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Guitar Of The Month June 2022


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Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for June 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.

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Unsure what to write? Have a look around the entry archives for suggestions!

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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.

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        ◦ The woods and materials used, especially if there is something unusual in there!
2 piece white ash body
quilted maple top
birdseye neck with birdseye fretboard
paua abalone inlay, birdseye/paua pickup covers, toggle ring, knob details
bone nut
jescar jumbo fretwire


        ◦ Scale length(s) and other specific configuration details
25.5” scale length
9.5” to 12” compound radius fretboard
6lbs 7.2oz total weight
evh/axis asymetrical neck profile


        ◦ Electronics, pickups, etc.
dimarzio area t tele set (stacked single coil sized humbuckers)
3-way toggle, volume “V”, rotary mode switch “M”, and true bypass active mid booster “M”
    modes: 
        S1 = single coils
        Px = parallel humbuckers crossing (bridge-top+neck-bottom and visa versa)
        Ph = parallel stacked humbuckers
        Sx = series humbuckers crossing (bridge-top+neck-bottom and visa versa)
        Sh = series stacked humbuckers

        ◦ Is this your first build, fifth or five-hundredth?
This is build #9 for me

        ◦ A bit of information on your own background as a builder helps give context to your build.
Woodworking background, built a gaggle of partscasters and then one day it dawned on me: I have a garage, some tools, and several hours each day where I’m not working or sleeping!

        ◦ Was it built in the garage, at school, work or in your own shop?
My humble garage

        ◦ 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?
This build is a sister build to a similar guitar I built for my friend kevin.  I had just completed a few teles… so was really not planning on building another tele… but it seems to me just building one… you spend a lot of time on figuring things out and settings things up so it just made sense to build two.  Plus do we really ever own enough teles?

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This is my entry to Guitar of the Month

 

My 7-String Singel Cut "Projekt PS-7S"

  • The woods and materials used, especially if there is something unusual in there!
    • European Walnut Top
    • African Mahogany Body
    • Mahogany Purpleheart Neck
    • Ebony Fretboard with Walnut Binding
  • Scale length(s) and other specific configuration details
    • 26.5 Inch Scale
    • 7 String Tuned to A-Standard
  • Electronics, pickups, etc.
    • Lace Aluma X-Bar in the Neck and Seymore Duncan Invader for the Bridge
    • TOM-String Through Bridge
  • Is this your first build, fifth or five-hundredth?
    • Its my 7th build in total
    • First time doing a carved top without help
  • A bit of information on your own background as a builder helps give context to your build.
    • I am from germany working in IT and started building Guitars as an escape from sitting at a PC all day and getting Bord-Out from Covid "Work-From-Home"
  • Was it built in the garage, at school, work or in your own shop?
    • This was build at a Makerspace with most "big boy wookworker tools" one can dream of.
  • 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?
    • The design is my own. Its build on a double cut I designed for a 2 Week Guitar building Course in the UK at Crimson Guitar.
    • Build Thread

 

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