ProjectGuitar.com Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for May 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 Gogzs Posted May 12, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 12, 2020 Name: Prcknow R.S. Hey folks, here's my first build ever. With little prior woodworking experience, it's been a wild ride but I'm extremely happy with the result. I decided to name it Prcknow (derived from the Croatian word "prkno" that is slang word for ass...) because whenever I brought the topic of building a guitar among friends, the joke was "if you build it, it'll sound like ass" hence the name. R.S. stands for "racing stripes", just like on racing cars, the racing stripes along the neck/body make you play faster haha. (lame jokes among friends, but oh well...) The whole journey was documented here: Neck-trough part is made by laminating wenge and pear stripes, the wings are mahogany. Neck thickness is 20mm at the 1st fret, 21.5mm at the 12th fret but around the 16th-17th it starts getting thicker a little bit faster. I always felt I didn't have anything to hold onto while bending strings at the upper registers hence why I made it to start getting thicker towards that end (we're talking about 24mm at the 17th fret, so not extreme, but nicely noticable). Fretboard radius is 10". The inlays are made from the same pear, positioned above the neck stripes, to make it look like they are showing through the rosewood. Body wise, I tried to keep it pretty slim, the body is 36mm at the thickest part around the pickups, going down to 13-15mm at the edges. It balances pretty well (center of mass is around the neck heel joint, a bit towards the body) so no noticeable neck dive. Picture of the back side + neck: Hardware wise I used a Schaller bridge, Kluson tuners, Graph Tech Black Tusq nut, Fender standard frets, Q-Parts Dome Potiknob with the Celtic weave and Göldo string trees with the rollers. Tendency was that all hardware is black. Electronics wise, the pots and mini toggle is from Göldo, Dimarzio X2N and D'Activator pickups and a Göldo audio jack accessable from the top. No problems plugging/unpluggin cables. The volume pot is a pull/push one, so there are 6 configurations all together: Volume pot pushed down: Neck, Neck + Bridge, Bridge, Volume pot pulled out splits the coils: Split Neck (with the coil closer to the neck working), Split Neck + Split Bridge, Split Bridge (with the coil towards the bridge working). It was all finished with minwax wipe-on poly, with the front in a full shiny mirror finish, while the back side was made to be more of a satin feel so the hand slides nice along the neck. I will try to get a video demo of it playing, really happy with the sound, the DiMarzios scream pretty wild, but can deliver surprisingly nice clean tones as well. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Andyjr1515 Posted May 19, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 19, 2020 Hi I present to you "SwiftGuitar", sometimes shortened to SG It's an 'in the style of' Gibson's iconic classic but with a few tweaks along the way. I've been building guitars and basses as a hobby for around 7 years: sometimes for my own use; sometimes for friends or fellow band members; once for a Nepalese buddhist who played in heavy metal band; occasionally commissions This one is for a friend, Matt, and has used mainly wood that I had accumulated over the years and pickups that Matt himself has wound or modified. Spec is: Timbers: Top -Yew; Back -Sapele; Neck - Mahogany & Purpleheart; Fretboard - Ebony; Inlays - Mother of Pearl Scale: 24.75" Fretwire: Jescar Evo Gold Finish: Body - Ronseal Hardglaze Polyurethane Varnish (brushed on); Neck - Danish oil slurry-and-buffed Weight: 8lb 6oz There is a (long) blow by blow build thread (link below) for anyone in Covid lockdown and who's finally run out of things to do : And here it is: My hands are shot for playing but before the comp closes, I'll see if I can find a way of getting some sound clips without contravening the lockdown rules Thanks for looking! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ShatnersBassoon Posted May 24, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) As you can enter again with the same guitar, I may as well So I’ve been building a headless recently and now it is complete. It’s neck through design...was so close to a one piece in terms of the thickness of the Wenge blank! Oh well. This gradually evolved in to a Strandberg inspired build. One unusual is the scale length of 23.4 and the deliberate lack of a fretboard radius. Combined with the jumbo frets and skinny neck (almost Ibanez Wizard profile) its ended up quite an interesting guitar. First time using Glu boost as a finish, I like it! Although the poplar burl top was very ‘thirsty’ for want of a better word. ‘Dark Ember’ Frets- 21 Radius- Flat Pickups- EMG 57/66 Frets- Jumbo stainless steel Body- Wenge Top- Poplar burl Weight - 5.2 lbs Pickguard- Carbon fibre Finish- Glue boost Build thread- Edited May 24, 2020 by ShatnersBassoon 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JayT Posted May 24, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) I've finally finished my first two builds, done simultaneously...it took just over six months and I'm happy with the results. Named them 'The Teetotaler' 1a & 1b. The design is my own but the overall construction & specs are based on the modern Telecaster (I thought that would make things somewhat more achievable as a newbie), but with a chunkier neck and a mini-humbucker at the bridge. 25.5 scale & weigh 7.8 lbs. The electronics & hardware are all inexpensive imports as I didn't want to break the bank on this first attempt. I started with mostly common household tools and I bought specialty tools as needed (or found work arounds), most of the work was done in my laundry room unless it was nice enough outside. Body is made of poplar finished with Rust-oleum semigloss spray paint, the finger board is wenge. The biggest difference between the two (besides color) are the necks. The white one is mahogany while the black one is limba - both are finished with Tru-Oil. The link to my build thread: Edited May 27, 2020 by JayT 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JouniK Posted May 25, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 Name: Aquilae 50 Here are the specs: Shape: Headless 6-string. Heavily influenced by ergonomic design by Ola Strandberg (Boden model) Body woods: Poplar Burl -top (15mm, bookmatched 2 piece) + European Alder (2 piece) Scale: 25,5inch, 22 frets Neck: Bolt-On Flaxwood Hybrid with jumbo nickel frets (pre-manufactured without filled fretboard dots) (Wood fiber composite -material) Fretboard dot inlay color: Black, Side dots: Orange (luminous) Hipshot 6 String Guitar Headless Fixed -bridge (tuning machines) + traditional headpiece Pickups: Fishman Fluence Tosin Abasi -set, DIY pickup rings Pickup Selector: 5-way Schaller Megaswitch 1 volume -pot 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESully Posted May 25, 2020 Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 Hi All, First post but lurking for a while. Name - The rocker The woods: Black Limba 2 piece body and neck, Rosewood fretboard with MOP inlay dots Both neck and body are finished in Tru-oil apart from the front of the headstock which I spray lacquered for the logo script 24.75" scale Pickup - Oil City Blackbird bridge which is coil split on the volume and standard tone, Rosewood knobs This is my first proper build but I have put together an LPJ kit guitar and a parts-caster Tele before this. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. The build started over a year ago in truth and I've been slowly progressing it bit by bit, learning from mistakes along the way. Initially I wanted it to look like a Yamaha StarFlighter so that inspired the body shape and I liked the idea of it being a Junior style guitar with one pickup. There was no master design plan to this guitar if I'm honest. I got the wood, had a rough idea of body shape and then made design decisions as I went along. No build thread on this forum unfortunately but I did post some progress pics here. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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