ProjectGuitar.com Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for October 2019! 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 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 creations to the world! Submissions are open throughout the month with public voting open in the last week. Polls close on the first weekend 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 and eclipses everything! 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 towards less experienced builders, we encourage professional builders to consider whether their entries constitute being "fair". Commercial "standard" models are not a valid entry, guys....Guitar Of The Month is about unique and characterful builds, not rubber-stamped production units! We reserve the right to pull entries that are thinly-guised adverts; ProjectGuitar.com is about community, sharing build processes and the exchange of ideas - not a vehicle for adverts by members that don't engage with the community. 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. In our experience this is the biggest attractor of votes. 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 the moderator team 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...
Popular Post ginner Posted October 19, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 19, 2019 Hello Everyone, here's my entry for the October GOTM. Name; Standard General Body wood: Sapele mahogany and flame maple Neck wood: Sapele laminated with maple veneer accent stripes Fretboard: Rosewood bound with flame maple and luminlay side dots Hardware: Evertune bridge, Hipshot locking tuners Electronics: BareKnuckle Rebel Yells with coil splitting push push tone pots Other Features: Grain matched backplates, paduak inlay at 12th fret, neck volute, wenge logo inlay This guitar is for my bandmate who is in love with Gibson SGs. However with all the inherent problems with them I decided I would build him one to the same specs as an SG, but then buff it up here and there. Somethings that make it special and a little different than your "standard" SG are upgraded hardware and electronics, a thicker body (to counterbalance the typical neck dive), an added volute so it HOPEFULLY wont break at the headstock, grain matched cavity covers and custom band inlays at the 12th. This was the first guitar I have ever built that was a) 24.75" scale and b) with any sort of neck angle. It added some challenges and I really enjoyed thinking out side the box to accomplish it precisely. This was probably the sixth or seventh guitar I have built. Thanks for looking! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verhoevenc Posted October 21, 2019 Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 Here is a completed 'stage acoustic' (read: 2" thick, fully hollowed out body, with true acoustic top) that I did for a local company. Company colors, theme, logo, etc. Working with the celluloid pearl was a first, and definitely not a last as I've come to really like the material. Specs: Engelmann spruce top, sapele body and neck, rocklite Ebano fretboard and bridge. 25.4" scale, 16" radius fretboard. K&K piezo pickup. More details here: Gallery and Details This was a fun project that has sparked a LOT of new ideas in my head. When I saw just how loud it turned out, it told me just how powerful a thin-bodied acoustic concept can be... and just how fun that platform can be to mess with. Hopefully get some personal-project time soon to continue playing with these ideas. Best, Chris 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Wiggins Posted October 25, 2019 Report Share Posted October 25, 2019 (edited) I always wanted to build a RESO-ELECTRIC, and here it is. Edited October 25, 2019 by Randy Wiggins 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Andyjr1515 Posted October 26, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 26, 2019 Hi For this month's GOTM competition, I proudly present the "Phoenix Dreadnought" 6-string acoustic. I've been building guitars and basses for around 6 years - largely electrics and generally for my own use of for fellow band members and occasional commissions. I am attracted by the slightly quirky and 'wonder if this could be done' projects but also by the sheer challenge of an acoustic. My first acoustic build - an OM for myself - was around 5 years ago. I then built a dreadnought for our band's vocalist's 'special' birthday. Then another dreadnought for my own use. The 'Phoenix' is my 4th acoustic build Why Phoenix? Well, the build itself started with a discarded neck blank - a former bass project where I made a miscalculation and cut it the wrong length. A new neck was made and the bass completed...but I was left with this less about 6 inches: Me clearing out some old offcuts, including the short version of above, coincided with an offer by Matt - an excellent pro-player I know and who was planning to do some self-promotion videos - to use some of my own basses and guitars in his videos. He wouldn't take anything towards the cost of videos, so how could I offer a 'thank you'? Hmmm...well, he's an excellent acoustic player and he likes the acoustic among the borrowed instruments. So, could a blank like that above, be turned into a blank like this below??: And thus the Phoenix rose from the ashes.... Spec is: - 25.5" Scale; 19" Fretboard radius - European spruce top; black limba back and sides; ebony fretboard; walnut rosette/tailpiece/headstock plate - Full size square-shouldered dreadnought - Two pickup systems with individual outputs: LR Baggs Anthem (piezo & condenser mic); K&K Pure Mini (saddle-plate transducers) It took around 4 months to build and finish. The full build diary is here And here's the finished guitar: Happily, Matt loves it (always a great relief when I build anything for other people). Here is a quick clip taken on my phone on the day I passed it over to him: Thanks for looking! Andy 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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