We are now announcing the October, 2014 Guitar of the Month contest! October's contest will be open to all types of finish but still 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 posted to this message, which is October's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until October 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, discussion about the submissions can take place below.
It seems to be the majority view that additional photos should not be posted in this thread - wherever/however they're hosted. The official rules have not been updated as of yet so nobody will be disqualified for posting pictures; they'll just be subjected to the shaking of heads and tutting.
Links to other UW threads or external sites are fine - in replies to this post; links will not be included in the entry descriptions.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by Verne Bunsen
Warmoth Tele body, Indian rosewood with maple center laminate, Clear Gloss finish applied by Warmoth
Warmoth "Vintage Modern" Tele neck, Indian rosewood shaft and fingerboard, 10-16" radius, '59 Roundback profile, 6105 frets, neck is unfinished although a clear shellac was applied to the face of the headstock for the decal application
Custom "Poppy" headstock decal by J Bennett ("Poppy" is my father)
Fender/Schaller locking tuners (staggered height = no string tree)
Vintage bridge and "Broadcaster" saddles by Marc Rutters
Handwound Tele pickups
4-way switching (bridge/bridge+neck parallel/neck/bridge+neck series)
250k Bourns pots, .047uf Orange Drop tone cap
Electro-Socket jack mount with switchcraft output jack
Pickguard by Terrapin Guitars
Guitar #2 by frown
Warmoth Jazzmaster Body in Alder with Gold Top Gold finish, Tele 720 neck pocket mod, contoured heel and Hipshot bridge rout.
Warmoth Pro Pau Ferro / Pau Ferro Warhead with Tele heel, 21 stainless steel 6100 frets and fatback profile.
Neck plates are from Icon plates, stainless steel screws.
Tuning machine heads are Schaller single pin Locking in Chrome.
Bridge is stainless steel saddle Hipshot flat mount 0.125" in Chrome.
Direct mounted pickups are chrome cover Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck position and Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge [JB = Jazz Blues according to SD and NOT Jeff Beck as some think!]
Controls are two blending volume push / pulls - one for each pickup and will parallel split in the up position, down for full fat humbucker.
Jim Dunlop Dual Design Straploks to secure it when worn and all resting in a Standard Hiscox case for Jag/stang style guitars!
Big thanks to forum member 'Funky Phil' for the actual build and awesome setup
Guitar #3 by markbastable
Giverone Thinline Telecaster
Custom neck, made by a local luthier, from reclaimed mahogany with an ebony board; a Warmoth walnut body, satin finish but slightly buffed up after market; Bare Knuckle Blackguard 55 Stagger pick-ups; pretty good electronics, with a four-way switch; and the brass saddles and the parchment plate and the abalone dots and so on...
Guitar #4 by sduck
Chambered Strat body, mahogany back, select quilted maple top, green dye finish
Angled strat neck, mahogany back and black ebony fingerboard, gold finish frets, no inlays, graphtek nut
Sperzel tuners, Wilkinson bridge, Dimarzio pickups.
Guitar #5 by Ghostar
This offset Jackson V (King V) sports a white glossy sheen in daylight but flashes to an electric green at night! The body is made of Limba (Korina) while the neck is a maple "Wizard" profile neck finished with an ebony fretboard. One Blackhawk Bareknuckle Humbucker graces the fixed, Tune-o-matic Thru-body bridge. All hardware is Gotoh including 1 logarithmic knob, 1 linear knob. Film capacitor on volume in "treble bleed" position. Film in oil capacitor in the "tone" position. Vintage 22 awg cloth cabling.
Guitar #6 by BlueTalon
This is Sasha, my prototype strat-jazz.
Warmoth bubinga neck
wenge fretboard
6150 jumbo nickle frets
Schaller MBL tuners
Hipshot string retainer
Formby's Tung Oil Finish on headstock
DR Neon pink strings (in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
Warmoth alder body
Warmoth black finish
Warmoth pickup routes
Schaller 463 bridge
Schaller strap-locks
Fender Super 55 split-coil hum-canceling pickups (1x bridge, 2x neck)
Bubinga thumb-rests
CTS 500/500K pots
Turnstyle switch
Aluminum knobs
Copper shielding
The Turnstyle is a six-position rotary switch that gives me five tone presets and one manual control. Each pickup has its own stacked VT control, which are bypassed when using the tone presets. There is a master VT that is always in play. The split-coil pickups and thorough shielding job make the bass dead quiet with regards to any unwanted noise.
Guitar #7 by ImMattMan11
Body specs:
Body Style: Musiclander
Construction: Solid
Body Wood: Alder
Laminate Top: No
Unique Choice: No
Orientation: Right Handed
Control Cavity: Rear Rout
Pickup Configuration: HH (no 24 fret reposition)
Controls: 1 volume, 3 way toggle
Output Jack Rout: 1/2" Side Jack
Bridge: Recessed TOM Staggered Strings
Neck Pocket: Strat Sape
Finish: Alpine White (by Warmoth)
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 posted to this message, which is October's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted from now until October 7th, so get your cameras clicking!
As usual, discussion about the submissions can take place below.
It seems to be the majority view that additional photos should not be posted in this thread - wherever/however they're hosted. The official rules have not been updated as of yet so nobody will be disqualified for posting pictures; they'll just be subjected to the shaking of heads and tutting.
Links to other UW threads or external sites are fine - in replies to this post; links will not be included in the entry descriptions.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by Verne Bunsen
Warmoth Tele body, Indian rosewood with maple center laminate, Clear Gloss finish applied by Warmoth
Warmoth "Vintage Modern" Tele neck, Indian rosewood shaft and fingerboard, 10-16" radius, '59 Roundback profile, 6105 frets, neck is unfinished although a clear shellac was applied to the face of the headstock for the decal application
Custom "Poppy" headstock decal by J Bennett ("Poppy" is my father)
Fender/Schaller locking tuners (staggered height = no string tree)
Vintage bridge and "Broadcaster" saddles by Marc Rutters
Handwound Tele pickups
4-way switching (bridge/bridge+neck parallel/neck/bridge+neck series)
250k Bourns pots, .047uf Orange Drop tone cap
Electro-Socket jack mount with switchcraft output jack
Pickguard by Terrapin Guitars
Guitar #2 by frown
Warmoth Jazzmaster Body in Alder with Gold Top Gold finish, Tele 720 neck pocket mod, contoured heel and Hipshot bridge rout.
Warmoth Pro Pau Ferro / Pau Ferro Warhead with Tele heel, 21 stainless steel 6100 frets and fatback profile.
Neck plates are from Icon plates, stainless steel screws.
Tuning machine heads are Schaller single pin Locking in Chrome.
Bridge is stainless steel saddle Hipshot flat mount 0.125" in Chrome.
Direct mounted pickups are chrome cover Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck position and Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge [JB = Jazz Blues according to SD and NOT Jeff Beck as some think!]
Controls are two blending volume push / pulls - one for each pickup and will parallel split in the up position, down for full fat humbucker.
Jim Dunlop Dual Design Straploks to secure it when worn and all resting in a Standard Hiscox case for Jag/stang style guitars!
Big thanks to forum member 'Funky Phil' for the actual build and awesome setup
Guitar #3 by markbastable
Giverone Thinline Telecaster
Custom neck, made by a local luthier, from reclaimed mahogany with an ebony board; a Warmoth walnut body, satin finish but slightly buffed up after market; Bare Knuckle Blackguard 55 Stagger pick-ups; pretty good electronics, with a four-way switch; and the brass saddles and the parchment plate and the abalone dots and so on...
Guitar #4 by sduck
Chambered Strat body, mahogany back, select quilted maple top, green dye finish
Angled strat neck, mahogany back and black ebony fingerboard, gold finish frets, no inlays, graphtek nut
Sperzel tuners, Wilkinson bridge, Dimarzio pickups.
Guitar #5 by Ghostar
This offset Jackson V (King V) sports a white glossy sheen in daylight but flashes to an electric green at night! The body is made of Limba (Korina) while the neck is a maple "Wizard" profile neck finished with an ebony fretboard. One Blackhawk Bareknuckle Humbucker graces the fixed, Tune-o-matic Thru-body bridge. All hardware is Gotoh including 1 logarithmic knob, 1 linear knob. Film capacitor on volume in "treble bleed" position. Film in oil capacitor in the "tone" position. Vintage 22 awg cloth cabling.
Guitar #6 by BlueTalon
This is Sasha, my prototype strat-jazz.
Warmoth bubinga neck
wenge fretboard
6150 jumbo nickle frets
Schaller MBL tuners
Hipshot string retainer
Formby's Tung Oil Finish on headstock
DR Neon pink strings (in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month)
Warmoth alder body
Warmoth black finish
Warmoth pickup routes
Schaller 463 bridge
Schaller strap-locks
Fender Super 55 split-coil hum-canceling pickups (1x bridge, 2x neck)
Bubinga thumb-rests
CTS 500/500K pots
Turnstyle switch
Aluminum knobs
Copper shielding
The Turnstyle is a six-position rotary switch that gives me five tone presets and one manual control. Each pickup has its own stacked VT control, which are bypassed when using the tone presets. There is a master VT that is always in play. The split-coil pickups and thorough shielding job make the bass dead quiet with regards to any unwanted noise.
Guitar #7 by ImMattMan11
Body specs:
Body Style: Musiclander
Construction: Solid
Body Wood: Alder
Laminate Top: No
Unique Choice: No
Orientation: Right Handed
Control Cavity: Rear Rout
Pickup Configuration: HH (no 24 fret reposition)
Controls: 1 volume, 3 way toggle
Output Jack Rout: 1/2" Side Jack
Bridge: Recessed TOM Staggered Strings
Neck Pocket: Strat Sape
Finish: Alpine White (by Warmoth)
