ProjectGuitar.com Posted August 2, 2020 Report Share Posted August 2, 2020 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for August 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JGTay Posted August 3, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 3, 2020 Oak Hollow body guitar This was my 4th build, I wanted to try something a bit different recycling the wood from an old oak wardrobe, carving out the hollow body by hand and having a go at making my own bridge, tailpiece and pickup rings. Very lightweight with no balance/neck dive issues. Specs Oak body, with a bolt on Maple neck and a rosewood fretboard and brass nut. 24 frets 646mm scale. Oak bridge, tailpiece and pickup rings. Wilkinson Machine Heads. Wilkinson Zebra Pickups. Colron natural Danish Oil Finish. Build thread - 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGTay Posted August 3, 2020 Report Share Posted August 3, 2020 Just to clear up any confusion 7 hours ago, JGTay said: This was my 4th build, I was building two other guitars at the same time, my daughters pink guitar which was shown in the build thread and finished shortly after this one and also the red one in my profile pic, which is still to be finished at some point in the future... So the Oak hollow body was actually my 4th completed build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 10pizza Posted August 11, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 Swel AT1 This is my second build. First one was the zebracaster which took me an awful long time to get done, so I’m happy I did this one in ‘just’ a few months. My goal with this build was to create a design of my own in stead of using an existing template. The idea is to use this build as a prototype for future builds of the same model for sales to the public. Also I like to learn with each build so new for me on this build was a scarf joint and a recessed jack output. Also a color finish using spray cans was somewhat new to me Materials: Because this is a prototype I decided to use available woods and hardware as much as possible. I got some basswood from my woodshop ( www.masave.nl ) and I cut a piece of maple into several pieces for necks and fretboards. Background As I don’t have a professional workshop, the build was done mostly in my backyard, using available power tools. For planing/thicknessing I used my friends carpenter’s workshop planer. I don’t have a background in woodworking other than doing renovations in my own home and what I learned building my first guitar. Design The design was based on a couple of guitars I like a lot: · Ibanez guitars like the JS model: sleek designs with round shapes · Mosrite guitars : asymmetrical body · Heins guitars From a playing perspective I personally like small radiused guitars, but I want to make this model ‘allround’ so I gave the fretboard a 10” radius. The scale is 25.5”. Also to create a versatile instrument I’ve added a Schaller superswitch to create 5 different pickup combinations using 2 humbuckers with 2 different single coil modes. I designed an angled neck pickup for a brighter response on the high strings. Specifications: All the specs: Scale length: 25.5” Radius: 10” Body wood: Basswood Neck / Fretboard: Maple Pickups: Neck: Dimarzio Fast Track II, Bridge: Dimarzio AT-1 Electronics: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 5-position Schaller P-switch, 0.1 uF tone capacitor Hardware: Gotoh Wilkinson VS400 trem, Gotoh tuners Nut: Graphteq Frets: 22 Slim Jumbo (6105 style) frets Position markers: 3mm abalone dots Decal: Swel is my guitar make name, which translates to a Swallow in English. Hence the bird/swallow decal. Video: I've made a short video showing the guitar and playing some things to let you hear the different styles and switch positions. Pictures: A blue chord needs a blue guitar! Rounded shapes, Gotoh Wilkinson floating trem. Had to route the neck pocket in a 1.5 degree angle to allow for proper floating setup. Headstock with Swel logo decal. Custom white trussrod cover. Graphteq nut. First attempt at a scarf joint and vollute. Gotoh Tuners. Maple neck. Shaped for comfort. Action setup comfortably low but allowing fierce playing. The back: recessed cavity cover for the electronics. The Trem cover is mounted on top of the back.. Shaped the neckpocket join for better accessibility to the high frets. flat curve for stable seated playing. 1V1T with chrome knobs and the Schaller P-switch. Body mounted pickups, 22 frets. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Retrosonix Posted August 12, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 12, 2020 Retrosonix "Bow-Tie" 25.5 inch scale. warman 5/2 tele bridge pickup. roasted sycamore neck and fingerboard. one piece ash body with roasted sycamore top. I wanted a lightweight guitar with minimal knobs and pickups so i had no excuse to just play.. i based the design on the MM st vincent and was also influenced the hollowbody explorer that Ben at crimson made. i got the wood just before lockdown and made it in my garden that i share with my chickens and ducks. the weather was great, it was a fun build. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argytar Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) Hey there! This is The Corona Bird! You can read all about the build process here: specs: 1-piece obeche/ayouz body and neck construction Bigsby B5 vibrato black reflector knobs Black plastic pickguard with Silver Onion logo Black plastic truss rod cover encrypted as “The Corona bird” Traditional curved single acting truss rod with maple cap Switchcraft 3-way toggle switch Switchcraft long jack Belden/ vintage pushback guitar wire Emerson Pro 500k long split shaft pots Orange drop .022μF capacitors Seymour Duncan SM-2b bridge minihum Nick Silver Blue Moonlight alnico 2 neck p90 “Elias Zaikos” model. GMI - Halon guitars 1060 steel bridge with self-lubricating brass saddles GMI/ Halonsteel bridge posts GMI/ Halon heavy knurled brass thumbwheels Hand - selected by tap tone Indian Rosewood fretboard white plastic fretboard binding black plastic side dot markers Pearl dot markers 7mm Dunlop aluminum strap holders 24.625” scale 12” radius Bone nut Steinberger tuners (finally here) Nitro finish “hammerite green metallic” light relic Pyramid .10-.38 pure Nickel strings And here is a video to showcase the tones! https://youtu.be/7pGeOfrZ8_4 Edited August 18, 2020 by argytar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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