We are now announcing the May, 2016 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 7th, 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.
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 Guitarsan
Body Style: Warmoth Telecaster
Wood: Solid Mahogany
Laminate: Spalt Maple
Contours: Heel & Tummy Cut
Binding: Cream
Top Finish: Brown to Clear Burst
Back Finish: Transparent Brown
Neck Style: Warmoth Tele Vintage/Modern
Wood: Flame Maple
Fretboard: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Nut: GraphTech White TUSQ XL
Neck Profile: Standard thin
Frets: SS6150 (Stainless)
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlay: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Clear Gloss
Components:
Tuners: Fender staggered height locking
Neck Pickup: Dimarzio Area-T Modern
Bridge Pickup: JBE (Joe Barden) Modern T-Style Split Rail
Bridge: Babicz Full Contact FCH Tele
Strap Buttons: Dunlop Straplok
Neck Plate: Custom Shop Designed
Decal: Old Fret
Guitar #2 DMRACO
Factory second body from a builder.
Strat style with Burl wood over Basswood.
I replaced all hardware and added Ken Lawrence Pickups, Vintage style trem, and antique pearl pick guard.
The pickup covers mimic the old foil style pickups.
I did have to create a small shim to bring the neck pocket to the correct depth.
Knobs are vintage Gibson Amber.
Neck is a Warmoth made of Padouk and Canary fretboard.
Gold frets and abalone markers were added for some extra bling.
I added my logo and put a satin finish on headstock.
The neck was left raw and burnished.
Hardware is Sperzel
Guitar #3 Verne Bunsen
Body:
Warmoth Strat Body
Black Korina on Alder
Tobacco Burst on the front, Transparent Brown on back
Callaham Vintage Bridge/Trem Assembly
Hand-wound pickups with tapped bridge
5-Way Super Switch gives switching as follows:
1) Full (overwound) Bridge, rear tone
2) Tapped (wound equal to middle/neck pickups) Bridge + Middle, forward tone
3) Middle, forward tone
4) Middle + Neck, forward tone
5) Neck, forward tone
0.047uf cap on rear tone, 0.022uf cap on forward tone
Neck:
Fender American Standard Strat Neck
Maple with Rosewood fretboard
Schaller locking tuners
Guitar #4 nullref
Warmoth Telecaster
Spruce on Padouk
Double bound in White with a Clear Gloss finish
Warmoth Telecaster Modern (’59 profile)
Padouk with Ebony (Black) fretboard
6105 Stainless Steel frets with Mother of Pearl Dot inlays
Bare Knuckle Yardbirds pickup set
Guitar #5 Timmsie95
Body: VIP
Wood: Chambered Mahogany
Laminate: Flame Maple
Finish: Black Dye with Gloss Black Back & Sides
Pickup Route: Hum - X - Hum
Bridge: Gotoh 510 Wraparound
Neck: 22 Fret Warmoth Gibson Conversion Tiltback
Wood: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Ebony (Black)
Inlay: Pearloid Nightswan
Profile: Wolfgang
Nut: Black TUSQ XL
Frets: 6150 Stainless
Finish: Gloss Black
Hardware/Electronics:
Pickups: Lace Deathbuckers
Controls: Vol, Tone (Push/Pull Coil Tap), 3 Way Toggle
Tuners: Sperzel Trimlok
Bridge: Gotoh 510UB
Schaller Strap Locks
Chome Round Top Dome Knobs
Custom Truss Rod Cover
Custom Neck Plate
Custom Headstock “Outlay”
Treble Bleed circuit
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 7th, 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.
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 Guitarsan
Body Style: Warmoth Telecaster
Wood: Solid Mahogany
Laminate: Spalt Maple
Contours: Heel & Tummy Cut
Binding: Cream
Top Finish: Brown to Clear Burst
Back Finish: Transparent Brown
Neck Style: Warmoth Tele Vintage/Modern
Wood: Flame Maple
Fretboard: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Nut: GraphTech White TUSQ XL
Neck Profile: Standard thin
Frets: SS6150 (Stainless)
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlay: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
Finish: Clear Gloss
Components:
Tuners: Fender staggered height locking
Neck Pickup: Dimarzio Area-T Modern
Bridge Pickup: JBE (Joe Barden) Modern T-Style Split Rail
Bridge: Babicz Full Contact FCH Tele
Strap Buttons: Dunlop Straplok
Neck Plate: Custom Shop Designed
Decal: Old Fret
Guitar #2 DMRACO
Factory second body from a builder.
Strat style with Burl wood over Basswood.
I replaced all hardware and added Ken Lawrence Pickups, Vintage style trem, and antique pearl pick guard.
The pickup covers mimic the old foil style pickups.
I did have to create a small shim to bring the neck pocket to the correct depth.
Knobs are vintage Gibson Amber.
Neck is a Warmoth made of Padouk and Canary fretboard.
Gold frets and abalone markers were added for some extra bling.
I added my logo and put a satin finish on headstock.
The neck was left raw and burnished.
Hardware is Sperzel
Guitar #3 Verne Bunsen
Body:
Warmoth Strat Body
Black Korina on Alder
Tobacco Burst on the front, Transparent Brown on back
Callaham Vintage Bridge/Trem Assembly
Hand-wound pickups with tapped bridge
5-Way Super Switch gives switching as follows:
1) Full (overwound) Bridge, rear tone
2) Tapped (wound equal to middle/neck pickups) Bridge + Middle, forward tone
3) Middle, forward tone
4) Middle + Neck, forward tone
5) Neck, forward tone
0.047uf cap on rear tone, 0.022uf cap on forward tone
Neck:
Fender American Standard Strat Neck
Maple with Rosewood fretboard
Schaller locking tuners
Guitar #4 nullref
Warmoth Telecaster
Spruce on Padouk
Double bound in White with a Clear Gloss finish
Warmoth Telecaster Modern (’59 profile)
Padouk with Ebony (Black) fretboard
6105 Stainless Steel frets with Mother of Pearl Dot inlays
Bare Knuckle Yardbirds pickup set
Guitar #5 Timmsie95
Body: VIP
Wood: Chambered Mahogany
Laminate: Flame Maple
Finish: Black Dye with Gloss Black Back & Sides
Pickup Route: Hum - X - Hum
Bridge: Gotoh 510 Wraparound
Neck: 22 Fret Warmoth Gibson Conversion Tiltback
Wood: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Ebony (Black)
Inlay: Pearloid Nightswan
Profile: Wolfgang
Nut: Black TUSQ XL
Frets: 6150 Stainless
Finish: Gloss Black
Hardware/Electronics:
Pickups: Lace Deathbuckers
Controls: Vol, Tone (Push/Pull Coil Tap), 3 Way Toggle
Tuners: Sperzel Trimlok
Bridge: Gotoh 510UB
Schaller Strap Locks
Chome Round Top Dome Knobs
Custom Truss Rod Cover
Custom Neck Plate
Custom Headstock “Outlay”
Treble Bleed circuit
