winter build off 2023

SURPRISE! It's a build-off! Huge thank you to @Flamingo21 for keeping this ball rolling in my unacceptable absence. :D For this year’s Summer Build Off, our theme is cobbled together, but comes down to No Rules Baby!!!! I mean a bunch of folks enacted anarchist principles and started already...

On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly It wrapped up on March 20, 2023 and you are all cordially invited to come vote for your favorites! Voting will remain open until March 27 at...

On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly This vote will be for Non-Bass Builds. Please review the builders page listed below. Normally, you would have from 1 to 3 votes to...

On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly This vote will be for Scratch Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 3 votes to select your...

On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly This vote will be for Partial Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 1 vote to select...

On December 21, 2022 a challenge was issued here in the Luthier's Corner. The theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly Winter Build Off 2023 - Let Your Nerd Flag Fly This vote will be for Assembly Builds. Please review each of the builders pages listed in the links below. You have 1 vote to select...

This will be my second ever attempt at a scratch build. I am very green but I can't get this idea out of my head. I love Rickenbacker aesthetics but a few things make them less than ideal for me. So I've been thinking about a Ric with a P pickup and different neck for a while. One of my...

For my first ever entry in the Winter Build Off I am going to build a '51 Style SCPB. The nerdy aspect is I'm doing it with exotic woods. Its like those impressionist paintings where they use non local colors. I'm going to do a Solid Rosewood Neck and a Zebrawood body. The name I pulled from the...

The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers published in 1895, lying somewhere between Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft in the weird tales continuum. The first several stories refer to a play, also titled The King in Yellow. The first act is described as banal...

I submit for your approval my entry in the Scratchbuild category. My nerdiness really isn't inspired by syfy or fantasy (not that I don't appreciate it), but from these awesome books I've had since the early days of my bass building back in the '80s. I'll be building a bass with the nerdiest...

"Certandan" means: from the province of Certando. More on this and other provinces later. In the novel Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, a bass instrument is mentioned with the name Certandan Deep Strings. Since I'm both a Tigana nerd and a bassist I want to build it. The book doesn't give an actual...

Greetings everyone! For this year’s winter build off, our theme is Let Your Nerd Flag Fly. Inspired by Sci-Fi, Fantasy, high-tech and various areas of nerd-dom. Tell us how the theme applies to your build. There’s no right or wrong but please tell us how your build fits the theme or the theme...

Hi all, it's long overdue that we talk some winter build off! Event: Winter Build Off 2023 Dates: 1600h PST (UTC -8) Wednesday, December 21, 2022 to 1600h PST (UTC -8) Monday, March 20, 2023 Theme: Let Your Nerd Flag Fly A few ide'ers were floated about recently and the winner was Let Your...