We are now announcing the July, 2016 Guitar of the Month contest! July'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 posted to this message, which is July's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until July 9th, 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:
1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
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 henry410
"Tevecaster":
Neck:
Fender american standard tele neck. sorry
Body:
Warmoth carved top with f-hole, swamp ash top and white korina back, honey burst front, clear back.
Gotoh 510 wrap-around bridge
TV Jones T-series pickups, direct mount on wood.
concentric tone+volume, tone is inner and black, volume is outer and chrome to go with the pickups!
(Inspired by Bill Frisell’s custom tele with dynasonics.)
Guitar #2 jgodin312
Warmoth SG body
(Ebay seller thought it was koa but the wood grain in the neck pocket looks like mahogany)
Warmoth roasted maple neck, with an ebony fretboard, the Vortex model headstock
Graphtech Tusq XL nut
HipShot locking tuners
6105 frets
Standard Thin profile
Compound radius
The pickups are Joe Barden Two-Tones.
Clear plastic pickguard from Greasy Groove, under which I placed a rainbow pattern that I just printed out and cut to fit. I chose the rainbow pattern to show solidarity with the LGBT community following the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
PLEK'ed at Crossroads Guitar Shop of Falls Church, VA
Guitar #3 ThePhilosopher
Specs:
Body Shape: Warmoth Soloist
Body Wood: Alder
Finish: Neon Chartreuse
Bridge: Wilkinson VS100
Hardware Color: Black
Pickups: Kiesel Lithium
Electronics: Concentric volume/tone with detents, 5-way switch, kill switch
Tuners: Hipshot Locking
Scale: 28 5/8"
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6100
Perfect 5ths tuning F-e
Guitar #4 Twanking45
Body:
Warmoth Velocity (flat-faced, not contoured. w/Forearm, belly and neck access cuts)
Wood: unique choice flame maple top, swamp ash core (chambered)
Natural Masked binding
Warmoth-applied black-yellow burst front and back
Neck:
Type: Modern Tele
Neck Wood: quarter-sawn roasted maple
Fingerboard: quarter-sawn roasted maple
Abalone dots
Nut: Graphtech white TUSQ Earvana
Nut Width: 1- 5/8
Neck profile: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Finish: satin
Electrics and Parts:
Dimarzio Chopper T (bridge)
Lace Sensor Light Blue (neck)
Vol (500k), Tone (250k, push-pull that taps bridge)
Knobs by Q-Parts
Gotoh Tele bridge
Sperzel locking
Guitar #5 Vetteman
Warmoth satin finished maple 21 fret Strat neck
-Vintage tuners, 6105 fret wire
Warmoth Butterscotch Blonde alder Thinline Tele body
-no f hole, 720 mod to Strat pocket
-Supervee Bladerunner Strat tremolo
-TV Jones Supertron pickups
-reversed control plate with Strat knobs
Guitar #6 AutoBat
Neck: Warmoth J-Bass Replacement
Indian Rosewood on Indian Rosewood
Slim Taper profile
SS6105 frets
Schaller BML tuners
Graphtech Tusq XL Black nut
Hipshot 3 string retainer
Standard Steel rods
No Finish
Squier 60's Vibe Jazz Bass Body:
Poplar, Olympic White finish
60's Jazz pickups/wiring/knobs
Tortoise pickguard with finger rest
Gotoh brass saddle bridge
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 posted to this message, which is July's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until July 9th, 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:
1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
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 henry410
"Tevecaster":
Neck:
Fender american standard tele neck. sorry
Body:
Warmoth carved top with f-hole, swamp ash top and white korina back, honey burst front, clear back.
Gotoh 510 wrap-around bridge
TV Jones T-series pickups, direct mount on wood.
concentric tone+volume, tone is inner and black, volume is outer and chrome to go with the pickups!
(Inspired by Bill Frisell’s custom tele with dynasonics.)
Guitar #2 jgodin312
Warmoth SG body
(Ebay seller thought it was koa but the wood grain in the neck pocket looks like mahogany)
Warmoth roasted maple neck, with an ebony fretboard, the Vortex model headstock
Graphtech Tusq XL nut
HipShot locking tuners
6105 frets
Standard Thin profile
Compound radius
The pickups are Joe Barden Two-Tones.
Clear plastic pickguard from Greasy Groove, under which I placed a rainbow pattern that I just printed out and cut to fit. I chose the rainbow pattern to show solidarity with the LGBT community following the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
PLEK'ed at Crossroads Guitar Shop of Falls Church, VA
Guitar #3 ThePhilosopher
Specs:
Body Shape: Warmoth Soloist
Body Wood: Alder
Finish: Neon Chartreuse
Bridge: Wilkinson VS100
Hardware Color: Black
Pickups: Kiesel Lithium
Electronics: Concentric volume/tone with detents, 5-way switch, kill switch
Tuners: Hipshot Locking
Scale: 28 5/8"
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6100
Perfect 5ths tuning F-e
Guitar #4 Twanking45
Body:
Warmoth Velocity (flat-faced, not contoured. w/Forearm, belly and neck access cuts)
Wood: unique choice flame maple top, swamp ash core (chambered)
Natural Masked binding
Warmoth-applied black-yellow burst front and back
Neck:
Type: Modern Tele
Neck Wood: quarter-sawn roasted maple
Fingerboard: quarter-sawn roasted maple
Abalone dots
Nut: Graphtech white TUSQ Earvana
Nut Width: 1- 5/8
Neck profile: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Finish: satin
Electrics and Parts:
Dimarzio Chopper T (bridge)
Lace Sensor Light Blue (neck)
Vol (500k), Tone (250k, push-pull that taps bridge)
Knobs by Q-Parts
Gotoh Tele bridge
Sperzel locking
Guitar #5 Vetteman
Warmoth satin finished maple 21 fret Strat neck
-Vintage tuners, 6105 fret wire
Warmoth Butterscotch Blonde alder Thinline Tele body
-no f hole, 720 mod to Strat pocket
-Supervee Bladerunner Strat tremolo
-TV Jones Supertron pickups
-reversed control plate with Strat knobs
Guitar #6 AutoBat
Neck: Warmoth J-Bass Replacement
Indian Rosewood on Indian Rosewood
Slim Taper profile
SS6105 frets
Schaller BML tuners
Graphtech Tusq XL Black nut
Hipshot 3 string retainer
Standard Steel rods
No Finish
Squier 60's Vibe Jazz Bass Body:
Poplar, Olympic White finish
60's Jazz pickups/wiring/knobs
Tortoise pickguard with finger rest
Gotoh brass saddle bridge
