Greetings,
I'm pleased to announce the March, 2011 Guitar of the Month contest. The March contest will be for "Warmoth/Pro Finished" instruments.
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 - two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is March's submission thread. Submissions will be accepted from the 1st through the 7th of March, so get your cameras clicking! All discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar win!
Guitar #1, by DoughBoy
BODY
1 piece extra light chambered mahogany Strat
AAAAA Flame maple top
NECK
Warmoth Pro 1 5/8” AAAAA Flame maple Strat neck & fingerboard
Wizard contour
16” radius
6115 Stainless Steel frets
Black TUSQ XL nut
Satin finish on the fretboard & Tru-oil on the back
HARDWARE
Wilkinson VS100 tremolo
Gotoh mini tuners
Graphite string tree
3 Custom wound Lindy Fralin noiseless P-90s
Guitar #2, by Graceshredder (name corrected to forum user name)
The Graceshredder V is composed of a Warmoth swamp ash body with a quilt maple top and a Warmoth Pro Angled 22-fret neck of flame maple for both the shaft and the fingerboard. The ‘V-headed’ neck has the thin 6230 frets and a Graph Tech Black nut. The fingerboard inlays are black Celtic Crosses. Both the body and the neck are bound in black. The body is finished in an Amber stain. The guitar is powered by two Seymour Duncan SHPR-1 P-Rails, each controlled by the SD Triple Shot mounting ring system and a three-way toggle. It has a single volume and two tone pots by DiMarzio. Sperzel lockers and a TOM Tone Pros bridge keep it in perfect tune and intonation.
Guitar #3, by Runem
Owners specs:
Body:
Mahogany with indian rosewood top and white bindings.
Clear Gloss
Side Jack hole to avoid spoiling the top.
Neck:
Vintage modern
Mahogany with indian rosewood fingerboard.
Cream face dots
Clear gloss
Standard Thin
1 5/8" Nut width.
6150 frets
Graph Tech Black TUSQ XL
Hardware:
Gotoh Vintage Tuners, chrome
Vintage 6 Hole Tremolo, Chrome
Straplocks
5-way switch.
Chrome pickupcovers - no holes in the bridgecover, for smoother look.
Pickups:
Neck: Suhr V60LP neck
Middle: Suhr V60LP mid
Bridge: Suhr SSH+ humbucker
Guitar #4, by PT
7 string body modded to be a six string.
Sapele quilt top laminate
Walnut stripe
Ash Body
Clear gloss
Graph tech ghost/hexpander system with Midi out
Kinman anniversary P-90s
Ebony pickup covers and knobs
Walnut neck
Wizard profile
Warmoth pro neck compund radius
Ziricote fretboard
Gold acryllic nightswan inlay
Earvana nut
firebird style headstock with sapele headstock laminate
Guitar #5, by mbesp
Swamp ash body painted Alpine White
compound 10 -16 vintage modern standard thin
Plain Maple neck with matching Alpine White headstock
Stainless 6105 Frets
Earvana Nut Graphtech blk
black & red locking sperzels
Pickups
Dimarzio
N Area 58 red
M Area 61 black
B Area 67 red
guitar fetish USA strat - 2 point hardend steel black trem.
Guitar #6, by Grabby (name edited to forum user name)
Body (ordered it made to my specs)
Standard Telecaster®
Right handed
Alder
Top Rout
Pickup Rout: (Tele® (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)),
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Side Jack: 7/8" Side
Tummy Cut
Binding Top: Cream Binding
Top Finish: Transparent Blue
Back Finish:Transparent Blue
Battery Box: Single
Pickguard
Tele, Anaconda
Neck (got from the Showcase)
Telecaster®, Warmoth Pro
Right Handed Handed
Birdseye Maple
Birdseye Maple Fretboard
1 11/16" Nut Width
Standard thin
6150 Frets
Planet Waves(13/32") Tuner Ream, 22 frets
10-16" Compound Radius
Abalone Face Dots Inlay
White Corian
Vintage Tint Gloss
25-1/2 in. Scale
Pickups
EMG-T (Alnico magnets)
Guitar #7, by BlackDog
Body
Extra light Alder
AAAAA Flame maple top
Tonar Custom Cherry Burst Nitro finish
Neck
Warmoth Pro AAAAA Flame Maple Neck & Fingerboard
Tonar Custom Oil Finish
SRV Contour
Compound Radius
Stainless Steel 6100 Frets
Graph Tech TUSQ Nut
Hardware
Schaller Locking Tuners
Callaham Vintage Hardtail Bridge
Callaham Special Winds Fralin Hendrix/SRV Specials Pickups
Custom Cherry Bomb Neckware by Dangerous…
Guitar #8, by Firebird
Body:
Warmoth finished
Chambered Ash, Quilted Maple top
Pearloid Binding
Blue Burst front and back
Neck:
Warmoth Pro
Goncalo Alves, lightly finished in Tung Oil
Pau Ferro fretboard
Pearloid Binding
Diamond Pearloid Inlays
Standard Thin
White Earvanna Nut 1 11/16”
6105 frets
Custom decal and finish on headstock
Hardware:
Schaller Locking Staggered, chrome
Vintage LR Baggs X-Bridge, chrome
Grover Bird Shaped Straplocks
5-Way Switch: neck, neck/middle, middle, neck/bridge, bridge
Custom Designed Neckplate
Pickups:
Neck: Seymour Duncan Hotrails
Middle: Seymour Duncan Vintage Rails
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Hot P-rails
X-Bridge: Piezo
Controls:
Hot rails: parallel, single coil, series
Vintage rails: same capability as hot rails
P-rails: parallel, rails coil, P-90, series
X-Bridge: Operates independently and has a separate tone control
Master Tone: Has capability for bypass, 0.022uF cap, and 0.042uF
Master Volume: Has high bypass capacitor (treble bleed).
Kill Switch: The center position between X-Bridge and Pickup selector
Phase Switch: push – pull from volume knob to throw the hot rails out of phase
Guitar #9, by felipeak
Body:
Warmoth 2 piece Alder Standard Telecaster
Custom Hand Carved & Reshape done by myself (felipeak)
Custom Triangular Contoured Heel done by myself
Finish: Metalic Blue done by Goya Luthiers (Santiago, Chile)
Wilkinson Bridge (Full recessed rout)
Steve Lukather EMG Pickup Set & Electronics
18 Volts Mod
3 way Dimarzio switch (B-MN-N)
Neck:
Warmoth Pro 25.5'' scale reversed tele Neck
Rosewood over Maple
Custom rolled edges
Nut: Earvana Black Tusk
Satin Finish done by Goya Luthiers
Tuning Machines: Schaller Locking
Back Contour: Wizard
Fretboard Radius: 14''
6105 Frets
Best-Decals Custom Decal
Guitar #10, by ljbarbeau
BODY
Chambered VIP with recessed control
Black korina front and back
Tobacco burst w/ natural masked binding
NECK
Warmoth headstock
22 fret with wizard contour
Wenge/Ebony construction
1 1/16 nut
6105 Stainless Steel fret
Compound radius
25.5 in scale
HARDWARE:
Black graphtech tusq xl nut
Black Planetwave tuners
Black recessed Wilkinson tremolo
Black speed knobs
Black 3 way switch
CTS pots with tone push-push for coil split
black mini switch for phase invert on neck pickup
Seymour Duncan JB trembucker on the bridge
Seymour Duncan Jazz humbucker in the neck
Tremol-no for quick tuning change
Guitar #11, by gstring120
Body
7/8 Warmoth Strat Showcase swamp ash body
Contoured heel
Radiant finish
Neck
7/8 Warmoth Pro wenge neck with macassar ebony fingerboard
Right hand reverse headstock
Mother of pearl dots
Standard thin contour with 10-16” compound radius
1 11/16 nut
6150 fretwire
Hardware
Seymour Duncan Distortion (bridge)
Seymour Duncan Jazz (neck)
Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo
Schaller mini tuners
Three-way switch
All hardware finished in black
Guitar #12, by Yellowv
Body:
Ultra Light Alder finished in Neon Chartreuse
Neck:
Birdseye Maple w/ Birdseye fingerboard
abalone dot inlays
6 coats of hand applied tru-oil
hand buffed with gunstock wax
1 3/4" R5 Floyd nut
10-16 compound radius
6100 frets
Hardware:
Schaller Floyd and R5 nut
Sperzel locking tuners
Electronics:
vintage 80's Duncan JBJ
CTS pot
Switchcraft jack
Accessories:
Pink Dimarzio Strap
Pink knob
Guitar #13, by Max
Telecaster/Les Paul Special inspired guitar
Locking Gotoh Tuners
Bone Nut
Birdseye Maple neck
-1 11/16" nut
-59 roundback
-7.5"radius
-Total Vintage
Mahogany body
-Tonar TV White finish
Grolsch Straplocks
Custom Roadhouse (TroubledTreble) Humbucker
Custom Roadhouse (TroubledTreble) T-90 pickup (tele/p90)
Custom-designed pickguard (4 ply)
Glendale Blackguard bridge
Glendale Twang-plus saddles
Mark Rutter Angled tele plate
Allparts black bell knobs
Countersunk ferrules
3-ply jack plate
Guitar #14, by CrackedPepper
BODY
Mahogany Warmoth VIP with Blue Dye DL Quilt Maple top and Ivoroid binding
NECK
Soulmate Curly Maple with Wenge stripes neck & streaky Ebony fingerboard
12” radius
6115 Stainless Steel frets
WhiteTUSQ nut
Tonar's Hand-rubbed oil finsih
HARDWARE
Gotoh 510 Bridge with angled pocket
Grover Roto-Grip Full-size Locking Guitar Machines
Seymour Duncan P-Rail pickups with chrome rings
I'm pleased to announce the March, 2011 Guitar of the Month contest. The March contest will be for "Warmoth/Pro Finished" instruments.
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 - two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is March's submission thread. Submissions will be accepted from the 1st through the 7th of March, so get your cameras clicking! All discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar win!
Guitar #1, by DoughBoy
BODY
1 piece extra light chambered mahogany Strat
AAAAA Flame maple top
NECK
Warmoth Pro 1 5/8” AAAAA Flame maple Strat neck & fingerboard
Wizard contour
16” radius
6115 Stainless Steel frets
Black TUSQ XL nut
Satin finish on the fretboard & Tru-oil on the back
HARDWARE
Wilkinson VS100 tremolo
Gotoh mini tuners
Graphite string tree
3 Custom wound Lindy Fralin noiseless P-90s
Guitar #2, by Graceshredder (name corrected to forum user name)
The Graceshredder V is composed of a Warmoth swamp ash body with a quilt maple top and a Warmoth Pro Angled 22-fret neck of flame maple for both the shaft and the fingerboard. The ‘V-headed’ neck has the thin 6230 frets and a Graph Tech Black nut. The fingerboard inlays are black Celtic Crosses. Both the body and the neck are bound in black. The body is finished in an Amber stain. The guitar is powered by two Seymour Duncan SHPR-1 P-Rails, each controlled by the SD Triple Shot mounting ring system and a three-way toggle. It has a single volume and two tone pots by DiMarzio. Sperzel lockers and a TOM Tone Pros bridge keep it in perfect tune and intonation.
Guitar #3, by Runem
Owners specs:
Body:
Mahogany with indian rosewood top and white bindings.
Clear Gloss
Side Jack hole to avoid spoiling the top.
Neck:
Vintage modern
Mahogany with indian rosewood fingerboard.
Cream face dots
Clear gloss
Standard Thin
1 5/8" Nut width.
6150 frets
Graph Tech Black TUSQ XL
Hardware:
Gotoh Vintage Tuners, chrome
Vintage 6 Hole Tremolo, Chrome
Straplocks
5-way switch.
Chrome pickupcovers - no holes in the bridgecover, for smoother look.
Pickups:
Neck: Suhr V60LP neck
Middle: Suhr V60LP mid
Bridge: Suhr SSH+ humbucker
Guitar #4, by PT
7 string body modded to be a six string.
Sapele quilt top laminate
Walnut stripe
Ash Body
Clear gloss
Graph tech ghost/hexpander system with Midi out
Kinman anniversary P-90s
Ebony pickup covers and knobs
Walnut neck
Wizard profile
Warmoth pro neck compund radius
Ziricote fretboard
Gold acryllic nightswan inlay
Earvana nut
firebird style headstock with sapele headstock laminate
Guitar #5, by mbesp
Swamp ash body painted Alpine White
compound 10 -16 vintage modern standard thin
Plain Maple neck with matching Alpine White headstock
Stainless 6105 Frets
Earvana Nut Graphtech blk
black & red locking sperzels
Pickups
Dimarzio
N Area 58 red
M Area 61 black
B Area 67 red
guitar fetish USA strat - 2 point hardend steel black trem.
Guitar #6, by Grabby (name edited to forum user name)
Body (ordered it made to my specs)
Standard Telecaster®
Right handed
Alder
Top Rout
Pickup Rout: (Tele® (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)),
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Side Jack: 7/8" Side
Tummy Cut
Binding Top: Cream Binding
Top Finish: Transparent Blue
Back Finish:Transparent Blue
Battery Box: Single
Pickguard
Tele, Anaconda
Neck (got from the Showcase)
Telecaster®, Warmoth Pro
Right Handed Handed
Birdseye Maple
Birdseye Maple Fretboard
1 11/16" Nut Width
Standard thin
6150 Frets
Planet Waves(13/32") Tuner Ream, 22 frets
10-16" Compound Radius
Abalone Face Dots Inlay
White Corian
Vintage Tint Gloss
25-1/2 in. Scale
Pickups
EMG-T (Alnico magnets)
Guitar #7, by BlackDog
Body
Extra light Alder
AAAAA Flame maple top
Tonar Custom Cherry Burst Nitro finish
Neck
Warmoth Pro AAAAA Flame Maple Neck & Fingerboard
Tonar Custom Oil Finish
SRV Contour
Compound Radius
Stainless Steel 6100 Frets
Graph Tech TUSQ Nut
Hardware
Schaller Locking Tuners
Callaham Vintage Hardtail Bridge
Callaham Special Winds Fralin Hendrix/SRV Specials Pickups
Custom Cherry Bomb Neckware by Dangerous…
Guitar #8, by Firebird
Body:
Warmoth finished
Chambered Ash, Quilted Maple top
Pearloid Binding
Blue Burst front and back
Neck:
Warmoth Pro
Goncalo Alves, lightly finished in Tung Oil
Pau Ferro fretboard
Pearloid Binding
Diamond Pearloid Inlays
Standard Thin
White Earvanna Nut 1 11/16”
6105 frets
Custom decal and finish on headstock
Hardware:
Schaller Locking Staggered, chrome
Vintage LR Baggs X-Bridge, chrome
Grover Bird Shaped Straplocks
5-Way Switch: neck, neck/middle, middle, neck/bridge, bridge
Custom Designed Neckplate
Pickups:
Neck: Seymour Duncan Hotrails
Middle: Seymour Duncan Vintage Rails
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Hot P-rails
X-Bridge: Piezo
Controls:
Hot rails: parallel, single coil, series
Vintage rails: same capability as hot rails
P-rails: parallel, rails coil, P-90, series
X-Bridge: Operates independently and has a separate tone control
Master Tone: Has capability for bypass, 0.022uF cap, and 0.042uF
Master Volume: Has high bypass capacitor (treble bleed).
Kill Switch: The center position between X-Bridge and Pickup selector
Phase Switch: push – pull from volume knob to throw the hot rails out of phase
Guitar #9, by felipeak
Body:
Warmoth 2 piece Alder Standard Telecaster
Custom Hand Carved & Reshape done by myself (felipeak)
Custom Triangular Contoured Heel done by myself
Finish: Metalic Blue done by Goya Luthiers (Santiago, Chile)
Wilkinson Bridge (Full recessed rout)
Steve Lukather EMG Pickup Set & Electronics
18 Volts Mod
3 way Dimarzio switch (B-MN-N)
Neck:
Warmoth Pro 25.5'' scale reversed tele Neck
Rosewood over Maple
Custom rolled edges
Nut: Earvana Black Tusk
Satin Finish done by Goya Luthiers
Tuning Machines: Schaller Locking
Back Contour: Wizard
Fretboard Radius: 14''
6105 Frets
Best-Decals Custom Decal
Guitar #10, by ljbarbeau
BODY
Chambered VIP with recessed control
Black korina front and back
Tobacco burst w/ natural masked binding
NECK
Warmoth headstock
22 fret with wizard contour
Wenge/Ebony construction
1 1/16 nut
6105 Stainless Steel fret
Compound radius
25.5 in scale
HARDWARE:
Black graphtech tusq xl nut
Black Planetwave tuners
Black recessed Wilkinson tremolo
Black speed knobs
Black 3 way switch
CTS pots with tone push-push for coil split
black mini switch for phase invert on neck pickup
Seymour Duncan JB trembucker on the bridge
Seymour Duncan Jazz humbucker in the neck
Tremol-no for quick tuning change
Guitar #11, by gstring120
Body
7/8 Warmoth Strat Showcase swamp ash body
Contoured heel
Radiant finish
Neck
7/8 Warmoth Pro wenge neck with macassar ebony fingerboard
Right hand reverse headstock
Mother of pearl dots
Standard thin contour with 10-16” compound radius
1 11/16 nut
6150 fretwire
Hardware
Seymour Duncan Distortion (bridge)
Seymour Duncan Jazz (neck)
Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo
Schaller mini tuners
Three-way switch
All hardware finished in black
Guitar #12, by Yellowv
Body:
Ultra Light Alder finished in Neon Chartreuse
Neck:
Birdseye Maple w/ Birdseye fingerboard
abalone dot inlays
6 coats of hand applied tru-oil
hand buffed with gunstock wax
1 3/4" R5 Floyd nut
10-16 compound radius
6100 frets
Hardware:
Schaller Floyd and R5 nut
Sperzel locking tuners
Electronics:
vintage 80's Duncan JBJ
CTS pot
Switchcraft jack
Accessories:
Pink Dimarzio Strap
Pink knob
Guitar #13, by Max
Telecaster/Les Paul Special inspired guitar
Locking Gotoh Tuners
Bone Nut
Birdseye Maple neck
-1 11/16" nut
-59 roundback
-7.5"radius
-Total Vintage
Mahogany body
-Tonar TV White finish
Grolsch Straplocks
Custom Roadhouse (TroubledTreble) Humbucker
Custom Roadhouse (TroubledTreble) T-90 pickup (tele/p90)
Custom-designed pickguard (4 ply)
Glendale Blackguard bridge
Glendale Twang-plus saddles
Mark Rutter Angled tele plate
Allparts black bell knobs
Countersunk ferrules
3-ply jack plate
Guitar #14, by CrackedPepper
BODY
Mahogany Warmoth VIP with Blue Dye DL Quilt Maple top and Ivoroid binding
NECK
Soulmate Curly Maple with Wenge stripes neck & streaky Ebony fingerboard
12” radius
6115 Stainless Steel frets
WhiteTUSQ nut
Tonar's Hand-rubbed oil finsih
HARDWARE
Gotoh 510 Bridge with angled pocket
Grover Roto-Grip Full-size Locking Guitar Machines
Seymour Duncan P-Rail pickups with chrome rings
