November Guitar of the Month Competition

[Kick]

Wow guys! Beautiful builds!!!!

[Rupert]

nice IB-6S build Rupert. It's a pity your photos are letting you down a bit. Try for some photo's in full natural light so we can see it better. The wooden knobs are a nice touch but personally they are a bit too big and the controls look cluttered.
What have you used to fill the fret slots looks like grain filler ? Some thin wood strips or thin white binding would have looked better.

Thanks, The photos don't do this bass justice, but unfortunately its a damp and rainy UK October so I've not been able to get a decent shot with natural light so far. I do agree that the knobs are larger than I would ideally have had them, but I was unable to find a matching set of 5 any smaller.

Ive used mahogany plastic wood to fill the frets and then hand sanded the fretboard to an ultra smooth finish, before treating it with lemon oil.

[wazkelly]

Hi Everyone,
here's my entry for this month ... it's an LP1S, which I've taken my time with.
I've added Grover tuners and EMG 81/85 Active pickups, as well as some wood nobs I found to replace the usual ones.
Finish is DT Black Stump on the body and neck, with DT colourless (mixed with a little bit of black) on the top.
Final coats done with TO.
Nice to play and sounds good too!


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Nice one 3b.

Colour on top almost looks like Coolangatta Gold and really helped accentuate the spalted cap.

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[pablopepper]

Wow, what a great month of entries so far! Loving seeing so many basses come through. And 3 Thunderbirds!

[Sonic Mountain]

I would not want to be a judge this month. Such a large amount of guitars in a huge variety of styles.

[Brendan]

Last entry for the month - received by email Monday 30 October from SJDavis75 - STA-1M.

Hi Brendan, please find attached pics for submission to Nov GOTM.

This is one of my latest builds which will be given to my step daughter for her birthday in early November. I call it the Doily-Caster and I think you can see why. The paint job and airbrushed Candy Skull was done by myself. This guitar has all the stock parts as it is going to be a learner's guitar. I think the black hardware and Black pearl Pick Guard sets it off nicely.

Thanks for your consideration...
Regards
Scott Davis
(SJDavis75 is my username on the community site)

[Brendan]

And some more photos.

[Brendan]

BTW - Comp is well and truly closed for the month .

[Kick]

*drumroll*

[wokkaboy]

ok I have just submitted my scores and comments, that was such a tough group of entries to judge I had to wash down a beer to help !
Best of luck all entrants that is a high quality bunch of axes you guys/gals should all be proud of your builds.