We're now announcing the May, 2014 Guitar of the Month contest! May's contest will be "Warmoth 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 May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from May 4th until May 11th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by KorinaKrazy
Warmoth Black Korina on Black Korina Z Bass, Warmoth Wenge neck, Rosewood FB.
Body: Black Korina on Black Korina short scale Z bass Clear Gloss Finish
Bartolini BD4CBC Dual coil humbucker
Bartolini Pre amp 2.5 A/P
Schaller 463 Bridge
Deep panel stereo jack
Orange tortoise shell knobs
Schaller strap holders
Le Belle Flats
Neck: Wenge SS tiltback
Rosewood fretboard
6105 SS frets
Abalone inlay dots
Hipshot Ultralight tuners
Guitar #2 by Great Ape
Spalt Maple on Swamp Ash Body
Ebony on Wenge neck w/White Binding, MOP dots, 6150 frets, '59 contour
Vintage style trem
Gotoh Tuners
Q-Parts Knobs
Guitar #3 by Ddbltrbl
The Master Blaster:
Body:
Alder Jazzcaster
Gotoh Tele Bridge
4-Way Switch
BK Piledriver Pickups
Neck:
Indian Rosewood Fatback
Warmoth Pro Angled Construction
1-5/8" Nut Width
GD6150 frets
Schaller Tuners
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut
Guitar #4 by BlueTalon
Warmoth bubinga & wenge neck
Schaller tuners
Hipshot string retainer
Formby's tung oil finish on the headstock
6105 nickle frets
black TUSQ nut
threaded insert and machine screw neck mount
D'Addario nickle-round strings
Warmoth alder body, finished in gloss black by Warmoth
wenge thumbrests
Schaller bridge
Schaller strap locks
Fender Super 55 dual-inline-coil pickups (one bridge, two neck)
CTS concentric 500K/500K-no-load pots
6-position Turnstyle switch
Guitar #5 by Edoardo
NECK
CBS-style Stratocaster® replacement
Maple on Maple
Vintage satin nitro finish (by Warmoth)
1-11/16" nut width
GraphTech black TUSQ XL nut
'59 style roundback
25-1/2" scale, 22 frets
10-16" Warmoth compound radius
6150 frets
doesn't need string retainers.
BODY
Jazzmaster® body replacement
solid Swamp Ash
transparent brown finish (by Warmoth)
SSS strat-style routing
tummy cut, forearm contour, contoured heel.
HARDWARE
Schaller mini locking tuners
Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo VS100 bridge
.09" black solid matte custom Jazzmaster® replacement pickguard
Kinman '54 Pickups
Jaguar® replacement plate
3x on/off slide switches by Switchcraft
2x 250kOhm Goeldo Made-in-Japan potentiometers
Strat volume knob, white
Flat top knob, gold
Mono jack by Switchcraft
Shaller strap locks
Guitar #6 by Wolfie351
Body: Chambered walnut, Figured walnut top, Gloss finish
Neck: Warmoth pro, Figured walnut, Flame maple fingerboard, Abalone dots, Gloss finish
Hardware: Wilkinson VS100, Tronical Auto Tuners
Electronics: DiMarzio Pickups (Fast Track 2, Cruiser, Pro Track), 3 push/push pots w/coil splits for each pickup
Guitar #7 by Stratamania
Specifications
Body
Model: Chambered Stratocaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Strat®, Strat®, Strat®
Controls: None
Bridge: Custom route for Gotoh 510 Tremelo
Stud Install: No Stud Install
Jack Rout: Strat® Top Jack Rout
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Countours: / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Binding: Natural Masked Binding
Top Finish: Purple to Clear Burst
Back Finish: Purple to Clear Burst
Neck
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Warmoth Pro
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6100 (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: Earvana GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Inlays: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: No Finish from Warmoth, but completed with Satin Nitro for the headstock and Birchwood Casey Tru Oil for the neck by myself.
Pickups
Kinman Woodstock Plus set with K9 Harness.
Tremelo, Gotoh 510TS-FE1 (Steel block) trem in chrome
Tuners, Hipshot Locking tuners.
Strap Buttons, Dunlop Dual Design Straploks.
Custom Neckplate, FSR Custom Neckplate made based on a design I sent in.
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 May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from May 4th until May 11th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by KorinaKrazy
Warmoth Black Korina on Black Korina Z Bass, Warmoth Wenge neck, Rosewood FB.
Body: Black Korina on Black Korina short scale Z bass Clear Gloss Finish
Bartolini BD4CBC Dual coil humbucker
Bartolini Pre amp 2.5 A/P
Schaller 463 Bridge
Deep panel stereo jack
Orange tortoise shell knobs
Schaller strap holders
Le Belle Flats
Neck: Wenge SS tiltback
Rosewood fretboard
6105 SS frets
Abalone inlay dots
Hipshot Ultralight tuners
Guitar #2 by Great Ape
Spalt Maple on Swamp Ash Body
Ebony on Wenge neck w/White Binding, MOP dots, 6150 frets, '59 contour
Vintage style trem
Gotoh Tuners
Q-Parts Knobs
Guitar #3 by Ddbltrbl
The Master Blaster:
Body:
Alder Jazzcaster
Gotoh Tele Bridge
4-Way Switch
BK Piledriver Pickups
Neck:
Indian Rosewood Fatback
Warmoth Pro Angled Construction
1-5/8" Nut Width
GD6150 frets
Schaller Tuners
Graphtech Black TUSQ XL Nut
Guitar #4 by BlueTalon
Warmoth bubinga & wenge neck
Schaller tuners
Hipshot string retainer
Formby's tung oil finish on the headstock
6105 nickle frets
black TUSQ nut
threaded insert and machine screw neck mount
D'Addario nickle-round strings
Warmoth alder body, finished in gloss black by Warmoth
wenge thumbrests
Schaller bridge
Schaller strap locks
Fender Super 55 dual-inline-coil pickups (one bridge, two neck)
CTS concentric 500K/500K-no-load pots
6-position Turnstyle switch
Guitar #5 by Edoardo
NECK
CBS-style Stratocaster® replacement
Maple on Maple
Vintage satin nitro finish (by Warmoth)
1-11/16" nut width
GraphTech black TUSQ XL nut
'59 style roundback
25-1/2" scale, 22 frets
10-16" Warmoth compound radius
6150 frets
doesn't need string retainers.
BODY
Jazzmaster® body replacement
solid Swamp Ash
transparent brown finish (by Warmoth)
SSS strat-style routing
tummy cut, forearm contour, contoured heel.
HARDWARE
Schaller mini locking tuners
Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo VS100 bridge
.09" black solid matte custom Jazzmaster® replacement pickguard
Kinman '54 Pickups
Jaguar® replacement plate
3x on/off slide switches by Switchcraft
2x 250kOhm Goeldo Made-in-Japan potentiometers
Strat volume knob, white
Flat top knob, gold
Mono jack by Switchcraft
Shaller strap locks
Guitar #6 by Wolfie351
Body: Chambered walnut, Figured walnut top, Gloss finish
Neck: Warmoth pro, Figured walnut, Flame maple fingerboard, Abalone dots, Gloss finish
Hardware: Wilkinson VS100, Tronical Auto Tuners
Electronics: DiMarzio Pickups (Fast Track 2, Cruiser, Pro Track), 3 push/push pots w/coil splits for each pickup
Guitar #7 by Stratamania
Specifications
Body
Model: Chambered Stratocaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Strat®, Strat®, Strat®
Controls: None
Bridge: Custom route for Gotoh 510 Tremelo
Stud Install: No Stud Install
Jack Rout: Strat® Top Jack Rout
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Countours: / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Binding: Natural Masked Binding
Top Finish: Purple to Clear Burst
Back Finish: Purple to Clear Burst
Neck
Style: Stratocaster®
Construction: Warmoth Pro
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Ebony
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6100 (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: Earvana GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Inlays: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: No Finish from Warmoth, but completed with Satin Nitro for the headstock and Birchwood Casey Tru Oil for the neck by myself.
Pickups
Kinman Woodstock Plus set with K9 Harness.
Tremelo, Gotoh 510TS-FE1 (Steel block) trem in chrome
Tuners, Hipshot Locking tuners.
Strap Buttons, Dunlop Dual Design Straploks.
Custom Neckplate, FSR Custom Neckplate made based on a design I sent in.
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