ProjectGuitar.com Posted May 1, 2023 Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for May 2023! 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 SSS-tonelover Posted May 1, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 1, 2023 Damselfly guitar by B. Horner (me) F-hole inspired design loosely based on my Coral Firefly and other more famous 'jazz' guitars. - Redwood one piece hollowed out body, parallel top braces, 16" lower bout and 18" length, roughly 2" thick with top. - Sitka spruce soundboard - 24 fret neck I bought (Ibanez vine design) with additional decoration added - 25.5" scale length with Bigsby type copy tremolo and roller bridge - Lipstick pickups (GFS brand) with A250K tone and volume pots. Star point grounding and full enclosed control shielding - Completed May 2020 as a commissioned custom build for my boyfriend - I believe this was somewhere around my 5th to 7th overall build, including some acoustics made under Jeffrey Yong in Malaysia - I have had the building 'bug' for some time but it really started going in 2015 in terms of actually making stuff. Currently I do about 4 a year, plus mods, etc. It is mainly for myself, friends, and a few clients. I build both LH and RH instruments, though lefties especially love that I service their needs and can do guitars right for them - I build from home and have work benches set up inside and outside (like for routing), plus spraying fixtures, etc. - I did the full design and layout on Adobe Illustrator 1:1 scale, made all the routing templates and responding 100% to customer custom requests. In other words I made the design from scratch and then added specific features as requested, which I also had to design (as needed) - My 1967/8 Coral Firefly, a very unique instrument from Danelectro, was certainly the jumping off point, but this newer guitar builds and improves on many aspects -Unique and/or improved features include: - upper bout mounted 4-way pickup switch B/B/B+N/BxN series, in an easy access cavity all fully shielded - fully shielded easy access control box inside an easy access control cavity lid - tremolo with roller bridge and locking tuners for tuning stability - 2 layer veneer (rosewood 0.5mm and maple 0.5mm) covered F-holes for a pinstriping effect - easy upper fretboard access to all 24 frets thanks to slimmed neck pocket and recessed bolts - fairly unique in that 99% of 'jazz' type guitars have only 22 or fewer frets whereas this has 24 - I made the outlet jack plate and recessed in into the body for a more flush look, plus made the pickup switch mounting plate - side edges are all rounded over so no binding or harsh edges are experienced - my background with a router and solid body guitars certainly played a role here in the build. Since I did not have the bending equipment for a traditional F-hole guitar, I elected to make the body from a single piece of wood that would form back and sides and also much of the support struts, so this in turn makes this a rather unique guitar blending some aspects of traditional guitar with router based technology. Also do to that same lack of bending equipment I elected to make the tope flat like a steel string acoustic, and it turned out well Beth Horner P.S. If anything is missing let me know and I'll add it to the story wiring RH.pdf 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGTay Posted May 28, 2023 Report Share Posted May 28, 2023 Lightweight fretless bass. Woods and materials used: Leadwood fretboard Mahogany and Beech through neck Walnut and poplar body wings Aluminium fret position markers Scale length and other configuration details: 30" Scale length 12" Fretboard radius Danish Oil finish on back of neck and fretboard, and clear varnish on the body 5.771 lbs. or 2.618 kg total weight Electronics, pickups, etc.: 1 volume, 1 tone (500k Pots) Sprague Orange Drop cap .022uF Fully hand wound humbucker pickup with neodymium magnets Other hardware: Wilkinson Machine heads 17:1 Gear ratio Individual Bass Bridge/ Saddles from Northwest Guitars Is this your first build, fifth or five-hundredth? This is my 9th 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. She is now telling me to slow down on builds for myself! Was it built in the garage, at school, work or in your own shop? Built in my workshop 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? Built for myself after building the Mockingbird bass, finding I really enjoyed playing bass and deciding I wanted to try fretless. I wanted to make it lightweight as I had been having some shoulder issues and aimed for around 6.5 lbs. Had a nice surprise at the final weight. The shape changed throughout the build, didn't really have anything in mind and just allowed it to become what it is. Build thread - Thanks for looking. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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