Apologies for the delayed start but...
We are now announcing the October 2022 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.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 Spud
Olde' Skully
2003 Squier "51" basswood body
Drilled for string through, stripped refinished using rattle cans, lace, inset rhinestones, and wipe on poly.
Warmoth Telecaster vintage modern Neck
Dimarzio Super distortion, Duncan Hot Stack
Wilkenson, Hipshot, +/- 10% CTS volume pot, pushback 22awg wire.
Deets in build thread.
Guitar #2 musicalmanguy
BODY:
Warmoth Carved Top Soloist w/ cream binding
Mahogany back w/ Flame Maple top
PRS mounting rings
Satin lacquer
Finished by owner
NECK:
BYOGuitar Evolution
Maple neck & Pau Ferro fretboard
Frets = Modern Jumbo (.118" x .058")
Tone Vise Keyless Nut Locks
Satin lacquer
Finished by owner
PICKUPS / ELECTRONICS:
Pickups = IronGear Rolling Mill set (installed 1/2" hex screws)
Alpha 5-Way blade switch
CTS 500K volume pot
Switchcraft output jack
TREM:
Floyd Rose Special w/ Tremol-No
TUNERS:
Grover 102N
TUNING:
B-Standard / Drop-A
Guitar #3 Rymaveros
BODY:
Warmoth Jazzcaster chambered mahogany body
Finished in black satin using brush-on stain/poly blend and a few
coats of spray on satin water-based poly
Lightly aged/worn
NECK:
Warmoth Jazzmaster roasted maple neck, unfinished
HARDWARE:
Lambertone Blondies Pickups
920D pre-wired control plate with CTS 250k pots
Kluson Vintage tele bridge with upgraded brass saddles
Planet Waves Auto-Trim Tuning Machines
Lightly aged all hardware using vinegar and scotch brite pad
Guitar #4 Hendrix
Robert Johnson Blues and Jazz tribute Strat
Warmoth Extra Light Weight Alder Stratocaster® replacement guitar body
Warmoth Dark Indian Rosewood Stratocaster® neck with Ebony Fretboard
Hand painted on Alder, The Legend that Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil in Crossroads. The devil gives his guitar a tuning, a magic touch that with magic power, some supernatural power behind his magic hands, to symbolize this, I imitate the gesture of god's magic touch at the fresco painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
The crossroad extended on pickguard, Made a 3D model as his walk to crossroad image in the movie scene. Flatten it to make 3D painting, relief. And 3D print the walking to crossroads movie scene on pickguard.
On the back is hand painted Chet Baker as Jazz tribute Strat .
Satin Finish Clear Coat on body.
.06" Black Solid Matte stratocaster® guitar pickguard
Neck Q-pickups Foil Pickup
Mid Seymour Duncan Lipstick Tube Strat - Middle RWRP
Bridge Lollar Broiler Pickup
Strat Flat Mount Bridge, Vintage Spacing, Black
Gotoh 501 black Tuner
The 3D painting knobs are designed symbols mix of crossroads / mythology and Robert Johnson tombstone, also order some flat head black screw for the pickguard.
We are now announcing the October 2022 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.
An image for the purposes of this contest is a single photograph, not a multiple image/collage.
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 Spud
Olde' Skully
2003 Squier "51" basswood body
Drilled for string through, stripped refinished using rattle cans, lace, inset rhinestones, and wipe on poly.
Warmoth Telecaster vintage modern Neck
Dimarzio Super distortion, Duncan Hot Stack
Wilkenson, Hipshot, +/- 10% CTS volume pot, pushback 22awg wire.
Deets in build thread.
Guitar #2 musicalmanguy
BODY:
Warmoth Carved Top Soloist w/ cream binding
Mahogany back w/ Flame Maple top
PRS mounting rings
Satin lacquer
Finished by owner
NECK:
BYOGuitar Evolution
Maple neck & Pau Ferro fretboard
Frets = Modern Jumbo (.118" x .058")
Tone Vise Keyless Nut Locks
Satin lacquer
Finished by owner
PICKUPS / ELECTRONICS:
Pickups = IronGear Rolling Mill set (installed 1/2" hex screws)
Alpha 5-Way blade switch
CTS 500K volume pot
Switchcraft output jack
TREM:
Floyd Rose Special w/ Tremol-No
TUNERS:
Grover 102N
TUNING:
B-Standard / Drop-A
Guitar #3 Rymaveros
BODY:
Warmoth Jazzcaster chambered mahogany body
Finished in black satin using brush-on stain/poly blend and a few
coats of spray on satin water-based poly
Lightly aged/worn
NECK:
Warmoth Jazzmaster roasted maple neck, unfinished
HARDWARE:
Lambertone Blondies Pickups
920D pre-wired control plate with CTS 250k pots
Kluson Vintage tele bridge with upgraded brass saddles
Planet Waves Auto-Trim Tuning Machines
Lightly aged all hardware using vinegar and scotch brite pad
Guitar #4 Hendrix
Robert Johnson Blues and Jazz tribute Strat
Warmoth Extra Light Weight Alder Stratocaster® replacement guitar body
Warmoth Dark Indian Rosewood Stratocaster® neck with Ebony Fretboard
Hand painted on Alder, The Legend that Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil in Crossroads. The devil gives his guitar a tuning, a magic touch that with magic power, some supernatural power behind his magic hands, to symbolize this, I imitate the gesture of god's magic touch at the fresco painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.
The crossroad extended on pickguard, Made a 3D model as his walk to crossroad image in the movie scene. Flatten it to make 3D painting, relief. And 3D print the walking to crossroads movie scene on pickguard.
On the back is hand painted Chet Baker as Jazz tribute Strat .
Satin Finish Clear Coat on body.
.06" Black Solid Matte stratocaster® guitar pickguard
Neck Q-pickups Foil Pickup
Mid Seymour Duncan Lipstick Tube Strat - Middle RWRP
Bridge Lollar Broiler Pickup
Strat Flat Mount Bridge, Vintage Spacing, Black
Gotoh 501 black Tuner
The 3D painting knobs are designed symbols mix of crossroads / mythology and Robert Johnson tombstone, also order some flat head black screw for the pickguard.
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