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Welcome to the Guitar Of The Month entries for February 2016! 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, a photo posting to our Facebook 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 creation to the world! Submissions are open throughout the month until about the last week when public voting opens. Polls close on the 1st 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! 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 we encourage instruments made by professional builders to have that disclosure made so there is a more even balance between weekend warriors and grizzled veterans. 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. Unsure what to write? Have a look around the entry archives for suggestions. If you have any questions about the contest, either PM me 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. Good luck to all entrants!

Congratulations to @SwedishLuthier on his well-deserved Guitar Of The Year win!

Voting is now open!

Need another peek at this month's entries? Click HERE! Welcome to this month's 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, a photo feature on our Facebook page, plus an (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 read into the discussion until you've cast your vote! This thread and poll automagically close on 1st February 2016

It's that time of year again....dozens of amazing entries in our monthly ProjectGuitar.com Guitar Of The Month contest have distilled down to the twelve winners you chose as your favourites. All that remains is to deliberate as to which one guitar is this year's Guitar Of The Year! ------ @DC Ross January 2015 winner ------ @verhoevenc February 2015 winner ------ @brutal-lv March 2015 winner ------ @SwedishLuthier April 2015 winner ------ @brutal-lv May 2015 winner ------ @SwedishLuthier June 2015 winner ------ @ginner July 2015 winner ------ @jessejames August 2015 winner ------ @Mr_Riddler September 2015 winner ------ @V16 Guitars October 2015 winner ------ @verhoevenc November 2015 winner ------ @komodo December 2015 winner

Welcome to the first Guitar Of The Month contest of 2016! 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. Winner(s) receive a featured article at the head of the ProjectGuitar.com homepage, a photo posting to our Facebook and elevated member status. ProjectGuitar.com receives thousands of unique visitors monthly; Guitar Of The Month is a great way to showcase your creation to the world! Submissions are open throughout the month until about the last week when public voting opens. Polls close on the 1st 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! 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 we encourage instruments made by professional builders to have that disclosure made so there is a more even balance between weekend warriors and grizzled veterans. 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. Unsure what to write? Have a look around the entry archives for suggestions. If you have any questions about the contest, either PM me 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. Good luck to all entrants!

Need another peek at this month's entries? Click HERE! Welcome to this month's 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, a photo feature on our Facebook page, plus an (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 read into the discussion until you've cast your vote! This thread and poll automagically close on Monday 4th January 2016 This month's winner will also be the last entrant competing for Guitar Of The Year 2015! That vote will open the same day this vote closes, so to stayed tuned.

Hi Jason, This is a super-old article, so products and sources change. "Holoflash" is more the nickname given to the finished look. Google around for "holographic plastic" or "iridescent plastic". It's still a simple material to get ahold of, plus there are more patterns and random looks to it these days.

@brutal-lv, @verhoevenc, @psikoT, @MasterOfTheWind, @killemall8, @vcguitars Congratulations to all of you guys for making this month one of the strongest lineups we've seen for a while. Your builds are something I think that most builders would be proud of having completed. Remember that you're free to re-enter GOTM for December and January, and the last place for Guitar Of The Year 2015 is still up for grabs!

This month's contest is the final opportunity to get your instrument in for the last place in our Guitar Of The Year contest in January. Remember that entrants who just missed the post in the last couple of months are free to re-enter!

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. Winner(s) receive a featured article at the head of the ProjectGuitar.com homepage, a photo posting to our Facebook and elevated member status. ProjectGuitar.com receives thousands of unique visitors monthly; Guitar Of The Month is a great way to showcase your creation to the world! Submissions are open throughout the month until about the last week when public voting opens. Polls close on the 1st 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! 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 we encourage instruments made by professional builders to have that disclosure made so there is a more even balance between weekend warriors and grizzled veterans. 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. Unsure what to write? Have a look around the entry archives for suggestions. If you have any questions about the contest, either PM me 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. Good luck to all entrants!

A quick update on our current state of play: we're a few dollars short of our December goal, but that's great news however you look at it. That people are willing to get out and push is a positive statement saying that we're headed in the right direction. We're seeing visitors from a diverse number of countries worldwide, which is a large reason why we threw the idea of a "membership fee" out of the window. People have vastly different income levels; access to informational/educational resources shouldn't be constrained simply because of where you live, your employment status or affordability. For the most part, a dollar or two is within everybody's reach which is why Patreon is a great method for making this work. Some sort of "$200 per year for Gold Access!" simply isn't an option for anybody at school, out of work or living in a country with the pressures of lower incomes. ProjectGuitar.com is fast becoming a full-time engagement for myself and site contributors, demanding hundreds of hours of coding, research, discussion, writing, editorial time and planning. If you would like to contribute content, help with editing or any of the heavy lifting then do PM me. We will try and figure out some form of compensation and support for doing so. That we are able to do this without any form of commercial interest, income from advertising revenue or outside sponsorship is truly unique. For this, we salute you! ----- Our next key goal is to have enough cash in the pot each month to buy items for product reviews....which we will donate back to the community as random giveaways!

Genuinely, thank you Perry! Your support is a highly positive vote of advocacy in the future of ProjectGuitar.com; if anything, your suggestions and ideas a couple of years back is how this campaign and development arc was seeded. Many people around here have taken inspiration from your works and journeys over the last few years....even if they don't realise it. Having you onboard is fantastic!

Wow! This is going to be a tough choice for a lot of people. Six really strong contenders duking it out this month....

Need another peek at this month's entries? Click HERE! Welcome to this month's 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, a photo feature on our Facebook page and as the default site background photo, plus an 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 read into the discussion until you've cast your vote! ;-) This thread and poll automagically close on the 1st December 2015 Next month's Guitar Of The Month contest is the final chance to compete for Guitar Of The Year 2015!

Hopefully it heals fully with no permanent issues.

I have nothing to add to that sentiment really! We'll soon be able to start feeding more information and news about the developments that are going on "behind the scenes" in the Patreon creator feed. We'll be publicly announcing everything here as time progresses anyway. That said, since PG is supported solely by its patrons I think we have a responsibility to keep you guys in the loop on decision-making processes and milestones as they happen. This week has mostly been investigating whether any project development grants are available; any initial investment will bring the dates for the workshop setup and all that good stuff forward! The first thing we'll be starting with is a weekly vlog on anything from scouting out premises, developing a working shop layout, sawmill timber site visits, etc. Community input, opinion and knowledge is all part of this process as much as any other.