ProjectGuitar.com Posted March 7, 2020 Report Share Posted March 7, 2020 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for March 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...
Popular Post argytar Posted March 8, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) The Pimp Hi y’all! Wanted to do a thematic build so I imagined a guitar with pimp aesthetics. purple velvet jacket, gold bling, raw p90 sound etc 2 piece Korina body sealed with shellac and painted in ultra thin-skin nitro. Halon gold hardware trem and bridge (you gotta try these! Best quality! World - class alloys and tone!) Nick Silver blue moonlight pickups alnico II 50s style p90s gotoh vintage gold tuners ebony fretboard 16” radius tortoise shell pickguard real mop inlays 4-ply laminated neck flame maple with walnut. home-made decal layered angled headstock (9 degrees) loved the tone! You can rock out with it, play the blues and surf for dayzz! enjoy!! https://youtu.be/7o0ZYNWLxZE Edited March 8, 2020 by curtisa Fixed image links 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pshupe Posted March 10, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 1957 Futura build I've been building for about 7 years now. It's a hobby I started with my dad where we built a couple of guitars together at his work shop. Since then I have been adding to my own workshop over the years. I have been pulled towards the "golden era" of electric guitars. The late 50's and through the 60's. I started with almost no wood working experience but I have a background in CAD and computers. Here is the link to the build thread here - 1957 Futura build Here is how the guitar looked when finished. It was my first attempt at a vintage nitro cellulose vintage finish, complete with finish checking. Regards Peter. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ratesz Posted March 18, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 HI Guys, I would present my 1st build (after my 2nd which was a Thunderbird bass from January). Guitar name is: LP-1. This is my single cut, Les Paul, whatever you want to call it. I didn't spend significant time on the design, the goal was apply a standard sunburst technic. I really wanted to make a vintage look with brown and amber colors and definitely not a relic design. It was much more done by my instincts than done by experience but frankly I could really surprise myself with the finish. I used Crimson stains and closed it with high build guitar oils which applied only one time for matte finish. The body is simple basswood, the neck is maple and the fretboard is rosewood. The hardware is pretty standard chrome stuffs, the plastics are cream and gold. Because I like trash metal so much I chose EMG 81/85 active humbuckers for heavy sounds - and it sounds like a HELL! I hope you like it because I LOVE to play on it. Regards, Ratesz 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lumberjack Posted March 22, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Hey guys n' gals, this is The Shiv. This is my first build documented here on Project Guitar, and my first submission to the guitar of the month. I've been building since highschool, but too a ~10 year break from full builds to focus on playing and modifying, with my first full guitar "back in the saddle" being last year, and now this one. It's the most complex build I'd done to date, and features a bunch of ideas I've collected from other builders over the years. I wanted this to look aggressive yet refined, and included some subtle details to that effect, like the diamond volute, solid aluminum logo, and magnetized curly maple cavity cover. Build thread: Specs: - African mahogany body - Curly maple top and headstock cap, natural curly maple binding throughout - 5 piece neck, curly maple and ebony strips - Pau ferro fingerboard and truss rod cover, solid MOP offset dot inlays - 25.5" scale, 24 Jescar jumbo stainless steel frets, partially scalloped - Bareknuckle Holy Diver pickups - Gotoh Tune-O-Matic bridge - Hipshot locking tuners, reverse headstock - 3-way toggle, volume, tone, and two coil spitting switches, one for each humbucker - Satin lacquer finish Pics: Video demo below: Cheers! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry Sushkov Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 Hi! Dmitry Sushkov here and I proudly present the Wahlgaard mk. II - a 9 strings electric guitar made for Ragne Wahlquist of Heavy Load band, Swedish heavy metal pioneers. The purpose of second build is some design and functional improvements after playing some concerts with first one, which I posted here some time ago. Main improvement is shorter scale for better behavior of first .007" string, originally supposed to tune in Ab. But we're also updated the look with more inlays and new custom designed top lock. This build took me whole year 2019. Most of the time was spent on inlay job, my favorite part. About me. I'm building custom guitars since 1999, I don't remember exact numbers but I can say I have built about 150 guitars in total which are living all around the world now. The Wahlgaard II is my 5-th guitar built in my own small shop in Prague. Here is the link to build progress thread And here are the specs: Guitar construction: Headless, 9 Strings, double cutaway, special archtop design, set-neck Body material: Korina Top material: 16 mm American black walnut bookmatched top Body construction: LP style archtop front with back comfort contours and bridge tuning pegs cavity Neck construction: 3 piece with carbon stripes (total 5 parts), no headstock Neck angle: 3 degrees to body Neck material: Korina, 3 parts Neck reinforcement stripes: carbon fiber Truss rod: Double-action 500 mm, adjustable nut under string holder Fretboard material: Ebony 85mm width Fretboard radius: 20” (508mm) Fretboard width at nut: 66 mm Nut: Black TUSQ (Hipshot) Fret marker inlays: Black ravens, walnut leaves, sword and Wahlquist symbol Frets: 20x2.5 mm + 9x2mm SINTOMS Stainless steel frets Scale length: 671 mm Neck thickness: 1 fret = 20 mm, 12 fret = 22 mm Strings: First string (.007) is a special type of string from Octave plus The other strings are Ernie Ball 9-String 28" Scale string No size tuning first .007 Ab second .009 Eb third .012 Bb fourth .016 Gb fifth .024 Db sixth .034 Ab seventh .042 Eb eighth .056 Bb ninth .080 F String spacing on nut: Equal string spacing calculated as 6,361 mm, standard 4 mm from string to edge String spacing on bridge: 10,4 mm Bridge: 9 individual Mera Submarine III (rev. 2) Gold plated Top-lock: 9-string custom made solid locking nut, gold plated Controls: 3 pots V+V+T Active electronics: JFET high quality low power adjustable preamp to boost volume by 2-6dB Pickup selector switch: 3-way 4PDT switch Additional active/passive control switch: 3-way 4PDT switch Neck pickup: Custom made vinatage PAF inspired 9-string pickup without covers bobbins both creme, including creme pickup ring Bridge pickup: Custom made vinatage PAF inspired 9-string pickup without covers creme/black bobbins, including creme pickup ring Pot knobs: Metal regular sized dome knobs GOLD Output jack: Gold switchcraft long threaded barrel jack Strap buttons: Gold Schaller Strap Locks Body art: Customer's signature on the lower part Body binding: Mother of Pearl stripe Finish: Modern high-gloss polyester Case: Molded plastic hard case with custom interior Some sound clips: And some completed pics: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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