ProjectGuitar.com Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 The Project Guitar.com "Guitar of the Month" contest is a showcase for all the members, so show us your axe in this thread! This contest is open to any and all members that enter and will be continued each month for a place showing your creation on the homepage! The winner(s) of course will have his/her guitar featured on the homepage of Project Guitar.com and if you have a website the picture will link directly to it if you so choose (even commercial site's). If your a forum member you will also be upgraded to a Featured member which allows you to see the Advanced Chat section and download area. So show us your creation in this thread! You've got till sometime around the 23rd or 24th of May then this thread gets locked and the voting starts! Any Post that is not an entry will be deleted, feel free to start a new thread to discuss any guitar entered this month There may be more then one poll to determine winners in different catagorys at the end of this contest! Please post a maximum of your 4 best pictures per guitar entered Make sure Your Guitar has a Name or Nick Name as well otherwise one will be given to it Side note, if you are unable to post a picture you can e-mail one to Brian and it will be posted for you, or ask forum members how to post pictures, they are very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avengers63 Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 Build Thread THE YELLOW AND BLACK ATTACK Direct recreation of the original Corvus shape, or at least as near as I could get without having an original to copy. MODS: headless redesign shelf in cutaway for tuners rear routed control cavity radiusing of the leg curve slight belly cut BODY: 1 1/2" thick 2-piece poplar poplar control cavity cover all-access neck joint with 3-degree neck angle 1/2" shelf along bottom cutaway for rear-mounted tuners gunslinger style angled pickup route NECK: maple neck rosewood fretboard 25.5" scale 22 frets re-shaped headless design tab-mounted string ferrules HARDWARE & ELECTRONICS: chrome hardware TOM bridge 1 volume lug-nut knob side-mounted football jack plate Steinberger gearless tuners standard strap buttons Kramer Quad-Rail humbucker puckup FINISH: 2 coats of sanding sealer 3 coats of rattle can gray primer, sanded with 220 after each coat 4 coats of black or harvest gold rattle can paint, sanded with 220 after each coat 12 coats of rattle can polyurethane, wetsanded & leveled with 400 after every 3 coats 2 coats of matte top coat back close up back left back right down the neck up from the bottom front close front left front right tuners from the back headstock from the back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyt Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 the yellow pink green and black attack - thanks john Ibanez jem copy, passion and warfare colours Basswood body, flame maple 1st neck attempt Dimarzio Breed pickups Standard ibanez cosmo parts 1shot signpainters paint http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q70/amrt/PAW/garden4.jpg http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q70/amrt/PAW/colour6.jpg http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q70/amrt/PAW/garden5.jpg build thread http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=40206 quick sound clip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 (edited) I finished it a while ago but was waiting until I could get some decent pictures taken (Thanks Dean!). Hmmm...where to begin . Another one of my "one-offs", no templates just winging it along and following the natural curves. I call it "The Huntress", it has that woodsy atmos. with the natural Honduras mahogany and dyed holly laminates / headstock cap, as well as the hunter green pickguard and elaborate fb inlay. Celtic lore says that holly (Ilex sp.) has magical protective and regenerative properties and giving holly to someone is a sign of good will. Body wings and center neck block are Honduras mahogany, the last of my stock American holly (Ilex) laminates on either side of the neck block, dyed hunter green and feathered out onto the neck. I honestly haven't seen anyone do this before so I figured I'd give it a whirl. The design revolves around Fenderish aspects, almost a strato-tele hybrid, strat body cuts, 25.5" scale length, stringthrubody design w/ ferrules in back, hardtail, 24 frets and rolled fb edges. The headstock has a 1/8" thick holly cap (dyed green/blue) Chrome Grover mini-tuners. Neckthru as mentioned with rosewood fb cap and my own single action truss rod. I did good on the truss rod, can make them for about a buck apiece now! The fb inlay? What can I say? I sure wish I can say I was responsible but I'm an honest fellow, it was pre-inlaid and radiused. I bought it from a friend at work which he got off Ebay. Looks like a CNC job with lots of MOP and abalone. I DID install the med/med frets and it looks like a 12" radius. I made the nut from vintage mother of pearl. It used to be the handle from a silver plated butter knife. The finish is 2-part "Imron" polyurethane (Thanks Stu!). About 8 thick coats with alternate curings/scuffings between every 2 coats. I previously grainfilled the mahogany with "Famowood #1 Professional Wood Filler" which I picked up at the local Do-It Center. (good stuff, I just rubbed it in with my fingers) The pickguard is 1/16" thick, clear, one-side-scuff-resistant Acrylite. The back side is painted with "Krylon Fusion" rattlecan for plastics , hunter green. I think it matches the surrounding dyed holly very well. I have an alternate guard which is black w/ white trim but unfortunately, it was too thick. It felt like the strings were laying right on the deck. More pictures here Its wired like a telecaster and sounds like a telecaster, the neck pickup is a stock single coil from my 88 Am. Std. strat and bridge pickup is an Ibanez C2 stacked humbucker. 3-way blade switch, 1 volume, 1 tone, .022 cap, nothing fancy. Combining the 2 very diverse pickups gives a very pleasing tone. Thats what teles are all about to me. If you want to see more here are my "in progress" shots. Sorry, they are a bit disorganized but still cover many aspects of the build. And something for that good advice thread if it has not been mentioned yet: If you are building a neckthru guitar of this design, ie. body wings onto neck block, keep the bandsaw cuttoffs for clamping the body pieces together later on! I guess you could glue the wood together beforehand but try cutting a body out on the bandsaw with 2 feet of neck sticking out. This guitar is designed for a woman in mind. Its small(ish), lightweight (only weighs 6.5 lbs!)and is VERY comfortable to play. I do not plan to keep it and am considering putting it up for the United Way Christmas Raffle at work. I'll just get some stick-on holly decorations (leaves, berries 'n such) and call it the Christmas guitar. Huh, someone could pick it up for 2 bucks, imagine that! But it will go toward a good cause and just feels like the right thing to do. I have enough guitars laying around as it is! Edited May 3, 2009 by Southpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davee5 Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 (edited) I've been gigging with this guitar for almost a year and a half now, but only recently got around to taking some glamour shots. Introducing my first build, as seen in this thread, the nearly incomparable and cleverly named... Koa Semi-Hollow The Koa Semi-Hollow is, in bullets: - Flamed koa top plate with stylized f-holes - Striped and lightly figured African mahogany body; chambered/hollowed tuning-fork style (Scott French inspired), string-thru - Honduran mahogany neck; bolt-on with hand carved volute - Ebony fingerboard with black MOP fretboard markers and Myka-style silver outlined black MOP side markers - Rosewood binding with fine BWB purfling on all edges - Nitrocellulose lacquer finish (by Addam Stark, who absolutely rocks) Electronics: Two PAF-style gold humbuckers and L.R. Baggs Piezo tune-o-matic bridge controlled through: - Mag master volume (pull to kill) - Neck tone (pull to split) - Bridge tone (pull to split) - Mag blend - Piezo volume (pull to on) - Hidden in lower f-hole is a piezo mid-tone pot and bypass switch This thing has been everything I could have hoped my first build could be. Thick and sweet tone with smooth and responsive handling. I've been playing live with it for a while now, and it even inspired me to build a worthy tube-amp from scratch (you can find it on my website as linked in my signature). Here you can see the neck detail, including the volute, the heavy machine screws that hold the neck to the body through brass inserts, the string-thru ferrules, and the uninterrupted-grain electronics cavity cover. The cover was carefully routed out from the body with a 1/32 endmill in a Dremel, bound in rosewood to recover the kerf, and replaced to keep the woodgrain as seamless as possible. The body of the guitar sports Madagascar rosewood pickup rings, rosewood knobs (I still have to turn my own later) and all gold hardware. The strap button washers are made of silk I picked up in China on a business trip between building sessions. Here the silver outlined black MOP side-dots are clearly visible. The Black mother-of-pearl on the ebony fretboard blends in from most angles, but flashes bright red and green from others. This creates a nicely understated appearance with a subtle elegance that is just barely visible in half of the markers photographed here. The bookmatched headstock faceplate is made from the koa removed at the body's waist. White mother-of-pearl inlays of my last name and a signature symbol of my hands hopefully give off both a personal and professional touch at the same time. While it's tough to see unless you press your nose up against it, there is a sliver of bloodwood on a knuckle in the lower hand inlay. I have a slight accident that resulted in 8 stitches while working on this project and made reference to it in the inlays I was already working on. For more build images you can check out my webpage here additional shots: Hanging on the wall of an art gallery it was recently featured in Front oblique Front with highlight showing slight shaping of top Back with highlight Headstock with inlay detail With it's amp (see the amp's own webpage here...) Thanks for all the help this forum gave me, it made my life easier and filled me with both inspiration and cautious humility in my build. This guitar is easily one of my top 3 favorite projects of all time, and I've already been amassing wood for an acoustic! That, however is to be entered in a different GOTM many, many months from now. All the best, Dave Edited April 28, 2009 by davee5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvillavicencio Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 (edited) Hi everybody, I want to post here a special project. I'm not sure if it's a "valid" entry here. If it isn't, please let me know. I call this "P-Bass Restoration". It is not a bass that I built, but it's an original 1975 Fender Precision Bass that I restored. When it first came to my hands, it was a complete mess. It was ugly, dirty, scratched, bad painted, etc, etc, etc. I decided to restore it since I noticed it was an original 1975 Fender Precision Bass, and not all the days somebody come to you with a relic like that to give it a second chance. After removing all the messy painting, the wood came out and I realized it was gonna be a very beautiful instrument, like it probably was in its first days. I decided not to do any sunburst or any kind of paiting on it. I gave it a glossy finish just to let that amazing wood be admired by everyone. It is made of Ash wood, a really beautiful wood. The fretboard is rosewood; by the way, it is a fretless bass. One of the most exciting things that happened with this bass, is the fact that I could use all the original parts, including screws!!. It has its original pickups, pots, knobs, cables, etc. I'm so proud of this bass, and I cannot explain how sad I am, since this bass doesn't belong to me :-( Cheers, Jorge Villavicencio Here are some pictures Before After Before After You can visit my web site: VC-Guitars Or you can check all the pictures here: VC-Guitars, 1975 Precision Bass Restoration Edited May 23, 2009 by jvillavicencio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJE-Guitars Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 Go on then I'll make up the numbers and see if I can beat my previous nil pwaa! Name wise . . erm how about 'The lesser spotted ironwood superstrat' The specs are a solid bookmatched part flamed and figured Burmese Ironwood (Xylia Xylocarpa) body, the neck is a 1 piece quartersawn Afzelia Xylocarpa with a Laos Rosewood fretboard (also know as Burmese Blackwood - latin name Dalbergia Cultrata), the control knobs and the pickup rings are matching Laos Rosewoods. All inlay dots are Abalone. Pickups are neck Seymour Duncan APH-1 Custom (by me . . replacing the Alnico2 with an Alnico5) the bridge is a SD SH-3 StagMag, bridge is a recessed Gotoh T-o-M and the 5 way is a Megaswitch-E for coil tapping the Stag Mag, the tuners are Schaller Mini Compacts and the nut is solid sunbleached Lao Buffalo bone. Even the body is ironwood it has a very similar density to rosewood so have a very resonant tone and strumming the guitar unplugged you can feel the vibration through the body. It keeps the very bright StagMag well undercontrol and gives a real nice single coil quack tone when tapped. Finish wise - dye black & sanded back to pick out the grain, sanded to 2000grit, then several layers a hardening wax (kind of danish oil), each layer smoothed with sanding sponge then waxed, giving a natural and gloss finish. No build thread but the headstock was voted for in this thread: The Voting . . So without further ado . . pictures! Others: Full - from back Back of Headstock Close up Neck pickup and ring Back of body Difference angle of body Rosewood Knobs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feral_smurf Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 (edited) I was thinking how this is nowhere near as good as any of the others but i just want to show it off a bit and why not, i think of it as a more of a novelty item rather than a serious contestant. WHO YA GONNA CALL!!! Its basically just a an mdf body gut into shape then with old strat copy parts attached. Nothing fancy Edited May 23, 2009 by feral_smurf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dickie_rayne Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 (edited) The Z1 LP First time ive entered this so here go's 1 piece english walnut top brazilian mahogany wings and a 5 piece mahogany and maple neck. cream binding and pickup rings. sperzel locking tuners. ebony compensated nut. wenge fretboard with custom Z inlay. gotoh hardware. hand made pickups. wooden cavity covers held in place by magnets all topped off with an oil and wax finish. thanks Dickie Edited May 23, 2009 by Dickie_rayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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