We are now announcing the November, 2020 Guitar of the Month contest! November'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 November'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 molul
BODY:
-Chambered Jazzmaster®, alder, transparent red satin finish
-Scale: 25-1/2"
-Neck pickup: Sustainiac pickup
-Middle pickup: Dimarzio Air Norton
-Bridge pickup: Dimarzio Super Distortion
-Bridge: Mastery bridge and tremolo
-Contoured Heel, Tummy Cut and Forearm Contour
-Battery cavity in the back (made by a local luthier)
-Killswitch on left side
-Schaller strap locks
-Pickguard: .06 black satin
NECK:
-Jazzmaster® vintage/modern
-Wood: maple
-Profile: 59 roundback
-Nut Width: 1.650"
-Fret Size: 6105
-Schaller locking tuners
-Radius: straight 9.5"
-Scale: 25-1/2"
-Frets: 22
-String Nut: GraphTech black TUSQ XL
-Inlays: black face and side dots
-Finish: satin polyurethane
Guitar #2 The Deacon
Neck:
Warmoth Showcase
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech White TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: Clear Satin Nitro
Neck Plate:Cicada Summoning Logo with Sobriety Date as S/N
Body:
Warmoth Showcase
Model: Telecaster®
Wood: Flame Maple on Mahogany
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm
Binding: Natural Masked Accent
Top Finish: Red Dye
Back Finish: Transparent Red
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Electronics & Hardware:
Neck: Seymour Duncan Stack
Bridge: Lace Alumitone Deathbucker
Wiring: 3 way mini selector, 0.022uF Russian PIO caps
Bridge: Babicz FCH-TELE-HUM-BFG
Guitar #3 eaglelope
"Mark Twang"
Body:
Model: Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Flame Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Tele® (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)
Controls: None
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Top Finish: Black-Brown-Yellow Burst
Back Finish: Black
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Vintage/Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Vintage Style (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: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
Pickups are Lindy Fralin High Output Split Blades.
The bridge is a Gotoh standard. The tuners are Gotoh Vintage Tuners.
Reverse configuration control plate.
Guitar #4 JPOL007
Thinline Telecaster
BODY - Warmoth Hollow Thinline
Wood: Swamp Ash on Swamp Ash
Top Finish: Black-Red-Yellow Burst
Back Finish: Black
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Pickup Rout: T-X-T
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Weight: 3 lbs 7 oz
Strap Locks: Schaller
Square Jack Plate: Chrome, Warmoth
BRIDGE - StetsBar Pro II with Graphtec saddles
NECK - Warmoth Gibson Scale Conversion
Wood: Maple/ Maple, TransTint Honey Amber, Shellac sealer coat, Minwax satin wipe on poly
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Nut: Black Graphtech TUSQ, Standard
Back Contour: Standard Thin
Fretboard: Full Scallop
Frets: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlays: Black Face Dots and custom Mother of Pearl Celtic Knot work
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Tuners: Hipshot Staggered, Locking, Open Gear
WIRING - 3 Way selector switch, 1 Volume, 1 Tone
Vol & Tone Pots: CTS 500K Linear Taper Push/Pull
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Hot Rails set for Tele wired for coil splitting
Knobs: Iron Age Knobs Celtic Cross Design
Neck Plate: Icon Plates Celtic Cross Design
Pickup Selector Switch: CRL 3 way selector switch
Guitar #5 docteurseb
Soloist carved quilt top over mahogany. Did the "Dragon Breath" PRS-style stain job myself, body was then professionally clear finished by Pat Wilkins Guitars.
Warhead roasted maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and veneer, SS frets, SRV contour.
Curly maple tuner buttons dyed to match.
PRS 85/15 pickups ('squabbins') with PRS black mounting rings
Wilkinson VS100N tremolo
Gotoh locking tuners
Made a matching mahogany backplate for it.
Guitar #6 Mirovox
Mirovox Gold 12
Body is Chambered jazzmaster, Mahogany with Flame Maple Top, finish is Tobacco Burst.
Neck is Fender 65 XII in Wenge with African Ebony board, Pearloid Blocks and 6150 Frets, Modern construction, that side truss rod adjuster comes in handy with the extra tension from the 12 strings.
Bridge is Gotoh 12 in Gold, tuners are Hipshot locking with Amber buttons. PIckups are Lindy Fralin standard jazzmaster. Interior is completely caged in copper, wiring is all cloth wiring, treble bleed circuit.
Guitar #7 Cactus Jack
- Canary neck
- Ebony board
- Alder body
- Quilt maple top
- Obp1 Aguilar preamp
- Bartolini pickups
Guitar #8 Mr.Mike
SunkuSuirutė
Neck:
Style: Arrow Head
Construction: Modern Construction
Scale: 25-1/2"
Orientation: Right Handed Reverse
Neck Wood: Quartersawn Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Wizard
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
String Nut: LSR Prep
Finish: Clear Gloss
Body:
Model: Musiclander
Orientation: Right handed
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: V-T-5 (Musiclander)
Bridge: Tremolo Back Cavity Only
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
F-Holes: None
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Top Finish: Holo Flake
Back Finish: Holo Flake
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Additional Info Extra Lightweight Swamp Ash
Electronics:
Seymour Duncan Invader pickups, series wiring
2 CTS 1 Meg Ohm Volume pots
Schaller "T" three-way Megaswitch
Seymour Duncan Triple Shot mounting rings/pickup switches
Hardware:
Floyd Rose Non Fine Tuner Locking Tremelo
Schaller Locking Tuners (unstaggered)
LSR Roller Nut
NdFeB Permanent Magnet nut Shim/Insert (No String Trees Needed)
ElectroSocket Jack
AllParts Standard Neckplate
Total weight: 7.28 pounds
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 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 molul
BODY:
-Chambered Jazzmaster®, alder, transparent red satin finish
-Scale: 25-1/2"
-Neck pickup: Sustainiac pickup
-Middle pickup: Dimarzio Air Norton
-Bridge pickup: Dimarzio Super Distortion
-Bridge: Mastery bridge and tremolo
-Contoured Heel, Tummy Cut and Forearm Contour
-Battery cavity in the back (made by a local luthier)
-Killswitch on left side
-Schaller strap locks
-Pickguard: .06 black satin
NECK:
-Jazzmaster® vintage/modern
-Wood: maple
-Profile: 59 roundback
-Nut Width: 1.650"
-Fret Size: 6105
-Schaller locking tuners
-Radius: straight 9.5"
-Scale: 25-1/2"
-Frets: 22
-String Nut: GraphTech black TUSQ XL
-Inlays: black face and side dots
-Finish: satin polyurethane
Guitar #2 The Deacon
Neck:
Warmoth Showcase
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Pre-Cut Installed String Nut: GraphTech White TUSQ XL - Standard Nut
Inlays: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: Clear Satin Nitro
Neck Plate:Cicada Summoning Logo with Sobriety Date as S/N
Body:
Warmoth Showcase
Model: Telecaster®
Wood: Flame Maple on Mahogany
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm
Binding: Natural Masked Accent
Top Finish: Red Dye
Back Finish: Transparent Red
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Electronics & Hardware:
Neck: Seymour Duncan Stack
Bridge: Lace Alumitone Deathbucker
Wiring: 3 way mini selector, 0.022uF Russian PIO caps
Bridge: Babicz FCH-TELE-HUM-BFG
Guitar #3 eaglelope
"Mark Twang"
Body:
Model: Telecaster®
Orientation: Right handed
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Flame Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Top Rout
Pickup Rout: Tele® (Neck), None (Middle), Tele® (Bridge)
Controls: None
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Tele® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Top Finish: Black-Brown-Yellow Burst
Back Finish: Black
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Neck:
Style: Telecaster®
Construction: Vintage/Modern Construction
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Roasted Maple
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Vintage Style (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: Black Face Dots
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Finish: No Finish
Pickups are Lindy Fralin High Output Split Blades.
The bridge is a Gotoh standard. The tuners are Gotoh Vintage Tuners.
Reverse configuration control plate.
Guitar #4 JPOL007
Thinline Telecaster
BODY - Warmoth Hollow Thinline
Wood: Swamp Ash on Swamp Ash
Top Finish: Black-Red-Yellow Burst
Back Finish: Black
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Pickup Rout: T-X-T
Bridge: Tele® Bridge
Weight: 3 lbs 7 oz
Strap Locks: Schaller
Square Jack Plate: Chrome, Warmoth
BRIDGE - StetsBar Pro II with Graphtec saddles
NECK - Warmoth Gibson Scale Conversion
Wood: Maple/ Maple, TransTint Honey Amber, Shellac sealer coat, Minwax satin wipe on poly
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Nut: Black Graphtech TUSQ, Standard
Back Contour: Standard Thin
Fretboard: Full Scallop
Frets: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Inlays: Black Face Dots and custom Mother of Pearl Celtic Knot work
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
Tuners: Hipshot Staggered, Locking, Open Gear
WIRING - 3 Way selector switch, 1 Volume, 1 Tone
Vol & Tone Pots: CTS 500K Linear Taper Push/Pull
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Hot Rails set for Tele wired for coil splitting
Knobs: Iron Age Knobs Celtic Cross Design
Neck Plate: Icon Plates Celtic Cross Design
Pickup Selector Switch: CRL 3 way selector switch
Guitar #5 docteurseb
Soloist carved quilt top over mahogany. Did the "Dragon Breath" PRS-style stain job myself, body was then professionally clear finished by Pat Wilkins Guitars.
Warhead roasted maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and veneer, SS frets, SRV contour.
Curly maple tuner buttons dyed to match.
PRS 85/15 pickups ('squabbins') with PRS black mounting rings
Wilkinson VS100N tremolo
Gotoh locking tuners
Made a matching mahogany backplate for it.
Guitar #6 Mirovox
Mirovox Gold 12
Body is Chambered jazzmaster, Mahogany with Flame Maple Top, finish is Tobacco Burst.
Neck is Fender 65 XII in Wenge with African Ebony board, Pearloid Blocks and 6150 Frets, Modern construction, that side truss rod adjuster comes in handy with the extra tension from the 12 strings.
Bridge is Gotoh 12 in Gold, tuners are Hipshot locking with Amber buttons. PIckups are Lindy Fralin standard jazzmaster. Interior is completely caged in copper, wiring is all cloth wiring, treble bleed circuit.
Guitar #7 Cactus Jack
- Canary neck
- Ebony board
- Alder body
- Quilt maple top
- Obp1 Aguilar preamp
- Bartolini pickups
Guitar #8 Mr.Mike
SunkuSuirutė
Neck:
Style: Arrow Head
Construction: Modern Construction
Scale: 25-1/2"
Orientation: Right Handed Reverse
Neck Wood: Quartersawn Maple
Fingerboard Wood: Indian Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Wizard
Fret Size: SS6150 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64")
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Fret #: 22
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Inlays: Cream Face Dots
Side Dots: White Side Dots
String Nut: LSR Prep
Finish: Clear Gloss
Body:
Model: Musiclander
Orientation: Right handed
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), None (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: V-T-5 (Musiclander)
Bridge: Tremolo Back Cavity Only
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Contours: Contoured Heel / Tummy Cut / Forearm Contour
F-Holes: None
Battery Box: No Battery Box Rout
Top Finish: Holo Flake
Back Finish: Holo Flake
Finish Type: Gloss Finish
Additional Info Extra Lightweight Swamp Ash
Electronics:
Seymour Duncan Invader pickups, series wiring
2 CTS 1 Meg Ohm Volume pots
Schaller "T" three-way Megaswitch
Seymour Duncan Triple Shot mounting rings/pickup switches
Hardware:
Floyd Rose Non Fine Tuner Locking Tremelo
Schaller Locking Tuners (unstaggered)
LSR Roller Nut
NdFeB Permanent Magnet nut Shim/Insert (No String Trees Needed)
ElectroSocket Jack
AllParts Standard Neckplate
Total weight: 7.28 pounds