We are now announcing the May, 2022 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 added to this message, which is May's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, 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.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 Megatron
Warmoth Chambered Telecaster, Flame Maple on Mahogany (One-piece)
Finish: Green Burst top, Clear back, Natural Masked Accent binding
Gotoh Humbucker Tele Bridge
DiMarzio True Velvet T (neck), DiMarzio Air Classic F-spaced (bridge)
Warmoth Telecaster Replacement Guitar Neck
Vintage/Modern Construction
Indian Rosewood (One-piece Shaft and Fretboard)
Abalone Premium Dot Inlay
Hipshot Vintage Guitar Tuner Kit 6 Inline Staggered
Guitar #2 Spud
The "Labrocaster"
Warmoth Finished Stratocaster body Alder
Warmoth Fatback Neck Maple/Rosewood
reshaped to a semi boatneck .880 at first fret
6100 frets, black Gotoh Tuners, sweet Labrador sticker
anodized pickguard
2X Seymour Duncan ap-2 pro single coils neck and middle
Bridge Seymour Duncan Custom Custom alnico 2
CTS-250K pots
Sprauge cap, 22awg push back wire
Switchcraft 5 way switch, jack.
Fender American Special Trem Bridge
Black Stainless Saddles
Guitar #3 musicalmanguy
BODY:
Warmoth Soloist - Poplar
Satin Vintage White
NECK:
Warmoth Baritone Scale Conversion
Maple neck & Ebony fretboard
6105 frets (24)
TUSQ XL nut
Satin Tru-Oil finish
PICKUPS / ELECTRONICS:
Bridge = Entwistle HDN
CTS 500K Volume Pot
Barrel jack
BRIDGE:
TonePros Tune-o-matic
TUNERS:
Locking
TUNING:
F#-Standard
Guitar #4 OffSetSmith
Custom Mustang-like guitar dubbed, "TEH KURDTZ"
Body:
Squier Affinity Mustang in stock Surf Green finish
Custom-made tort pickguard
Strat neck pickup
SD firebird bridge pickup (painted to match neck pickup)
Cut down T style top loading bridge
Neck:
Baked Maple Mustang neck (Warmoth)
Custom decal
True Oil finish
Guitar #5 Ghotiphry
"Stubby"
Warmoth Mooncaster bass - showcase body - swamp ash on swamp ash with vintage tint finish. Very light weight at 3 lbs 13 oz.
Warmoth 30" scale neck - black ebony on unfinished pau ferro - unique choice on neck and fretboard
TV Jones Thunder'tron pickups, wired MV, MT, V, V
Fender deluxe "f-stamp" tuners
Custom neck plate
Guitar #6 stratamania
Body:
Showcase Body from October 2019
Wood: High Grade Flame Maple Top on Mahogany
Binding: Natural Masked Accent
Top Finish: Green Burst
Back Finish: Clear
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Showcase neck Feb 2021
Stratocaster, Modern Construction,
Right Handed, Figured Mahogany, Indian Rosewood Fretboard,
1-11/16" Nut Width, Standard thin, SS6150 (Stainless),
Schaller (25/64") Tuner Ream, 22 frets, 10-16" Compound
Radius, Cream Face Dots Inlay, White Side Dots, 25-1/2" Scale,
Warmoth Poly Gloss finish was stripped to bare wood and redone with Tru-Oil and the nut replaced with a bone nut by myself.
Hardware:
Schaller M6 135 Locking Chrome Tuners
Schaller Security S-Locks
Wilkinson WVS130/2P Chrome Bridge with Locking Saddles
Gotoh/Wilkinson Bridge Studs supplied by Warmoth
Black Pearl Pickguard
Q-Parts Dome Black Chrome and Abalone Volume and tone knobs
Black Tremolo Cover
Pickups:
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Trembucker, Nickelcover
Middle: Seymour Duncan SSL-2 RW
Neck: Seymour Duncan Red Devil
Wiring:
Master Volume (with Treble Bleed) and Tone
1. Bridge
2. Bridge and Middle
3. Middle
4. Bridge and Neck
5. Neck
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 until exactly 7 days from the date and time of this post, 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.
Please try to stick to the entry requirements:
Two 1024x768 pixel images maximum as attachments please, not embedded in the email or linked to external sites.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 Megatron
Warmoth Chambered Telecaster, Flame Maple on Mahogany (One-piece)
Finish: Green Burst top, Clear back, Natural Masked Accent binding
Gotoh Humbucker Tele Bridge
DiMarzio True Velvet T (neck), DiMarzio Air Classic F-spaced (bridge)
Warmoth Telecaster Replacement Guitar Neck
Vintage/Modern Construction
Indian Rosewood (One-piece Shaft and Fretboard)
Abalone Premium Dot Inlay
Hipshot Vintage Guitar Tuner Kit 6 Inline Staggered
Guitar #2 Spud
The "Labrocaster"
Warmoth Finished Stratocaster body Alder
Warmoth Fatback Neck Maple/Rosewood
reshaped to a semi boatneck .880 at first fret
6100 frets, black Gotoh Tuners, sweet Labrador sticker
anodized pickguard
2X Seymour Duncan ap-2 pro single coils neck and middle
Bridge Seymour Duncan Custom Custom alnico 2
CTS-250K pots
Sprauge cap, 22awg push back wire
Switchcraft 5 way switch, jack.
Fender American Special Trem Bridge
Black Stainless Saddles
Guitar #3 musicalmanguy
BODY:
Warmoth Soloist - Poplar
Satin Vintage White
NECK:
Warmoth Baritone Scale Conversion
Maple neck & Ebony fretboard
6105 frets (24)
TUSQ XL nut
Satin Tru-Oil finish
PICKUPS / ELECTRONICS:
Bridge = Entwistle HDN
CTS 500K Volume Pot
Barrel jack
BRIDGE:
TonePros Tune-o-matic
TUNERS:
Locking
TUNING:
F#-Standard
Guitar #4 OffSetSmith
Custom Mustang-like guitar dubbed, "TEH KURDTZ"
Body:
Squier Affinity Mustang in stock Surf Green finish
Custom-made tort pickguard
Strat neck pickup
SD firebird bridge pickup (painted to match neck pickup)
Cut down T style top loading bridge
Neck:
Baked Maple Mustang neck (Warmoth)
Custom decal
True Oil finish
Guitar #5 Ghotiphry
"Stubby"
Warmoth Mooncaster bass - showcase body - swamp ash on swamp ash with vintage tint finish. Very light weight at 3 lbs 13 oz.
Warmoth 30" scale neck - black ebony on unfinished pau ferro - unique choice on neck and fretboard
TV Jones Thunder'tron pickups, wired MV, MT, V, V
Fender deluxe "f-stamp" tuners
Custom neck plate
Guitar #6 stratamania
Body:
Showcase Body from October 2019
Wood: High Grade Flame Maple Top on Mahogany
Binding: Natural Masked Accent
Top Finish: Green Burst
Back Finish: Clear
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Showcase neck Feb 2021
Stratocaster, Modern Construction,
Right Handed, Figured Mahogany, Indian Rosewood Fretboard,
1-11/16" Nut Width, Standard thin, SS6150 (Stainless),
Schaller (25/64") Tuner Ream, 22 frets, 10-16" Compound
Radius, Cream Face Dots Inlay, White Side Dots, 25-1/2" Scale,
Warmoth Poly Gloss finish was stripped to bare wood and redone with Tru-Oil and the nut replaced with a bone nut by myself.
Hardware:
Schaller M6 135 Locking Chrome Tuners
Schaller Security S-Locks
Wilkinson WVS130/2P Chrome Bridge with Locking Saddles
Gotoh/Wilkinson Bridge Studs supplied by Warmoth
Black Pearl Pickguard
Q-Parts Dome Black Chrome and Abalone Volume and tone knobs
Black Tremolo Cover
Pickups:
Bridge: Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates Trembucker, Nickelcover
Middle: Seymour Duncan SSL-2 RW
Neck: Seymour Duncan Red Devil
Wiring:
Master Volume (with Treble Bleed) and Tone
1. Bridge
2. Bridge and Middle
3. Middle
4. Bridge and Neck
5. Neck
