Hello all,
We're now announcing the March, 2014 Guitar of the Month contest! March's contest will be "Warmoth/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 March's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until March 10th, 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!
Sorry about the delay - here we go!
Guitar #1 by Lushtone
This is my number one guitar. It features a custom Warmoth body, BGP neck, and custom ebony/bone bridge crafted by Tom at Mike Lull's Custom Guitars. This guitar was assembled by Mike Lull's Custom Guitars also, aside from the DIY finish on the neck.
Body:
Warmoth Chambered mahogany/quilt maple strat
Blue dye/clear finish
Custom ebony/bone bridge
Emg Ha (neck), 85 (bridge)
Three-way switch, volume/tone/tone
Dunlop strap locks
Neck:
BGP 25" scale conversion strat heel neck
Quartersawn maple/Indian rosewood
Single, two-way truss
Fatback profile
1 11/16" bone nut, 12" radius
22 stainless 6105 frets
Matching rosewood headstock overlay
No inlays, white side dots
DIY burnish to 2000 grit and hand-rubbed with BLO
Gotoh 16:1 tuners, Graphtech string tree
Guitar #2 by Surf n Music
Stratocaster body with f-hole
Seafoam Green Warmoth finish
Gotoh VS-100 Bridge
Parchment colored pickguard.
Seymour Duncan Pickups
Jazz pickup in the neck
Brobucker custom shop in the bridge.
Bourns 500k push/pull pots
(one for split coil and one for reverse phase)
3-way switch.
Canary on canary neck no inlay but side abalone markers.
Canary control knobs with abalone marker.
Gotoh SGS510Z Locking tuners.
Guitar #3 by Vostre Roy
Specs
Neck:
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Vintage Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Bocote
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Earvana Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Clear Satin
Body
Model: Chambered Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: 1
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)
Controls: None
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Electronic/Hardware
Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pounds Lead for Tele
Neck Pickup: Lace Sensor Wino's Lifers
Chrome tele control plate (reversed)
Chrome Wilkinson tele bridge w/ Compensanted Saddles
Black Tortoise pickguard
Gotoh tuners
3-way Tele Switch
250k Alpha pot
250k CTS pot w/ coilt tap
Electrosocket output jack
Schaller style Strap Locks
Guitar #4 by Steve St.Laurent
Body:
Chambered Mahogony Tele
Laminate Top/Body woods: 3 PC Quilted Maple
Rear route
Tele/none/tele pickups
Gotoh black tele bridge
Black/Red/Black custom Dye top
Clear gloss back
DAllenPickups Hot Vintage Tele Pickups
4 way Tele switch
Neck:
Tele Neck
Warmoth Pro
Right Handed Handed
Bocote
Bocote Fretboard
1-11/16" Nut Width
Standard thin contour
SS6105 (Stainless) frets
Schaller (25/64", 11/32") Tuner Ream
Schaller black locking tuners with hidden locating pin (Nearly impossible to find - took a year and a half)
22 frets
10-16" Compound Radius
No Inlay
Side Dots Only Inlay
Mother Of Pearl Side Dots
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Guitar #5 by sduck
Warmoth finished neck and body
Chambered Strat body; mahogany body with a select quilted maple top, green dye finish
Angled Strat neck, mahogany shaft with a black ebony fingerboard, gold 6100 frets, graph tech black TUSQ XL nut, no dot inlays
Sperzel locking tuners, Dimarzio pickups, Wilkinson tremelo
Guitar #6 by BlueTalon.
This is Sasha, my strat-jazz.
It has the following:
Warmoth bubinga & wenge neck
Schaller tuners
Hipshot string retainer
Formby's tung oil finish on the headstock
6105 nickle frets
black TUSQ nut
threaded inserts and machine screws
D'Addario nickle-round strings
Warmoth alder body, finished in gloss black by Warmoth
wenge thumbrests
Schaller bridge
Schaller strap locks
Fender Super 55 dual-inline-coil hum cancelling pickups (one bridge, two neck)
CTS concentric 500K/500K-no-load pots
Turnstyle switch
Each pickup has individual V/T controls, with the tone pots being no-load. The signals then go to the Turnstyle switch -- one position is full manual control of all pickups, the other five positions are tone/voice presets. Then the signal goes to the Master V/T control, and on to the jack. It is all passive, no batteries anywhere. I completely shielded the inside with copper foil with conductive adhesive (which didn't stop me from soldering most of it). Sasha was set up and PLEK'd by Mike Lull.
The raw bubinga neck is amazing. I can actually play faster on it. The tone is fantastic and quite flexible (chunky and bright, in a good way), and it is dead silent from unwanted noise. All combinations of pickup volumes and tones are usable (the tone never drops off a cliff).
Mike Lull liked it, for what that's worth.
Guitar #7 by Lumberjack
Type: Soloist
Body: Maple, Solid
Top: Quilt Maple
Top Bidning: Natural Masked Binding
Top Finish: Fireburst
Back Finish: Black Gloss
Extras: 720 Mod, Contoured Heel
Neck
Type: Warmoth Pro Warhead
Neck: Pau Ferro
Fretboard: Macassar Ebony
Shape: Standard Thin
Radius: 10"-16" Compound Radius
Scale: 25-1/2"
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Inlays: No Fretboard Inlays / Abalone Sidedots
Frets: 22 Frets / SS6100 Fretwire
Locking Nut: R3 Floyd Rose
Extras: Fully Scalloped Neck
Electronic Components
Pickups: Seymour Duncan's / SSL-1 in Neck and Middle Positions (no RWRP),
Screamin Demon in Bridge Position
Potentiometers: Volume (500k) (Treble Bleed Mod), Tone (500k) (Push-Push Adds Neck Pickup),
Dial-A-Tap (500k) (Gradual Humbucker Split)
Switch: 5-way Switch
Schematic: Rothstein Guitars (http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_dialatap_11.html)
Mechanical Components
Tremolo: Recessed Original Floyd Rose in Black
Tuners: Schaller Mini Locking Tuners in Black
You can read more about and see this guitar in this thread:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=23259.msg342307#new
Guitar #8 by MOgrady
Neck P/U: Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder
Bridge P/U: Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder
Neck string retainer: ABM 19mm string spacing
Bridge: ABM 19mm st/sp
Tuners: ABM 19mm st/ sp
Neck: Warmoth Deluxe 5 (Inline-no more)st Jazz/ nitro finish
Maple Neck/ Indian Rosewood Fingerboard
1-7/8th nut width
Asymmetric back contour
Pearloid blocks
34 in scale length
Body: OGrady body build consisting of:
Ambrosia Maple w/ oil finish
Rear Routed control cavity w/ body matching cover plate
Routed for neck and bridge p/u’s
V-V-T controls using CTS POTS (250k/ea)
OGrady Wood knobs
Electrosocket jack
Strap locks
Arm and belly contours
We're now announcing the March, 2014 Guitar of the Month contest! March's contest will be "Warmoth/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 March's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until March 10th, 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!
Sorry about the delay - here we go!
Guitar #1 by Lushtone
This is my number one guitar. It features a custom Warmoth body, BGP neck, and custom ebony/bone bridge crafted by Tom at Mike Lull's Custom Guitars. This guitar was assembled by Mike Lull's Custom Guitars also, aside from the DIY finish on the neck.
Body:
Warmoth Chambered mahogany/quilt maple strat
Blue dye/clear finish
Custom ebony/bone bridge
Emg Ha (neck), 85 (bridge)
Three-way switch, volume/tone/tone
Dunlop strap locks
Neck:
BGP 25" scale conversion strat heel neck
Quartersawn maple/Indian rosewood
Single, two-way truss
Fatback profile
1 11/16" bone nut, 12" radius
22 stainless 6105 frets
Matching rosewood headstock overlay
No inlays, white side dots
DIY burnish to 2000 grit and hand-rubbed with BLO
Gotoh 16:1 tuners, Graphtech string tree
Guitar #2 by Surf n Music
Stratocaster body with f-hole
Seafoam Green Warmoth finish
Gotoh VS-100 Bridge
Parchment colored pickguard.
Seymour Duncan Pickups
Jazz pickup in the neck
Brobucker custom shop in the bridge.
Bourns 500k push/pull pots
(one for split coil and one for reverse phase)
3-way switch.
Canary on canary neck no inlay but side abalone markers.
Canary control knobs with abalone marker.
Gotoh SGS510Z Locking tuners.
Guitar #3 by Vostre Roy
Specs
Neck:
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Vintage Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Bocote
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Earvana Nut
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Clear Satin
Body
Model: Chambered Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: 1
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)
Controls: None
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Electronic/Hardware
Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pounds Lead for Tele
Neck Pickup: Lace Sensor Wino's Lifers
Chrome tele control plate (reversed)
Chrome Wilkinson tele bridge w/ Compensanted Saddles
Black Tortoise pickguard
Gotoh tuners
3-way Tele Switch
250k Alpha pot
250k CTS pot w/ coilt tap
Electrosocket output jack
Schaller style Strap Locks
Guitar #4 by Steve St.Laurent
Body:
Chambered Mahogony Tele
Laminate Top/Body woods: 3 PC Quilted Maple
Rear route
Tele/none/tele pickups
Gotoh black tele bridge
Black/Red/Black custom Dye top
Clear gloss back
DAllenPickups Hot Vintage Tele Pickups
4 way Tele switch
Neck:
Tele Neck
Warmoth Pro
Right Handed Handed
Bocote
Bocote Fretboard
1-11/16" Nut Width
Standard thin contour
SS6105 (Stainless) frets
Schaller (25/64", 11/32") Tuner Ream
Schaller black locking tuners with hidden locating pin (Nearly impossible to find - took a year and a half)
22 frets
10-16" Compound Radius
No Inlay
Side Dots Only Inlay
Mother Of Pearl Side Dots
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Guitar #5 by sduck
Warmoth finished neck and body
Chambered Strat body; mahogany body with a select quilted maple top, green dye finish
Angled Strat neck, mahogany shaft with a black ebony fingerboard, gold 6100 frets, graph tech black TUSQ XL nut, no dot inlays
Sperzel locking tuners, Dimarzio pickups, Wilkinson tremelo
Guitar #6 by BlueTalon.
This is Sasha, my strat-jazz.
It has the following:
Warmoth bubinga & wenge neck
Schaller tuners
Hipshot string retainer
Formby's tung oil finish on the headstock
6105 nickle frets
black TUSQ nut
threaded inserts and machine screws
D'Addario nickle-round strings
Warmoth alder body, finished in gloss black by Warmoth
wenge thumbrests
Schaller bridge
Schaller strap locks
Fender Super 55 dual-inline-coil hum cancelling pickups (one bridge, two neck)
CTS concentric 500K/500K-no-load pots
Turnstyle switch
Each pickup has individual V/T controls, with the tone pots being no-load. The signals then go to the Turnstyle switch -- one position is full manual control of all pickups, the other five positions are tone/voice presets. Then the signal goes to the Master V/T control, and on to the jack. It is all passive, no batteries anywhere. I completely shielded the inside with copper foil with conductive adhesive (which didn't stop me from soldering most of it). Sasha was set up and PLEK'd by Mike Lull.
The raw bubinga neck is amazing. I can actually play faster on it. The tone is fantastic and quite flexible (chunky and bright, in a good way), and it is dead silent from unwanted noise. All combinations of pickup volumes and tones are usable (the tone never drops off a cliff).
Mike Lull liked it, for what that's worth.
Guitar #7 by Lumberjack
Type: Soloist
Body: Maple, Solid
Top: Quilt Maple
Top Bidning: Natural Masked Binding
Top Finish: Fireburst
Back Finish: Black Gloss
Extras: 720 Mod, Contoured Heel
Neck
Type: Warmoth Pro Warhead
Neck: Pau Ferro
Fretboard: Macassar Ebony
Shape: Standard Thin
Radius: 10"-16" Compound Radius
Scale: 25-1/2"
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Inlays: No Fretboard Inlays / Abalone Sidedots
Frets: 22 Frets / SS6100 Fretwire
Locking Nut: R3 Floyd Rose
Extras: Fully Scalloped Neck
Electronic Components
Pickups: Seymour Duncan's / SSL-1 in Neck and Middle Positions (no RWRP),
Screamin Demon in Bridge Position
Potentiometers: Volume (500k) (Treble Bleed Mod), Tone (500k) (Push-Push Adds Neck Pickup),
Dial-A-Tap (500k) (Gradual Humbucker Split)
Switch: 5-way Switch
Schematic: Rothstein Guitars (http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_dialatap_11.html)
Mechanical Components
Tremolo: Recessed Original Floyd Rose in Black
Tuners: Schaller Mini Locking Tuners in Black
You can read more about and see this guitar in this thread:
http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=23259.msg342307#new
Guitar #8 by MOgrady
Neck P/U: Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder
Bridge P/U: Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder
Neck string retainer: ABM 19mm string spacing
Bridge: ABM 19mm st/sp
Tuners: ABM 19mm st/ sp
Neck: Warmoth Deluxe 5 (Inline-no more)st Jazz/ nitro finish
Maple Neck/ Indian Rosewood Fingerboard
1-7/8th nut width
Asymmetric back contour
Pearloid blocks
34 in scale length
Body: OGrady body build consisting of:
Ambrosia Maple w/ oil finish
Rear Routed control cavity w/ body matching cover plate
Routed for neck and bridge p/u’s
V-V-T controls using CTS POTS (250k/ea)
OGrady Wood knobs
Electrosocket jack
Strap locks
Arm and belly contours
