ProjectGuitar.com Posted January 4, 2020 Report Share Posted January 4, 2020 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for January 2020! 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...
Ratesz Posted January 5, 2020 Report Share Posted January 5, 2020 Hello! Some guys from guitar builder groups motivated me to nominate my 2nd build to this competition. The build is done some days ago, some stickers are still missing but I hope good enough for premiere. Because of my 2nd build only, I just used relatively cheap hardware and wood + I never played on bass guitar, so it is enough for a beginner. Guitar name: feel free to name it • Thunderbird design • Basswood body • Maple neck • Rosewood fingerboard • Black hardware • Paint: Crimson Guitar stains • Oil finish: Crimson Guitar High Build Guitar Oil I hope you like it. Regards, Ratesz Whatever reason I could upload only 3 files (I know about size limitation), but I hope rest of the 4 will be here too soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post mistermikev Posted January 28, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 "THE BROADCHASER" WOODS: Two piece northern white ash body sourced locally from peterman lumber in phoenix Flamed maple fretboard (thanks to JB Land @ 6_strings_plus on evilbay!) Flamed maple neck sourced locally from peterman lumber in phoenix HARDWARE: Bridge - Gotoh BSTC1 compensated saddle Tuners - Gotoh SD91 Pickups - Rose Alba / Bourban + hidden rail humbucker Controls - CTS volume pot + Alpha 4 pole 3 throw rotary + Alpha 3 way selector Bone Nut PROFILE: a somewhat beefy 59 soft v with extremely rolled edges on the fretboard SCALE LENGTH: 25.5" RADIUS: 9.5" FRETS: 21 frets - jescar thin / tall WEIGHT: 7lbs 6.5oz MARKERS: Black dots FINISH: Body - mohawk blonde nitro + watco nitro clear - relic'd Neck - stew mac amber dye + watco nitro clear - relic'd As with all my builds... the motivation is to learn something, challenge myself a bit, and most importantly: have fun. This build was def not without it's struggles! I had never done a relic finish before and had my doubts of wether or not I'd ever get there as I was trying to get the lacquer to check! Had uncertanty of how I would get the color I wanted with my limited abilities/resources. As usual... thanks to a little help from my friends... I survived! Thanks again to all who offered advice/resources/links/comiseration/responses-to-my-threads! I Have always wanted a solid body tele in the classic 'butterscotch blonde' motif. The idea that came to mind was a relic that was impossibly well cared for. I have always loved the look of lacquer checking and wanted to use that more as a finish enhancement as opposed to implying that this was a really old guitar. I chose all flamed maple for the neck -knowing that you wouldn't really see that on a late 50's tele (nor a two piece neck - no rules here!). Electronics that allow for classic operation, but offer some modern hum-canceling features via the hidden pickup. A dual action truss rod but with traditional heel access. A solid tele body, but with a smuggler's route for weight reduction. All in all a mix that I had hoped would be a nod to the past with a few modern flares. Thanks again to the forum for empowering/encouragin/enabling! BUILD THREAD:Click here to see my build thread for this guitar DEMO VIDEO: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osorio Posted January 30, 2020 Report Share Posted January 30, 2020 Blanca y Malevola You could check the complete build process here. These two are the first ones form a bulk of four that I started last year. Both have the same hardware (wilkinson tuners and a generic monorails) and Cabrera pickups. Blanca have a Fishman Presys Piezo System. Necks woods are Marfim with Imbuia Fingerboard 25 to 27 inch Jescar frets. Blanca have a Tauari body with mate finish. Malevola have a Brasilian Ceddar with Eucaliptus top body That's it!! Hope you like! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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