We are now announcing the June 2015 Guitar of the Month contest! June'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 posted to this message, which is June's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until June 8th, 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.
Non-professionally finished instruments 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 by gjacob
Warmoth Stratocaster Rear-Routed Body
Valencia Orange with Cream White stripes, Catalyzed Urethane clear-coat.
Warmoth Raw Quartersawn Rosewood Neck with Pau Ferro Fingerboard
6115 Stainless Steel Frets
Sperzel Staggered Locking Tuners
DiMarzio Area '61, '58, '67 Pickups
Wilkinson VS100N Bridge
Guitar #2 by Tony Flying Squirrel
Warmoth Baritone Neck, Maple Shaft/Rosewood Fingerboard, 6100 fretwire. Owner finished in True Oil.
Tele body, Owner Finished by covering in laced Deer Hide (Buckskin) with beaded rosette, dentaliam shells.
Pickups; Neck/GFS Neo Vin 7, Bridge: locally custom wound "Bari-Twang" humbucker by John Carlsen Jr (www.carlsenguitar.com)
Electronics: 500k Push/pull Vol. pot (coil tap/bridge), 500k Tone pot (Push/Pull=Phase) with .022 Sprague orange drop cap, 3 position Tele p/u selector switch.
Guitar #3 by frown
Maple / Stainless Tele Build
Showcase Body
Flame maple top
Mahogany body
Body, forearm, heel contours
Rear rout
Seymour Duncan Hot Stack / Vintage Stack
Independent push / pull volume per pup - coil splits ‘up', full fat ‘down’.
Hipshot stainless steel bridge with Callaham stainless steel saddles.
Callaham stainless steel string ferrules
Electrosocket jack
IconPlates stainless steel neck plates
Stainless steel neck screws
Tru-oil finish
Custom Order Neck
Warmoth Pro
Quartersawn
Roasted maple shaft / finger board
Warhead headstock
Fatback profile
Chrome Schaller M6 pin locking
1-3/4” nut width
Tusq Earvana XL nut
21 stainless steel 6100 frets
No inlay
Black side dots
Tele heel
Guitar #4 by Cven
Body
V-R, Swamp Ash with Flame Maple top, Contoured Heel, owner finished with a combination of red and black dye on top and lacquer finish
Neck
Arcade headstock, Roasted Maple Shaft, Pau Ferro w/Full Scallop, Standard Thin Contour, SS6115 fret wire, Unfinished
Hardware
Schaller Floyd Rose Bridge / Schaller Mini Locking Tuners / Custom wound Iconix pickups, black with blood splatter / (2) mini toggle switches with custom pickup configuration / CTS Pots (1M - Volume, 500k - Tone) / Hipshot O-ring knobs / Custom truss rod cover (Terrapin Guitars) / Custom Neck Plate (LazrArt) / Pau Ferro control plate (made by owner) / Dunlop StrapLocks
Guitar #5 by johnbsr
Solid Koa Body with Clear Gloss Lacquer finish
Warmoth Showcase Neck, Mahogany with Pau Ferro Fingerboard
Golden Age Pickups
Schaller Mini Locking Tuners
Gotoh Vintage 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 June's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until June 8th, 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.
Non-professionally finished instruments 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 by gjacob
Warmoth Stratocaster Rear-Routed Body
Valencia Orange with Cream White stripes, Catalyzed Urethane clear-coat.
Warmoth Raw Quartersawn Rosewood Neck with Pau Ferro Fingerboard
6115 Stainless Steel Frets
Sperzel Staggered Locking Tuners
DiMarzio Area '61, '58, '67 Pickups
Wilkinson VS100N Bridge
Guitar #2 by Tony Flying Squirrel
Warmoth Baritone Neck, Maple Shaft/Rosewood Fingerboard, 6100 fretwire. Owner finished in True Oil.
Tele body, Owner Finished by covering in laced Deer Hide (Buckskin) with beaded rosette, dentaliam shells.
Pickups; Neck/GFS Neo Vin 7, Bridge: locally custom wound "Bari-Twang" humbucker by John Carlsen Jr (www.carlsenguitar.com)
Electronics: 500k Push/pull Vol. pot (coil tap/bridge), 500k Tone pot (Push/Pull=Phase) with .022 Sprague orange drop cap, 3 position Tele p/u selector switch.
Guitar #3 by frown
Maple / Stainless Tele Build
Showcase Body
Flame maple top
Mahogany body
Body, forearm, heel contours
Rear rout
Seymour Duncan Hot Stack / Vintage Stack
Independent push / pull volume per pup - coil splits ‘up', full fat ‘down’.
Hipshot stainless steel bridge with Callaham stainless steel saddles.
Callaham stainless steel string ferrules
Electrosocket jack
IconPlates stainless steel neck plates
Stainless steel neck screws
Tru-oil finish
Custom Order Neck
Warmoth Pro
Quartersawn
Roasted maple shaft / finger board
Warhead headstock
Fatback profile
Chrome Schaller M6 pin locking
1-3/4” nut width
Tusq Earvana XL nut
21 stainless steel 6100 frets
No inlay
Black side dots
Tele heel
Guitar #4 by Cven
Body
V-R, Swamp Ash with Flame Maple top, Contoured Heel, owner finished with a combination of red and black dye on top and lacquer finish
Neck
Arcade headstock, Roasted Maple Shaft, Pau Ferro w/Full Scallop, Standard Thin Contour, SS6115 fret wire, Unfinished
Hardware
Schaller Floyd Rose Bridge / Schaller Mini Locking Tuners / Custom wound Iconix pickups, black with blood splatter / (2) mini toggle switches with custom pickup configuration / CTS Pots (1M - Volume, 500k - Tone) / Hipshot O-ring knobs / Custom truss rod cover (Terrapin Guitars) / Custom Neck Plate (LazrArt) / Pau Ferro control plate (made by owner) / Dunlop StrapLocks
Guitar #5 by johnbsr
Solid Koa Body with Clear Gloss Lacquer finish
Warmoth Showcase Neck, Mahogany with Pau Ferro Fingerboard
Golden Age Pickups
Schaller Mini Locking Tuners
Gotoh Vintage Bridge
