Here we go again! Another amazing year of Guitar of the Month contests starts here! It's time to get your entries in!
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 from now until March 9th, 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.
Warmoth or other 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 Rgand
BODY
Style: Jazzmaster
Construction: Solid
Neck pocket: Strat
Wood: Roasted Swamp Ash
Pickup configuration: H-H-H
Bridge rout: Fender American Standard Hardtail
Scale: 25-1/2"
Finish: Transparent Red
Weight: 4 lbs 2 oz
Strap Locks: Schaller
Strat Jack Plate: Proline, Flipped
Pickguard: Warmoth Black Gloss
BRIDGE
Callaham Am. Std. Hardtail w/Bigsby Relief Cuts and SS Bigsby Compensated Saddles
BIGSBY VIBRATO
B5 with String-through Modified Main String Shaft, 360° Modified Arm Bracket, Callaham Front Roller
NECK
Wood: Roasted Maple/Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Nut: Black Graphtech, Standard
Back Contour: Standard Thin
Frets: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlay: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Scale: Warmoth Gibson Scale (24-3/4") Conversion
Finish: None
Tuners: Hipshot Staggered, Locking, Closed Gear
Setup: Chris Boland, Santa Cruz, CA
WIRING - 1 Volume, 1 treble bleed, 1 bass bleed
Vol & Treble Pots: CTS 500K Linear Taper, Split Shaft
Bass Pot: Bourns 500K Linear Taper Mini, Split Shaft
Pickups: Seymour Duncan P-Rails
Pickup Mode Switches: 2 ON-ON Slide
Knobs: Witch Hat
Pickup Selector Switch: LP-style Toggle
Guitar #2 Jamie John
Doublecaster
Body - Double neck S style
Warmoth Vintage White Finish
Pearloid pickguard
5 way Oak grigsby super switch
Floyd Rose and Gotoh 12 string bridges
1 volume, 1 tone, for each neck
500k ohm pots for the 6 string, with a 470 k ohm resistor on the YJM
mini neck selector switch
p/ups on 6 string = Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, Cool rails, and YJM
p/ups on 12 string = Seymour Duncan STK S6, and (2), 5/2 stack for strat.
Necks
6 string - CBS stratocaster Modern
Warmoth clear gloss
Stainless Steel frets
Gotoh tuners
12 String - '65 12 string (1/16" wider than 6 string neck)
Bone nut
Warmoth clear gloss
Stainless Steel frets
Gotoh HAPM tuners (Height adjustable Posts)
Guitar #3 Logrinn
Röde Baronen
BODY:
Model: Chambered 7/8 T-Style
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 24-3/4"
Wood: Alder on Alder
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: None
Bridge: Fender® American Standard Flat Mount
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Top Finish: Dakota Red
Back Finish: Dakota Red
Finish Type: Satin Finish
NECK:
Style: Mustang/Jaguar
Construction: Mustang Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Bloodwood
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony (Black)
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: 59 roundback
Fret Size: SS6105 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 24"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Coral Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
ELECTRONICS:
DiMarzio DP161 Steve Special in the bridge position
DiMarzio DP156 Humbucker from hell in the neck position
Bourns 500 k pot
3-way 4 pole toggle, with inner coils from each pickup in the middle postion
HARDWARE:
Fender Strat American Hardtail bridge
Gotoh locking, staggered tuners with Gotoh buttons from an old Ibanez.
Guitar #4 ThePhilosopher
Body Shape: Warmoth Soloist
Body Wood: Alder
Finish: Neon Chartreuse
Bridge: Wilkinson VS100
Hardware Color: Black
Pickups: Bareknuckle Warpigs
Electronics: Concentric volume/tone with detents, 5-way switch, kill switch
Tuners: Hipshot Locking
Scale: 28 5/8"
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6100
Perfect 5ths tuning F-e
Guitar #5 vetteman
Body: Warmoth Swamp Ash Tele Deluxe w/ tummy cut and strat neck pocket, black
Bridge: Vintage strat w/ Babicz full contact saddles
Pickguard: Black pearl w/ 3 Lace Sensor Silver strat pickups
Controls: CTS pots and 5 way switch wired with push/pull tone for 'Eldred' mod tone cap
Knobs: white strat style
Neck: Warmoth style modern tiltback construction in satin Birdseye Maple w/ black trapezoid inlay
Frets: 22 frets in 6150 stainless steel profile, black Tusq nut
Tuners: Schaller mini locking tuners
All assembly/mods done by vetteman
Guitar #6 EpicPow
Body: Chambered Black Korina on Black Korina
Neck: Maple with Ebony fretboard
Tuners: Schaller Locking 2 pin tuners
Bridge: Grotoh vintage 6 hole tremolo
Pickups: TV Jones Starwood Strat (neck and middle) TV Jones TV Classic Humbucker (bridge)
Wiring: Custom SSH electronics from Mojo tone with a 5 way super switch
Finished the pickups with some single coil covers from StewMac
Guitar #7 JoeA
Body
Model: Chambered Stratocaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: HSS
Pickups: EMG 89 at bridge + 2 EMG SA
Controls: 1 master Tone + split / 1 Master volume
Bridge: recessed Tune-O-Matic with strings thru
Jack Rout: Side 19mm with football plate
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Countours: Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour / Contoured Heel
Battery Box: Single
Binding: Natural
Top Finish: Tigers Eye Dye
Back Finish: Trans Brown
Neck
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Warmoth Pro
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Very High Grade Roasted Flame Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Very High Grade Roasted Flame Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6105 Medium Stainless
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: Graph Tech black TUSQ Standard
Inlays: Black Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
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 from now until March 9th, 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.
Warmoth or other 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 Rgand
BODY
Style: Jazzmaster
Construction: Solid
Neck pocket: Strat
Wood: Roasted Swamp Ash
Pickup configuration: H-H-H
Bridge rout: Fender American Standard Hardtail
Scale: 25-1/2"
Finish: Transparent Red
Weight: 4 lbs 2 oz
Strap Locks: Schaller
Strat Jack Plate: Proline, Flipped
Pickguard: Warmoth Black Gloss
BRIDGE
Callaham Am. Std. Hardtail w/Bigsby Relief Cuts and SS Bigsby Compensated Saddles
BIGSBY VIBRATO
B5 with String-through Modified Main String Shaft, 360° Modified Arm Bracket, Callaham Front Roller
NECK
Wood: Roasted Maple/Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Nut: Black Graphtech, Standard
Back Contour: Standard Thin
Frets: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlay: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Scale: Warmoth Gibson Scale (24-3/4") Conversion
Finish: None
Tuners: Hipshot Staggered, Locking, Closed Gear
Setup: Chris Boland, Santa Cruz, CA
WIRING - 1 Volume, 1 treble bleed, 1 bass bleed
Vol & Treble Pots: CTS 500K Linear Taper, Split Shaft
Bass Pot: Bourns 500K Linear Taper Mini, Split Shaft
Pickups: Seymour Duncan P-Rails
Pickup Mode Switches: 2 ON-ON Slide
Knobs: Witch Hat
Pickup Selector Switch: LP-style Toggle
Guitar #2 Jamie John
Doublecaster
Body - Double neck S style
Warmoth Vintage White Finish
Pearloid pickguard
5 way Oak grigsby super switch
Floyd Rose and Gotoh 12 string bridges
1 volume, 1 tone, for each neck
500k ohm pots for the 6 string, with a 470 k ohm resistor on the YJM
mini neck selector switch
p/ups on 6 string = Seymour Duncan Custom Custom, Cool rails, and YJM
p/ups on 12 string = Seymour Duncan STK S6, and (2), 5/2 stack for strat.
Necks
6 string - CBS stratocaster Modern
Warmoth clear gloss
Stainless Steel frets
Gotoh tuners
12 String - '65 12 string (1/16" wider than 6 string neck)
Bone nut
Warmoth clear gloss
Stainless Steel frets
Gotoh HAPM tuners (Height adjustable Posts)
Guitar #3 Logrinn
Röde Baronen
BODY:
Model: Chambered 7/8 T-Style
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 24-3/4"
Wood: Alder on Alder
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: None
Bridge: Fender® American Standard Flat Mount
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Top Finish: Dakota Red
Back Finish: Dakota Red
Finish Type: Satin Finish
NECK:
Style: Mustang/Jaguar
Construction: Mustang Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Bloodwood
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony (Black)
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: 59 roundback
Fret Size: SS6105 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 24"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Coral Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
ELECTRONICS:
DiMarzio DP161 Steve Special in the bridge position
DiMarzio DP156 Humbucker from hell in the neck position
Bourns 500 k pot
3-way 4 pole toggle, with inner coils from each pickup in the middle postion
HARDWARE:
Fender Strat American Hardtail bridge
Gotoh locking, staggered tuners with Gotoh buttons from an old Ibanez.
Guitar #4 ThePhilosopher
Body Shape: Warmoth Soloist
Body Wood: Alder
Finish: Neon Chartreuse
Bridge: Wilkinson VS100
Hardware Color: Black
Pickups: Bareknuckle Warpigs
Electronics: Concentric volume/tone with detents, 5-way switch, kill switch
Tuners: Hipshot Locking
Scale: 28 5/8"
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: 6100
Perfect 5ths tuning F-e
Guitar #5 vetteman
Body: Warmoth Swamp Ash Tele Deluxe w/ tummy cut and strat neck pocket, black
Bridge: Vintage strat w/ Babicz full contact saddles
Pickguard: Black pearl w/ 3 Lace Sensor Silver strat pickups
Controls: CTS pots and 5 way switch wired with push/pull tone for 'Eldred' mod tone cap
Knobs: white strat style
Neck: Warmoth style modern tiltback construction in satin Birdseye Maple w/ black trapezoid inlay
Frets: 22 frets in 6150 stainless steel profile, black Tusq nut
Tuners: Schaller mini locking tuners
All assembly/mods done by vetteman
Guitar #6 EpicPow
Body: Chambered Black Korina on Black Korina
Neck: Maple with Ebony fretboard
Tuners: Schaller Locking 2 pin tuners
Bridge: Grotoh vintage 6 hole tremolo
Pickups: TV Jones Starwood Strat (neck and middle) TV Jones TV Classic Humbucker (bridge)
Wiring: Custom SSH electronics from Mojo tone with a 5 way super switch
Finished the pickups with some single coil covers from StewMac
Guitar #7 JoeA
Body
Model: Chambered Stratocaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: HSS
Pickups: EMG 89 at bridge + 2 EMG SA
Controls: 1 master Tone + split / 1 Master volume
Bridge: recessed Tune-O-Matic with strings thru
Jack Rout: Side 19mm with football plate
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Countours: Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour / Contoured Heel
Battery Box: Single
Binding: Natural
Top Finish: Tigers Eye Dye
Back Finish: Trans Brown
Neck
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Warmoth Pro
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Very High Grade Roasted Flame Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Very High Grade Roasted Flame Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6105 Medium Stainless
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: Graph Tech black TUSQ Standard
Inlays: Black Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
