We are now announcing the July, 2017 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 added to this message, which is July'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. 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.
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 Ghotiphry
"Boomstick"
Solid roasted swamp ash Jazz bass body with Warmoth trans red gloss finish
Warmoth "garage stock" pau ferro/pau ferro neck with no inlays, MOP side dots and EVO frets -
neck and fret setup by Cagey
Lindy Fralin P/J pickups with +10 overwind split coil bridge
Solid black pickguard and black hardware whenever possible
Hipshot ultralight tuning machines
John East J-Retro 01 Deluxe preamp
BadAss Bass II bridge
Custom neck plate by DangerousR6
Guitar #2 exaN
Alder on alder Warmoth Soloist body
Black to clear satin finish (black back), ivoroid binding
Standard thin, dark indian rosewood on roasted maple (no finish)
Graph Tech, compound radius, S6150 frets, locking tuners, lume side dots
Guitar #3 Hendrix
Warmoth showcase TELECASTER® Hollow /Carved Top, Transparent Red Flame Maple On Mahogany with Ivoroid Binding.
Warmoth showcase STRATOCASTER® Vintage/Modern Construction neck, Birdseye Maple , 6150 SS Frets, Abalone Face Dots .
As the flame on a body like wings, with my love of airplanes, I design a Tele bridge plate and laser cut it in stainless steel, saddle taken from a Fender Standard Tele Bridge.
Bare knuckle BLUE NOTE P90 neck pickups, YARDBIRD tele bridge pickups. Dimarzio Virtual Vintage® 54 Pro mid pickup with DIY copper finish.
Guitar #4 EddieDavis
5 Lb Swamp Ash Solid Body - Vintage Style (Warmoth Showcase Body)
Black-Brown-Yellow Burst Gloss Finish
Vintage Tremolo Gold
Gold Strap Buttons
Don Mare Super Sport Strat Pickups
1950's Big Dime Size Ceramic Capacitor
Black-Red-Black Pickguard
Tele Switch Knob
Canary Wizard Profile Neck (Custom Warmoth)
Gibson Scale Length
Figured Ziricote Fretboard
Cream Dots
Stainless Steel Jumbo Frets
Black Schaller Locking Tuners
GraphTech Nut and String Trees
Amber Barrel Knobs
Assembled by Matt Wright (Wright Sounds) Portland, OR
Named after my wife, Amber Brown
Thanks to Warmoth, Don Mare and Matt Wright!
Guitar #5 Blackouts
Neck and Body Warmoth Showcase
Neck :
Maple/Maple CBS Strat
Standard Thin
Clear Satin Nitro
Modern Construction
10"-16" Compound Radius
6105 Frets
Sperzel Locking Tuners
Rothko & Frost Decal
Body :
Alder Tele Deluxe
Shoreline Gold
Vintage Spacing Bridge
Standard 2 x Vol, 2 x Tone
CTS Pots, Orange Drop Caps
Schaller Straplocks
Pickups :
The Creamery Wide Range "Classic '71" Hand-Wound Humbuckers
Guitar #6 kolsky
1 piece Black Limba body
Kinman p90 pickups (nasty neck, nasty heavy bridge)
Leo Quan Badass bridge (new old stock)
5 layer custom pick guard
maple neck/ ebony fingerboard
25 1/2" scale, 22 stainless steel frets, 14' radius, 1 5/8" at the nut
GraphTech black nut
GraphTech string trees
Standard thin profile
Gotoh tuners
all gold hardware
Guitar #7 sduck
Body: Chambered Strat, Mahogany with a select quilted maple top.
Neck: Angled Strat style, Mahogany back, black ebony top, gold colored frets, black graphtech nut, sperzel tuners.
Pickups: Dimarzio Air Norton neck, Tone Zone bridge.
Guitar #8 Fat Pete
Wilkinson Scimitar6
Neck:
Warmoth Roasted maple/Ziricote (unique choice) 21 fret (no overhang) Pro Arrow Head (custom build)
Azurite malachite dots
6150 frets
Hipshot Grip Lock enclosed locking tuners with 'Universal Mounting Plates'
Graph Tech nut
Wilkinson Scimitar6 '21st Century Schizoid, Man' name plate*
Body:
Warmoth alder Musiclander 3lbs 0oz (showcase - unfinished)
Routed by Warmoth for P90/Strat/P90 with front rout conversion and scratchplate screw threaded insert install by owner
Finished in ocean turquoise metallic nitro (greener than photos show) by retro169.co.uk (Paul Neild)
Wilkinson WVP6 tremolo bridge - hard-decked, springs damped, arm thrown away
Schaller strap lock buttons
Custom rear control and tremolo spring covers*
Electrics:
2x Swappable loaded scratchplates* with 'automatic' ground connection
Scratchplate 1:
Catswhisker Pickups custom tapped P90s with flush pole pieces and owner-customized covers
Generosity, fragility and veracity controls (2x volume, 1x tone)
Grunt and squeal pull switches bring in the full pickup windings
Warm/plaintive/misanthropic 3-way switch (neck/both/bridge)
Scratchplate 2:
The Creamery Sonic 6 pickups (alnico 5 versions)
Satisfaction and serendipity controls (1x volume, 1x tone)
Doctor pull switch switches on the middle pickup
Mild/wistful/vituperative 3-way switch (neck/both/bridge)
Metal hardware is chrome
*All plastic parts cut and printed by Tim at www.originalscratchplates.com to owner's designs
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 July'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. 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.
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 Ghotiphry
"Boomstick"
Solid roasted swamp ash Jazz bass body with Warmoth trans red gloss finish
Warmoth "garage stock" pau ferro/pau ferro neck with no inlays, MOP side dots and EVO frets -
neck and fret setup by Cagey
Lindy Fralin P/J pickups with +10 overwind split coil bridge
Solid black pickguard and black hardware whenever possible
Hipshot ultralight tuning machines
John East J-Retro 01 Deluxe preamp
BadAss Bass II bridge
Custom neck plate by DangerousR6
Guitar #2 exaN
Alder on alder Warmoth Soloist body
Black to clear satin finish (black back), ivoroid binding
Standard thin, dark indian rosewood on roasted maple (no finish)
Graph Tech, compound radius, S6150 frets, locking tuners, lume side dots
Guitar #3 Hendrix
Warmoth showcase TELECASTER® Hollow /Carved Top, Transparent Red Flame Maple On Mahogany with Ivoroid Binding.
Warmoth showcase STRATOCASTER® Vintage/Modern Construction neck, Birdseye Maple , 6150 SS Frets, Abalone Face Dots .
As the flame on a body like wings, with my love of airplanes, I design a Tele bridge plate and laser cut it in stainless steel, saddle taken from a Fender Standard Tele Bridge.
Bare knuckle BLUE NOTE P90 neck pickups, YARDBIRD tele bridge pickups. Dimarzio Virtual Vintage® 54 Pro mid pickup with DIY copper finish.
Guitar #4 EddieDavis
5 Lb Swamp Ash Solid Body - Vintage Style (Warmoth Showcase Body)
Black-Brown-Yellow Burst Gloss Finish
Vintage Tremolo Gold
Gold Strap Buttons
Don Mare Super Sport Strat Pickups
1950's Big Dime Size Ceramic Capacitor
Black-Red-Black Pickguard
Tele Switch Knob
Canary Wizard Profile Neck (Custom Warmoth)
Gibson Scale Length
Figured Ziricote Fretboard
Cream Dots
Stainless Steel Jumbo Frets
Black Schaller Locking Tuners
GraphTech Nut and String Trees
Amber Barrel Knobs
Assembled by Matt Wright (Wright Sounds) Portland, OR
Named after my wife, Amber Brown
Thanks to Warmoth, Don Mare and Matt Wright!
Guitar #5 Blackouts
Neck and Body Warmoth Showcase
Neck :
Maple/Maple CBS Strat
Standard Thin
Clear Satin Nitro
Modern Construction
10"-16" Compound Radius
6105 Frets
Sperzel Locking Tuners
Rothko & Frost Decal
Body :
Alder Tele Deluxe
Shoreline Gold
Vintage Spacing Bridge
Standard 2 x Vol, 2 x Tone
CTS Pots, Orange Drop Caps
Schaller Straplocks
Pickups :
The Creamery Wide Range "Classic '71" Hand-Wound Humbuckers
Guitar #6 kolsky
1 piece Black Limba body
Kinman p90 pickups (nasty neck, nasty heavy bridge)
Leo Quan Badass bridge (new old stock)
5 layer custom pick guard
maple neck/ ebony fingerboard
25 1/2" scale, 22 stainless steel frets, 14' radius, 1 5/8" at the nut
GraphTech black nut
GraphTech string trees
Standard thin profile
Gotoh tuners
all gold hardware
Guitar #7 sduck
Body: Chambered Strat, Mahogany with a select quilted maple top.
Neck: Angled Strat style, Mahogany back, black ebony top, gold colored frets, black graphtech nut, sperzel tuners.
Pickups: Dimarzio Air Norton neck, Tone Zone bridge.
Guitar #8 Fat Pete
Wilkinson Scimitar6
Neck:
Warmoth Roasted maple/Ziricote (unique choice) 21 fret (no overhang) Pro Arrow Head (custom build)
Azurite malachite dots
6150 frets
Hipshot Grip Lock enclosed locking tuners with 'Universal Mounting Plates'
Graph Tech nut
Wilkinson Scimitar6 '21st Century Schizoid, Man' name plate*
Body:
Warmoth alder Musiclander 3lbs 0oz (showcase - unfinished)
Routed by Warmoth for P90/Strat/P90 with front rout conversion and scratchplate screw threaded insert install by owner
Finished in ocean turquoise metallic nitro (greener than photos show) by retro169.co.uk (Paul Neild)
Wilkinson WVP6 tremolo bridge - hard-decked, springs damped, arm thrown away
Schaller strap lock buttons
Custom rear control and tremolo spring covers*
Electrics:
2x Swappable loaded scratchplates* with 'automatic' ground connection
Scratchplate 1:
Catswhisker Pickups custom tapped P90s with flush pole pieces and owner-customized covers
Generosity, fragility and veracity controls (2x volume, 1x tone)
Grunt and squeal pull switches bring in the full pickup windings
Warm/plaintive/misanthropic 3-way switch (neck/both/bridge)
Scratchplate 2:
The Creamery Sonic 6 pickups (alnico 5 versions)
Satisfaction and serendipity controls (1x volume, 1x tone)
Doctor pull switch switches on the middle pickup
Mild/wistful/vituperative 3-way switch (neck/both/bridge)
Metal hardware is chrome
*All plastic parts cut and printed by Tim at www.originalscratchplates.com to owner's designs
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