ProjectGuitar.com Posted August 1 Report Share Posted August 1 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Asdrael Posted August 1 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 1 Since I finished cutting the nut yesterday (final step yay), let me post it here: 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 blackmachinesque 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 tunning) 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 witha 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 plexiglass so I can get a reminder to work on my soldering each time I pick it up. Anyhow, picture time! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Junior64 Posted August 8 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 8 Here's my entry for the August contest, a car-themed guitar. It's more of a fun gift than a high-end build. Here's some background: I worked with my buddy for 20 years, both of us being "car guys". He's a "MOPAR or No Car" guy, and bought a 1972 Dodge Challenger that he races and is slowly restoring. We also take a lot of road trips together in my 1965 Ranchero, and he always provides all the food, does all the cooking and pays for half the gas. We've done about 10,000 miles of road trips over the years. I thought it would be a fun project and hopefully a big surprise if I built him a MOPAR-themed guitar that he can hang in his shop or man cave. • Hand-cut Basswood body • Tone Ninjas roasted maple neck • StewMac lipstick pickup • Allparts Duo-Sonic bridge • Digital print of an older MOPAR logo on full size pickguard • D'Addario EXL120 9's • Yes, I'm including a guitar hanger... A fun project for a good friend; I hope you enjoy the build and the story. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nakedzen Posted August 19 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 19 Here's my only build this year (so far) called Snowstream. Started in a band that does more modern metal than what I've been used to. I'm old school. But I decided to make a guitar that can handle the super low tunings. 26"-28" scale, 24 Sintoms bell bronze frets, ebony board, through dyed birch veneer on headstock, Graphtech Tusq nut, Schaller DaVinci tuners, Hipshot 26 degree bridge, turkish walnut top, wenge back, quilted mahogany neck, brass fret dots. My own active pickup design. I really like how clean it looks without the legs. Tru oil on everything except the wenge, that's just sanded to 320 with no finish on it. Dreamy out of focus shot (it started to rain so this is it ) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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