We are now announcing the May, 2015 Guitar of the Month contest! May'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 posted to this message, which is May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until May 9th, 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.
Instruments finished by Warmoth (or another professional finisher) 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 by adked
1974 Fender Stratocaster updated with a Warmoth custom left-handed body.
Body specs -
Left handed with 3 bolt neck pocket
Rear route
Flame maple over swamp ash
Tequila Sunrise front and Candy Tangerine back with black binding.
7/8" side jack hole
Gotoh left-handed vintage 6 hole tremolo
Guitar #2 by HTSMetal
Gemini Sunset Stratocaster
Warmoth 59 roundback birdseye maple neck with 6150 stainless steel frets and Clear Gloss finish
Warmoth Strat body in Magenta Burst finish w/ Transparent Purple back
Fender CS '69 pickups
Fender American Stratocaster tremolo
Guitar #3 by Surf n Music
Warmoth ash body finished in transparent neon orange
Warmoth roasted maple and rosewood neck
Klein 61 pickups
Modern Gotoh bridge
Guitar #4 by SlartiBartfast
Black Korina with a Black Korina laminate top (not chambered)
Tobacco Burst Finish on both front and back
Bridge: Wilkinson Tremolo
Indian Rosewood shaft wood, left nice and raw
Standard thin neck contour
Macassar Ebony fingerboard
10-16" compound radius
Stainless steel 6105 frets
1 11/16" nut width with GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Sperzel locking tuners
Dimarzio Area pickup set
Guitar #5 by ocguy16
Warmoth Chambered Strat body
Body specs -
Quilted Maple over Mahogany
Rear route
Caribbean Burst finish with clear back
7/8" side jack hole
Hard tail with recessed TOM bridge
Guitar #6 by TjerkG
Warmoth body & neck.
Body: Black Korina on Black Korina Tele Thinline body, contoured heel, transparent blue top with clear back, contoured heel, pearloid binding.
Neck: Vintage modern roasted maple with black ebony fretboard telecaster neck, SRV contour, SS6150 frets, pearloid nightswan inlays
Hardware: TV Jones T-armond pickups, 4-way switch, treble bleed, TV Jones tele bridge, Duesenberg Tremola with Chet Atkins arm, straplocks, black TUSQ nut and string tree, schaller locking 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 posted to this message, which is May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until May 9th, 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.
Instruments finished by Warmoth (or another professional finisher) 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 by adked
1974 Fender Stratocaster updated with a Warmoth custom left-handed body.
Body specs -
Left handed with 3 bolt neck pocket
Rear route
Flame maple over swamp ash
Tequila Sunrise front and Candy Tangerine back with black binding.
7/8" side jack hole
Gotoh left-handed vintage 6 hole tremolo
Guitar #2 by HTSMetal
Gemini Sunset Stratocaster
Warmoth 59 roundback birdseye maple neck with 6150 stainless steel frets and Clear Gloss finish
Warmoth Strat body in Magenta Burst finish w/ Transparent Purple back
Fender CS '69 pickups
Fender American Stratocaster tremolo
Guitar #3 by Surf n Music
Warmoth ash body finished in transparent neon orange
Warmoth roasted maple and rosewood neck
Klein 61 pickups
Modern Gotoh bridge
Guitar #4 by SlartiBartfast
Black Korina with a Black Korina laminate top (not chambered)
Tobacco Burst Finish on both front and back
Bridge: Wilkinson Tremolo
Indian Rosewood shaft wood, left nice and raw
Standard thin neck contour
Macassar Ebony fingerboard
10-16" compound radius
Stainless steel 6105 frets
1 11/16" nut width with GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Sperzel locking tuners
Dimarzio Area pickup set
Guitar #5 by ocguy16
Warmoth Chambered Strat body
Body specs -
Quilted Maple over Mahogany
Rear route
Caribbean Burst finish with clear back
7/8" side jack hole
Hard tail with recessed TOM bridge
Guitar #6 by TjerkG
Warmoth body & neck.
Body: Black Korina on Black Korina Tele Thinline body, contoured heel, transparent blue top with clear back, contoured heel, pearloid binding.
Neck: Vintage modern roasted maple with black ebony fretboard telecaster neck, SRV contour, SS6150 frets, pearloid nightswan inlays
Hardware: TV Jones T-armond pickups, 4-way switch, treble bleed, TV Jones tele bridge, Duesenberg Tremola with Chet Atkins arm, straplocks, black TUSQ nut and string tree, schaller locking tuners
