We are now announcing the May 2018 Guitar of the Month contest! May's contest will be "owner/non-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 May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until exactly 7 days from now (please check this post's date and time), 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.
Owner or other non-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 BLB
Warmoth Telecaster Ebony Maple Neck
Spaltking Body
Wilkinson Bridge
Dimarzio Super Distortion Bridge
GFS Lil Puncher Neck
Custom Aluminum Pickguard
Sperzel Tuners
Guitar #2 Butternut
Koa-Caster
Warmoth Alder body with Koa top.
Warmoth Flame maple neck and fret board.
Turquoise dots with stainless frets.
Shaller locking tuners.
MannMade vintage tremolo.
Quality pots, switch acquired from Warmoth.
Shaller strap locks.
McNelly "Stagger Swagger" pickups.
Hand rubbed Danish Oil and Poly finish.
Guitar #3 Tonar8353
Unique choice Quilted Maple top on a Mahogany body.
CBS Maple neck with Rosewood fret board
6100 frets with a bone nut.
Finished in Seagraves Clear Nitrocellous lacquer.
Loller Gold Foil in the neck.
Loller String Through Steel in the bridge.
Callaham Hardware.
First position is a kill switch, second is volume and third is tone.
El Dorado knobs.
Guitar #4 Hendrix
Roasted Ash stratocaster replacement guitar body with DIY metallic Rusty Relic finished painting.
Bocote stratocaster replacement guitar neck, Burnishing Raw
Engraved weathered aluminum pickguards from my White tail sea eagle photography.
pickups : Bareknuckle , Apache neck , 63 Veneer Board mid , Slow Hand bridge with Rusty Relic.
Gotoh 510 Machine Heads , Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo black with Rusty Relic.
Guitar #5 69autoXr
Poplar Soloist build inspired by the Charvel Custom Shop Dinky Poplar at the 2017 NAMM show.
Specs:
-Body: Warmoth Poplar Soloist, showcase body, recessed Floyd Rose rout, contoured heel. Tru-oil finish
-Neck: Warmoth maple/maple Modern Construction, right-handed reverse, Wizard profile, 6150 frets, R3 nut
-Bridge: Floyd Rose 1000 Series (Korean-made Original), 37 mm brass Big Block
-Pups/electronics: SD '59 Neck, Bill Lawrence L500XL bridge, 500k volume pot, 3-way toggle
-Gotoh 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 added to this message, which is May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until exactly 7 days from now (please check this post's date and time), 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.
Owner or other non-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 BLB
Warmoth Telecaster Ebony Maple Neck
Spaltking Body
Wilkinson Bridge
Dimarzio Super Distortion Bridge
GFS Lil Puncher Neck
Custom Aluminum Pickguard
Sperzel Tuners
Guitar #2 Butternut
Koa-Caster
Warmoth Alder body with Koa top.
Warmoth Flame maple neck and fret board.
Turquoise dots with stainless frets.
Shaller locking tuners.
MannMade vintage tremolo.
Quality pots, switch acquired from Warmoth.
Shaller strap locks.
McNelly "Stagger Swagger" pickups.
Hand rubbed Danish Oil and Poly finish.
Guitar #3 Tonar8353
Unique choice Quilted Maple top on a Mahogany body.
CBS Maple neck with Rosewood fret board
6100 frets with a bone nut.
Finished in Seagraves Clear Nitrocellous lacquer.
Loller Gold Foil in the neck.
Loller String Through Steel in the bridge.
Callaham Hardware.
First position is a kill switch, second is volume and third is tone.
El Dorado knobs.
Guitar #4 Hendrix
Roasted Ash stratocaster replacement guitar body with DIY metallic Rusty Relic finished painting.
Bocote stratocaster replacement guitar neck, Burnishing Raw
Engraved weathered aluminum pickguards from my White tail sea eagle photography.
pickups : Bareknuckle , Apache neck , 63 Veneer Board mid , Slow Hand bridge with Rusty Relic.
Gotoh 510 Machine Heads , Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo black with Rusty Relic.
Guitar #5 69autoXr
Poplar Soloist build inspired by the Charvel Custom Shop Dinky Poplar at the 2017 NAMM show.
Specs:
-Body: Warmoth Poplar Soloist, showcase body, recessed Floyd Rose rout, contoured heel. Tru-oil finish
-Neck: Warmoth maple/maple Modern Construction, right-handed reverse, Wizard profile, 6150 frets, R3 nut
-Bridge: Floyd Rose 1000 Series (Korean-made Original), 37 mm brass Big Block
-Pups/electronics: SD '59 Neck, Bill Lawrence L500XL bridge, 500k volume pot, 3-way toggle
-Gotoh tuners
