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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 sometime around the 23rd or 24th of June 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

Make sure Your Guitar has a Name or Nick Name as well otherwise one will be given to it :D

Side note, if you are unable to post a picture you can e-mail one to Brian and it will be posted for you, or ask forum members how to post pictures, they are very helpful.

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Here's my latest. I'll call this one... Unique Redeemer 4 Vic,

Single cut body style

4 string

34" scale

Set neck

24 frets

5 laminate neck of maple, purpleheart, and wenge

Mac ebony fingerboard

Wenge tranny block(neck transition)

Figured walnut top (salvage stump grafted to English walnut really unique)

Three piece core of Honduras mahogany and maple

Sappy walnut back

Wenge accent veneers between body laminates

Matching headstock top and bottom

Delano X-tender quad coil pickups

Hipshot bridge and tuners

Black hardware

Audere z-mode preamp 18 volt

Coil tap/series/parallel switch per pickup and master series parallel switch for both pickups

Matching control cavity cover.

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Ill call this one - Blue Jean

for a customer who wanted a "different PGM"

flamed maple and african mahogany body with blue over black finish and danish oil

3 piece neck with maple and bubinga, quartersawn maple board with nice simple dot inlays and a flamed maple (reverse) headstock laminate

gotoh GTC bridge, graphtech nut and SG381 tuners

dimarzio and bareknuckle pickups: VH2 - Air norton, true velvet

custom F-hole electrical cavity with matching cover.

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Tri-caster D #09005

Black Limba through neck/body wings

Ebony fretboard - 24.5" scale w/24 stainless steel frets

Antique ivory 12th fret inlay

Stirling silver headstock logo

Gotoh Magnum Lock vintage style tuners

Gotoh/Wilkinson VS400 bridge

Adeson Atlas pickups

Dual sound series/parallel circuit by John Hewitt

Tru-oil finish

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this is the Chambered bass mkI

body:

hollow chambered Black limba / Imbuya top

wenge electronics cavity cover

neck:

Wenge / Ziricote fretboard

MOP side dots

bone nut

jumbo fretwire

double action truss rod

hardware:

Hipshot supertone bridge (optional strings through body)

Hipshot ultralight tuners

Schaller straplocks.

pickups:

Nordstrand dual coils

electronics:

series/split/parallel mini-switch for each pickup

active/passive circuit selector switch

passive circuit - volume, balance, tone

active circuit - ACG preamp - volume/balance, bass filter stack, treble filter stack

finish:

tru-oil

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the building thread can be found here:

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=40724

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Here is my entry

"Dread-Niamh"

Spruce top

Cherry back and sides

Walnut banding

Sapele neck with a rosewood fretboard and birds eye maple veneer on the headstock.

maple burr heel cap

Maple Burr rosette made up of 2 pieces .6mm veneer

Rosewood bridge of my own design, morphing the bridge pin and classical style ways of stringing the guitar.

Finish is a brushed on Satin varnish

Build thread can be found Here

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Some magnificent instruments already posted here... I promised I'd get mine in this month, so here it is. It's a RockBeach CB-II solid body... the prototype. I incorporated more traditional features such as belly cut and relief cuts to attempt to please a traditional eye. They are functional as well. This body is VERY light making it overall the most comfortable and well balanced horned guitar I have ever built. I used a 6-position / 2-pole rotary switch for pickup selection which is shallower for this shallow body and also gives you the usual Strat pickup combinations with the additional neck+bridge setting which I have found extremely useful! Pickups are GFS NeoVin Fat Vintage noiseless singles and they are just sparkly clean with the perfect overdrive punch... I am really impressed with these pickups.

The main body is Kelela and the pickup and control mounting panels are Dalmatian wood. Beautiful marbling. Having separate control and pickup plates makes for easier servicing for either the pickups or the controls. Far fewer screws to remove to service either. I left the main body stressed looking with the clear lacquer finish. It just seemed to have a unique driftwood look but with mineral marbled throughout. The neck is a 25.5" scale with Kingwood fingerboard and stainless steel frets. The tone palate of this guitar is spectacular and coupled with its comfort, it is now my personal player. I have enough wood to make another just like it. I will for future shorten the upper horn by 3/4" and the lower horn 3/8 inch as well as move the neck/pickup/bridge complex to the left by 3/4" mainly so it will fit a standard case. Here are the pics.

Here's a sound clip... Intonation had yet to be set as my tuner was at church. I just set it to a guestimate pre-set... As it turned out, only the G and B strings were a little off as it was a pretty good guess. I was still playing with pickup spacing. The bridge pickup was much higher in output by itself, so I normalized the track for near equal levels. It was plugged into my V-Amp2 set on "tube preamp custom clean" with gain at about 9:00, flat setting, a bit of reverb. Pickups you hear are in the following order: Bridge only; Bridge + Middle; Middle only; Middle + Neck; Neck only; Neck + Bridge. Strings are DR Strings Tite-fit 10-46. With the pickup height reset, output levels became nicely matched. This is before though as I said...

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The Retrotron

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2-piece ash body

Aqua Boomerang Formica laminate top

white binding

maple/rosewood Danelectro neck with aluminum nut

matte black finish on neck and body

genuine Danelectro tuners

top-loading hardtail tailpiece

Gretsch pickups

2 on/off slider switches

concentric volume/tone knob

top-routed with custom w/b/w pickguard

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Some great guitars in here, props to all!

Thought I'd post one of my steels, she's a sweet 6 string in black walnut and quilt maple nic named Beauty's Sister.

The pickup is a custom A4 mag BG Bucker from http://www.bg-pups.com/ and a nice match for walnut.

Bryan winds some great pickups and is definitely worth checking out!

Some basic specs

25" scale

Black walnut and quilt maple

Figured walnut bridge and control covers

Grover tuners

BG-Pups A4 mag BG bucker

Fret and position markers are Mother of Pearl with aluminum bezel surounds

Bone nut

Tru Oil finish

And some pics

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