We are now announcing the June 2020 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 added to this message, which is June's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until exactly 7 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 SideshowDom
'Nettie'
Body:
54 P Bass
Swamp Ash
Front rout
Stained black with neon green grain filler and satin clear coat
Black Schaller 463 bridge
Seymour Duncan SPB-2
Neck:
Reverse Tele bass neck maple
Maple fretboard
SS6105 stainless frets
Clear satin finish
Black Schaller tuners
DR Neon Hi-Def green strings
Guitar #2 Hendrix
Blues and Jazz tribute Strat
Warmoth Extra Light Weight Alder Stratocaster® replacement guitar body
Warmoth Dark Indian Rosewood Stratocaster® neck with Ebony Fretboard
Hand painted on Alder, The Legend that Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil in Crossroads. The devil gives his guitar a tuning, a magic touch that with magic power, some supernatural power behind his magic hands, to symbolize this, I imitate the gesture of god's magic touch at the fresco painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
The crossroad extended on pickguard, Made a 3D model as his walk to crossroad image in the movie scene. Flatten it to make 3D painting, relief. And 3D print the walking to crossroads movie scene on pickguard.
On the back is hand painted Chet Baker as Jazz tribute Strat .
Satin Finish Clear Coat on body.
.06" Black Solid Matte stratocaster® guitar pickguard
Neck Q-pickups Foil Pickup
Mid Seymour Duncan Lipstick Tube Strat - Middle RWRP
Bridge Lollar Broiler Pickup
Strat Flat Mount Bridge, Vintage Spacing, Black
Gotoh 501 black Tuner
The 3D painting knobs are designed symbols mix of crossroads / mythology and Robert Johnson tombstone, also order some flat head black screw for the pickguard.
Guitar #3 Ragamuffin
"Teamaster"
Body: Swamp ash jazzcaster stained with tea concentrate and finished in tru-oil
Neck:
-Modern construction
-Roasted maple board and shaft
-59' roundback
-10-16 compound radius
-SS6105 frets
-Tusq nut
Electronics:
-Roadhouse pickups "Kingston" Supro-style gold foil neck pickup and tele bridge pickup
-4-way switching: bridge, b+n parallel, neck, b+n series
-Volume, tone, and bass cut knobs
Guitar #4 VinceClortho
Body:
Model: Musiclander
Wood: Super Light Roasted Swamp Ash - 2lbs., 8oz.
Jack Rout: 1/2" (13mm) Side Jack
Finish: Danish Oil finish with a few overcoats of Tru-Oil
Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates SH-PG1n
Bridge Pickup: Bill Lawrence L500L
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose Black w/ brass block and Schaller Sure Claw
Pickup rings and switch tip: Custom FOTN Brushed Black Aluminum
Neck:
Style: Vortex
Construction: Gibson® Scale (24-3/4") Conversion Tiltback
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Flame Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony (Black)
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Wizard
Fret Size: SS6100 (Stainless)
Radius: 10-16" Compound
String Nut: OFR R3 w/ Mounting Holes
Inlays: Black Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Hand Rubbed Danish Oil. Headstock has multiple coats of Tru-Oil
to give it some shine.
Tuners: Hipshot Grip-Lock Open Black
Guitar #5 MikeW
The Ritchie
Neck:
Warmoth Modern Construction
- Roasted Maple/Rosewood
- Wizard Profile
- SS6105 frets
- LSR Roller Nut
- Gotoh 510 Mini Locking Tuners
- headstock sprayed to match body in Antique White
Body:
Fender '57 Reissue refinished in Antique White with Spray-on Poly Satin finish
Bridge:
Wilkinson VSVG
Pickups:
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder
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 June's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until exactly 7 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 SideshowDom
'Nettie'
Body:
54 P Bass
Swamp Ash
Front rout
Stained black with neon green grain filler and satin clear coat
Black Schaller 463 bridge
Seymour Duncan SPB-2
Neck:
Reverse Tele bass neck maple
Maple fretboard
SS6105 stainless frets
Clear satin finish
Black Schaller tuners
DR Neon Hi-Def green strings
Guitar #2 Hendrix
Blues and Jazz tribute Strat
Warmoth Extra Light Weight Alder Stratocaster® replacement guitar body
Warmoth Dark Indian Rosewood Stratocaster® neck with Ebony Fretboard
Hand painted on Alder, The Legend that Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil in Crossroads. The devil gives his guitar a tuning, a magic touch that with magic power, some supernatural power behind his magic hands, to symbolize this, I imitate the gesture of god's magic touch at the fresco painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
The crossroad extended on pickguard, Made a 3D model as his walk to crossroad image in the movie scene. Flatten it to make 3D painting, relief. And 3D print the walking to crossroads movie scene on pickguard.
On the back is hand painted Chet Baker as Jazz tribute Strat .
Satin Finish Clear Coat on body.
.06" Black Solid Matte stratocaster® guitar pickguard
Neck Q-pickups Foil Pickup
Mid Seymour Duncan Lipstick Tube Strat - Middle RWRP
Bridge Lollar Broiler Pickup
Strat Flat Mount Bridge, Vintage Spacing, Black
Gotoh 501 black Tuner
The 3D painting knobs are designed symbols mix of crossroads / mythology and Robert Johnson tombstone, also order some flat head black screw for the pickguard.
Guitar #3 Ragamuffin
"Teamaster"
Body: Swamp ash jazzcaster stained with tea concentrate and finished in tru-oil
Neck:
-Modern construction
-Roasted maple board and shaft
-59' roundback
-10-16 compound radius
-SS6105 frets
-Tusq nut
Electronics:
-Roadhouse pickups "Kingston" Supro-style gold foil neck pickup and tele bridge pickup
-4-way switching: bridge, b+n parallel, neck, b+n series
-Volume, tone, and bass cut knobs
Guitar #4 VinceClortho
Body:
Model: Musiclander
Wood: Super Light Roasted Swamp Ash - 2lbs., 8oz.
Jack Rout: 1/2" (13mm) Side Jack
Finish: Danish Oil finish with a few overcoats of Tru-Oil
Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates SH-PG1n
Bridge Pickup: Bill Lawrence L500L
Bridge: Original Floyd Rose Black w/ brass block and Schaller Sure Claw
Pickup rings and switch tip: Custom FOTN Brushed Black Aluminum
Neck:
Style: Vortex
Construction: Gibson® Scale (24-3/4") Conversion Tiltback
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Flame Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony (Black)
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Wizard
Fret Size: SS6100 (Stainless)
Radius: 10-16" Compound
String Nut: OFR R3 w/ Mounting Holes
Inlays: Black Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Hand Rubbed Danish Oil. Headstock has multiple coats of Tru-Oil
to give it some shine.
Tuners: Hipshot Grip-Lock Open Black
Guitar #5 MikeW
The Ritchie
Neck:
Warmoth Modern Construction
- Roasted Maple/Rosewood
- Wizard Profile
- SS6105 frets
- LSR Roller Nut
- Gotoh 510 Mini Locking Tuners
- headstock sprayed to match body in Antique White
Body:
Fender '57 Reissue refinished in Antique White with Spray-on Poly Satin finish
Bridge:
Wilkinson VSVG
Pickups:
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder
