We are now announcing the March 2019 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 stratamania
Natural Ash Tea Stained Tele
Construction: Solid
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Wood: Extra Light One Piece Swamp Ash
Orientation: Right handed
Control Rout: Top Rout
Pickups: T-X-T
Bridge Rout: Tele® Bridge
Input Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole Jack
Scale: 25-1/2"
Weight: 3lbs., 11oz.
Wood: Birdseye Maple Neck Wood/Indian Rosewood Fingerboard
Orientation: Right Handed
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Nut: Graphtech XL Earvana
Back Contour: 59 roundback
# of Frets: 22
Frets: 6100 SS
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlay: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Scale: 25-1/2"
Finish
Body: Satin Nitro, with Tea used as a stain for the One piece Ash Body.
Neck: Headstock Satin Nitro and Neck Shaft Tru Oil.
Both Finished by myself.
Tuners: Hipshot Open Gear Locking Tuners
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Vintage Noisless, 4 Way selector and powerboost wiring.
Bridge: Gotoh.
Dunlop Dual Design Strap Loks
Guitar #2 Tweed
This Stratsquire is comprised of:
Showcase Ash body, Showcase Roasted Maple/Rosewood neck, GFS 60s repro hot, Wilkinson cutaway bridge. Minwax coral reef stain.
Guitar #3 Pelagaard
Body:
Swamp Ash Jazzmaster with wax/oil finish
Joe Barden compensated bridge
SD Quarterpound Jazzmaster neck pickup
SD Quarterpound Tele bridge with factory coil tap option
Jazzmaster upper controls with standard wiring
Tele 4-way switch
Master Volume (push/pull to tap bridge)
Master Tone
Neck (Showcase snag):
Rosewood/Rosewood modern Strat
59 Roundback cobtour
SS6150 frets
Hipshot locking tuners
Mother of Pearl dots
Black Graphtech nut
Neckplate by Doug
Guitar #4 vetteman
"Corellecaster"
Warmoth Alder partially routed body blank cut to custom shape.
Upper bout is LP shape, lower bout is dinner plate shaped-hence the name.
Owner applied Duplicolor GM Light Pewter Metallic with Minwax semi-gloss Nitro lacquer topcoat.
Joe Barden compensated bridge with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound for tele pickup.
Warmoth Padouk Gibson scale neck, unfinished.
SS frets and owner installed bone nut,
'59 roundback contour.
Grover locking Rotomatic tuners.
Owner made pickguard and truss rod cover.
Guitar #5 new-killer-star
This is my warmoth jaguar which is setup halfway between a jaguar and a jazzmaster. I've gotten rid of the jaguar switches and replaced them with a modified jazzmaster wiring with series / parallel switching and PTB tone knobs.
Body:
Swamp Ash showcase body
Simple 2 color dark / light wipe on finish
Neck:
High Grade flame roasted maple neck from showcase
Sperzel open back locking tuners
6150 SS frets
Hardware + Electronics:
Righteous Sound Ninja 90 (noiseless p90)
Rothstein STB super mod jazzmaster wiring harness: series/parallel switching dual volumes and PTB tone modified to fit in a jaguar
Stainless steel pickup selector
Pearloid warmoth pickguard
Mastery Bridge + Tremolo
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 stratamania
Natural Ash Tea Stained Tele
Construction: Solid
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Wood: Extra Light One Piece Swamp Ash
Orientation: Right handed
Control Rout: Top Rout
Pickups: T-X-T
Bridge Rout: Tele® Bridge
Input Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole Jack
Scale: 25-1/2"
Weight: 3lbs., 11oz.
Wood: Birdseye Maple Neck Wood/Indian Rosewood Fingerboard
Orientation: Right Handed
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Nut: Graphtech XL Earvana
Back Contour: 59 roundback
# of Frets: 22
Frets: 6100 SS
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlay: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Scale: 25-1/2"
Finish
Body: Satin Nitro, with Tea used as a stain for the One piece Ash Body.
Neck: Headstock Satin Nitro and Neck Shaft Tru Oil.
Both Finished by myself.
Tuners: Hipshot Open Gear Locking Tuners
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Vintage Noisless, 4 Way selector and powerboost wiring.
Bridge: Gotoh.
Dunlop Dual Design Strap Loks
Guitar #2 Tweed
This Stratsquire is comprised of:
Showcase Ash body, Showcase Roasted Maple/Rosewood neck, GFS 60s repro hot, Wilkinson cutaway bridge. Minwax coral reef stain.
Guitar #3 Pelagaard
Body:
Swamp Ash Jazzmaster with wax/oil finish
Joe Barden compensated bridge
SD Quarterpound Jazzmaster neck pickup
SD Quarterpound Tele bridge with factory coil tap option
Jazzmaster upper controls with standard wiring
Tele 4-way switch
Master Volume (push/pull to tap bridge)
Master Tone
Neck (Showcase snag):
Rosewood/Rosewood modern Strat
59 Roundback cobtour
SS6150 frets
Hipshot locking tuners
Mother of Pearl dots
Black Graphtech nut
Neckplate by Doug
Guitar #4 vetteman
"Corellecaster"
Warmoth Alder partially routed body blank cut to custom shape.
Upper bout is LP shape, lower bout is dinner plate shaped-hence the name.
Owner applied Duplicolor GM Light Pewter Metallic with Minwax semi-gloss Nitro lacquer topcoat.
Joe Barden compensated bridge with Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound for tele pickup.
Warmoth Padouk Gibson scale neck, unfinished.
SS frets and owner installed bone nut,
'59 roundback contour.
Grover locking Rotomatic tuners.
Owner made pickguard and truss rod cover.
Guitar #5 new-killer-star
This is my warmoth jaguar which is setup halfway between a jaguar and a jazzmaster. I've gotten rid of the jaguar switches and replaced them with a modified jazzmaster wiring with series / parallel switching and PTB tone knobs.
Body:
Swamp Ash showcase body
Simple 2 color dark / light wipe on finish
Neck:
High Grade flame roasted maple neck from showcase
Sperzel open back locking tuners
6150 SS frets
Hardware + Electronics:
Righteous Sound Ninja 90 (noiseless p90)
Rothstein STB super mod jazzmaster wiring harness: series/parallel switching dual volumes and PTB tone modified to fit in a jaguar
Stainless steel pickup selector
Pearloid warmoth pickguard
Mastery Bridge + Tremolo
