed, 510 mod, contoured heel, natural masked binding
Hardware - Dimarzio Air Norton Neck pickup and Tone Zone bridge pickup, Wilkinson bridge
We're now announcing the July, 2012 Guitar of the Month contest! July's contest will be for "Warmoth Finished" instruments.
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.
In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is July's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from July 1st to July 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by Death by Uberschall
KEANU
Hawaiian for "Cool Breeze", "The Breeze" or "Cool Breeze Over Mountains", depending on where you ask.
(not the actor)
Warmoth Body:
Flat Top Soloist
Slight brown burst to clear gloss
No binding, clean line to clear Gloss
1-piece Mahogany body
Unique Choice flame Koa top
Contoured heel
HxS pick-up routing
Recessed TOM routing
Angled string thru body
Warmoth Neck:
Warmoth Pro
Slight brown burst to clear gloss
No binding, clean line to raw finish
Canary neck
Black Ebony board
Warmoth "DbU" headstock shape
Flame Koa veneer from body laminate
1-11/16 nut width
'59 Roundback profile
Straight 12 radius
24 fret extension
SS6100 frets
No inlays/face dots
White side dots
Raw neck back
Hardware:
All black
EMG 81/SA
TonePros TOM w/locking shaft option
Gotoh tuners
Electrosocket
Single volume
CRL 3-way blade switch w/black knob
DR6 Top Notch Crap custom neck plate and truss cover
Guitar #2 by Super Turbo Custom Deluxe
-Flame Maple laminate on Mahogany
-double MM pickup route
-Ivoroid top binding
-blue dye top, transparent blue back (Warmoth finished)
-truss rod trench route, no neck removal for adjustments
-5 way blade switch route
-7/8" output side jack
Neck:
-Wenge/Jet Black Ebony
-no face dots, side dots only
-white corian nut
-3/8" tuner ream
-Fender right hand reverse headstock
-6130 nickel frets
Electronics:
-Carvin passive 4 conductor humbucking MM style pickups
-5 way switch
N parallel
N+B outer coils parallel
N+B full humbucking
N+B inner coils parallel (may change to bridge series humbucking)
B parallel
-500k CTS pots
-.022 mf orange drop cap
-shielded cavities
-my own design grounding bus to eliminate soldering to backs of pots
Hardware:
-DangerousR6 neckplate
-Hipshot string thru A type bridge (Fender AM Standard retrofit)
-Hipshot 3/8" Ultralites tuning machines
-Hipshot o-ring control knobs
-Hipshot 3 string retainer
-string thru ferrules
-Electrosocket Jack
-Schaller strap locks
Guitar #3 by gstring120
Body
7/8 Warmoth Strat Showcase swamp ash body
Contoured heel
Radiant finish
Neck
7/8 Warmoth Pro wenge neck with macassar ebony fingerboard
Right hand reverse headstock
Mother of pearl dots
Standard thin contour with 10-16” compound radius
1 11/16 nut
6150 fretwire
‘GregS’ decal on headstock
Hardware
Seymour Duncan Distortion (bridge)
Seymour Duncan Jazz (neck)
Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo
Schaller mini tuners
Three-way switch
All hardware finished in black
Guitar #4 by LushTone
Neck:
- Warmoth Pro strat
- Goncalo alves back and unique choice fingerboard
- '59 Roundback profile
- 1 11/16" nut width
- Bone nut
- 22 stainless steel 6105 frets
- No fingerboard inlays, side dots only
- No finish
- Gotoh 510 tuners
Body:
- Warmoth chambered strat
- One piece mahogany back
- Wild maple top
- Clear gloss back
- Tiger's eye dye top
- Glendale bridge plate and compensated titanium saddles
- Van Zandt Vintage Plus neck/middle pickups
- Van Zandt Blues bridge pickup
- Full electrostatic shielding
- 3-way switch, volume/tone/tone
Frets and parts assembled by Mike Lull's Custom Guitars. Set up using PLEK by Mike lull. Plays like a dream. Glendale tele bridges rock btw, best string definition I've found. Thank you Warmoth for superb craftmanship, materials and unrivaled custom options.
Guitar #5 by Patrick from Davis
Jazzblaster
Neck
Warmoth Pro Jazzmaster Neck
Wenge with a Rosewood board
'59 Roundback
SS6100 Frets
Compensated bone nut
Planetwaves Tuners
10-16" Compound Radius
Block Pearloid inlays
Body
Jazzmaster Shape
Warmoth Surf Green Finish
WRHB Pickup routes
Black Korina
Telenator Mod 2 Pickups
Red Tortoise Shell Pick Guard from Terrapin Guitars
Black WRHB pickup rings from Terrapin guitars
Callaham ABR-1 TOM
Gotoh Stopbar
V:V:T wiring with a tropical fish 0.022 uF mylar cap and a no load tone pot
Bakelite knobs from RS Guitarworks
Guitar #6 by Bagman67
Bête Noire
Double-bound black swamp ash Telecaster body by finished by Warmoth
Cream binding
Cream three-layer pickguard
TxH pickup routing
Gotoh modern Tele bridge
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound tele bridge pickup with coil tap
GFS Dream 90 neck pickup
Four way switch:
1 - bridge
2 - bridge/neck series
3 - bridge-neck parallel
4 - neck only
Mini-switch adds tapped option for all positions with bridge pickup engaged
Warmoth Pro Telecaster neck
Boatneck profile
Warmoth-instaleld black Graphtech nut
Planet Waves locking tuners
6115 frets
No inlays
Macassar ebony on flame maple
Finished in tru-oil by yours truly
Assembled and wired by yours truly, final setup by Keith Holland Guitars in Los Gatos, CA (recommended highly)
Guitar #7 by Televinklad
Neck:
Warmoth Strat Pro
Goncalo Alves with Ebony fretboard
Standard thin profile
10-16" compound radius
6100 nickel-silver frets
1 11/16 width
Locking Nut
Tuners:
Gotoh SG381-07
Pickups:
Neck: Tom Anderson H2
Bridge: Tom Anderson H3
Tremolo:
Recessed Gotoh 1996T
5-way superswitch wired as follows:
1) Neck Humbucker
2) Neck Inner Coil
3) Neck Inner Coil + Bridge Inner Coil
4) Bridge Inner Coil
5) Bridge Humbucker
EVH low friction volume pot
Guitar #8 by Updown
Warmoth finished Custom Built Strat Body with a Showcase (stunning) Neck.
Name …. Stoomtrooper
Body ... Strat
Chambered
Black Korina
Rear Rout
Mahogany Ply Top
Black Binding Top
Alpine White Finish
Rout is Recessed TOM with Angled string though.
Hardware …
Black Gotoh TOM Bridge
Black, Back & Front Ferrules
SD Cool Rails (Neck) with Black Ring
SD Hot Rails (Middle) with Black Ring
SD Dimebucker (Bridge) with Black SD Triple Shot
5 Way Switch, Black Tip
2 x CTS 500K Pots
1 x Vol, 1 x Tone
Orange Drop Cap
Black Knobs with (painted White Dot)
Black Side Output Jack
Black Schaller Strap Locks
Neck … Raw
Warmoth Pro
Pau-Ferro
Ebony / Macassar (Wow) Fretboard
1 11/16" Nut Width
Standard thin
10-16" Compound Radius
SS6115 Stainless Frets
MOP Dots Inlay
GraphTech Black Nut
Black Sperzel Lok Tuners
Custom Dougie Neck Plate, Black (painted etched area White by me)
Warmoth & Doug supplied the bits, I did the rest.
Guitar #9 by MichaelH
Name: 'Black Korina'
Warmoth Body from Showcase:
Les Paul Double Cutaway Carved Top
Black Korina on Black Korina
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish from Warmoth
Strat Controls
Warmoth Neck from Showcase:
Warmoth Pro Angled
White Korina with Ebony-Fretboard
Vintage Tint Gloss Finish
25-1/2 inch Scale
Standard thin Contour
1 11/16 inch Nut Width
22 frets with 6150 Fretwire
10-16" Compound Radius
Mother Of Pearl Dot Inlays
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL Nut
Hardware: (all black)
Planet Waves Auto Trim Tuners
Gotoh Stop Tail Piece
Schaller TOM Piezo Bridge
Schaller Strap Locks
Electronics:
5-Way-SuperSwitch
3 DiMarzio Push-Pull Pots 500kOhm (Volume / Tone / Piezo Volume)
Graph Tech Acousti-Phonic Preamp
battery Box build into back plate
Seymour Duncan Pickups
- Neck : SH2n Jazz
- Middel: STK-S4M RV/RP
- Bridge: Jeff Beck SH-4JB
Function of Push-Pull Pots:
- 'Volume' selects Humbucker (down) or Single Coil Mode (up)
- 'Tone' selects 'Tele-Mode' (down) or Middle Pickup (up)
- 'Piezo-Volume' selects Magnetic Pickups (down) or Piezo Pickup (up)
This may sound complicated ;-) ... but there are mainly three configurations:
1. All Push-Pull Pots down (Gibson, Strat & Tele Mix), 5-way switch selects
- Neck Humbucker
- Neck inner, Middle
- Neck inner, Bridge outer
- Middle, Bridge innner
- Bridge Humbucker
2. Volume & Tone Push-Pull up - Standard Strat configuration
3. Piezo Volume Push-Pull up - Acoustic Sound only
Guitar #10 by Thpinna
BODY
Super lightweight Flame maple over chambered swamp ash, direct from the showcase.
Caribbean Burst with a Blue dye back.
Natural Masked binding.
NECK
Dark Indian Rosewood fingerboard over Flame Maple neck
Vintage Modern Truss Rod
Standard Thin, 1 11/16 spread.
Graphtech nut
SS6105 fretwire
No Inlay - side dots only
Clear Satin finish
ELECTRONICS
Kinman Mk-3 pickups with Kinman's K7 harness ( )
Third knob is a volume blend knob for the neck pickup so it can be dialed in when in positions 4 and 5.
EVERYTHING ELSE
Cream pearloid pick guard with the Updown modification (thanks Updown! )
Sperzel Locking tuners
Wilkinson VS100 trem
Schaller Straplocks
Custom Doug Neckplate
Waterslide decal
Guitar #11 by Jcurl02
Tele Body Finished By Warmoth
Quilt Maple Top
Maple Body
Clear Gloss finish front and back
Cream Bindings Top and Bottom
Rear Route
EMG SApickups in a Strat Rear Route
(Shown with a Roland GK-3 Pickup temp mounted, please ignore)
2 tone 1 volume 5 way switch
Wilkinson Tremolo
3/4 side output jack
25 1/2 in scale
Neck finished by Warmoth
Vintage Modern
Tele Headstock
Flamed maple
Indian Rosewood fingerboard
1 11/16 TUSQ Black Nut
6150 Stainless steel Frets
Standard Thin profile
10-16 Radius
Clear Gloss
Guitar #12 by probot
Body:
Warmoth Strat
Chambered Basswood with Alder top
Mint Green 3 Ply Scratchplate
Alpine White
Neck:
Warmoth Strat Pro with Reverse Headstock
Quilted Maple back and fingerboard
'59 profile
10-16" compound radius
1 11/16 nut width
6100 nickel-silver frets
Abalone Dots
Bone Nut
Tuners:
Gotoh Vintage Tuners
Pickups:
Neck: Dimarzio DP408 VIRTUAL VINTAGE 54 PRO
Middle: Dimarzio DP408 VIRTUAL VINTAGE 54 PRO
Bridge: Dimarzio Tone Zone
Tremolo:
Standard two point American Tremolo
Controls:
Standard 5 way switch
1 x Master Volume (CTS)
Tone 1 controls single coils (CTS)
Tone 2 controls Humbucker (CTS)
Everything assembled/wired by myself - nut and final setup done by Trevor Buck (tech at PMT Birmingham Branch, UK)
Guitar #13 by chazfilter
TRIFECTA – Soloist Style Guitar
Three color theme: black, brown, and gold
Three pickup types: magnetic, piezo, and GK-synthesizer
Warmoth Body:
- Flat top Soloist – Spotlight Body
- Solid, one-piece quilted maple body
- Tobacco sunburst finish on both front and back (finished by Warmoth)
- Natural masked binding
- Original routs for Wilkinson tremolo, two humbuckers, and battery box
- Additional rout for GK 13-pin jackplate & interface
Warmoth Neck:
- Warhead Superwide (1-7/8” nut width)
- Wenge neck & pau ferro fretboard (unfinished)
- Standard thin profile
- Gold GD6150 frets
- Graph Tech black TUSQ XL nut
- Abalone dot inlays
- Gold Warmoth headstock decal
Hardware:
- Gotoh Wilkinson VS-100 tremolo (mounted flat for dive only)
- Sperzel satin gold locking tuners
- Stacked gold metal & black plastic pickup rings and custom neck plate
- Gold knobs with abalone inlays (to match neck dot inlays)
- Schaller gold strap locks & Slick hand-painted guitar strap
- Optima Maxima gold strings, 10-46
- Miscellaneous gold hardware
Electronics – magnetic pickups:
- Seymour Duncan PATB-2B Distortion Parallel Axis Trembucker bridge pickup
- Seymour Duncan PATB-1N Original Parallel Axis Trembucker neck pickup
- Oak Grisby 5-way, 4-pole superswitch, wired as follows:
Neck series / Neck parallel / Neck+Bridge series / Bridge parallel / Bridge series
- Fender TBX tone control
- Bourns 500 ohm volume pot with push-pull switch to bypass piezo preamp (Duncans only)
Electronics – piezo-electric pickups:
- Ghost piezo saddles for Wilkinson tremolo
- Ghost Acoustic-Phonic preamp
- Acoustic volume pot with push-pull switch to select either normal or dark acoustic tone
- ON/OFF/ON gold switch to select pickups: magnetics only, magnetics + piezo, or piezo only
Electronics – Roland/Axon-compatible GK-synthesizer signals:
- Ghost Hexpander GK-interface electronics
- Ghost GK 13-pin output jack
- Hexpander MIDI volume pot
- ON/OFF/ON gold switch to select outputs: guitar only, guitar + synth, or synth only
- Dual momentary switch to select either program up or program down
Guitar #14 by sduck
Body and neck are both from Warmoth, both were finished by them.
Neck - Angled Strat, Mahogany back and Black Ebony fingerboard, No Inlays, Clear Satin finish, Gold frets, Graphtec nut, Sperzel Locking tuners (black & gold)
Body - Chambered Strat, Mahogany back with Select Quilt Maple top dyed green, Rear Routed, 510 mod, contoured heel, natural masked binding
Hardware - Dimarzio Air Norton Neck pickup and Tone Zone bridge pickup, Wilkinson bridge
