Guitar Of The Month For January

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The Project Guitar.com "Guitar of the Month" contest is a showcase for all the members, so show us your axe in this thread!

This contest is open to any and all members that enter and will be continued each month for a place showing your creation on the homepage!

The winner(s) of course will have his/her guitar featured on the homepage of Project Guitar.com and if you have a website the picture will link directly to it if you so choose (even commercial site's).

If your a forum member you will also be upgraded to a Featured member which allows you to see the Advanced Chat section and download area.

So show us your creation in this thread! You've got till midnight EST the 23rd of December then this thread gets locked and the voting starts!

Any Post that is not an entry will be deleted, feel free to start a new thread to discuss any guitar entered this month

There may be more then one poll to determine winners in different catagorys at the end of this contest!

Please post a maximum of your 4 best pictures per guitar entered

Side note, if you are unable to post a picture you can e-mail one to Brian and it will be posted for you

[LGM Guitars]

Well, I just finished it, so what the heck, how about another Leviathan

This one is mahogany body, 5/16" thick quilted maple top, maple neck/ebony board, Dimarzio Evolution pickups, and a Hipshot bridge.

Here's the newest Leviathan!

http://pics.lgmguitars.com/pics/leviathans/Redfinished3.jpg

http://pics.lgmguitars.com/pics/leviathans/redfinished4.jpg

http://pics.lgmguitars.com/pics/leviathans/redfinished6.jpg

[Pibrocher]

Hello all, heres the Mushroom Project for your voting pleasure. This is the first guitar i'v ever built, so BE GENTLE. I meant to enter her in December's contest but I missed the entry date. Procrastination strikes again! Some of you may have seen it already. All the hardware was purchased from Warmoth.

This little fungus gem was built completely from scratch. Mahogany sides with maple and mahogany sandwiched neck-thru.

Body - Mahoganhy, 1 3/4" thick

Neck - 2 piece Maple + 1 piece mahogany

Fretboard - Birdseye maple

Mushroom - Mahogany, Maple, and Cherry inlays

Radius - 15"

Scale length = 25.5"

24 frets

Abalone 1/4" dot inlays

Pickups

Neck - Seymour Duncan Jazz

Bridge - Syemour Duncan '59

Tunomatic bridge

Stop tailpiece

Black and Gold concentric pots

3 Way switch, Rythym/Both/Treble

Gotoh Tuners

There are no electronics channels routed in the face of the guitar and only a small section on the back. I wanted to showcase the wood more then anything so I drilled some tunnels in the sides before glueing the body to the neck.

Looks like trouble already though, i'm running against another Leviathan Beauty!

[bigdguitars]

Here is my SRV copy that I built a while back. Specs:

Alder body, black paint and vintage tint. Sprayed and took a blow torch too to get it to bubble then I wetsanded to smooth it out. Marks and dings made with a flap sander is device.

I custom made the alder body, has the SRV Pickup set with my varitone switch in the last tone control can't see it bad pic. I had the real srv neck from warmoth, maple with pau ferro but hated the neck it sucked. So I found a deal on a koa, mascar fretboard neck, plays awesome soooo much better. I can get that SRV tone out of my pod 2.0 so I am happy.

no its not an exact copy not made to be that, just something neat that I put together. I got a lot of the parts for free so all I had to do was make the body.

Edited December 9, 2004 by bigdguitars

[MikeB]

Allright, heres my Randy Rhoades Flying V.

Spec:

25 fret neck

medium fretwire

custom inlay positions

flamed maple fretboard

brass nut

JSB surface mount non-tremolo bridge

mightymite motherbuckers (these totally rule, and are pretty quiet, i will post a recording using them very soon)

1 Vol 2 Tone

3 way selector

2 tone bypass switches

the finish is a green dye to black burst. it is laquered with poly.

i had this complete at the end of october, but it wasnt fully setup, and wired, so i held off till now, when i am satisfied that it plays, and functions well.

the cavity cover is made from copper clad board, this REALLY improved the hum and inteference. all cavaties are shielded with aluminium sticky foil stuff. it is star earthed, that is earthed all from one point, to remove any earth loops (which is unlikely at this voltage and current, but why the hell not!)

the V is slightly different from randys as it has 25 frets, but the dimensions are different too, the curve is more sweeping, and the bevels are more pronounced. the "pointy bit" is longer, and sharper.

it has been gigged once, and played to death EVERY day!! i love this thing!

Excuse the dust and whatnot on the front there, its hard to keep clean in my messy room!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/rea...ed/3guitars.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/rea.../Vneckfront.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/rea...speed/Vneck.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/rea...teandbridge.jpg

hope you like it!

a tutorial may be in its infant stages atm, so i should have one up soon! (ish)

cya,

Mike

[AlGeeEater]

Ah what the hell, i might as well enter my stupid EVH strat

Here is my highly modified strat. I converted it over from a strat copy ive had for about 2 years. What I did:

EVH Painted Yellow/Black theme

Painted pickgaurd same design as body

Replaced the tuners

added skunk stripe on neck

rewired electronics

replaced pots and selector

relocated strap pins

..wow i didn't do much

Here is what she looked before(the black one)

After:

And finally the skunk stripe:

Just some features:

21 Frets

Grover Mini 6-Inline locking tuners

Allparts Speed Knobs

AllParts 250k Pots

Dupli-Color paints

96' Strat Pickups(The decal on the pickups got scratched off when i attempted to sand them for paint Then i ended up not even painting them!)

WD Music White(not anymore) pickgaurd

Ernie Ball Strings, 10 gauge

Thanks for looking and good luck to all!.

Chris

Props and thanks to MzI for the pickgaurd paint theme and everyone else who inspired me to do my best

EDIT: Sorry for all those looking, my photobucket account got screwed up and it has no more bandwith, i have to host them under another user account.

Edited December 23, 2004 by AlGeeEater

[!!METAL MATT!!]

AH what the hell I'll give this a try to, it'll be good practice for me

Well hear she is this is a guitar that I built for a friend of mine It was going to be junked but my friend heard of this and he went junkbox diveing he loved the thing so I told him I would build it for him for free so he loved that idea, so hear ya go.

this is a pic of the top it's an extremly figured birdseye slightly spalted maple top with a plain mahogany back.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/ZAD...ayheadstock.jpg

This is the neck it's an old 1980's vantage with a MOD headstock.

!!METAL MATT!!

Edited December 21, 2004 by !!METAL MATT!!

[daveq]

Well, I never thought I would do this but here I go:

This is an Ibanez shaped guitar (built from scratch) with the following:

• Two piece alder body
  
• 5/16" quilt top (bent at arm rest)
  
• Birdseye/bubinga/ebony/bubinga/birdseye neck with curly maple headstock
  
• 10 to 16" compound radius ebony fretboard with sterling silver inlay
  
• EMG 81/SA/85 (B/M/N) pickups with 5-way selector
  
• OFR shimmed to about 18" radius
  
• 6100 frets
  

The finish is actually an emerald'ish blue/green although the pics mainly show the blue for some reason. It also has a fade to black on the edges. It's no LGM - I know .

Back of neck

Body shot

Standing by the toys

Edited December 21, 2004 by daveq

[eddiewarlock]

OK I'll enter my modified BC Rich warlock bronze, on of course, modded guitars, I replaced it's plywood body for a new mahogany body, the only pieces left of the original warlock were the neck, bridge and volume knob. Since i don't like bolt ons, I glued the neck down to the body, I also gave it a camo paint job, and it's got a single seymour duncan SH-6 distortion humbucker, the pot is a di marzio 500K pot, and a switchcraft jack

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/edd...warlockcopy.jpg

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