ProjectGuitar.com Posted February 21, 2011 Report Share Posted February 21, 2011 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 23rd or 24th 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 Make sure Your Guitar has a Name or Nick Name as well otherwise one will be given to it 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...
SwedishLuthier Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 The NothStar Speedster If shredding is your thing, this is the NorthStar for you; 25,5” scale, compound radius and an original Schaller Floyd Rose makes this a speed machine. The thin neck is made from three layers of maple with a thin laminate of graphite between them. Apart from making the neck incredible strong it alo makes it really gorgeous to look at. The head is solid maple with a ash topper and the transition from the laminated neck have a ebony accent piece. The body is made from light ash for a fast snappy attack and defined treble response. A thinner than usual body generally thought through design down to the aluminum Schertler tuners makes this a light and responsive guitar with great dynamics. The bolt on neck joins the body at the 20th fret and the back and front contouring at the joint give it an excellent access to all the 24 frets. The body and the front of the head are stained with a walnut stain and finished with Tru-Oil. The neck is finished in Tung-Oil for a matte, fast and warm feeling. The pickups might need a few extra words. The goal was a clear but still powerful sound without the typical over wound sound from a distortion type pickup. The bridge pickup is a StarStruck Slugger with its non-adjustable pole pieces and rather aggressive tone with a solid bottom, while the neck pickup is a more traditional pickup with slightly higher output. To match the bare look of the guitar the pickups are cast into a custom made, wooden textured cover, a StarStuck Pickups exclusive. The pickups and bridge routs are rounded over to give the impression that the pickups and bridge are melting down into the surface Design - Peter Naglitsch NorthStar Body - Swamp Ash Neck - Laminated maple with graphite reinforcements Fretboard - Ebony Scale Length - 25,5" Pickups Bridge:StarStruck Slugger Neck: StarStruck PAF+ Tuners - Schertler Tremolo - Schaller original Floyd Rose Sadel - Earvana locking nut Controls - Vol/Tone, 3-switch Frets - Jumbo Fretmarkers - non on front, MOP on the side More pics The guitars main presentations page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RestorationAD Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 -- Helios -- Build Thread -- Project S906 This is the first prototype of the S9 series. I have changed some things since this one was built S906 #1 (Helios) is a Maple/Cocobolo neck attached to a super thin Sapele/Exotic topped body with hipshot parts and custom pickups. Neck : Maple/Cocobolo Fretboard : Cocobolo Scale : 25.5 Frets : 24 Body : Sapele/Spalted Flame Maple (33mm) Tuners : Locking Pickups : Diablo Humbuckers Bridge : Hipshot Electronics : 1 Push/Pull Volume More shots http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Full_front1024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Full_21024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Front_close_21024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Front_close1024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Front_21024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Front_close_31024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Front_angle1024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Body_11024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Back_31024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Back_21024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Back_heal1024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Back_Neck_Angle1024x768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll19/restorationad/S906/Back_Neck1024x768.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DogNate Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 Here's my latest build for myself. I'm an avid guitar synth user with my cover band. I just upgraded to the new Roland GR-55 synth. It came with another GK-3 Pickup. I needed another guitar to mount it on. I'm keeping several of mine without a hex pickup. I'm an old school hot rodded strat player at heart so I wanted to keep this as more of a Old School Charvel style hard tail. With a good bit of tonal character. Here are the specs. Neck: Bird's Eye Maple Honduras Rosewood Skunk stripe Ebony Fingerboard 12" radius Stainless steel fret wire 22 frets Bone Nut Grover Mini Rotomatic machines Body: Honduras Mahogany (2pc) Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish Hand wound P-90(A5, 42awg, 9.5k) Hand wound Humbucker (A5, 43awg, 13.5k) 250k Volume Pot 3 way pickup selector Roland GK-3 Hex Pickup Gotoh hard tail bridge Schaller strap locks BTW I Refer to this guitar as "The Hog" due to it's Mahogany body... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Mockingbird mkII BODY Mockingbird shape sapele base moderately flamed maple cap tiger-eye burst top dye black back dye faux binding lacquer finish NECK paduk base with sapwood cream bound 3+3 tiltback headstock paduk backstrap walnut faceplate, dyed black ebony fretboard hand-made "cloud, sun, and moon" inlays from maple and canarywood HARDWARE & ELECTRONICS all chrome hardware 2 Epiphone covered humbuckers Wilkinson tuners Kahler tremolo 1 V, 1T, 3-way switch barrel jack headstock back of body & neck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessejames Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 The Mellowcaster. Body: Crotch Maple Top African Mahogany Back Flame Maple cavity Cover Neck: Set Claro Walnut Mexican Rosewood Fretboard Electronics and hardware: Seymour duncan hot rails 250k volume and tone CTS pots All parts extended input jack Stew Mac Medium Fretwire Fender tuning pegs Jap bridge Plays like butter and has awesome sustain, and was a joy to build! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crow Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 PRS copy: neck: wenge + ebony 25" menzura body: sipo mahagoni and maple top planet waves tuners gotoh bridge kent armstrong pick-ups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orgmorg Posted March 20, 2011 Report Share Posted March 20, 2011 Barnstormer SC In this guitar, and others of the same name, I try to blend the aesthetics and feel of vintage aircraft with those of the barns that they might have performed stunts over in the grand "barnstorming" days of the early 20th century. Those stunts occasionally resulted in a more literal blending of these two elements, and if you could record such an event, it might sound like this: Body is buckeye, with an arched, beech barnwood top. Neck is walnut and cucumbertree, with a persimmon fretboard. Pickups are Seymour Duncan '59 with distressed metal covers Hipshot baby grand bridge, bakelite pickguard, Heavily distressed finish on back and sides, Hipshot Classic tuners back of headstock Neck joint detail other side controls control cover Looks nice and rough, but feels and plays slick as a slug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhattr88 Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) Rinker Guitars - "R5" My own design (a fancy les paul jr.) Follow the "Build #5" link in my signature. Body - Mahogany Tops - Rosewood, Sapele, Spruce Neck - Mahogany Fingerboard, headplate, pickguard, heelcap - Rosewood PUP - Seymour Duncan P-90 "phat cat" Bridge - Tone Pros wraparound Here I tried to darken the background using paint.net Edited March 22, 2011 by madhattr88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crow Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 PRS COPY: I would be putting in a couple of pictures yet with your permission: http://www.projectguitar.com/gal/crow/12.jpeg http://www.projectguitar.com/gal/crow/13.jpeg http://www.projectguitar.com/gal/crow/15.jpeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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