ProjectGuitar.com Posted October 31, 2019 Report Share Posted October 31, 2019 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for November 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dantahoua Posted November 6, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 6, 2019 Hello! Hope my post is correct... I just finished a Semi-Hollow Baritone guitar! Got a lot of problem while doing this one, but this guitar is so resonant in the end and has a wonderful tone (will try to make a video soon). Here is the spec: SEL Baritone 28 -Figured yellow birch back and side. -Figured cherry laminated top (cherry-poplar-cherry) -Maple center block -Black walnut binding -C shape Figured mahogany set neck, long tenon (go under the neck pickup but in the end make not much difference with well made shorter tenon) -Marble Wood fingerboard (12' radius) -1" 11/16 (42,8mm) bone nut -28" scale length -Crushed Pearl Inlay with Epoxy -Medium fret wire -CTS concentric volume pot... I really like it, so much I'll do it on other guitars! It's very convenient! -CTS master tone pot -Jess Loureiro hand wound pickups (made in Spain). The neck pickup is a Wide Range humbucker in regular humbucker size. The bridge pickup is more like a regular PAF. This mix is awesome to my taste! -Marble Wood pickup ring. -3 positions switchcraft selector. -WaterBased finish over Shellac over blue tint. I really do not like this finish, I'll try another product on the next guitar. Was really good until I buff it up! You can check some more pic on Baritone Guitar and even some of the making. I really love this guitar! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ZekeB Posted November 11, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 11, 2019 Hey guys, First of all, thanks for all the help. Great to have a community that are generous as they are with their knowledge and experience. Its been a tremendous help. Here's my 2nd build: Osprey Wood: Genuine mahogany make up the wings. Wenge control cover. The neck is mahogany, wenge, and maple. The fingerboard and head stock plate are macassar ebony. The pick guard is ebony and zebrawood. Inlay: The inlay in the pick guard is gold mother of pearl. The fretboard is gold, black, white mother of pearl, and bloody basin jasper. General: 25.5 scale, 22 fret, Neck-through, Stainless steel frets, Gotoh Tuners, Signum wraparound bridge (love this bridge), Nitro finish Electronics: PTB tone setup. Bass and Treble tone knobs. Also has a 6 position freeway switch that have full humbucker in the left positions and split in the right. The pickups are Oil City, Blackbird humbuckers which are a medium-high output. They have great dynamic response with volume control. Been a really fun build. Everything was done by hand which partly why it took so long to build. Here she is: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post verhoevenc Posted November 13, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 13, 2019 This guitar requires dues to be paid. I was highly intrigued by the aesthetic of Tao guitars' T-bucket instruments. I liked both the square, inlaid pickguard idea as well as their flare for not only juxtaposing color, but also textures, in their instruments. This was really fun to do here with the high-gloss blue stabilized buckeye burl inlaid "pickguard" square, contrasted with the muted, satin pewter finish elsewhere. I also wanted to test myself to see if I could create an instrument with Mustang-style switching but without the back cover plate that would have hindered my ability to have a robust belly carve. Can you figure out how I was able to get all those switches and pickups in there without a back cover plate? True to form for the mixture of Jaguar and Mustang elements on this build, it features a short 24" scale length. Many people have not played with these types of instrument,s but they are a great deal of fun. After building my first shortscale (a blue paisley offset) I just had to make another when that one left for it's new home. Specs: Neck- Wood: Flamed roasted maple Fretboard: East-Indian rosewood Scale: 24" Radius: 9.5" Nut Width: 1 11/16" Carve: Thin C Headstock: Straight string pull 3-a-side in pewter with flamed roasted maple wings Inlays: Blue stabilized buckeye burl dots with aluminum outlines Tuners: Hipshot open-back locking Body- Wood: Poplar "Pickguard": Blue stabilized buckeye burl Width: 13.5" Bridge: Fender adjustable mustang bridge and jazzmaster tremolo Finish: Satin, real pewter coat body, high-gloss lacquer "pickguard" square, and tru-oil neck Electronics- This guitar features 2 claw-less Jaguar pickups configured like a traditional "Mustang." The slide switches allow each pickup to be turned on/off and placed in or out of phase with one-another. Hope you like, Chris 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ScottR Posted November 24, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 24, 2019 This is already a very competitive month....let's make it even more so! Scroll and Burl Body-- Black Limba Top and HS cap--Maple Burl Neck and cavity cover--East Indian Rosewood Fretboard--Cocobolo Tuners-- Gotoh locking Frets-- Jumbo SS Bridge --Babicz Switch-- 5 way blade Pickups--Klein high wind P-90s at the neck and bridge and a Klein high wind single coil middle wound and wired for a strat. Build thread: SR 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpionscar Posted November 27, 2019 Report Share Posted November 27, 2019 (edited) I present my guitar under the name "Warrior Extreme Camo" This is the link to step by step building: Specifications: Body: Swamp ash & Wallnut & Maple & Ébony Top: Popplar burl Fingerboard: Exotic Ebony Inlays: 3 mm MOP dots Peghead veneers: Front: Poplar burl/ Rear: Wallnut Neck: 7 piece multi laminated. Combines Maple & Wallnut Scale: 25.5" Frets: 24 Jumbo Joint: Glued on Bridge: Challer Lockmeister Floyd system Tuner machines: Schaller Pick ups: N&B humbuckers Spanish handmade "Tokaa" Pots CTS: 1 Tone, 1 volume Finish: Polyurethane Scorpionscar Edited November 27, 2019 by scorpionscar Mistake 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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