Hello all,
We're now announcing the March, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest! March's contest will be "Owner 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.
In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is March's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from March 1st until March 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, 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: The Man in Plaid
Body: SG - Mahogany with Quilted Maple top
Neck: Variax Reversed peghead, Mahogany with Madagascar ebony, gold 6150 fretwire, straight 12 radius, 24 fret
Pickups: BKP Cold Sweat neck & Aftermath bridge
Bridge: Tonepros TOM with arched string-thru
Tuning: Schaller Locking
Hardware Color: Gold
Nut: unbleached bone
Finish: Blue dye (my first attempt at finishing)
Goddess Inlay and angel wing truss rod cover by Cliff Sutter
Guitar #2 by: Klangster
Warmoth Gecko 6 string fret-less
Body: walnut with flame koa top
Neck: wenge with bubinga strips
Fretboard: jet black ebony
Pickups: Delano Sbc H4
Preamp: Delano sonar 3ms
Controls: vol, blend,3 band eq with 3 way shiftable (internal) mid and series/parallel/single coil switch for each pickup
Bridge: Hipshot A style
Tuners: Gotoh
Knobs: hipshot o ring
Finish: Tru Oil
Home made: Control cover & Truss cover from figured walnut (not pictured) and pickup ramp from wenge
Guitar #3 by: JYBass
Body:
Z-Bass
Black Korina on Poplar
All contours
Owner finished with Clear Satin Nitro
Neck:
Warmoth
Ebony on Wenge
Fretless no lines
White side dots
Unfinished
Electronics/Hardware:
SD Basslines and Steve Bailey tone circuit
Controls - Volume/Push-Pull Contour, Pan, Mids, Stacked Bass/Treble
Gotoh Bridge and Tuners
GraphTech TUSQ XL Nut
Strung up with DR Legend Flats
Black Hardware
Guitar #4, by: Cagey
Body: Chambered one-piece body and bookmatched carved-top curly Black Korina VIP
Neck: Black Ebony over Bloodwood w/ gold 6100 frets, Schaller Mini-Locker tuners and black TUSQ nut
Pickups: Old EMG-58s
Bridge: Gotoh 510 wrap-around
Finish: Cranberrry nitrocellulose
Neck plate: Custom by DangerousR6
We're now announcing the March, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest! March's contest will be "Owner 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.
In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is March's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from March 1st until March 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, 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: The Man in Plaid
Body: SG - Mahogany with Quilted Maple top
Neck: Variax Reversed peghead, Mahogany with Madagascar ebony, gold 6150 fretwire, straight 12 radius, 24 fret
Pickups: BKP Cold Sweat neck & Aftermath bridge
Bridge: Tonepros TOM with arched string-thru
Tuning: Schaller Locking
Hardware Color: Gold
Nut: unbleached bone
Finish: Blue dye (my first attempt at finishing)
Goddess Inlay and angel wing truss rod cover by Cliff Sutter
Guitar #2 by: Klangster
Warmoth Gecko 6 string fret-less
Body: walnut with flame koa top
Neck: wenge with bubinga strips
Fretboard: jet black ebony
Pickups: Delano Sbc H4
Preamp: Delano sonar 3ms
Controls: vol, blend,3 band eq with 3 way shiftable (internal) mid and series/parallel/single coil switch for each pickup
Bridge: Hipshot A style
Tuners: Gotoh
Knobs: hipshot o ring
Finish: Tru Oil
Home made: Control cover & Truss cover from figured walnut (not pictured) and pickup ramp from wenge
Guitar #3 by: JYBass
Body:
Z-Bass
Black Korina on Poplar
All contours
Owner finished with Clear Satin Nitro
Neck:
Warmoth
Ebony on Wenge
Fretless no lines
White side dots
Unfinished
Electronics/Hardware:
SD Basslines and Steve Bailey tone circuit
Controls - Volume/Push-Pull Contour, Pan, Mids, Stacked Bass/Treble
Gotoh Bridge and Tuners
GraphTech TUSQ XL Nut
Strung up with DR Legend Flats
Black Hardware
Guitar #4, by: Cagey
Body: Chambered one-piece body and bookmatched carved-top curly Black Korina VIP
Neck: Black Ebony over Bloodwood w/ gold 6100 frets, Schaller Mini-Locker tuners and black TUSQ nut
Pickups: Old EMG-58s
Bridge: Gotoh 510 wrap-around
Finish: Cranberrry nitrocellulose
Neck plate: Custom by DangerousR6
