Hello all,
We're now announcing the October, 2012 Guitar of the Month contest! October's contest will be for "Owner Finished" instruments.
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.
In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is October's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from October 1st through October 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by: Tony Flying Squirrel
Warmoth Baritone Neck, Maple Shaft/Rosewood Fingerboard, 6100 fretwire. Owner finished in True Oil.
Tele body, Owner Finished by covering in laced Deer Hide (Buckskin) with beaded rosette, dentaliam shells.
Pickups; Neck/GFS Neo Vin 7, Bridge: locally custom wound "Bari-Twang" humbucker by John Carlsen Jr (www.carlsenguitar.com)
Electronics: 500k Push/pull Vol. pot (coil tap/bridge), 500k Tone pot with .022 Sprague orange drop cap, 4 position Tele p/u selector switch.
Guitar #2: by Philosopher
Body: Wenge on Mahogany/Soft Finished by me
Pickups & Wiring: Crunchlab/Liquifire, 3 Way Switch, Individual Coiltaps
Hardware: Gotoh Humbucker Tele, Schaller Strap Locks
Neck: Wenge (Standard Thin), Ebony Fretboard, 6100 frets, Warmoth Radius
Hardware: Grover 18:1 tuners, Graphtech TUSQ XL Nut
Guitar #3: By Kuro Uma
Body is mahogany with flamed maple top
Honey bursted with dye and lacquers
Natural masked binding
Hand dyed tattoo on body
Neck is maple with block inlays and 4+1 headstock dyed to match and “Becky” tattoo
Bartolini M45CBC set with ebony knobs
Guitar #4: by Line6man
Homemade scratch built body, consisting of a Curly Black Walnut solidbody core, 3/8" Figured Pomelle Bubinga laminate top, and 1/8" Curly Maple accent line. Stratocaster style shape, with HSH pickup routing, recessed Schaller Floyd, one volume, one tone, and two pickup selector switches. Black hardware, including a custom neckplate by DangerousR6. The control cavity cover matches the lam top and accent line.
Warmoth Indian Rosewood neck with Macassar Ebony fretboard. Stratocaster headstock, SS6150 frets, no inlay, standard thin contour, Floyd nut and Schaller tuners.
Guitar #5: by Bagman67
(disqualified, did not meet criteria for this month's contest)
Guitar #6: by Davin Strain
had been looking at the thread all week, and intended to take some
fresh photos, but it totally slipped my mind. So ill just enter with
some older pics.
Specs:
Jazz Body - Zebrawood on Black Korina - Owner finished in Tru - Oil
Jazz Neck - Wenge FB on Goncalo Alves neck
Hipshot Hardware (Bridge and Tuners including D-Tuner)
Mick Brierley P/J Pickups in a passive setup wired V/V/T with Push
Pull Tone switching with a 0.047 cap and a 0.1 cap.
We're now announcing the October, 2012 Guitar of the Month contest! October's contest will be for "Owner Finished" instruments.
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.
In turn, those images will posted to this message, which is October's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from October 1st through October 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by: Tony Flying Squirrel
Warmoth Baritone Neck, Maple Shaft/Rosewood Fingerboard, 6100 fretwire. Owner finished in True Oil.
Tele body, Owner Finished by covering in laced Deer Hide (Buckskin) with beaded rosette, dentaliam shells.
Pickups; Neck/GFS Neo Vin 7, Bridge: locally custom wound "Bari-Twang" humbucker by John Carlsen Jr (www.carlsenguitar.com)
Electronics: 500k Push/pull Vol. pot (coil tap/bridge), 500k Tone pot with .022 Sprague orange drop cap, 4 position Tele p/u selector switch.
Guitar #2: by Philosopher
Body: Wenge on Mahogany/Soft Finished by me
Pickups & Wiring: Crunchlab/Liquifire, 3 Way Switch, Individual Coiltaps
Hardware: Gotoh Humbucker Tele, Schaller Strap Locks
Neck: Wenge (Standard Thin), Ebony Fretboard, 6100 frets, Warmoth Radius
Hardware: Grover 18:1 tuners, Graphtech TUSQ XL Nut
Guitar #3: By Kuro Uma
Body is mahogany with flamed maple top
Honey bursted with dye and lacquers
Natural masked binding
Hand dyed tattoo on body
Neck is maple with block inlays and 4+1 headstock dyed to match and “Becky” tattoo
Bartolini M45CBC set with ebony knobs
Guitar #4: by Line6man
Homemade scratch built body, consisting of a Curly Black Walnut solidbody core, 3/8" Figured Pomelle Bubinga laminate top, and 1/8" Curly Maple accent line. Stratocaster style shape, with HSH pickup routing, recessed Schaller Floyd, one volume, one tone, and two pickup selector switches. Black hardware, including a custom neckplate by DangerousR6. The control cavity cover matches the lam top and accent line.
Warmoth Indian Rosewood neck with Macassar Ebony fretboard. Stratocaster headstock, SS6150 frets, no inlay, standard thin contour, Floyd nut and Schaller tuners.
Guitar #5: by Bagman67
(disqualified, did not meet criteria for this month's contest)
Guitar #6: by Davin Strain
had been looking at the thread all week, and intended to take some
fresh photos, but it totally slipped my mind. So ill just enter with
some older pics.
Specs:
Jazz Body - Zebrawood on Black Korina - Owner finished in Tru - Oil
Jazz Neck - Wenge FB on Goncalo Alves neck
Hipshot Hardware (Bridge and Tuners including D-Tuner)
Mick Brierley P/J Pickups in a passive setup wired V/V/T with Push
Pull Tone switching with a 0.047 cap and a 0.1 cap.
