We are now announcing the October 2017 Guitar of the Month contest! October'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 October'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 DMRACO
This is a custom bass made of Mahogany, flamed basswood, and Purple Heart. All hardware is from a donor Warwick Corvette bass.
Neck is Warmoth 32 inch scale in roasted maple with SS frets.
Guitar #2 Swarfrat
Warmoth BK chambered strat
Warmoth Roast Maple Baritone Fatback with GD6150 frets, ebony fingerboard
Wilkinson VS100 tremolo
GFS Memphis humbuckers
Roland GK2 hex pickup / Graphtech HEXPANDER
Guitar #3 Pelagaard
Body:
Swamp Ash Jazzmaster with wax/oil finish
Joe Barden compensated vridge
SD Quarterpound Jazzmaster neck pickup
SD Quarterpound Tele bridge with factory coil tap option
Jazzmaster upper controls with standard wiring
Tele 4-way switch
Master Volume (push/pull to tap bridge)
Master Tone
Neck (Showcase snag):
Rosewood/Rosewood modern Strat
59 Roundback cobtour
SS6150 frets
Hipshot locking tuners
Mother of Pearl dots
Black Graphtech nut
Neckplate by Doug
Guitar #4 timezon3
Body (Warmoth) -
alder with quilted maple cap
stained purple with Deft Gloss clearcoat
Fender American Standard tremolo
Electronics -
Lollar Blond pickups
wired with master volume, master tone, blender pot
Neck (Warmoth) -
modern construction, 1-3/4" nut width
purpleheart with ebony fretboard
new Supernova inlays
SS6105 frets
hipshot open-back locking tuners
no finish
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 October'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 DMRACO
This is a custom bass made of Mahogany, flamed basswood, and Purple Heart. All hardware is from a donor Warwick Corvette bass.
Neck is Warmoth 32 inch scale in roasted maple with SS frets.
Guitar #2 Swarfrat
Warmoth BK chambered strat
Warmoth Roast Maple Baritone Fatback with GD6150 frets, ebony fingerboard
Wilkinson VS100 tremolo
GFS Memphis humbuckers
Roland GK2 hex pickup / Graphtech HEXPANDER
Guitar #3 Pelagaard
Body:
Swamp Ash Jazzmaster with wax/oil finish
Joe Barden compensated vridge
SD Quarterpound Jazzmaster neck pickup
SD Quarterpound Tele bridge with factory coil tap option
Jazzmaster upper controls with standard wiring
Tele 4-way switch
Master Volume (push/pull to tap bridge)
Master Tone
Neck (Showcase snag):
Rosewood/Rosewood modern Strat
59 Roundback cobtour
SS6150 frets
Hipshot locking tuners
Mother of Pearl dots
Black Graphtech nut
Neckplate by Doug
Guitar #4 timezon3
Body (Warmoth) -
alder with quilted maple cap
stained purple with Deft Gloss clearcoat
Fender American Standard tremolo
Electronics -
Lollar Blond pickups
wired with master volume, master tone, blender pot
Neck (Warmoth) -
modern construction, 1-3/4" nut width
purpleheart with ebony fretboard
new Supernova inlays
SS6105 frets
hipshot open-back locking tuners
no finish
