ProjectGuitar.com Posted January 9, 2022 Report Share Posted January 9, 2022 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for January 2022! 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 kgmeloy - tunguska guitars Posted January 12, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 Hi all! Here's my entry - a strange beastie that came together over the last couple months of 2021. It's called "The Nameless One, AKA Keith Richards" after a bunch of friends kept telling me it made them think of Keef. It's a 25.5" scale built from a slab of live-edge/end cherry I got from my brother-in-law. At first I didn't think I'd be able to use it, but it just kept calling to me, and I knew I didn't want to go with the normal "resin-fill" that seemed to be the obvious way to deal with the disintegrating bits. The more I mucked around with the wood, the more it started to design itself. The big problem, of course, was that no bridge/tailpiece in existence would work in the 'canyon' area, the wood was just too soft and prone to falling apart. I did as much as I could to stabilize it by carefully squeezing super-light Starbond CA glue into the cracks, but that wasn't going to be enough. So I grabbed a 3/8" steel rod, my angle grinder and a blowtorch and began heat-bending hunks of rod into the two-piece tailpiece, and then the same to bend (and then thread) the bridge. I knew I wanted just a single pickup/single volume control, and the volume needed to go inside the hole I cut in the upper horn. I wanted it to appear like it was 'hovering' there, which took a moment to sort out, but some threaded rod, three nuts and some JB Weld did the trick. I also wanted to give it a strange future-swamp-acoustelectric-abomination feel, so I sourced a 4" flat steel ring and recessed it into the top, and bored a hole all the way through for the pickup mount. The pickup is a StewMac overwound Parsons Street that I hand-distressed, and the relic volume knob and tuners are from GFS. This thing is my sixth or seventh build, and the whole thing became an exercise in NOT letting traditional design force it into something it shouldn't be, and quite frankly given the nature of the wood itself, couldn't be. The headstock is a great example of this - there was literally -just- enough to get a full length neck, but it was too stubby. A little hunk of walnut turned into the 'mohawk', which is perhaps a debatable choice, but it's really grown on me. I've been on a bit of a quest the past four or five years to up my game in this arena. I did a couple of kits about 7 years ago, and once the bug bit hard it became time to start seeing what I could do with my own designs. You can see more of the weird stuff I'm doing on my IG page: https://www.instagram.com/tunguska.guitars/ or my website (which is still very much a work in progress) https://www.tunguskaguitars.com/ You can hear what it sounds like (in context of a tune) here: I'll post a video of it raw straight out of an amp shorttly. Hope you enjoy perusing the odd beast. :) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Muzz Posted January 17, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 Blonde Marauder So named because it is a homage (with some changes) to Gibson’s 70’s oddball model, the Marauder, and because of its colour, although when the light hits it right it gets an orangey hue. The body was made about 14 years ago, my first go at guitar building, but at that point I wasn’t confident to make a neck so I used a commercially made neck from the company “Dr Parts”. The Dr Parts neck, however, had a few issues, for example the bottom surface that sits in the neck pocket wasn’t completely flat, so last year, I decided to make my own neck for this instrument. The body is made out of Araucaria (species – Araucaria cunninghamii ) also known as Hoop, Hoop Pine, Queensland Pine or Morton Bay Pine), this genus of trees has been around since the time of the dinosaurs, they can grow up to 60 metres/197 feet tall by 2 metres/6.5 feet in diameter and the First Nations Australians used this timber to make boomerangs. The body has been played in pub gigs and has some light natural relicing, for example you can see some minor buckle wear on the back and it has some scratches where it has been dropped a few times. The neck is Rock Maple and the fretboard Rosewood. The scale is 624 mm/24.67 inches, the radius is 305 mm/12 inches. I drew the plans life size on white card with a pencil, T square, ruler and flexible curve, I made all the templates out of 6 mm MDF. What is different to the Gibson model? Instead of a 2.3 kOhm bridge pickup I used a 16.6 kOhm pup to smash a tube amp into creamy distortion. There is no gaping void hacked out around the truss rod nut in the headstock, instead there is a 9 x 6 mm channel, The volute size has been reduced and the scarf joint is in the headstock not the neck. Joints are not visible in the front of the headstock and the arm rest is a rounded curve instead of a bevel. The bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails single space Humbucker and the neck pickup is a Korean Woo Sung Chorus humbucker. The machine heads are Gotoh vintage style and the tune-o-matic hardware is from Dr Parts, the frets are medium jumbo and sit 1.4 mm high. I am a hobby builder and while the body is the first I have made. the neck is the fourth, both were made in my basement man cave and out in the open air of my garden. I have always loved guitars that mix it up and break out of the usual moulds so I set out to build a guitar to satisfy that craving. Thread at 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ADFinlayson Posted January 22, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 22, 2022 My first tele build for my friend Matt, he calls it The Grudgecaster, for use in his band Grudgewood. Specs - Walnut body - Curly maple neck with walnut skunk stripe - Ebony fretboard w/walnut binding & inlay - 25.5" scale - 22 SS jumbo frets - Danish oil finish - Hipshot locking tuners - Babics tele bridge - Lollar neck humbucker - SD hotrail bridge pickup - 5-way super blade switch - 2 vol + master tone with push coil coilsplitSwitch Config 1. Bridge hum 2. Bridge hum + neck sing 3. bridge hum + neck sing 4. Bridge sing + neck sing 5. Neck hum 1B. Bridge sing 5b Neck sing Warning this build thread contains 2 builds: Couldn't of got this one over the line without wiring help from @mistermikev Many thanks Mike! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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