ProjectGuitar.com Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 The Project Guitar.com "Guitar of the Month" contest is a showcase for all the members, so show us your axe in this thread! This contest is open to any and all members that enter and will be continued each month for a place showing your creation on the homepage! The winner(s) of course will have his/her guitar featured on the homepage of Project Guitar.com and if you have a website the picture will link directly to it if you so choose (even commercial site's). If your a forum member you will also be upgraded to a Featured member which allows you to see the Advanced Chat section and download area. So show us your creation in this thread! You've got till sometime around the 22nd of March then this thread gets locked and the voting starts! Any Post that is not an entry will be deleted, feel free to start a new thread to discuss any guitar entered this month There may be more then one poll to determine winners in different catagorys at the end of this contest! Please post a maximum of your 4 best pictures per guitar entered Please Give Your Guitar a Name or Nick Name Side note, if you are unable to post a picture you can e-mail one to Brian and it will be posted for you, or ask forum members how to post pictures, they are very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott French Posted February 24, 2007 Report Share Posted February 24, 2007 I was really happy with the sound of this one. The final weight was 4.97lbs. Just shipped it out today. SF3 Body Style Flame Myrtle Top Over Redwood Tuning Folk Hollow Body Top & Back Roundover w/Comfort & Belly Carves Gloss Polyester w/Black Back & Edges 25.5" Scale Length 5-Piece Birdseye Maple Neck w/Bloodwood Veneer Laminations Bloodwood Fingerboard w/Bloodwood Binding/Headcap & Walnut Purfling 2mm Pearl Side and Face Dots 24 Jumbo Nickel Frets Thin "C" Neck Profile 2 Way Adjustable Truss Rod 1 11/16" Throat Width Individual Nut Elements w/Zero Fret Black Hardware Finish Seymour Duncan Invader SH8 & Duncan Custom SH5 Pickups Elixer 10s Sperzel Locking Tuners Schaller Locking Strap Buttons Hipshot Baby Grand Bridge Volume/3-Way/Tone - 2 Series/Single/Parallel Miniswitches More finished and construction photos here: www.scottfrench.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian d Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 (edited) How's this for brave.....going up against Scott for GOTM This is "Sassy", my first classical guitar build. Blackheart Sassafrass body with Jarrah and Huon pine binding, tail graft, and heel cap Alpine spruce soundboard, with modified fan bracing Queensland maple neck Rosewood fretboard and bridge bone saddle Tusq nut Rubner machine heads with ebony buttons Tru-oil/wax finish While there isn't a lot of scope with the visual design of classical guitars, I'm really pleased with the areas that have greater individuality. Mostly the figure that mother nature provided with the body wood, but also the headstock crest, the bridge and the shaping at end of the fretboard. (click on the thumbnails for full size pics) edit 20 march. Here's a rough recording of Sassy. apologies for the background hum. She has a bold warm tone (guitar or wine??) with great dynamic response. My playing may not be up to the task of really showing her off, but I've tried to show her versatility in different styles of music. Sassy audio demo Edited March 20, 2007 by brian d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsguitar Posted March 4, 2007 Report Share Posted March 4, 2007 (edited) Well here is my second entry for GOTM I hope you guys like it. This guitar was a blast to build. The whole thing was born out of a piece of padauk that I had. It called to me / Not. But I split it and book-matched it and the rest of it just fell into place. This guitar has been to both east and west cost for shows. First it went to the NAMM show in California and was in the AXE TRAK booth. Then it went to the DOA(Dean Owners of America) show / party in Tampa Florida where the owner of dean guitars got his hands on it, and he was very impressed with the guitar. A good friend of mine has a store in Perry Iowa where Michael Angelo Batio is going to do a clinic on May 11th, and I am going to see if I can get him to play the guitar. Anyway here are the specs: 5 piece curly maple and padauk neck-thru matching padauk cap on headstock ebony fingerboard bound with curly maple, ebony, and padauk 13 degree headstock angle 25 1/2" scale fingerboard 12" radius neck Abalone block inlay with RSG logo inlay at 12th fret Abalone side dot markers Jumbo frets Bone nut Sperzel standard tuners/ Satin Chrome Dual action truss rod Carbon fiber reinforcing rods Mahogany body sides Padauk cap with curly mpl. stripe JB Seymour Duncan in the bridge/with chrome PU ring STK-S2 Seymour Duncan in the neck Gotoh Tune-o-matic Bridge/ Chrome String through body design/ Chrome Shielded electronics cavity 1 Volume, 1 Tone, and Chrome Metal 'dome' knob Three way selector switch/ Chrome 9-46 strings Photo-5 Photo-6 Photo-7 Photo-8 More Photos Here is the build thread Thanks for taking a look! and good luck to all entries Mike Edited March 5, 2007 by rsguitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvillavicencio Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 (edited) Hi there, here is one of my creations, it´s called "Ad" Bass. The body is made of one piece of dark OAK, the neck is made of Cristobal and the fingerboard is made of Almendro, all Costa Rican exotic woods (at least the last two). It has 2 soapbars with active/passive electronics, wich gives a deep brilliant sound. It is 34", 24 frets, 2 volumes 1 tone I designed this bass 1 year ago, trying to do something completlety different from what we are used to see. Hope you like it. Tnx Jorge Villavicencio, VC-Basses (http://www.vc-basses.com) jvillavicencio@vc-basses.com Edited March 21, 2007 by jvillavicencio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_48_Johnson Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 This is my first build and I see that the compitition is pretty stiff! I have named her Flamecaster. Okay, here's the list of parts: Fender Output Jack Fender 5-Way Switch Gibson 300kOhm Pot. Linear Taper Long Shaft (Tone) Gibson 500kOhm Pot. Audio Taper Long Shaft (Volume) Seymour Duncan SH-1 ‘59(Neck) Seymour Duncan SL59-1N Little ’59 (Middle) Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader (Bridge) Q Parts Shell Dome Knob Black w/ Natural Abalone Gotoh Locking Tuning Keys (Black) Dunlop Dual Design Straplok System Black neck plate and screws Black Strat Jack Plate Hipshot Baby Grand guitar bridge in black finish Mighty Mite Fender Strat. Neck (MM2925) Black Pick guard Material .090 3/16” Metal Black Humbucker Mounting Rings Black Metal Mounting Ring For Single-coil Pickup Black String Retainers Mahogany for soundwood Quilted Figured Maple Top ColorTone Concentrated Vintage amber Liquid Stain ColorTone Water base Grain Filler ColorTone Aerosol Guitar Lacquer ColorTone Clear sanding sealer Preval Spray Unit Pipettes Mixing cups Shielding Paint and Tape Assorted sanding paper from 80 grit to 2000 grit Buffing pads Med. polishing compound Fine polishing compound Swirl Remover Here's a link to the entire build from raw materials to finished guitar with a lot of pictures all along the way: http://www.fender-talk.com/message-board-f...pic.php?t=11145 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argytar Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) hi y'all! My name is Argyris Krommydas from Greece ,Europe and I am new to this forum and site! I just finished making my fourth guitar so i thought why not post it here to the forum! It is inspired by the PRS guitars but it is actually a neck through guitar. For the middle section I used a dried piece of mahogany that has been sitting around for about 25 years! (resonant) and for the wings I used two pieces of gambon type mahogany (lighter coloured but still mahoganoid). The hardware is mostly from PRS: eg the fixed bridge (i used vintage steel Tonepros studs for better coupling) the pickups are two prs dragon II pickups treble and bass (coil splittable via a push/pull tone pot) . I wanted to make a gold top guitar with chrome pickups, the binding is natural. I made the finish matte and on the headstock 'Goldie' is inscripted in silver that s the nickname of the guitar. The tuners are sperzel locking tuners and the guitar sounds Greeeeeaaaat awesome sustain and versatility of tones. Oh ! i almost forgot,the fingerboard has inlaid roses made by antoniotsai of taiwan. So, enjoy! I resized the pics for easier view. with kind regards argyris ,greece Edited March 24, 2007 by Project Guitar Posted pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron steiger Posted March 21, 2007 Report Share Posted March 21, 2007 .. .. .. Thanks for all the great input on my snakewood allspruce (guitar of the month) I did'nt win...but it was so nice to get votes ...that Ill try it again. This on is a allspruce harp...with ropebinding...That I copyed the old dryer harp (show in photo 1)...I sure love the harp,and she sound great too. hope you guys like her..... ron steiger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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