ProjectGuitar.com Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for February 2024! 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 Andyjr1515 Posted January 21 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 21 Well, following the rules that it is OK to resubmit an entry - and last month, as soon as @ADFinlayson posted his magnificent single cut, I knew the game was over - I present to you my 'Baby Swift' It is a mini 6-string acoustic guitar that I have designed and built for my two grandchildren so that it is there, as they grow up, for them to mess about with and make any noises they like with it, or to learn to play it if they have an interest, or to just use as a convenient cricket or table tennis bat if they don't It has some similarities to some of the increasing number of very small guitars starting to appear on the market - a similar scale to some of them; a body size based on a tenor ukulele - but also some differences to satisfy my 'what if..?' and 'I wonder if...' interests. And at least one personal challenge - other than could I build it at all - and that is: can I make it in a way that it sounds more like a classical guitar than a ukulele? I've been modding and building guitars and basses for over ten years, making and mending stuff for my own use, fellow band members, family and friends and the occasional commissioned build. The 'Baby Swift' specs are: - 17" scale 6-string nylon strung acoustic guitar - Spruce top; mahogany back and sides; purpleheart fretboard and details; mahogany neck; ebony binding and details; abalone rosette with offset purfling detail - X-braced, tap-tuned top - through pin bridge with solid ebony bridge-pins - tenor-ukulele body shape; 3" (76mm) body depth - presently tuned 2 semitones higher than standard with Savarez mixed tension strings (bass high tension, treble normal tension). The recording below was with different strings at 3 semitones higher than standard. - 1lb 15oz weight (yes, I know ) Here are some pictures: Here's the build thread: And here's a short sound clip with various styles of playing recorded directly into my little Zoom H2n recorder. As always with these things, it's best heard through headphones or decent speakers. I'll leave you to decide whether I met my objective of it sounding more like a guitar than a ukulele... Little Swift Soundfiles 2 MP3.mp3 Thanks for looking (again!) 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post woodfab Posted February 14 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 14 Black Cherry Based on a design my brother came up with 40 years ago. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Junior64 Posted February 22 Popular Post Report Share Posted February 22 I'm a new member, and not totally familiar with this site, so please bear with me. I'd like to enter my guitar in the February GOTM contest, so I'm giving it a try here. I'm an amateur designer/builder, starting with hand-drawn sketches and using the most basic of tools. All my finishing is done with an LVLP gun and a small compressor under my covered patio. This is a guitar I designed & built called the 'AstroCaster'. The body design is based on two opposing, stylized guitar picks, with a nod to a classic acoustic shape. Here are the details: • body is Spanish Cedar • neck is a WD Music PHNTM maple neck, 25.5" scale, finished in amber-tinted nitro • Gotoh GTC 101 bridge • vintage-style staggered height tuners • Lollar P90 pickups • CTS pots • Orange Drop cap • Switchcraft jack • 3-way rotary switch • Dupli-Color "Sublime" pearl nitro paint I hope you enjoy it. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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