We are now announcing the June, 2016 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 a maximum of 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 7th, 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 Kevin_Guitars
Body:
Warmoth Tele
Wood: Swamp Ash w/ tummy cut
Grain filled
Hand rubbed Tobacco Burst with Transtint Amber & Mahogony
Tru Oil Finish
Neck:
Warmoth Modern Roasted Maple
"Siren" logo burned into headstock w/ soldering iron
Burnished to 1800 grit
Black Mother of pearl inlays
Graphtech Tusq nut
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6150
Tuner Ream: Vintage Style (11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2
Components:
Dimarzio Twang King Neck / True Velvet bridge
Wired in reverse for control plate flip
"Vintage" tone pot wiring in leiu of treble bleed
Seymour Duncan "Smooth Turning" 500k pots
.047 Cap
Fender 3 way switch
Gotoh 6 saddle bridge
Gotoh Vintage Tuners
Graphtech Tusq String trees
Dunlop Strap locks
Guitar #2 Great Ape
Body: Basswood, woodburned ''barnwood'', aniline dyes & markers
Neck: Macassar Ebony on Maple
Gotoh Hardware
Seymour Duncan Li'l '59 & Antiquity pickups
Guitar #3 lafromla1
Body:
Warmoth Regal
Wood: Quilted maple top/maple body (solid)
Ivoroid Binding
Pure Tung Oil Finish
Butcher’s Wax
Neck:
Warmoth Regal
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood
Ivoroid Binding
Neck Inserts added
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL nut
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6130
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 24-3/4”
Pure Tung Oil Finish
Butcher’s Wax
Pieces and parts:
Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker set
Sigler Music custom Gibson Les Paul Jimmy Page Wiring Harness with Bourns 500K Pots
21 tone wiring (push-pull volume and tone controls)
Gotoh Tune O Matic Bridge and Stop Tail piece, gold
Schaller Mini Locking Tuners, gold
Custom painted "Peacock Feather" truss rod cover (painted by my daughter)
Custom Neck Plate
Guitar #4 DMRACO
BODY:
Alder Velocity
GFS P90, Lipstick, and VEH humbucker that can be tapped to single coil
Wilkinson Trem
Natural masked binding and custom mixed purple nitro finish
NECK
Roasted maple with SRV profile
Gold fret and abalone markers
Custom headstock to Hipshot locking tuners.
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 a maximum of 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 7th, 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 Kevin_Guitars
Body:
Warmoth Tele
Wood: Swamp Ash w/ tummy cut
Grain filled
Hand rubbed Tobacco Burst with Transtint Amber & Mahogony
Tru Oil Finish
Neck:
Warmoth Modern Roasted Maple
"Siren" logo burned into headstock w/ soldering iron
Burnished to 1800 grit
Black Mother of pearl inlays
Graphtech Tusq nut
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6150
Tuner Ream: Vintage Style (11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2
Components:
Dimarzio Twang King Neck / True Velvet bridge
Wired in reverse for control plate flip
"Vintage" tone pot wiring in leiu of treble bleed
Seymour Duncan "Smooth Turning" 500k pots
.047 Cap
Fender 3 way switch
Gotoh 6 saddle bridge
Gotoh Vintage Tuners
Graphtech Tusq String trees
Dunlop Strap locks
Guitar #2 Great Ape
Body: Basswood, woodburned ''barnwood'', aniline dyes & markers
Neck: Macassar Ebony on Maple
Gotoh Hardware
Seymour Duncan Li'l '59 & Antiquity pickups
Guitar #3 lafromla1
Body:
Warmoth Regal
Wood: Quilted maple top/maple body (solid)
Ivoroid Binding
Pure Tung Oil Finish
Butcher’s Wax
Neck:
Warmoth Regal
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard: Indian Rosewood
Ivoroid Binding
Neck Inserts added
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL nut
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6130
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 24-3/4”
Pure Tung Oil Finish
Butcher’s Wax
Pieces and parts:
Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker set
Sigler Music custom Gibson Les Paul Jimmy Page Wiring Harness with Bourns 500K Pots
21 tone wiring (push-pull volume and tone controls)
Gotoh Tune O Matic Bridge and Stop Tail piece, gold
Schaller Mini Locking Tuners, gold
Custom painted "Peacock Feather" truss rod cover (painted by my daughter)
Custom Neck Plate
Guitar #4 DMRACO
BODY:
Alder Velocity
GFS P90, Lipstick, and VEH humbucker that can be tapped to single coil
Wilkinson Trem
Natural masked binding and custom mixed purple nitro finish
NECK
Roasted maple with SRV profile
Gold fret and abalone markers
Custom headstock to Hipshot locking tuners.
