Greetings,
I'm pleased to announce the June, 2012 Guitar of the Month contest. June'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 May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from June 1st to June 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/bass win!
Guitar #1: by Probot
(withdrawn, did not meet this month's criteria)
Guitar #2: by Ddbltrbl
Body:
Black Korina on Black Korina Telecaster
Tru-Oil Finish
BK Black Guard 55 Stagger Pups
Gotoh Tele Bridge w/ Graphtech Saddles
4-way Switch
Neck:
Black Korina w/ Macassar Ebony fretboard
Tru-Oil Finish
Mini Schallers
SS6105 Fretwire
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut
DangerousR6 Neck Candy
Guitar #3: by Kuro Uma
5-string bass
Body is mahogany with flamed maple top
Honey bursted with dye and lacquers
Natural masked binding
Hand dyed tattoo on body
Neck is maple with block inlays and 4+1 headstock dyed to match and “Becky” tattoo
Bartolini M45CBC set with ebony knobs
Guitar #4: by Mayfly
1 - extra light alder warmoth jazz bass body.
2 - 20 year old 'vintage' warmth flame maple / rosewood Jazz Bass neck.
3 - hip shot super light tuners. These shave a pound off your bass. Highly recommended.
4 - Jason Lollar Jazz bass pickups. These seriously kick ass.
5 - a gotoh bridge.
6 - an 'n-tune' built in bass tuner. This is an excellent device. I sadly happened to notice that this company appears to have gone bankrupt.
7 - a fully custom finish. The neck is custom finished in rattle can lacquer (by me). But the main event is the body. This is acrylic paint over a shellac sealer. The front includes a lotus flower motif, along with a dragonfly (my favourite bug. It eats mosquitos and looks like a helicopter. what could be better?). The back has the 'om' (or is that 'ohm') symbol on it to remind the owner/player of this fine instrument to, in essence, don't sweat the details and just have fun at the gig.
Guitar #5: by LineSixMan
Homemade scratch built body, consisting of a Curly Black Walnut solidbody core, 3/8" Figured Pomelle Bubinga laminate top, and 1/8" Curly Maple accent line. Stratocaster style shape, with HSH pickup routing, recessed Schaller Floyd, one volume, one tone, and two pickup selector switches. Black hardware, including a custom neckplate by DangerousR6. The control cavity cover matches the lam top and accent line.
Warmoth Indian Rosewood neck with Macassar Ebony fretboard. Stratocaster headstock, SS6150 frets, no inlay, standard thin contour, Floyd nut and Schaller tuners.
Guitar #6: by Oceanruckus
Neck:
- Telecaster Vintage Modern construction (Warmoth Showcase)
- One piece Goncalo Alves wood
- Fatback contour
- 6150 fret wire
- Front and back of headstock finished with poly, rest of neck left raw (there is a black pinstripe to separate finish wood from raw wood...raw feels the BEST)
- Gotoh mini 510 locking tuners
- Bone nut installed by me
Body:
- Custom body designed, constructed, and finished by me
- Spalted maple over walnut (woods I bought from Ebay)
- Hollow body construction with f-hole (it still is heavy btw)
- Sculpted neck joint
- Finished with Z-poxy, shellac, and Deft gloss lacquer (rattle can)
- Pickguard from Warmoth cut by me
Other stuff:
- Wilde Pickups L-90s (Bill Lawrence is the man.)
- Schaller roller bridge with piezo pickup (piezo pickup/preamp built by me)
- Piezo pu wired with vol and separate jack
- Mag pu's wired vol vol; 3 way switch; master tone; master q-filter and separate jack
- Piezo vol pot also master kill switch for all electronics (push-pull)
- D'addario 11-52 strings
Guitar #7: by BluesMan
Body
Warmoth Swamp Ash, Top Rout, S-X-T Pickup Routing
Finished with nitro lacquer(rattle can) by me
Warmoth Brown Shell pickguard
Van Zandt True Vintage Strat neck pickup
Van Zandt Flat Pole Hot Tele bridge pickup
3-way switch
Gotoh Standard Tele Bridge
Neck
Warmoth Vintage modern 59 Roundback
Birdseye maple
Indian Rosewood fretboard
10-16 radius
1 5/8” nut width
6100 jumbo frets
Gotoh Kluson tuners
Guitar #8: by Patriot54
Body: Solid maple Warmoth Strat, rear rout, HSS pickup rout.
Neck: Warmoth Maple fretboard and neck, CBS headstock, standard thin neck, stainless steel jumbo frets. 25.5” scale, 1.75” nut width
Finish: Custom tribal artwork is woodburned into the front of the body, fretboard and headstock. Back of the body is finished with ebony and walnut stains. The whole body and neck are clear coated with Tru-Oil.
Electronics: DiMarzio Steve’s Special Humbucker at the bridge, DiMarzio Area 58 in the middle and DiMarzio Injector at the neck position. Standard 5-way switch, one master volume and one master tone control.
Hardware: Grover tuners, side-mounted vintage cup jack. Fender American Standard hardtail, Dangerous R6 custom neckplate
I'm pleased to announce the June, 2012 Guitar of the Month contest. June'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 May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from June 1st to June 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/bass win!
Guitar #1: by Probot
(withdrawn, did not meet this month's criteria)
Guitar #2: by Ddbltrbl
Body:
Black Korina on Black Korina Telecaster
Tru-Oil Finish
BK Black Guard 55 Stagger Pups
Gotoh Tele Bridge w/ Graphtech Saddles
4-way Switch
Neck:
Black Korina w/ Macassar Ebony fretboard
Tru-Oil Finish
Mini Schallers
SS6105 Fretwire
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut
DangerousR6 Neck Candy
Guitar #3: by Kuro Uma
5-string bass
Body is mahogany with flamed maple top
Honey bursted with dye and lacquers
Natural masked binding
Hand dyed tattoo on body
Neck is maple with block inlays and 4+1 headstock dyed to match and “Becky” tattoo
Bartolini M45CBC set with ebony knobs
Guitar #4: by Mayfly
1 - extra light alder warmoth jazz bass body.
2 - 20 year old 'vintage' warmth flame maple / rosewood Jazz Bass neck.
3 - hip shot super light tuners. These shave a pound off your bass. Highly recommended.
4 - Jason Lollar Jazz bass pickups. These seriously kick ass.
5 - a gotoh bridge.
6 - an 'n-tune' built in bass tuner. This is an excellent device. I sadly happened to notice that this company appears to have gone bankrupt.
7 - a fully custom finish. The neck is custom finished in rattle can lacquer (by me). But the main event is the body. This is acrylic paint over a shellac sealer. The front includes a lotus flower motif, along with a dragonfly (my favourite bug. It eats mosquitos and looks like a helicopter. what could be better?). The back has the 'om' (or is that 'ohm') symbol on it to remind the owner/player of this fine instrument to, in essence, don't sweat the details and just have fun at the gig.
Guitar #5: by LineSixMan
Homemade scratch built body, consisting of a Curly Black Walnut solidbody core, 3/8" Figured Pomelle Bubinga laminate top, and 1/8" Curly Maple accent line. Stratocaster style shape, with HSH pickup routing, recessed Schaller Floyd, one volume, one tone, and two pickup selector switches. Black hardware, including a custom neckplate by DangerousR6. The control cavity cover matches the lam top and accent line.
Warmoth Indian Rosewood neck with Macassar Ebony fretboard. Stratocaster headstock, SS6150 frets, no inlay, standard thin contour, Floyd nut and Schaller tuners.
Guitar #6: by Oceanruckus
Neck:
- Telecaster Vintage Modern construction (Warmoth Showcase)
- One piece Goncalo Alves wood
- Fatback contour
- 6150 fret wire
- Front and back of headstock finished with poly, rest of neck left raw (there is a black pinstripe to separate finish wood from raw wood...raw feels the BEST)
- Gotoh mini 510 locking tuners
- Bone nut installed by me
Body:
- Custom body designed, constructed, and finished by me
- Spalted maple over walnut (woods I bought from Ebay)
- Hollow body construction with f-hole (it still is heavy btw)
- Sculpted neck joint
- Finished with Z-poxy, shellac, and Deft gloss lacquer (rattle can)
- Pickguard from Warmoth cut by me
Other stuff:
- Wilde Pickups L-90s (Bill Lawrence is the man.)
- Schaller roller bridge with piezo pickup (piezo pickup/preamp built by me)
- Piezo pu wired with vol and separate jack
- Mag pu's wired vol vol; 3 way switch; master tone; master q-filter and separate jack
- Piezo vol pot also master kill switch for all electronics (push-pull)
- D'addario 11-52 strings
Guitar #7: by BluesMan
Body
Warmoth Swamp Ash, Top Rout, S-X-T Pickup Routing
Finished with nitro lacquer(rattle can) by me
Warmoth Brown Shell pickguard
Van Zandt True Vintage Strat neck pickup
Van Zandt Flat Pole Hot Tele bridge pickup
3-way switch
Gotoh Standard Tele Bridge
Neck
Warmoth Vintage modern 59 Roundback
Birdseye maple
Indian Rosewood fretboard
10-16 radius
1 5/8” nut width
6100 jumbo frets
Gotoh Kluson tuners
Guitar #8: by Patriot54
Body: Solid maple Warmoth Strat, rear rout, HSS pickup rout.
Neck: Warmoth Maple fretboard and neck, CBS headstock, standard thin neck, stainless steel jumbo frets. 25.5” scale, 1.75” nut width
Finish: Custom tribal artwork is woodburned into the front of the body, fretboard and headstock. Back of the body is finished with ebony and walnut stains. The whole body and neck are clear coated with Tru-Oil.
Electronics: DiMarzio Steve’s Special Humbucker at the bridge, DiMarzio Area 58 in the middle and DiMarzio Injector at the neck position. Standard 5-way switch, one master volume and one master tone control.
Hardware: Grover tuners, side-mounted vintage cup jack. Fender American Standard hardtail, Dangerous R6 custom neckplate
