September 2013 Guitar of the Month Constest Submissions

[GOM]

Hello all,

We're now announcing the September, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest!  September'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 posted to this message, which is September's submission thread.

Submissions will be accepted from September 1st until September 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 wombi8

Triple Dimarzio humbuckers
X2N in bridge and mid position and
early 80`s paf in the neck position

6way freeway switch
Stacked vol/tone for neck pickup
push/pull series/parallel for 2 other vol controls


Model: Diamondback
Orientation: Right handed
Thickness:1-3/4" Thick Solid Construction
F-Holes: None
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Maple
UC Front Laminate: LT1087
Rout: Rear Rout
Pickup Rout: Humbucker (Neck), Humbucker (Middle), Humbucker (Brdg)
Controls: None
Bridge: Schaller 456,Angled Pocket
Stud Install: Use inserts from bridge on order
Jack Rout: 7/8" (22mm) Side Jack Hole
Neck Pocket: Strat® Shape
Mounting Holes: Standard 4 Bolt
Countours: Contoured Heel
Top Finish: Blue Dye
Back Finish: Candy Blue
Clean Line: Yes


Style: Warmoth
Construction: Warmoth Pro Angled
Orientation: Right Handed
Neck Wood: 3A Birdseye Maple
Fingerboard Wood: 3A Birdseye Maple

Unique Choice: FB890
Nut Width: 1-5/8"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6230 (Stainless)
Tuner Ream: Schaller (25/64" 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
Inlays: Black Face Dots
Finish: Clear Gloss





Guitar #2: by doughboy

BODY

1 piece extra light Swamp Ash strat body w/ AAAAA Quilt maple top
NECK

Warmoth Conversion neck 24 ¾ AAAAA Flame maple Strat neck 1 5/8”

Malagasy Rosewood fingerboard 
Standard Thin

White TUSQ XL

Compound radius

6115 Stainless Steel frets

Satin finish
HARDWARE

Wilkinson tremolo

Schaller mini locking tuners 6 inline right handed - chrome 

1 Dimarzio 36th Anniversary humbucker

2 Dimarzio Area 61 single coils





Guitar #3: by Fat Pete

The Wilkinson Corvette

Body:
Showcase chambered swamp ash/swamp ash 4lb 4oz
Belly, forearm and heel contours
Natural masked binding

Neck:
Custom order maple/rosewood (dark)
Pro conversion 24 3/4" scale
1 5/8" nut width
Clapton profile
Pearloid blocks
6130 frets
Warmoth-fitted Graphtech nut

Body and neck finished in sonic blue by Warmoth

Parts:
Catswhisker T-Bucker and F-Bird pickups
Mighty Mite/Wilkinson (unbranded) Tele bridge with white Graphtech saddles
Gotoh SD91 height adjustable auto-locking tuners
White pearl pickguard
Duesenberg control knobs
Standard 3 way switch
DangerousR6 neck plate (of course)







Guitar #4: by updown

All Warmoth Finish on Body with a Raw neck.
Body ... (Showcase Item)
Chambered Swamp Ash / Swamp Ash Top
Top Rout
Wilkie Trem Rout
Special Metallic Tobacco Burst Finish

Hardware...
Wilkinson Tremolo
Dimarzio Area '58 (Neck)
Dimarzio Area '67 (Mid)                                                                   
Dimarzio Arena '61 (Bridge)
5 Way Switch with 7 way switching for Neck & Bridge and All in.
2 x 250K CTS Pots
1 x 250K CTS Pot, Pull / Push
1 x Vol, 2 x Tone
Aged Cream Knobs and Pickup Covers
Tortoise Shell Pickguard
Schaller Strap Locks

Neck … (Showcase Item)
Warmoth Pro Raw
Rosewood
Rosewood Fretboard
Stainless Steal Frets SS6115
1 11/16" Nut width
Graph Tech Black TUSQ Nut
10 -16" Compound Radius,
Standard Thin Neck
Cream Dot Inlay
Sperzel Lok Tuners
Custom Dougie Neck Plate 







Guitar #5: by Steve St Laurent

Body:
Chambered Mahogony Tele
3 PC Black/Red/Black Custom Dyed Quilted Maple Laminate Top
Gotoh Black Tele Bridge
Clear Gloss Back
DAllenPickups Hot Vintage Tele Pickups
4 way Tele Switch
Custom THG Knobs Ebony Knobs w/Bloodwood Insert On Volume and Tone

Neck:
Warmoth Pro Tele Neck
Bocote Shaft
Bocote Fretboard
1-11/16" Nut Width
Standard Thin Contour
SS6105 (Stainless) Frets
Schaller Black Locking Tuners With Hidden Locating Pin (Nearly impossible to
find - took a year and a half)
22 frets
10-16" Compound Radius
No Inlay
Mother Of Pearl Side Dots
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL nut







Guitar #6: by MortenB

Warmoth finished body:
Alder - shoreline gold finish
Mørch - Rock n' Roll Man pick up
Gotoh - crome bridge
Tort pick guard
Jupiter - tone cap for tone control
Carbon pots

Warmoth finished neck:
Raw pau ferro with pau ferro fretboard. Cream face dots and steel rods in the neck.
SS6150 frets
Hipshot ultralite tuners







Guitar #7: by ddbltrbl

Big Red

Body:
Model: Chambered Stratocaster®
Scale: 25-1/2"
Wood: Quilt Maple on Swamp Ash
Rout: Rear Rout
Bridge: Wilkinson VS100 Tremolo
Contoured Heel
Natural Masked Binding
Top Finish: Red Dye
Back Finish: Transparent Red
Pickups: BK Slow Hand Single Coil Set
The switch is wired my own special way that gives 1 volume, 1 tone with the 3rd knob working as a fader. It fades the middle pick up in and out wired in series with neck or bridge pickups in positions 1 and 5, or changes the phase between the pickups wired in parallel in positions 2 and 4.
Neck:
Style: CBS Stratocaster®
Construction: Warmoth Pro
Neck Wood: Pau Ferro
Fingerboard Wood: Pau Ferro
Nut Width: 1-11/16"
Back Shape: Standard thin
Fret Size: SS6150
Radius: 10-16" Compound
Nut: GraphTech Black TUSQ XL
Inlays: Mother Of Pearl Dots
Schaller mini locking tuners







Guitar #8: by sduck

Warmoth finished neck and body

Chambered Strat body; mahogany body with a select quilted maple top, green dye finish
Angled Strat neck, mahogany shaft with a black ebony fingerboard, gold 6100 frets, graph tech black TUSQ XL nut, no dot inlays
Sperzel locking tuners, Dimarzio pickups, Wilkinson tremelo







Guitar #9: by telecutie

Fiesta Red Strat

Swamp Ash showcase body
Seymour Duncan SSL-1 vintage strat pickups
Master volume control
Neck/middle p'up middle tone control
Bridge p'up lower tone control
250k CTS pots
5-way switch
Cream colored knobs and p'up covers
Stainless steel hardware
Tortoise shell pickguard
Vintage strat bridge with blocked tremolo
Goncalo Alves Vintage Modern neck
standard thin contour
Cream face dots
6105 stainless steel frets
Planet Waves Auto Trim tuners

 

[anorakDan]

No submissions yet? :dontknow:

 

[sduck]

It's the 6th, and no submissions. Hmmm. I'm going to have to enter that damn green guitar you all hate again.

 

[Doughboy]

I'm pretty sure nothing gets posted until the deadline is over. I submitted days ago.

 

[Updown]

I submitted days ago.

I'm in too  :icon_biggrin:

:icon_scratch: ...  can't remember which one thou  :doh:

 

[sduck]

I'm pretty sure nothing gets posted until the deadline is over. I submitted days ago.

It's never worked that way in the past. Maybe it's a new era...

Additional pics deleted for the time being, until their presence here gets greenlighted.

 

[GOM]

Sorry for the delay.  I'm not sure what is going on, but my cohort in the GOM admin duties who was running this month's contest seems to have dropped off the face of the earth.  I just checked the GOM email, and we seem to have several entries.  I will post these shortly for your viewing pleasure.  Fear not!

 

[fretless]

Stunning.. all of them :love

 

[Fat Pete]

Even if it wasn't deliberate this time, waiting to reveal all the entries in one go once the deadline has passed seems like a good idea to me.

More pics of the Corvette here - just in case anybody missed it.

 

[GOM]

This GOM persona did not fall of the earth!~

I had a message come to me that suggested two things.

They were:

a.  The Time Advantage to those who submitted early, and thus were seen longer.
b.  The ability of contestants to enter or not enter based on the month's other entries.

So, the delay was deliberate, and since it was my own turn to administer the month's contest, thats how I ran things.

Let us know what you think of that type of arrangement with posting the contest all at once.

To be fair, my esteemed (and better smelling) counterpart, always does a fine job, and is an invaluable asset to this forum in doing so..  Kudo's kiddo... (you know you you are).

 

[Pelagaard]

Great submissions this month, and I like waiting until after the deadline to post all at once.

 

[Doughboy]

I think it's a really good idea to wait & post ALL of the entries once the deadline has closed.

 

[Great Ape]

I think it's a really good idea to wait & post ALL of the entries once the deadline has closed.

Me too....As always, a bunch of gorgeous guitars. Another tough vote!

 

[Hbom]

Great guitars!
Another month of tough choices.

I like the idea of waiting to post after all entries are received.
But IIRC it didn't make any difference last month.

 

[Cagey]

Great guitars!
Another month of tough choices.

Yeah, no kidding.

As far as when they're posted, it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. Although, I suspect if nobody can see their competition, you might see more entries. But then, the vote gets diluted. 50 people voting for 15 guitars means it's possible somebody could win with 4 votes. Discounting the owner, that means one could win with 3 votes. Since we're looking for a plurality rather than a majority, I guess that's legal. Still...

 

[BlueTalon]

In under the wire!  (That other bass looked lonely.)

For the record, I like the idea of waiting until after the submission deadline to post entries.

 

[BlueTalon]

Anyway, here's some additional pics of my entry...

Isn't that cheating?

 

[sduck]

Anyway, here's some additional pics of my entry...

Isn't that cheating?

Not according to the current rules - see the first post. It's been a common practice for the last few contests. And you really want me to win, so I'll stop entering every single contest over an over and over again. No, really.

I had a message come to me that suggested two things.

They were:

a.  The Time Advantage to those who submitted early, and thus were seen longer.

This is a pretty decent idea. Although I've watched the voting results in previous contests, and I don't see a pattern of the earlier posted entries getting more votes. In fact the only slight bias I've seen is that the people who vote on these things (and there's only several dozen of us) seem to prefer teles. Which is inexplicable, as the strat is the king of guitars, obviously.  :toothy12: (although entry #5, a tele, is my fave to win this time around)

b.  The ability of contestants to enter or not enter based on the month's other entries.

Again, a good idea, but posting the pics of the current entrants some 8 hours before the contest closes kind of negates this concept, correctamundo? I'll assume this happened this time because this new concept hasn't been fully carved in stone yet.

 

[GOM]

No, the plan was to post 'em all late Saturday night.

The plan was....er... "revised" due to other staffs assistance  :toothy10:

No big deal.... since the response to all at once is pretty much most in favor, there's a month to sort out the details.

Thanks for the favorable support for all at once.

Gotta say too, that we nearly had a non-entry this month due to a file format thing.  Some slight issues and hoop jumping to get a .png file to work.  Probably going to specify jpg file format too.

Lets see..... whats that opinion on posting your own pics, before the entries are posted?

 

[Updown]

Usually a link to other pic's or build process is added into this thread for the guitar entered.

Like so .... http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=20044.0

Not more pic's, where there is already the GOTM pic's.
Never seen that happen before  :icon_scratch:

Anyway, good luck to all.  :icon_thumright:

Fantastic line up