We are now announcing the March 2018 Guitar of the Month contest! March'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 March'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 shasmo
Neck:
Warmoth Neck - Ebony on Wenge with Stainless steel frets.
Body:
Owner Finished. High gloss Lacquer finish on Black Korina top, Grain filled Mahogany back with a natural matte finish.
Pickups:
SD Hot Rodded Humbuckers - SH-4 JB (Bridge) and SH-2n Jazz (Neck). Pickups wired for Coil splits with push-push switches
Hardware:
Schaller Mini Locking Tuners
Fender Vintage 2-point Tremolo bridge
Chrome pickup covers, Neck plate and jack plate
Custom made ebony wood pickup rings and knobs
Guitar #2 rob91bob
The Cutting Board
Neck:
Vintage 1998 Warmoth
Rosewood neck
Brazilian Rosewood fretboard
24 Fret
Abalone dots and side dots
6150 frets
Grover Locking Tuners
Graphtech nut
Finish - Back - burnished to 2000 grit, Headstock - grainfilled, waterslide decal and gloss nitro
Body:
Vintage 1998 Warmoth Soloist body
Walnut
Gotoh fixed bridge string thru
Single volume, 3 way blade switch, spst kill switch
Dimarzio Crunch Lab and Liquifire pickups signed by John Petrucci
Rear coverplate signed by Dream Theater
Custom neck plate by Doug
Finish - Crimson Guitars Finishing Oil and Howard's Orange Feed and Wax
Guitar #3 Cagey
Cagey's Off-White Jazzmaster
Body is solid Alder with a clear over white nitrocellulose finish, weight 3lbs, 11oz.
Pickups are Bill Lawrence L500XL
Bridge is Babicz "full-contact" vibrato
Neck is roasted/burnished curly Maple with stainless steel 6100 frets, Schaller mini-6 locking tuners, Graphtech nut and threaded inserts.
Finish, fretwork, assembly and setup by me.
Guitar #4 DMRACO
Body
Custom made body from Mahogany, figured basswood, purple heart, and walnut
Duncan '59 and GFS Slick P90
Schaller Bridge
Satin poly finish
Brass knobs
FYI>>>Sun is playing havoc with the grain on the back photo. The color is even across the two sides
Neck
Warmoth Mahogany Neck with Pau Ferrau fretboard and SS frets.
Standard thin profile
Satin poly finish
A walnut veneer was added to headstock with a custom brass neck plate from Doug.
GFS brass 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 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 March'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 shasmo
Neck:
Warmoth Neck - Ebony on Wenge with Stainless steel frets.
Body:
Owner Finished. High gloss Lacquer finish on Black Korina top, Grain filled Mahogany back with a natural matte finish.
Pickups:
SD Hot Rodded Humbuckers - SH-4 JB (Bridge) and SH-2n Jazz (Neck). Pickups wired for Coil splits with push-push switches
Hardware:
Schaller Mini Locking Tuners
Fender Vintage 2-point Tremolo bridge
Chrome pickup covers, Neck plate and jack plate
Custom made ebony wood pickup rings and knobs
Guitar #2 rob91bob
The Cutting Board
Neck:
Vintage 1998 Warmoth
Rosewood neck
Brazilian Rosewood fretboard
24 Fret
Abalone dots and side dots
6150 frets
Grover Locking Tuners
Graphtech nut
Finish - Back - burnished to 2000 grit, Headstock - grainfilled, waterslide decal and gloss nitro
Body:
Vintage 1998 Warmoth Soloist body
Walnut
Gotoh fixed bridge string thru
Single volume, 3 way blade switch, spst kill switch
Dimarzio Crunch Lab and Liquifire pickups signed by John Petrucci
Rear coverplate signed by Dream Theater
Custom neck plate by Doug
Finish - Crimson Guitars Finishing Oil and Howard's Orange Feed and Wax
Guitar #3 Cagey
Cagey's Off-White Jazzmaster
Body is solid Alder with a clear over white nitrocellulose finish, weight 3lbs, 11oz.
Pickups are Bill Lawrence L500XL
Bridge is Babicz "full-contact" vibrato
Neck is roasted/burnished curly Maple with stainless steel 6100 frets, Schaller mini-6 locking tuners, Graphtech nut and threaded inserts.
Finish, fretwork, assembly and setup by me.
Guitar #4 DMRACO
Body
Custom made body from Mahogany, figured basswood, purple heart, and walnut
Duncan '59 and GFS Slick P90
Schaller Bridge
Satin poly finish
Brass knobs
FYI>>>Sun is playing havoc with the grain on the back photo. The color is even across the two sides
Neck
Warmoth Mahogany Neck with Pau Ferrau fretboard and SS frets.
Standard thin profile
Satin poly finish
A walnut veneer was added to headstock with a custom brass neck plate from Doug.
GFS brass tuners
