ProjectGuitar.com Posted August 2, 2022 Report Share Posted August 2, 2022 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for August 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 JGTay Posted August 12, 2022 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 12, 2022 The Poplar Sandwich Woods and materials used: Multi-wood fretboard consisting of Panga Panga and Oak with a Mahogany surround Mahogany and Poplar through neck Mahogany and poplar body wings Stainless steel vintage low profile frets Ebony control knobs Scale length and other configuration details: 30" Scale length 12" Fretboard radius Danish Oil finish 7.3 1/4 lbs. total weight Electronics, pickups, etc.: 2 volume, 2 tone (250k Pots) and a 3-way switch Sprague Orange Drop caps .047uF Wilkinson WJB Jazz Bass Pickups with Alnico V Magnets Other hardware: Wilkinson Machine heads 17:1 Gear ratio Northwest Guitars 'Chunky' (High Mass) bridge 18mm String spacing Is this your first build, fifth or five-hundredth? This is my 8th build A bit of information on your own background as a builder helps give context to your build. After my wife told me I couldn't buy anymore guitars, I took up the 'hobby' of building my own with the hand tools I had available. Was it built in the garage, at school, work or in your own shop? Built in my workshop (Garden shed which the wife calls my playhouse) 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? Part way through building a BC Rich Mockingbird based guitar for someone (7th build!) and waiting for funds for the next parts, I decided to build myself a short scale Bass guitar and the Mockingbird template was close to hand. Build thread: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakedzen Posted August 21, 2022 Report Share Posted August 21, 2022 "The Angsty Bat" 9th build. Wanted to make an Explorer style gritty Batman themed 7-string. Set neck, ss frets, single pickup, 27" scale, ash body maple neck, uv resin side dots, uv resin truss and control covers. Emg 85-7. Built in my shop, started building as a hobby to have something to do when the covid lockdown started here. First time I've done a 7-string or set neck. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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