ProjectGuitar.com Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for April 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 Dutch-Riny Posted April 5, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 This is my first time I post on this site. I play for 45 years synthesizers and the last 2 years a little electric guitar . So I am a real DIY builder of many things, I designed an electric guitar with a possibility to link it to synthesizers with more opportunities to play the guitar and synths independently of one another. On the web I discovered the Acpad, which seems to be something unknown. It was a kickstarter project of Robin Sukroso The Acpad was designed for an acoustic guiter. Iwanted the Acpad on an electric guitar, but that was not possible.So I had myself an electric guitar design to get it appropriate to. Here the result: The body is oak and coated with carbon. The neck is of an old Epiphone, Maple neck and Rosewood fingerboard. Two unknow Humbuckers, but sounds great, with a good sustain. I hope you like it. Kindly regards from the Netherlands. Dutch-Riny 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ShatnersBassoon Posted April 5, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) 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. I don't know why, but some of the images need to be clicked on in order to get the best quality, so worth bearing in mind Build thread - 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 Edited April 6, 2020 by ShatnersBassoon 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mistermikev Posted April 5, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 "The Tuxedo" MATERIALS: Body is two piece northern ash sourced from peterman lumber (local) Neck is three piece - flamed maple / wenge / flamed maple - also from peterman Top and headstock overlay are quilted maple sourced from elmwood music on etsy Fretboard is ebony sourced from Alleng Guitar (online) Inlays are from ebay user jnnpearlinlay HARDWARE: Frets are jescar wide / low Gotoh Auto Locking vintage tuners Trem King Tremolo Graphtek Nut ELECTRONICS: Seymour Duncan Vintage Stack Bridge Bootstrap Pickups "Squeeky Clean" Neck Oak Grigsby 4-way switch Bournes pots Electrosocket Jack SPECS: 10 deg headstock angle 24 3/4" scale length 1 11/16 Nut Width, .78" thick at the first, .81" at the 12th 12" Radius Fretboard 30" Radius Top and Back, 1 1/2" body thickness with 2 1/8" overall thickness Body is semi hollow 7lbs 2oz Weight DESCRIPTION: This is build #6 for me. Frequently I look at other builder's amazing projects and think "how will I ever get there?" So with that goal in mind, and for each build, I do my best to add elements that will push me beyond my comfort zone. For this build, there were two such milestones for me... first time doing a radius top with a radius back, and first multi-piece neck. This guitar has a lot of similarities to my prior radius top strats... so in some sense, I feel a little disappointed that I didn't push far enough beyond that. On the bright side, I'm starting to see little glimpses of my own style when I look at it. That style is, of course, a reflection of all I have learned from folks here, so thank you all for that! build thread is here: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Woodrrob Posted April 14, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 14, 2020 Hello all! I am obviously new here, but was perusing the internet looking for inspiration for my next (attainable!) build. After coming across this site, I have definitely a ton of new inspiration and ideas for where to develop my skills. You guys and gals here are quite incredible woodworkers! My uncle passed away about a year ago, and he was a carpenter by trade. I miss him dearly, he was an incredible man. He gave me a bunch of tools to start off with before he passed, as I had expressed interest in woodworking and guitar-building and being a luthier. It was a fantastic start and I've learned a bunch with what was given to me! I know however (and have from the start!) that I am lacking some very essential tools to create a guitar from scratch. As a result, my first project was an old (circa '08-09) Jay Reynolds that I stripped and rebuilt with plenty of help from the staff at GFS - I'm honestly proud of that guitar! I don't think it's particularly insane like some of the builds I've seen (in this thread alone!), and it definitely isn't perfect, but I am in total love. New stain, neck, locking tuners, pickups, polycap, new pots, I even shielded the entire front cavity with 2" copper tape with conductive adhesive; I'm just almost afraid to post it for fear of past experiences from places such as Reddit, in that I don't want to get torn apart for merely trying hahaha. So anyhow, bored with the backstory yet? Alright on to my post then! I am just more happy I got something that worked with my submission; it was a personal brain-flex to try and use ONLY what I had around the house to build a "campfire guitar" - one that worked with maybe a tiny amp and some simple effects, but was loud enough on its' own and durable/cheap enough to withstand flying embers and spilled beers without me crying. My primary objective was "Working instrument for $0 (additional) cost. I took inspiration from cigar-box guitars as well as resonators (and even kalimbas!) to create what I deem 'The Most Harmonic Piece of Trash' that I personally have seen. I took all the 'usable' old parts from the old Jay Reynolds (only the body was kept for the previously mentioned rebuild!), such as the neck, tuners, and bridge, and two of the tremolo springs. For the body, I glued cedar planks (meant for grilling/flavoring salmon) from the kitchen to two sections of 2x4 found in the garage. I did basic cuts with a jigsaw, sometimes implementing the 'drill-a-bunch-of-holes-with 1/2"-bit-and-connect-the-dots' method (I know I'm lacking serious tools!). I did most of the sanding using a small palm sander, a few custom block sanders (like sandpaper wrapped around a pestle to sand the neck cutout), and a collection of files that I have. The neck sits sky-high to the body, I know. But I only had one size of old lag bolts, and if the neck was deeper, they would have ruptured the fret-board. Remember, this is a build with $0 additional cost being the goal haha. I drilled through the body to add the old bridge, despite having no intentions to make the tremolo aspect functional. I just liked the idea of having a rear compartment for picks, lighters, and cigs (I don't smoke, but my friends do), so I threw a cigar tin on the back as the rear cover. The resonator is made from an altoids tin. I'm most hyped on this part haha. I added a set of piezo-pickups I had extra from a previous kalimba build (the piezos came in a two-pack for $7). I mounted the whole thing to a square block of aluminum that I believe is off my '82 Goldwing (P.O. used it to mount tail light to, but its anodized aluminum so no rust); regardless, it was a useless chunk found in the garage. As some sort of 'buzz dampener', I merely added a bracket meant for installing can-lights to the top of the resonator. I attached those aforementioned tremolo springs to the resonator to give it a bit extra sustain. It makes it sound VERY banjo-esque. This was a fun build that cost me nothing, and honestly looks like a pile of trash. But it plays, and makes some VERY unique sounds when sent through a delay pedal and some minor overdrive. It's not the prettiest sounding; its actually very clangy. But I tend to listen to a lot of electronic-influenced rock (Nine Inch Nails being my favorite and probably most notable) so I could see where it could potentially get use in my own mixes. But you blistering soloists and heavy metal heads probably wouldnt find a use for it. She's clunky, trashy, and slightly cumbersome; but I absolutely love the shit out of it and so do my friends who play around with it! I didn't build the neck from scratch, but this is my first guitar built (mostly!) from the ground up! I highly doubt I will win any contests, I just really wanted to share because I don't do any social media or the like. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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