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Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for September 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. -
Purple Haze Here is "Purple Haze", my second build. I wanted to increase the difficulty after my first build "Birthmark" by using a bit more fancy wood, trying my hand at a stain, another bridge and generally better material and hardware. It was however built with the same tools in the same communal workshop, but I did build a jig or two extra for accuracy. So I ended up with this: - Roasted swamp ash body - Flamed maple cap and Angelus stains - Rosewood neck - Pale moon ebony fretboard - 25.5" scale, 24 frets - Jescar 57110 frets - Schaller Hannes bridge - Planet Waves autotrim tuners - "The Discoverer" set from Gorilla Pickups - Ibanez 5 way switch (Neck series, neck parallel, neck + bridge, inner coils only, bridge series) - Volume pot only (250k) make from the same blank as the neck cause why not - Neck shape is kinda modern C to Dish, 19mm 1st fret to 21mm 12th fret - Osmo hardwax oil finish on everything - 2.75 kg - Currently tuned to DADGAD down half a step (C# etc) with 10-52 The build story can be found HERE . As you can see, it roughly is a Blackmachin-esque body (low weight, comfortable to me) with my design of a 3+3 headstock (I think it's prettier an more stable than an inline for tuning) and an overall inspiration from the Mayones Qatsi (the signature model of John Browne, a guitarist I really really like). Beside a few minor (cosmetic) hiccups, the guitar turned out better than anticipated. The playability is great and I achieved the goal I set out when I started building: it plays better than my Ibanez Prestige and can get an even lower action. I am very, very happy that I went with a rosewood neck with an Osmo finish as it really is a match made in heaven for the hands. Sound-wise, the pickups are right up my alley with a rather aggressive but not overwhelming bridge, and a very polyvalent neck pickup. Why "Purple Haze" you might ask? Well look at the color. It's also one of the first Hendrix Song I heard and liked. Lastly it's a reference to my teenage years spent in the Netherlands, which is fitting for a second build really (you might or might not get that last reference). There is also for me a small Easter egg, as the back plate is engraved transparent Plexiglas so I can get a reminder to work on my soldering each time I pick it up. Anyhow, picture time!
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Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for August 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.
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Salamandra A short scale bass modeled after a St. Vincent signature guitar. See build thread here: Build thread 30" scale, basswood body. Uses a short-scale 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 ICs/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
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Need another peek at this month's entries? Click HERE! Welcome to the ProjectGuitar.com Guitar Of The Month voting round! The winner of each month's Guitar Of The Month contest gets front page placement on the main ProjectGuitar.com website, privileged member status plus that (all-important) shiny member profile badge! Good luck to this month's entrants....as usual, discuss your voting choice and opinions about the entries this month in this thread....however don't let any discussion in this thread sway your vote. Polls will close automagically after a week - as always, this thread is open for discussion on the month's entries during and after voting.
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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.
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Short Stuff So, I was looking at the Maurizio Miezo travel basses, and also the Mayones Cali basses, but there were things on both I did not like, so I decided to roll my own 21" scale length, 5-string 5 piece through neck (maple, Indian rosewood and mahogany), ebony fretboard, mahogany body with a pau ferro top, and birdseye maple back. Headstock has madrone burl veneer front and back. Schaller rollerbridge, including the spacer underneath Schack humbucking pickup, my own clone of a Stingray 2eq preamp (the switch is a coil tap for the pickup) Here it is with the biggest bass in the collection Rear, bought some maple at a woodworking show, and that turned out to have quite nice birdseye grain. Also, I recently bought an old Inca bandsaw (50 euros! ) so I did all the resawing myself, a really helpful tool in guitarbuilding. I have since fitted Kluson "Mini Bass" tuners I came across by chance, and those really are a better fit. The Gotoh's I had on there earlier are quite large on the tiny headstock. Quite happy with this instrument. Finding out string gauges and tuning was a bit of a process. I tried tuning it to regular bass tuning (well regular for me at least, I tune my 5-strings EADGC), but that did not work with a few string sets. Ended up tuning it EADGC, but an octave up (as the Mayones Cali basses are). Hurried the finishing process, because I was keen to hear it, So a refinish is on the horizon, but as it is a travel bass, and possibly gets knocked around, not that critical. (and also, working on some other instruments ) I have also devised a guiding jig to cut the fret slots A laser cutter is also a really helpful tool.
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Need another peek at this month's entries? Click HERE! Welcome to the ProjectGuitar.com Guitar Of The Month voting round! The winner of each month's Guitar Of The Month contest gets front page placement on the main ProjectGuitar.com website, privileged member status plus that (all-important) shiny member profile badge! Good luck to this month's entrants....as usual, discuss your voting choice and opinions about the entries this month in this thread....however don't let any discussion in this thread sway your vote. Polls will close automagically after a week - as always, this thread is open for discussion on the month's entries during and after voting.
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Guitar Of The Month May 2024
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Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entry for May 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.
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The Scrap-o-caster This is my build #6½. It's a little rustic and has quite some history behind. The body is pine and started its life as a beam in a cottage at my inlaws' and was reused as a doorstep at our front door. And then it supported stacks of firewood in our yard. Similarly the neck is of recycled materials, maple, cherry and nogal. The main part is a leftover but it was a bit too thin so I stack leftovers from another to the headstock and heel. Plus the headstock back plate is constructed from offcuts from a third neck. The front plate of figured birch was found in the trash bin of the workshop, We could resaw four such plates of the block, the other three had much more worm holes than this one. The fretboard is of merbau which I once bought from a parquet factory, the dots are cut of offcuts. The scale appears to be 25", I let our tutor cut a dozen boards at various scale lengths and this one was left. And the floating bridge is simply a piece of pine from my firewood storage equipped with a length of fretwire. The pickups are donationware, I got a broken Tokai Strat scratchplate with the mid and bridge pickups from a guitarist after he learned about my hobby. For the wiring I used salvaged computer power supply cables. The trapeze was given me by a fellow builder, salvaged from Chinese guitars when he replaced them with hard tails. The pots and tuners are new, original Chinese cheapos. And the pot knobs were turned a decade ago of a branch of our plum tree, same batch as I used for my first build. For finishing I used steel wool diluted in vinegar which I mostly sanded off. It highlights the growth rings nicely, though. And on top of that I applied several coats of a mix of BLO, lacquer and turpentine. Finally I applied a layer of a mix of beeswax and carnauba, also home cooked. The original Neverending Story can be read here: https://www.projectguitar.com/forums/topic/54656-what-next/?do=findComment&comment=616388 There was a knot at the end of the bridge but it fell off despite having been secured with a drop of CA glue. Inlaying the jack plate has become somewhat of a trade mark. Logically I had to inlay the trapeze bracket as well. All cracks were filled with CA glue and some dust. On the volute you can see a bit of the offcut from another neck used for steepening the headstock angle. Most of it is hidden under the back plate. For the control cavity cover there's both sides of the headstock veneers used. There's a cross laminated veneer for added strength underneath.
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Need another peek at this month's entries? Click HERE! Welcome to the ProjectGuitar.com Guitar Of The Month voting round! The winner of each month's Guitar Of The Month contest gets front page placement on the main ProjectGuitar.com website, privileged member status plus that (all-important) shiny member profile badge! Good luck to this month's entrants....as usual, discuss your voting choice and opinions about the entries this month in this thread....however don't let any discussion in this thread sway your vote. Polls will close automagically after a week - as always, this thread is open for discussion on the month's entries during and after voting.
