The wait is finally over! We are now announcing the March, 2021 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 added to this message, which is March's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, 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.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 HerrJordan
Ice T
Body: Warmoth Telecaster Alder, Ice Blue Metallic - finish by Warmoth
Neck: Warmoth Roasted Maple, 6230s Frets, Compound Radius,
Pickups:
Seymour Duncan SH-1 '59
Bare Knuckle Old Guard TE BBL
Hardware:
Gotoh bridge nickel, compensated brass saddles
Kluson tuners, nickel
Control plate, nickel
White Pickguard
Guitar #2 Dano
Black Korina Mooncaster
Body:
Model: Warmoth Hollow Carved Top Mooncaster
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: 2
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Black Korina on Black Korina
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), , Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: -Tog-V-V-T-T-Tog (Mooncaster)
Bridge: TOM/STP, Angled Pocket
Stud Install: Use inserts from bridge on order
Jack Rout: 3/4" (19mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut
Top Finish: Black-Brown-Yellow Burst
Back Finish: Black-Brown-Yellow Burst
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Style: Warmoth
Construction: Modern Tiltback Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Rosewood
Truss Rod Cover: Rosewood
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony (Black)
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: GD6150 (Gold Color)
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 - Standard Nut
Inlays: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: Mother Of Pearl Side Dots
Gold Grover 18:1 Tuning Machines
Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Neck and Bridge Pickups
500k CTS Volume and Tone Potentiometers (2+2)
.022uF Russian P-I-O tone caps
Wired to split coils individually with Bridge and Neck volume knobs
Wired to put pickups in series with Bridge Tone Knob
Wired to put pickups out of phase with Neck Tone Knob
Tone Pros Tune-O-Matic Bridge and Stop Piece
Guitar #3 Lbpesq
Body:
Warmoth custom chambered Strat body
Goncalo Alves over Black Korina
Contoured heel
Wood knobs
Finished by Warmoth in clear satin
Pickups: Active EMG Pickups
Bridge: Babicz Full Contact
Neck:
Custom Moses graphite neck with banjo inlays and green fiber optic lighted side markers
Mounted with inserts and machine screws
Tuners: Hipshot locking open
Nut: Black Tusq
Weight: 8.5 lbs.
Guitar #4 binarydepartment
Body:
Model: Carved Top Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Alder / Alder on Alder
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: V-V-T-T-Upper Tog (LP®)
Bridge: Narrow Strat® Flat Mount
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut
Binding: White Binding
Top Finish: Lake Placid Blue
Back Finish: Lake Placid Blue
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6105 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64")
Radius: Straight 9.5"
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: White Corian - Standard Nut
Inlays: Arizona Turquoise Stone Dots
Side Dots: Moon Glow Side Dots (3mm)
Finish: Clear Satin Nitro
Hardware:
Fender LSR Roller Nut
Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded Humbucker Set
Hipshot 41060C Fixed Hardtail Bridge chrome
Fender Locking Tuners
Guitar #5 Unwound G
Body :
Warmoth Alder body blank cut and routed as per personal design.
Professionally finished in Black-Red-Yellow sunburst.
Custom single ply white pickguard.
TOM/STP.
Neck :
Strat reversed peghead Modern Construction neck.
Plain Maple with Rosewood fretboard.
Medium Jumbo 6130 fretwires.
Finished in clear gloss.
Bone nut.
Compound radius.
Standard thin.
Gotoh chrome SG381 Right hand 6-in-line tuners.
Pickups :
Seymour Duncan "Seymourized" mini humbuckers for neck and bridge.
Mini humbucker metal chrome pickup rings.
Individual 500k volume and tone pots for each pickup.
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 until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, 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.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 HerrJordan
Ice T
Body: Warmoth Telecaster Alder, Ice Blue Metallic - finish by Warmoth
Neck: Warmoth Roasted Maple, 6230s Frets, Compound Radius,
Pickups:
Seymour Duncan SH-1 '59
Bare Knuckle Old Guard TE BBL
Hardware:
Gotoh bridge nickel, compensated brass saddles
Kluson tuners, nickel
Control plate, nickel
White Pickguard
Guitar #2 Dano
Black Korina Mooncaster
Body:
Model: Warmoth Hollow Carved Top Mooncaster
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: 2
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Black Korina on Black Korina
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), , Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: -Tog-V-V-T-T-Tog (Mooncaster)
Bridge: TOM/STP, Angled Pocket
Stud Install: Use inserts from bridge on order
Jack Rout: 3/4" (19mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut
Top Finish: Black-Brown-Yellow Burst
Back Finish: Black-Brown-Yellow Burst
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Style: Warmoth
Construction: Modern Tiltback Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Rosewood
Truss Rod Cover: Rosewood
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony (Black)
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: GD6150 (Gold Color)
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 - Standard Nut
Inlays: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: Mother Of Pearl Side Dots
Gold Grover 18:1 Tuning Machines
Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Neck and Bridge Pickups
500k CTS Volume and Tone Potentiometers (2+2)
.022uF Russian P-I-O tone caps
Wired to split coils individually with Bridge and Neck volume knobs
Wired to put pickups in series with Bridge Tone Knob
Wired to put pickups out of phase with Neck Tone Knob
Tone Pros Tune-O-Matic Bridge and Stop Piece
Guitar #3 Lbpesq
Body:
Warmoth custom chambered Strat body
Goncalo Alves over Black Korina
Contoured heel
Wood knobs
Finished by Warmoth in clear satin
Pickups: Active EMG Pickups
Bridge: Babicz Full Contact
Neck:
Custom Moses graphite neck with banjo inlays and green fiber optic lighted side markers
Mounted with inserts and machine screws
Tuners: Hipshot locking open
Nut: Black Tusq
Weight: 8.5 lbs.
Guitar #4 binarydepartment
Body:
Model: Carved Top Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Alder / Alder on Alder
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: V-V-T-T-Upper Tog (LP®)
Bridge: Narrow Strat® Flat Mount
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut
Binding: White Binding
Top Finish: Lake Placid Blue
Back Finish: Lake Placid Blue
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6105 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64")
Radius: Straight 9.5"
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: White Corian - Standard Nut
Inlays: Arizona Turquoise Stone Dots
Side Dots: Moon Glow Side Dots (3mm)
Finish: Clear Satin Nitro
Hardware:
Fender LSR Roller Nut
Seymour Duncan Hot Rodded Humbucker Set
Hipshot 41060C Fixed Hardtail Bridge chrome
Fender Locking Tuners
Guitar #5 Unwound G
Body :
Warmoth Alder body blank cut and routed as per personal design.
Professionally finished in Black-Red-Yellow sunburst.
Custom single ply white pickguard.
TOM/STP.
Neck :
Strat reversed peghead Modern Construction neck.
Plain Maple with Rosewood fretboard.
Medium Jumbo 6130 fretwires.
Finished in clear gloss.
Bone nut.
Compound radius.
Standard thin.
Gotoh chrome SG381 Right hand 6-in-line tuners.
Pickups :
Seymour Duncan "Seymourized" mini humbuckers for neck and bridge.
Mini humbucker metal chrome pickup rings.
Individual 500k volume and tone pots for each pickup.
