Apologies for the delayed start yet again, but we are now announcing the July 2019 Guitar of the Month contest! July'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 July's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until exactly 5 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.
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 rauchman
The Shore Caster
Finish was Birchwood Casey Sealer/Filler and True Oil, and Keda Dye.
Pickups - Bill Lawrence (wildepickups) L48TL and L45 (Twin Blades)
Bridge - Gotoh
Tuners - Hipshot
Oaks Grisby 4 way switch (Bridge, B/N Parallel, B/N Series, Neck)
The Body...
Model: Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Tele® (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)
Controls: None
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
The Neck...
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Vintage/Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Wolfgang
Fret Size: SS6115 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
Guitar #2 Dano
Rosewood by Brazil
Rosewood Stratocaster Body
-Rosewood with Maple center laminate body purchased from an individual in Brazil.
-Rough Finish and Routing by seller of Body. Final fit work and sanding from 320 grit down to 0000 synthetic steel wool by owner.
-Finished by owner with multiple coats of hand rubbed Tru-Oil.
-Sanded with 220 sandpaper all the way down to 0000 steel wool between coats.
-Gold Strat Pickguard
-Fender Strat Tremolo
-Contoured comfort reliefs
NECK:
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Pau Ferro
Fingerboard Wood: Pau Ferro
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: GD6150 (Gold Color)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Tuners: Grover 18:1 Inline Locking Tuners
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Electronics, etc.
- Fender Texas Special Pickup Set – Gold
- 500k CTS Volume and Tone Potentiometers
- Russian PIO (Paper in Oil) 0.022uF Tone Capacitor
- Oak Grigsby 5-Way Blade –
- Switchcraft Output Jack
- Gold Pickguard
Guitar #3 Rick_Hardslab
Finish: Body - Livos Kunos Oil (black), Neck - Black milk paint (headstock, because I was worried the black oil wouldn't take in the maple) Livos Kunos Transparent for the rest.
Hardware: Grover Tuners, Gotoh Bridge, Lace Drop & Gain (bridge pickup) Bareknuckle Mississippi Queen (neck pickup), CTS pots etc., standard 3 way tele switch.
Body
Model: Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
24 Fret Reposition: Yes
Controls: 3-V-T (Tele®)
Bridge: Tele® Humbucker Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
F-Holes: None
Neck:
Scale: 28-5/8" Conversion
Orientation: Right Handed Reverse
Neck Wood: Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6150
Tuners: Grover minis
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Fret #: 24
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
String Nut: Black Corian Std
Guitar #4 Rick
Body
Chambered Swamp Ash Tele body
Grain filled natural with something from Minwax
Finished with Tru-Oil
Gotoh Tele Bridge
The GBE saddles are String Saver Classics with the tusq insert. The other saddles are stock stainless Gotohs.
Dunlop Straplock
Neck
Lightly Flamed maple tele 1 11/16
Standard Thin
SS Frets 6105
Planet Wave Locking Tuners
Electronics
Bill Lawrence PUPs. Can't remember the models.
Torres Engineering switching, 500K pots. Inner concentric tone knob controls the midrange, outer knob controls the overall tone.
The switch is 4 way; Bridge, Neck and Bridge para, Neck, Neck and Bridge Series.
Guitar #5 dawidge
Fretless Dinky J
Body
Model: DinkyJ
Finish: General Finishes Orange Dye/Ebony Grain Filler/Minewax Wipe-on Satin
Orientation: Right handed
Wood: Swamp Ash
Bridge - Hipshot Kickass
Tuners - Hipshot
Pickups - EMG JHZ (passive)
Neck
Style: Jazz Bass
Construction: Vintage/Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Quartersawn Brazilian Ebony
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
Nut Width: 1-1/2"
Back Shape: Standard
Frets: Lined Fretless
Tuner Ream: BML
Radius: Straight 10"
Fret #: 21
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
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 from now until exactly 5 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.
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 rauchman
The Shore Caster
Finish was Birchwood Casey Sealer/Filler and True Oil, and Keda Dye.
Pickups - Bill Lawrence (wildepickups) L48TL and L45 (Twin Blades)
Bridge - Gotoh
Tuners - Hipshot
Oaks Grisby 4 way switch (Bridge, B/N Parallel, B/N Series, Neck)
The Body...
Model: Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Tele® (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)
Controls: None
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
The Neck...
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Vintage/Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Wolfgang
Fret Size: SS6115 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
Guitar #2 Dano
Rosewood by Brazil
Rosewood Stratocaster Body
-Rosewood with Maple center laminate body purchased from an individual in Brazil.
-Rough Finish and Routing by seller of Body. Final fit work and sanding from 320 grit down to 0000 synthetic steel wool by owner.
-Finished by owner with multiple coats of hand rubbed Tru-Oil.
-Sanded with 220 sandpaper all the way down to 0000 steel wool between coats.
-Gold Strat Pickguard
-Fender Strat Tremolo
-Contoured comfort reliefs
NECK:
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Pau Ferro
Fingerboard Wood: Pau Ferro
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: GD6150 (Gold Color)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Tuners: Grover 18:1 Inline Locking Tuners
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Electronics, etc.
- Fender Texas Special Pickup Set – Gold
- 500k CTS Volume and Tone Potentiometers
- Russian PIO (Paper in Oil) 0.022uF Tone Capacitor
- Oak Grigsby 5-Way Blade –
- Switchcraft Output Jack
- Gold Pickguard
Guitar #3 Rick_Hardslab
Finish: Body - Livos Kunos Oil (black), Neck - Black milk paint (headstock, because I was worried the black oil wouldn't take in the maple) Livos Kunos Transparent for the rest.
Hardware: Grover Tuners, Gotoh Bridge, Lace Drop & Gain (bridge pickup) Bareknuckle Mississippi Queen (neck pickup), CTS pots etc., standard 3 way tele switch.
Body
Model: Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
24 Fret Reposition: Yes
Controls: 3-V-T (Tele®)
Bridge: Tele® Humbucker Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
F-Holes: None
Neck:
Scale: 28-5/8" Conversion
Orientation: Right Handed Reverse
Neck Wood: Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6150
Tuners: Grover minis
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Fret #: 24
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
String Nut: Black Corian Std
Guitar #4 Rick
Body
Chambered Swamp Ash Tele body
Grain filled natural with something from Minwax
Finished with Tru-Oil
Gotoh Tele Bridge
The GBE saddles are String Saver Classics with the tusq insert. The other saddles are stock stainless Gotohs.
Dunlop Straplock
Neck
Lightly Flamed maple tele 1 11/16
Standard Thin
SS Frets 6105
Planet Wave Locking Tuners
Electronics
Bill Lawrence PUPs. Can't remember the models.
Torres Engineering switching, 500K pots. Inner concentric tone knob controls the midrange, outer knob controls the overall tone.
The switch is 4 way; Bridge, Neck and Bridge para, Neck, Neck and Bridge Series.
Guitar #5 dawidge
Fretless Dinky J
Body
Model: DinkyJ
Finish: General Finishes Orange Dye/Ebony Grain Filler/Minewax Wipe-on Satin
Orientation: Right handed
Wood: Swamp Ash
Bridge - Hipshot Kickass
Tuners - Hipshot
Pickups - EMG JHZ (passive)
Neck
Style: Jazz Bass
Construction: Vintage/Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Quartersawn Brazilian Ebony
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
Nut Width: 1-1/2"
Back Shape: Standard
Frets: Lined Fretless
Tuner Ream: BML
Radius: Straight 10"
Fret #: 21
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
