ProjectGuitar.com Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for July 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 LFlab Posted June 15 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 15 Salamandra, a shortscale bass, modeled after a St.Vincent signature guitar. See build thread here: Build thread 30" scale, basswood body, uses a shortscale neck with paddle headstock from Amazon. Built in the shed, this time, I milled the body from rough lumber. That saves a lot of money, so I'll do that again. The pickups are Artec mudbuckers, coupled to a discrete preamp (no IC's/ Opamps) of my own design, it uses a buffer per pickup, and a summing amp on the end. 18v , so two 9v batteries. Fire salamander on the headstock the Amazon neck seems pretty good, they have this exact one also as a baritone neck (just has a different nut), recommended if anyone is looking for a simple baritone build. Quick and very dirty sound sample, bridge solo, neck solo, both. Into a Caline Wine Cellar for a bit of dirt https://whyp.it/tracks/186564/stvincent-esque-shortscale-bass-two-mudbuckers?token=uSiMH 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FauknaciousD Posted July 10 Report Share Posted July 10 Goofy Goober Guitar, from the Spongebob Movie This was the first guitar I have ever built (not counting a kit) I bought a flying V replacement neck on eBay Some spare Epiphone SG pickups with a StewMac wiring kit Wilkinson Tuners, Amazon bridge, and a Gretsch Tailpiece Scale length is 24.75 I used 2 pieces of Alder with a 3rd Poplar top The top is contoured and has the peanut "dimples" I always wanted to build a guitar from scratch and always wanted there to be a world with a functioning Goofy Goober guitar, so I created this I built it for myself mainly. I wanted to maintain the look of the cartoon peanut guitar but also wanted to ensure full fretboard access. The swirls and the GG I 3D printed and created the models for. I have attached them with magnets to the body so that I can remove them easily to put away in a case or if the plastic breaks just go print a new one. I had to acquire the tools as I went along with the build. Then just slapped it together in a small garage A friend told me to join this community once I had finished with this project 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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