ProjectGuitar.com Posted May 3, 2021 Report Share Posted May 3, 2021 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for May 2021! 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Woltz Posted May 4, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 4, 2021 Well I may as well kick things off for this month. This is my second scratch build (ironically finished before my first). I built it partly at home and partly at a woodworking club I am a part of. I made it because everyone needs a strat in their collection and it gives me some more experience prior to fully delving into more complicated builds like my 12-string Rick Copy. Name - Desert Colours Body - Australian Red Cedar Neck - Queensland Maple Fretboard - West Australian Sheoak There are side dots but obviously no fretboard dots because I didn't want to interrupt the figure of the wood. Scale - 25.5" Weight - 2.9kg (6lbs 6oz) Grover locking tuners Tusq nut. Pickups are my own winds with Alnico 2 magnets. Bridge - 6k Middle - 5.85k Neck - 5.68k Master Volume, Master Tone and Fralin Blend Pot Mod The finish is clear acrylic lacquer sprayed with a DeVilbiss GPI spray gun. It was the my first time using a decent quality spray gun and the finish off the gun was far better than anything I'd achieved before which meant I had minimal wet sanding and polishing required. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taurr Posted May 9, 2021 Report Share Posted May 9, 2021 Hi there! We present anew the same guitar as last month in the hope that there will be more talking about it . Every question is welcome! ALABARDA Neck, back and sides: hollow monocoque structure in carbon fiber Top: carbon fiber Neck shape: thin D Fingerboard: flat in carbon fiber Frets: medium nickel silver Nut: carbon fiber Dots: aluminium Machine head: carbon fiber by Heart-Sound Bridge: strings-through-body in carbon fiber with steel saddles Switch: 5 position Pickups: P90 by Electrical Guitar Company Knobs: recycled from an old radio Switch cover: ebony and maple Weight: Kg 2,710 Scale: 25,1” The Alabarda is the result of a personal sound research constantly in progress, it’s an instrument that comes with the aim of extending the expressive possibilities of the musician. It is loosely based on IsotonaG by Electrical Guitar Company, but adopts a unique design and is hand-forged from a single piece of carbon fiber. Its particular characteristics include: totally hollow structure (body and neck), dynamic and precise response to touch, richness of harmonics, great sustain, stability and resistance to atmospheric agents and temperature changes. Since the neck is maintenance-free, the Alabarda has no truss-rod. We are Taurr Guitars, a small team of people who still believe in new analogue sounds. Our, albeit still limited, range of guitars includes instruments with a original design and re-interpretations inspired by traditional shapes that have made history. For our work, in addition to all the necessary tools for handwork, we also use a CNC machine and 3d modeling softwares for the design phase. The seat of our lab is Trapani, Sicily, Italy. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hydrogeoman Posted May 11, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 Erebus #7 Hello All, I build mostly for fun and for friends in my home shop. This one is my 7th effort, based on the 1957 Les Paul Jr. I did document this build and will be starting up a thread with all the gory details in the near future. Sorry for the less than professional pics. These were taken literally at the moment of birth on my work bench Cheers! Specs: - Korina neck and one-piece body - Birdseye maple fret board - 2-way truss rod - Gabon ebony headstock veneer, neck heel, and a "screwless" control cavity cover - Bone nut - Kent Armstrong "hot" P-90 pickup. Set up with a coil tap to have outputs of 10K ohms and 14K ohms - Vitamin Q 0.022 microfarad tone capacitor - CTC volume 500k potentiometer and an Alpha 500k push/pull tone pot for the coil tap selection - copper foil shielded control cavity - Tone Pros locking wrap tail bridge - Wilkinson "Waverly" style open-geared tuning machines - 5-ply "snakeskin" pickguard and truss rod cover - nitro lacquer finish 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Michal Fruni Posted May 15, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 15, 2021 Aramat 6sB Finally done! Fully handmade guitar Aramat 6sB from Fruni Guitars. A lot of sweat and tears in this build but outcome is amazing. It took me something around 350-400 hours. Enjoy! Body: American Swamp AshNeck: Canadian MapleFingerboard: RosewoodElectronics: EMG 81/85Bridge: HipshotTuners: Gotoh SMTFrets: 24 - 2.8mm Jumbo extra hard (nickel-silver)Scale: Baritone 26.5"Nut: GraphTechInlays: AbaloneColor: Antique BlackFinish: Hardwax OilCostruction: Bolt-on (5 screws)Weight: 3,05kg 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKro Posted May 17, 2021 Report Share Posted May 17, 2021 I made this some years ago. Jet Jons Jag. Build here: SPECS: 3 piece Alder body Maple Neck, EIR Fretboard 34" scale Tele Headstock Jag bass redesign by my self. All redesign, cnc cut by me and finish work by hand. Finish was done with lacquer and 2 k clear coat. BadAss 2 bridge, EMG active pickups w/ three volumes and one master volume control Hipshot tuners, 1 is a Drop D Banjo Frets, (the harmonics on this are a beast) Sorry I lost many pictures in a HD Crash, so this is the best I have at present, had to get the owner to get me some.. LOL!!! Pictures from the owner John, Gigging ones are the owner in his Brian Adams Tribute band. This thing rocks. The first Bass I ever built. I let the owner finish sand the hand, arm and belly carve to suit him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginner Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 I completed this guitar late last fall. I've been building on and off for 10 years when I get the time. I built two almost identical at the same time but with different stains. One I sold to a client and one I kept for my office as a "test drive" so prospective clients can get a feel for what I build before commiting to a custom. Build thread is Here. Specifications: Name: Claymore Body: Honduran mahogany (maple veneer) with grain matched cavity covers. Water based lacquer finish. Neck: Paduak (maple veneers) with flame Maple binding and luminlay side dots. Tru oil finish. 25.5" scale length. Fretboard: Ziricote with MOP logo at 12th fret. Headstock: matching maple with Wenge and paduak accents. MOP inlay. Frets: Jumbo stainless with hemispherical ends. Hardware: Evertune bridge, Hipshot locking tuners, Graphtech nut. Electronics: Bareknuckle Holy Diver set with camo finish. Push push volume for coil splitting. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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