ProjectGuitar.com Posted June 6, 2021 Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for June 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 nakedzen Posted June 24, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 24, 2021 Here's my third build "Otava" (Big Dipper in finnish). Had so much trouble with this one, but it was to challenge myself as a builder. Half made in my shop, half in our backyard since it's summer. First times: binding, flame maple top, gloss nitro finish, fretboard inlays, custom pickguard, my own headstock shape, wood control cavity cover, made the nut myself for the first time. All in all, some "handmade" still shows in the details, but the guitar looks good and plays and sounds great. Tone is the clearest so far, probably because of the maple top gives is some "clang". Top was hand dyed with alcohol based dyes, green, blue, purple. Build thread: https://www.projectguitar.com/forums/topic/53946-third-build-hybrid-t-style 25.5" scale, ash body, flame maple top, ebony board, maple neck. Schaller locking tuners, Graphtech Tusq nut, luminlay dot inlays, EMG81, PA2 booster, Gotoh 510UB wraparound bridge. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizman62 Posted June 26, 2021 Report Share Posted June 26, 2021 Re-entering just for competition: With this one I wanted to challenge myself properly. This is my fourth full build, built at the community college workshop during wintertime Saturdays. She's a semi hollow LP-profile neck-through as I titled the thread but let's just call her Ovie... So: Top: Flamed Ovangkol from Madinter, Spain Body: Torrefied Estonian Alder from the sauna department of the local hardware store Accent laminates: 0.55 mm flamed Birch a fellow builder got from a bankrupted flooring factory Neck: Maple with Cherry and Nogal stripes from the outlet of another flooring materials factory Fretboard Merbau from the same flooring factory Hardware from AliExpress, Banggood and Ebay Pickups: Humbucker sized P90's (Ali) Finish: Crimson Guitar Finishing Oil Final finish: Self cooked wax mixture of Carnauba, Beeswax and Pine Turpentine Weight 3,36 kg/7.4 lbs As you can see, the body has been shaped using a Les Paul template and the headstock owes a bit to PRS. The rest has just been improvised. Designing the F-holes: Just short of putting it all together: The pickups were a bit tricky to install, especially the springs: Fast forward to today: The devil is in the details: The jack is recessed - and that's wax I didn't notice when shooting these pictures! I tend to leave the upper neck too wide so I widened the nut with offcuts of the fingerboard. The truss rod cover is also from an offcut. The back: And how does she sound? Well... When I play she's yelling and screaming but a fellow builder got some very pleasing music out of her. Just as expected... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woltz Posted June 27, 2021 Report Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Re-entry from last 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. https://www.projectguitar.com/forums/topic/51362-all-aussie-timber-strat/ Edited June 27, 2021 by Woltz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CC1 Posted June 27, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 27, 2021 (edited) Bonjour, I'm back. Meet HEPHAESTUS Type: Telecaster Body Materials: Solid Ash (Live Edge), Steel, Bismuth, Epoxy Resin Neck: Maple + Rosewood (pre-fab) SL: 25" Weight: A lot (haven't checked, but it's heavier than a Gretsch Parts: Rejected Korean Factory Bigsby, Wilkinson Roller TuneOMatic Bridge, Wilkinson Locking Machine Heads, CTS 500k Pots, 3-way Switch, Irongear 'Blues Engine' Twin-Humbuckers (series), Treble Bleed Mod (Bridge only) Hephaestus, the Greek God of fire and blacksmithing, was the inspiration and namesake for an idea I had about 6 months ago. I actually started a thread here for the build, but got distracted as I have entered this guitar into the 'Kit Build' of the "Great Guitar Build Off 2021"! (and updating both journals was really hard! The full progress was documented on my new YouTube channel here: Edited June 27, 2021 by CC1 Forgot a photo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADFinlayson Posted June 27, 2021 Report Share Posted June 27, 2021 Haven't entered the last few builds so I'll shoehorn this one in. Spec Top: Eastern European quilted maple back: American blank walnut, 1 piece, ebony control cover Neck :Eastern European walnut Fretboard: Indian ebony, quilted maple binding (use up those offcuts), Abalone lam inlays, compound radius 9.5" - 12.5" 25" sclale, 24 frets, medium nickel fret wire. Finish: Pink + green stain, clean nitro on body + headstock, danish oil on neck. Nut: Bone Hardware: Schaller Signum bridge, Sperzel tuners, nickel with ebony knobs and buttons Electronics: PRS HFS + Vintage bass pickups, master vol + treble bleed, master tone, 5 way blade, mini toggle with tuned split on pos 1 and 5. Build thread: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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