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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 22nd or 23rd of April 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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Ok I'll start it off, my latest acoustic,we'll call it the Lone Wolf

Specs:

OLF-SJ 14 fret to body 25.5 scale length

Top: Engleman Spruce

Back and sides and Headplate: Zebrawood

Binding: Koa

Neck: Mahogany

Fingerboard and Bridge: Pau Ferro

Tuners: Gotoh Open Back

Finish: Target Emtech 6000

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Sheena

Basswood body

Maple neck with flame board 25.5"

Chrome hardware

Axerus Lipstick humbucker

Humbrol Enamel swirl & 2K clear

1st guitar I've ever made for someone else - a present for my sisters birthday, so simple and cheap, the only request her fav colour. She been playing longer that me, but only ever strummed chords on a classical, never played an electric.

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back

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build thread

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=42836

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This is my latest design. It´s called D-Classic.

Top: Guachipelin bookmatched with a little strip of cristobal in the center.

Middle: Cenizaro

Back: Dark oak

Neck and fretboard: Cristobal

Pickups: 15k bridge, 8.5k neck.

24 medium frets.

Volume and tone pots with a mini-dip switch.

True oil finish.

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Link to the rest of images: VC Guitars D-Classic

My website: My website

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'JD6' - 6 String Bass

In Progress Thread: http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=40202

Body:

American Cherry body wood

Redwood Lace Burl top, with dyed Sycamore veneer

Redwood/Ebony ramp

Red dye, finished with Rustin's Plastic Coating

Neck:

Sapele, Black Walnut & Ebony

Macassar Ebony fretboard

Redwood Lace Burl headstock veneers (+dyed black veneers)

Dual action truss rod & carbon fibre rods

24 medium frets

Graphite nut

Sterling silver inlays

Electronics/Hardware:

Nordstrand Dual Coil & Fat Stack pickups

Hipshot bridge

Hipshot Ultralite tuners

Aguilar OBP-3TK pre-amp with mid-frequency switch and passive/active switch

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"DRIFTER"

Hello all! Haven't been very active in the forum past few years, but I've been building guitars on a steady basis.

Here's my latest creation for a friend at work. A 6 string PRS (again...) style carved top electric with a jazzy vibe.

Specs:

Body:

PRS DC style hand carved Arctic Flamed Birch top with mahogany wings.

Body depth at bridge 55mm and at the edge 38mm.

Stained to a smoky/foggy/misty grayish blue color with faux binding.

Neck:

7 piece masur birch/wenge neckthrough.

Matching masur birch veneers on both sides of the headstock and in the tailpiece.

Ebony truss rod cover with a pearl inlay of my newly designed logo (yay!).

22 fret 25" masur birch fretboard with brass side dots.

Dyed beech veneer between the neck and fretboard.

Finish:

Nitro on top, sides, back, fretboard and headstock face.

Danish oil on back and sides of headstock, neck, truss rod cover and tailpiece.

Hardware:

Hand carved ebony/ masur birch tailpiece with a wooden hinge.

Tailpiece design shamelessly "borrowed" from Myka... (sorry David!! I promise this is the first and last one)

Sperzel locking tuners. TOM bridge.

Dunlop straplocks. Chrome/brass fittings.

Bone saddle.

Electronics:

Very basic setup. Seymour Duncan '59 set.

One volume, one tone, 3-way switch.

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The "customer" plays in a group called 'Foiled'. Their style of music is similar to U2, Coldplay, Snowpatrol and such. He wanted to have "infinite sustain no matter what in a PRS DC style without being too jangly and twangy (i.e. single coil strat)." So that's what I set out to design and build and this is the result. So... what does it sound like then?

It sounds great!

Nice and tight without too much bass. A tad on the warmer side of things, nicely balanced volume and tone on all strings. Sustain met his expectations and then some! It's pretty loud even when unplugged which was surprising considering the weight... Yeah, it weighs a TON, (havent weighed) but he wanted sustain above everything else. I'd say a little heavier than a standard LP.

It's nice to see that my skills are evolving as I build (my opinion). With every instrument I've noticed improvements here and there on the quality of fit, finish and workflow. Hardest build I've done to date and also the most satisfying! Don't have any 'In Progress' pics, but when in doubt, ask away. Cheers! :D

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The Raven 2

Ok seeing I did some major re-working to this beauty and that it has found it's self a new home. I am entering here a 2nd time.

Specs: 6 String Multiscale 27 - 25.5" scale.

Top: The top is 7 piece construction of Curly maple Mahogany and Roasted Curly Maple. Binder with wenge/maple & Finished in BURST

Body: The body is made from South American Mahogany. Cavity covers are the same, and use magnets to hold them on.

Neck: Made from Wenge this is where I did a lot of reworking to the instrument. I reshaped the neck and made it thinner. Custom Gold MOP DS guitars inlay.

Fingerboard: Cocobolo Fingerboard with custom made Raven Gold MOP inlay.

Custom made cocobolo bobbins and pickup rings. and custom wound buy RestorationAD

The guitar is finished in Target coatings water borne Laq

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Build thread link

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...mp;hl=the+raven

The Guitar is at it's new home. In a hard working Studio in Brampton Ontario. The studio is called BWC Studios and is owned and operated by Greg "GERG Dawson.

Any questions about the guitar or the build in general feel free to ask.

Hope you all like it now,

Cheers

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THE SUN

Model Number: No 1 - my first DIY guitar

Body: Swamp ash with quilted maple top, pearloid binding

Color: Turquoise/blue with 3D–staining and black burst (thanks for the tutorial!)

Neck: Bolt-on with ferrules, standard thin-shape maple neck with ebony fretboard, varying radius from 9.5” to 12”, pearloid binding, 22 jumbo frets, Earvana compensated saddle

Inlays: mother-of-pearl and abalone sun cross theme at 12th fret, mother-of-pearl sun theme at 3th, 5th, 7th and 9th frets

Headstock: 3D-routing, Planet Waves auto-trim locking machines, GraphTech string retainers

Pickups: DiMarzio D-Sonic (Bridge), DiMarzio Chopper (neck)

Controls: Master volume, master tone with push/pull phase change feature, 3-way toggle switch for pickup selection, 3-way micro-switch for neck pickup coil selection (single/parallel/series), 2-way micro-switch for bridge pickup coil selection (single/series) while phase switch on tone pot selects upper/lower coil in single-coil mode when only bridge pickup is selected

Bridge: Hipshot US Contour Tremolo

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