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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 with a special badge to show you won!

So show us your creation in this thread! You've got till sometime around the 23rd or 24th of August 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 :)

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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SY6 Superstrat - "Deep Earth"

Body - Queensland maple with Tasmanian blackwood carved top

Neck - Queensland maple with West Australian sheoak fingerboard

Headplate - Tasmanian blackwood

Scale length - 25.5"

Radius - 16"

Trussrod - Allparts

Tuners - Hipshot Griplock

Nut - Graphtech black Tusq

Frets - Jumbo nickel silver

Pickups - Seymmour Duncan '59 neck, JB bridge

Bridge - Wilkinson/Gotoh VS100 trem

Electronics - 1x vol, 1 x 3-way toggle

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More photos and build thread:

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=46309&st=0

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B.B.Red

.....so named for its relationship to two colors inherent in this guitar--the blues and red--and because those are my mom's initials as well.

Body - Spanish Cedar with a maple top

Neck - Jatoba with an ebony fingerboard and headplate

Scale - 25"

Radius - 14"

Trussrod - Allied Luthiery

Tuners - Gotoh 510 Deltas - 21:1

Nut - Bone

Frets - Jumbo stainless steel

Pickups- Custom PAFs from Guitar Logistics (RAD) A4s

Bridge - ABM

Electronics - 3-way, vol, tone

Build thread:

http://projectguitar...showtopic=46258

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SEARLS - Ceylon Blue Quilt top SS6

21 Frets, 25.5" scale, 16" radius, 12 degree headstock angle

Body: Maple, Mahogany, Alder with a quilted Maple top

Neck: Mahogany, Rosewood, Ebony, Queensland Maple

Fingerboard and Binding: Curly Maple

Inlay: Paua Shell

Hardware:

- Grover Tuners

- Floyd Rose Special tremolo

- Schaller strap locks

- Dunlop 6150 Fretwire

- DR Strings

Electronics:

- Bareknuckle Nailbomb Calibrated set

- Switchcraft output jack

- CTS pots

- 0.022uf CAP - N.O.S. Paper dipped in Oil Ex Russian Military!

Paint:

- Upol clear

- PPG candy dies mixed to achieve a Ceylon Blue

- PPG Deltron Black on the rear

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The concept for this build was to try make the guitar out of a pile of scraps, offcuts and unusable materials.

The body is made from Offcuts (the bits to the side) of 3 other guitars - Maple, Mahogany and Alder.

The quilt top was one of three sets I bought years ago and never used this one as in rough it looked like it wasn't good enough to use (turned out pretty good though!)

The neck is all scrap pieces - the Rosewood and Ebony stripes are 2 fingerboards cut from necks that I messed up and cut the boards off for re-use. The mahogany strips either side are offcuts from another neck and as is the Qld maple stripe down the center.

The headstock is offcut from the Quilt top.

The Curly maple binding is two pieces I had that didn't match up with any others I had, so I couldnt use them on customers guitar. After paint they ended out they same color! Who'd have thought.

The Curly fingerboard was one I purchased but it had a mark in the grain I deemed "B" grade, so I never used it until now. I tried hiding the most of this under the first dot inlay.

The inlays are Paua shell dots I've had laying around and never used.

The build thread:

http://projectguitar...showtopic=46518

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Buckeye Carved top Vixen

Top: 1 piece buckeye burl

Back: two peice black walnut, chambered

Neck: Curly claro walnut

Binding: curly maple

Fretboard: EIR

Knobs & pup rings: EIR

Logo: copper

Inlays: abalone

Nut: bone

Bridge and tailpiece: antiqued bronze finish

Tuners: Grover antiqued bronze finish

Pickups: Wolfetone DR. Vintage

Electronics:

Master volume: Series-Parrallel Push-Pull

Master tone: Bridge phase reverse Push-Pull

Mini Toggles: Series/single/parallel for each pickup

Pickup selector: 3-way toggle

I had someone contact me a little over a year ago who was interested in having a guitar like this made, but never went through with it. By the time I found out he backed out it was to late, the seed had already been planted and the wheels were turning and I had a lot of ideas, so earlier this year in the spring I got my but in gear and started building. When I play this guitar I almost feel like its hugging me, I love the feel of it, its a guitar I would play regularly. The neck carve is perfect(for me at least ;)), its beefy but not a chunker though, just nice and comfortable in your hand. I love the looks and the feel on this one, and the wiring scheme gives you a plethora of tones. Its the deepest carve and recurve I have done to date and was over all just a fun experiment.

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vixen 5 by Peters Instruments, on Flickr

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vixen 5 by Peters Instruments, on Flickr

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vixen 5 by Peters Instruments, on Flickr

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