ProjectGuitar.com Posted March 3 Report Share Posted March 3 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for March 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...
lowatter Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 The "Twisted Tele" I made for a buddy. Not for everyone but he digs the hell out of it! It's being played professionally. 1 piece yellow pine body. Built-in slide holder, bottle opener and pick holder. True Custom "Wicked T" pickups, Guitar Madness compensated 3 barrel bridge and Gotoh tuners. CTS pots with Switchcraft 3 way loaded controls custom made by Atlantic Custom Guitars(thanks James!) . Muriatic acid etched hardware. Built by yours truly Lowatter AKA Omegadog.. Ugly as sin but it's a real player that you don't have to worry about bumping into something with it. It's worth at least a buffalo nickel. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GardenShedGuitars Posted March 30 Report Share Posted March 30 G'day, I am a self taught hobbiest Luthier based in Auckland NZ. Showcased here is my first attempt at a build from scratch (except for a preslotted fingerboard). This is the third guitar I have built and my previous experience was a Strat type kit and badly mismatched Tele body and neck. The second one was my introduction to woodworking so I decided to challenge myself to build a guitar from scratch. 9 months and many tool investments later I am excited to be able to share this with you. I built this guitar in my 3x2M garden shed using a jigsaw to roughcut eveything. I based my design on a double cut tele by making templates off the second guitar I built and making the cut outs symetrical. At the time i didnt know a DC tele was a thing but I thought it would be cool. Although this would be my first time routing a body and carving a neck, I decided to step in up a notch and try my hand at making a set neck and binding. The design evolved over the course of the project - mainly to fix mistakes. Lets just say I know all about router tear out now and that thin CA glue stains like a b......... The laminated headstock was a result of a miscalcuation when working out how much to take off the blank. I am glad I did because I think it looks way better with the walnut veneer. I inherited most of the wood from my Grandfather and we cant be 100% certain but I believe it was a mahogany shelf and walnut left over from a gun stock he made. The neck is from a maple blank from Stewmac and the fingerboard is rosewood. All of the gold hardware made by Gotoh and I used a switchcraft switch, CTS pots and a truetone jack all hooked up with vintage cloth backed wire. I have a Gotoh pickup in the neck and a Fender pickup of some description in the bridge. The nut is Nubone and it is also the first time I have made a nut from a blank. I finished the guitar with TruOil and gunstock wax to highlight the beauty of the wood and it feels amazing in hand. Anyway, I am stoked with the way she came out so I hope you like it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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