ProjectGuitar.com Posted August 5, 2023 Report Share Posted August 5, 2023 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for September 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 mistermikev Posted August 7, 2023 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 7, 2023 Started this build in 2020... didn't work on it continuously over the last 3 years... but more sporadic visits to the project interlaced with tele diversions and what can only be described as machine heartbreak. Fortunately, I get by with a LOT of help from my friends. @Curtisa and @Mikro were there for me - thank you guys - couldn't have done it without ya! This community was there to bounce ideas off of and was a lot of help in navigating the river of choices that ended me up at a peizo bridge with EMG pickups... and I just want to acknowledge that as well. anywho... the details... SPECS: 27 Frets, 35" scale length, 10 deg headstock angle, 1.5 degree neck angle 1 11/16 Nut Width, 16mm String Spacing at the bridge, bone nut and bone saddle Profile is a thin "C": .834" thick at the nut, .945" thick at the 12th fret Compound 6" to 8" radius fretless fretboard 10lbs 6oz Total Weight. MATERIALS: 3/4" Flamed Maple Carved Top Purpleheart and Flamed Maple multi-lam body Purpleheart and Flamed Maple Multi-lam neck 24" LMII dual action truss rod and 1/8" x 3/8" Carbon Fiber Reinforcement Bars On Either Side Fretboard and headstock overlay are Purpleheart with maple fret inlays and Edge detail Inlays are Flamed Maple and Gaboon Ebony HARDWARE: Hipshot Tuners Bridge is Purpleheart and Flamed Maple has locking studs and grub screws for forward/reverse intonation movement Truss rod cover and control cavity covers are all secured via magnets ELECTRONICS: EMG J5L and J5S Active Pickup wired to 18 volts Magnetic Controls: Vm (volume magnetic) and 3-Way Toggle Artec PP-537 under saddle piezo Handmade Active Bass/Treble Piezo Preamp Piezo Controls: Va (volume acoustic), Ta (treble boost/cut acoustic with push/pull preamp bypass), Ba (bass boost/cut acoustic) Switchcraft jack Link to my project thread: "Fish On" Project Thread Demo: Glamour shots: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted September 4, 2023 Report Share Posted September 4, 2023 This Guitar has a walnut back and the neck is from a walnut hand rail I pulled out of a burned down building, The birds eye maple top is veneer. Bill Lawrence pickups I bought back in the 80's. The basic design was my brother's idea back in the 70's when I made my 1st. playable guitar. The curved top and back was a vision I had in a dream. I fanned the frets to make playing a little more comfortable. Well after 43 years I decided I'll make some guitars. This one I made 4 years ago. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
san_archer Posted September 27, 2023 Report Share Posted September 27, 2023 Chinnamasta G (Indian Headless God) Swamp Ash Body Granadillo Fret Board 25.5"-25" Scale with SS6105 Maple markers Figured maple with Trapezoidal Neck profile Seymour Duncan Custom 5 pickups, CTS pots, Orange caps Nova Headless Bridge System Champagne Rose Made In Wisconsin. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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