ProjectGuitar.com Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entries for August 2016! ProjectGuitar.com's Guitar Of The Month contest is a showcase for members to exhibit their creations and to vote on their favourites. The contest is open entry for any and all members, new or old. Winner(s) receive a featured article at the head of the ProjectGuitar.com homepage, a photo posting to our Facebook and elevated member status. ProjectGuitar.com receives tens of thousands of unique visitors monthly; Guitar Of The Month is a great way to showcase your creation to the world! Submissions are open throughout the month until about the last week when public voting opens. Polls close on the 1st of each month. Lastly, if you didn't win a previous month's Guitar Of The Month contest, you are encouraged to enter your build again the next month for a maximum of three consecutive months. Sometimes one entry just hits it out of the park! Tips and Guidelines Upload a maximum of eight photos for the instrument in your post Ensure that your guitar has a name otherwise we'll make one up ;-) List additional descriptive information specific to the build; for example.... The woods and materials used, especially if there is something unusual in there! Scale length(s) and other specific configuration details Electronics, pickups, etc. Is this your first build, fifth or five-hundredth? A bit of information on your own background as a builder helps give context to your build. Was it built in the garage, at school, work or in your own shop? A summary of the build's history. Was it built for yourself, friend/family or a client? Did you design the instrument and its specifications or was it built to spec? What were the inspirations behind the instrument and why were various build aspects chosen? Any background on what makes it special? Posting a link to your guitar-building website, Photobucket, Facebook, etc. is fine, even if it is your business. In the spirit of fairness we encourage instruments made by professional builders to have that disclosure made so there is a more even balance between weekend warriors and grizzled veterans. If you documented your build in the forums, post a link to the thread! Instruments with a build thread shared tend to attract more votes from the general community. ProTip: Voters vote with their ears as well as their eyes....if you have any soundclips of the instrument or even a YouTube video, do post it! Everybody loves to look at beautiful instruments, but hearing them demo'ed is 10x as important. Unsure what to write? Have a look around the entry archives for suggestions. If you have any questions about the contest, either PM me or ask forum members; we're a helpful bunch! This thread is exclusively for entry posts only - any post that is not an entry will be deleted. We love to hear your discussions and opinions on the month's entries whilst the polls are open. Alternatively, head over to that instrument's build thread if one has been made in the entry post. Good luck to all entrants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahrguit Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Hi, guys! My name is Sergey and I'm from Dahrendorf Guitars, Russia. Recently found your awesome forum and decided to contest Dahrendorf Dioneo is a 6-string guitar with a symmetric design construction. Its body and neck are made of a two lenghtwise boards. and this is a very strong construction. The guitar have really sharp attack and bite what's unusual for a guitar made of a Mahogany wood. To catch this sharpness we've equiped it with a two Neodymium single-coils. With its attack and extra highs the guitar sounds very similar to acoustic guitar but Tone knob can rein those highs without a problem. Also I've made a brass&rosewood bridge for it. Join our Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/dahrendorfguitars/ Here's our web-site; www.dahrendorfguitars.com Specs; Body and neck; Sapele Fretboard; Pao Ferro Scale; 25&1/4 Pickups; Dahrendorf Neodymium Bridge; Dahrendorf Brass&Rosewood Oil Finish Check out the video. We've recorded the guitar with minimum audio-processing and with just a touch of an overdrive on amp. Some pics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boroducci Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 Hi again! It's Boroducci from Axim guitars! Here I want to show you our recent finished project - Axim Fresco 'summer green' sapele body with maple top maple/sapele bolt-on neck with rosewood fretboard, 24frets, 25,5", Jescar SS Fokin pickups Demolition set Gotoh Hardware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westerberg Guitars Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 My name is Peter Westerberg, working as a luthier based in Stockholm, Sweden. I have been building guitars for 30 years and seven years as a professional. As I’m also doing repairs I put out just half a dozen guitars a year, mostly traditional bolt necks, but I opt for focus more on building. "Flying Wrenches” was a very unconventional custom order.... The adjustable wrench is a Swedish invention (patented 1892) and the Swedish company Bahco was the first company to manufacture it. In the recent years Bahco have sponsored the Sweden Rock festival and they asked me if I could build a guitar in shape of a wrench for promotion. I made some sketches and eventually came up with this design and the Bahco folks told me to go ahead and build it. A friend helped me to transform my design into a CAD. However, only the body was CNC machined and the neck was made traditionally. I choose alder for the body since it would be easier to route all the details and avoid labourious job with grain filler. The neck is made of laminated maple – the first choice for a Flying V type guitar would be mahogny but I wouldn’t risk someone breaking the neck. Initially, I was thinking about a Floyd Rose but I abandoned the idea since it would make the guitar even more complex to build. Since it was a most unconventional design I had to find new methods and make several jigs. There were 7 or 8 dummies made in the CNC machine but still a good body blank was ruined. I spent approximatelly 100 hours correcting flaws and then filling, sanding and finishing the body. A friend of mine applied the decoration film (to emulate the steel finish surfaces) just some hours before it was delivered. It sounds and plays very well - a real tool for shredding. Body: American alder Neck: American maple (laminated) Fretboard: Ebony Scale length: 24,75” Bridge: HipShot Fixed Bridge Tuners: Gotoh SG381-05 Pickups: Lundgren M6 Finish: Matte black polyester Check out: www.peterwesterberg.se/index.php/blogg-content www.facebook.com/westerbergguitars Instagram: westerbergguitars Swedish pickup maker Lundgren: www.lundgren.se Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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