Greetings,
I'm pleased to announce the July, 2011 Guitar of the Month contest. July's contest will be for "Owner 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!
All discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar win!
Guitar #1: by Fidde
It's a hollow-bodied Wenge VIP, with Wenge neck and Ebony fretboard.
The finish is nothing more than rough sandpaper and steel-wool, to give it a more beat up, satin and woody look.
Warmoth made the parts. I, Fidde, made the finish.
Guitar #2: by Syntheticocean
"The finish was done entirely by me."
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Guitar #3 Eric Banjitar
The stain was mixed and applied by the owner/builder using dyes and mineral spirits. The finish is a nitro-cellulous rattle-can nitro-cellulous lacquer.
Warmoth flame-maple angled-paddle neck, standard shape 10/16, gold 6105 frets, rosewood fretboard with graphtech black nut. Gold,locking Schaller tuners. The headstock was designed, shaped and carved by owner/builder. All banjo parts purchased from Gold Tone Musical Instruments: 6 string "es" tailpiece, aluminum tone rim (I polished the contact surface), gold 8" tension hoop, radiused 5/8" bridge and a 10" clear Mylar drum head. This banjo has a stereo output running two separate circuits.One side of the output(transducer) feeds an acoustic amp (Acoustic AG60), the other leg goes to effects and then a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp. The pickups are switched with a three-way switch (neck, both, body). Each pickup has its own volume pot. There is no tone knob. Tone comes from amps. The Neck pickup is a Golden Age tele framed by a gold reversed strat flange. All flanges are recessed to flush. The EMG-HZ pick up is modified with a spring and bolting configuration designed to force the pickup firmly onto the underside of the head as far toward the neck as possible. this pickup is coil tapped with a push/pull knob. The acoustic pickup is a schatten utility piezo.
The body is a book-matched quilted maple back. With a transparent head installed, you can see the quilted maple through the head. The front is a hippie-sandwich of swamp ash, and walnut with cherry and maple veneer stripes. The middle (between back and front of guitar body) is mahogany. This guitjo-banjitar monster weighs nearly 10 pounds (lots of metal parts)
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Guitar #4 Marko
Hollow Swamp Ash Strat
Flame Maple Top
Padouk/Ebony Neck
Wilkinson Bridge
1 IronGear Steamhammer HB
2 IronGear Jailhouse rails
I'm pleased to announce the July, 2011 Guitar of the Month contest. July's contest will be for "Owner 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!
All discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar win!
Guitar #1: by Fidde
It's a hollow-bodied Wenge VIP, with Wenge neck and Ebony fretboard.
The finish is nothing more than rough sandpaper and steel-wool, to give it a more beat up, satin and woody look.
Warmoth made the parts. I, Fidde, made the finish.
Guitar #2: by Syntheticocean
"The finish was done entirely by me."
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Guitar #3 Eric Banjitar
The stain was mixed and applied by the owner/builder using dyes and mineral spirits. The finish is a nitro-cellulous rattle-can nitro-cellulous lacquer.
Warmoth flame-maple angled-paddle neck, standard shape 10/16, gold 6105 frets, rosewood fretboard with graphtech black nut. Gold,locking Schaller tuners. The headstock was designed, shaped and carved by owner/builder. All banjo parts purchased from Gold Tone Musical Instruments: 6 string "es" tailpiece, aluminum tone rim (I polished the contact surface), gold 8" tension hoop, radiused 5/8" bridge and a 10" clear Mylar drum head. This banjo has a stereo output running two separate circuits.One side of the output(transducer) feeds an acoustic amp (Acoustic AG60), the other leg goes to effects and then a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp. The pickups are switched with a three-way switch (neck, both, body). Each pickup has its own volume pot. There is no tone knob. Tone comes from amps. The Neck pickup is a Golden Age tele framed by a gold reversed strat flange. All flanges are recessed to flush. The EMG-HZ pick up is modified with a spring and bolting configuration designed to force the pickup firmly onto the underside of the head as far toward the neck as possible. this pickup is coil tapped with a push/pull knob. The acoustic pickup is a schatten utility piezo.
The body is a book-matched quilted maple back. With a transparent head installed, you can see the quilted maple through the head. The front is a hippie-sandwich of swamp ash, and walnut with cherry and maple veneer stripes. The middle (between back and front of guitar body) is mahogany. This guitjo-banjitar monster weighs nearly 10 pounds (lots of metal parts)
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Guitar #4 Marko
Hollow Swamp Ash Strat
Flame Maple Top
Padouk/Ebony Neck
Wilkinson Bridge
1 IronGear Steamhammer HB
2 IronGear Jailhouse rails
