November 2019 Guitar of the Month Submissions

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We are now announcing the November 2019 Guitar of the Month contest!  November'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 November'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 vetteman

Corellecaster 2.0

Warmoth Canary wood strat neck- 59 roundback profile
6150 stainless steel frets
Hand made aluminum nut
Pure Tung oil and wax finish

Slightly larger body copy of the original Corellecaster from a Warmoth Mahogany blank
Pure Tung oil base with Tru-Oil top-coated matte finish

Fender American series hardtail bridge w/flatwound strings
Seymour Duncan JB 'Nighthawk' bridge pickup
Stew-Mac P90 neck pickup with blend pot
CTS pots, Orange drop capacitor

Bakelite pickguard and back cover

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Guitar #2 Great Ape

Basswood body-woodburned, hand painted, light urethane finish.
Canary neck-unfinished, '59 roundback profile, 6150 frets, ivoroid bound wenge fingerboard.
Gotoh tuners, Fender American Standard 2 point trem.
Seymour Duncan Cool Rails neck, Hot P-90 bridge

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Guitar #3 Hendrix

Killer top Koa Stratocaster

Custom finish deep amber color Vintage Tint
Warmoth High Grade Birdseye Maple Stratocaster replacement guitar neck with Abalone Face Dots , 1 3/4 Width , 59 Neck Profile .

Warmoth High Grade Flame Koa Top on Koa body Stratocaster ( Rear Rout SSH , No screw hole in 5 way switch )

Special order EMG shape Bareknuckle Strat pickups, Apache neck, Slow Hand Mid, Lace Sensor Dually Purple-Emerald Humbucker bridge .

DIY Custom Copper finish pickup cover and Knobs .

Gotoh Machine Heads, Gotoh Wilkinson Tremolo

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Guitar #4 Dano

Grandson #2

Warmoth Neck

Construction: Modern Tiltback Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Highly Figured Roasted Flame Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Pau Ferro
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Gotoh/Grover (13/32" 11/32")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Scale: 25-1/2"
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Abalone Face Dots

Body

Telecaster Body
Flame Maple Top with Leopard Wood Stripes on Mahogany Body
Owner finished with StewMac Colortone Dye and Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer

Hardware:

Grover 505G locking tuners
Whole Lotta Humbucker Pickups
Hipshot Bridge
500k CTS Pots
.022uF Russian P-I-O tone cap
3-Way Blade

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Great Ape, Hendrix and Dano take us up to 4 entries! Wish them all the best of luck!
 
Nothing to enter but definitely sitting out this month!
 
All I can say with my jaw dropped is, WOW!  There is some real talent out there doing these amazing unique finishes! 
 
Here is the build thread for anyone interested...

https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=30999.0

Thanks for looking!
 
Wow, some really nice selections.  Every one of them has a unique appeal and every one is stellar.  Tough choice this month.
 
Rick said:
Hendrix what does the miniswitch do ?

that is a on/off/on miniswitch for Lace Sensor Dually, can select the  Purple or Emerald single coils on front and back position, and Humbucker when  in mid .
 
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