2012 Build Challenge Winners Comment Thread

Since the Winners Announcement thread is closed to posting use this thread to leave your congratulations and comments for the winners and about this year's Challenge.

Congratulations to the WINNERS, of course, but congratulations to all that participated. We're looking forward to the 2013 Challenge -- which is sure to be even more difficult than this years.

Thanks All,
Paul Green
TDPRI Administrator

Man, you just can't argue with those results.

Phil, Oi, Scatter - you guys did some absolutely incredible work this year. A big congratulations to you 3. The accolades are well deserved!


**EDIT** Like a bonehead, I didn't even congratulate our Beginner Category winners :oops:. You guys were really inspiring doing what you did. Having never built a guitar before, you jumped into the deep end and turned out some beautiful and great-playing guitars. Indeed, congratulations and attaboys are in order!

Incredibly impressive stuff this year. Kwerk made perhaps the most unique guitar I have ever seen.

Congratulations to all winners !!

There were some incredible guitars this year and I have to admit I had a hard time voting. Congrats to the beginners, who all fashioned excellent first guitars or basses.

Igork's fastest build still has me :shock: because that is one fine Tele.

Wow. Thanks to all the entrants. Congrats to the winners.

Congrats to everyone for well deserved wins! Looking forward to next years challenge. Its gonna be hard to top this years builds but with the talent here i have no doubt 2013 will be even more fascinating.

Congratulations to everyone, and special to the winners.

A big congrats to the winners , fantastic job. It's been an honor to build with all the challenge builders this year .

Congratz to everyone!! And thank you all for you support!

(I can migrate back to Holland safely now :mrgreen:)


[EDIT:] Whoops almost forget to thank Paul... Thank you Paul for putting up a great challenge (again)

congratulations to the winners.

Congrats to the winners, especially igork; knocking such a beautiful guitar together in a mere week is a real achievement.

Congratulations to the winners - all well deserved. And thanks to everyone (especially Paul for putting it on) for making the whole challenge so much fun (and hard work...) from start to finish.

Well, I suppose a tie for 24th place isn't that bad considering it's my first complete build. :razz:

Congrats to the winners. Here's to looking forward to even harder build "challenges" to come!

:cool:

Well done men, see you next year.

Results in order. I find it easier to look at like this :mrgreen:

1 Kwerk 215
2 Oigun 161
3 Scatter Lee 152
4 Motor City 80
5 Vintage 65 78
6 Guitarnut/Wheelie 72
7 Guitarbuilder 59
8 Stjinkenens 58
9 RogerC 57
10 Flatfive 50
11 Muzikp 45
12 Dilbone 43
13 Newtherapist 42
14 Thunders1988 37
15 Adirondack/Dazzman/Maricopa 33
16 Aikiguy/Mike Simpson 29
17 Bowensby23 26
18 Rcole sooner 25
19 Tklaavo 24
20 Axedaddy/Ugly guitar guy 19
21 Allthesound/Barncaster/Mojotron 18
22 Whodatpat 15
23 Henderson is Go 13
24 Kbru 12
25 Emoney/R.Stratenstein 11
26 Czook/Deadicated/Picton 10
27 Anyone/Volowv/Gitlvr 7
28 Amadhunter/Desmodog/Naildabass 5
29 Alexlaguna29/Junk-mutt 4
30 Davecam48/OpenG Capo4 3
31 Devo Stevo/Guitar Novice/Pulaifaz 2

Well, I suppose a tie for 24th place isn't that bad considering it's my first complete build. :razz:

Congrats to the winners. Here's to looking forward to even harder build "challenges" to come!

:cool:

Actually if you combine all the other ties you tied for 20th. Well done.

Congratulations to all the winners! Well done, and well deserved in every category!

I already posted my congratulations in each of the winner's build threads, so I'll use this thread to congratulate all the other contestants. That has got to be the finest bunch of instruments I have ever seen in one place. So many inovative ideas and so much precise craftmanship. I was honored to be a part of it, and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year. Thanks again to Paul and TDPRI.

Remember - If you steal an idea from one person it's plagerism - if you steal ideas from a hundred people it's research :grin:

Well done men, see you next year.
With bells on my friend! :smile:


Congrats to all the winners! And congrats to all those who finished on time, I know what that takes and respect it a lot!! :wink:

Well done all!

Here's to seeing you all in next year's competition; that is as long as you are not pickup winding averse. :wink: Maybe Paul has a few other curves to throw in as well. Maybe a non-wood, cast body requirement or....... Can't wait!

Anyway, one thing that I would like to see as a requirement next year is that the builders play their own guitars and to see their faces and hear their voices giving descriptions of their creations prior to playing. I don't like the guitar/ crotch shots with the player's heads cut off. Weird :confused: If Miss Peyton can do it, so can you! :grin:

Rob

FANTASTIC I just envy the skill of these cats congrats to all who entered you should be very proud.

Congratulations to everyone who finished a guitar! Especially to all of the beginners, I think we worked a bit harder -- mostly figuring out what the heck we were doing!

Well done everyone and congrats to the winners. Its been a blast, Roll on next year, Can't wait.

I already posted my congratulations in each of the winner's build threads, so I'll use this thread to congratulate all the other contestants. That has got to be the finest bunch of instruments I have ever seen in one place. So many inovative ideas and so much precise craftmanship. I was honored to be a part of it, and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year. Thanks again to Paul and TDPRI.

Remember - If you steal an idea from one person it's plagerism - if you steal ideas from a hundred people it's research :grin:

I don't play bass, and never pay them much attention - but I think I loved your build most of all - think you would have given the leaders something to think about if you weren't in the beginners category. Beautiful guitar.

Picking only 3 favourites out of that lot was impossible.

I'm fairly new to this forum, but checking out those builds has been such a pleasure. Talk about inspiring.

I am totally inspired to try my hand at this challenge in the next year or two. I was just absolutely floored by the works of art coming out of this thing. I think I was especially blown away by the quality of the "Beginners" category. WoW!

That's not to take anything away from the other builds in the challenge. Just stellar work and innovative ideas all around. Not everything was my cup of tea, but I feel like I learned from every one of them.

Nothing but respect for all you guys that build something so wonderful from nothing more than wood and wire (and whatever else some of you guys find laying around!).

Congratulations to all of you...not just the winners (but a special tip of the hat to the winners, for sure).

Congratulations, you are all winners in my book.

hemingway - Thank you. To be honest, I didn't see much difference in all 6 of the biginner builds. I thought they were all awesome and I was proud to be a part of it. I have no illusions of competing with the big boys, but I'm going to do it next year anyway (if I can). This was just way too much fun!

Congrats to the winners and a hearty "well done" to all!

Thanks to Paul and the other moderators for designing
the challenge and making it happen. Thanks to Ryden,
too, for creating the compilation thread.

A big congrats to Igork, Nosmo, MMoncur, Gearhead1972, Kwerk, Oigun and Scatter Lee!!

Kwerk's effort in this challenge (as well as the last year) is a great example of battling back from adversity and overcoming doubts! More then an awesome guitar and very creative build it was a great achievement to see unfold from some significant difficulties.

I have something very special that is only for Allthesound and Barncaster who tied with me at 21st - as everyone knows 21st is special. Here you guys go - just take this to Harbor Freight and ask for your "Swivel caster" - they will have it ready to go for you - all the set up is done.

http://mojotronics.com/images/Guitar_builds/2012_TDPRI_Challenge/21st_prize.jpg

BTW, I told 'em you would give them $11.99 on the way out the door - I was a little short when I set this up :oops:

^^^Ha Ha!!!

What a wonderful bunch of axes! Congrats to all the competitors. If I had a guitar store, and stocked it from this competition, I'd sell out in no time I'm sure. :)
I had a blast, got a great guitar, and learned a lot from ya'll! Look out next year, I'll do a better build! Already got plans for something really unique. :) :) :) ;)

i wanted to vote for so many more than 3. i liked them all to be honest. was a hard to choose between them all; all of them were so very creative to in one way or another. leo would of been proud .. id be proud to of built any one of them. you guys rock.
chris.

A big congrats to Igork, Nosmo, MMoncur, Gearhead1972, Kwerk, Oigun and Scatter Lee!!

Kwerk's effort in this challenge (as well as the last year) is a great example of battling back from adversity and overcoming doubts! More then an awesome guitar and very creative build it was a great achievement to see unfold from some significant difficulties.

I have something very special that is only for Allthesound and Barncaster who tied with me at 21st - as everyone knows 21st is special. Here you guys go - just take this to Harbor Freight and ask for your "Swivel caster" - they will have it ready to go for you - all the set up is done.

http://mojotronics.com/images/Guitar_builds/2012_TDPRI_Challenge/21st_prize.jpg

BTW, I told 'em you would give them $11.99 on the way out the door - I was a little short when I set this up :oops:



Thanks Mojo! :razz: I went right down there and they were a perfect fit , If I had them sooner i might have nudged ahead to 20th .:lol:

http://allthesound.com/2012/swivelcaster.jpg


Not really sure how we ended up tied , I thought your build was absolutely brilliant and should have been much much higher in the top ranks. I have to say though I'm honored to be at 21st with my 2nd build i didn't expect to do that well. :grin:

Congrats to all the winners, and a big Thank You, to all who who voted for me. Every single one of the guitars are great you all should be proud.

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Originally Posted by Mojotron View Post
A big congrats to Igork, Nosmo, MMoncur, Gearhead1972, Kwerk, Oigun and Scatter Lee!!

Kwerk's effort in this challenge (as well as the last year) is a great example of battling back from adversity and overcoming doubts! More then an awesome guitar and very creative build it was a great achievement to see unfold from some significant difficulties.

I have something very special that is only for Allthesound and Barncaster who tied with me at 21st - as everyone knows 21st is special. Here you guys go - just take this to Harbor Freight and ask for your "Swivel caster" - they will have it ready to go for you - all the set up is done.



BTW, I told 'em you would give them $11.99 on the way out the door - I was a little short when I set this up


Thanks Mojo! I went right down there and they were a perfect fit , If I had them sooner i might have nudged ahead to 20th .

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Bwahahahaha! Brilliant!

My congratulations and thanks to all of you who took part this year - I really have enjoyed following the builds (not to mention marvelling at their quality) :cool:

Congratulations to all the winners! Congratulations also to all the owners of new guitars created by your own hands. There may be winners in this, but I just don't see any losers!

Such impressive work in both the main challenge and beginners challenge!

I hope everyone enjoyed the challenge as much as I did, and I hope you will all join me in thanking Paul Green, Ryden, and anyone else who had a hand in organizing and coordinating this challenge.

What can I say? The winning builds were amazing as were quite a few that didn't win. There were guitars in this challenge that rival the best any music store has to offer. My hats off to all the winners. To win in a talent pool like the one around here at the TDPRI is quite the accomplishment. Also a big thanks to everyone that works so hard to put this thing together and pull it off. Not just during the challenge but year round you supply a place that is entertaining and drives me to continue pushing to get better at this craft we all love.

Good show gentlelmen, that was rather fun.
Thanks again to the TDPRI staff for all they're dilligent work.
As a lifelong Cubs fan all I can say is "Wait 'til next year".

Steve

Congrats to all the winners!

And thank you to the three people who voted for me, as well!

Great fun to watch this year! A pile of excellent guitars. I've been inspired to join the challenge next year, come hell or high water--or pick-up winding. :lol:

Thanks Mojo! :razz: I went right down there and they were a perfect fit , If I had them sooner i might have nudged ahead to 20th .:lol:

http://allthesound.com/2012/swivelcaster.jpg

:lol: Don't forget yer helmet!!

Not really sure how we ended up tied , I thought your build was absolutely brilliant and should have been much much higher in the top ranks. I have to say though I'm honored to be at 21st with my 2nd build i didn't expect to do that well. :grin:
I am very honored to be in this group, I'm humbled by the talent and creativity I've seen in these challenges. Thanks to those that have encouraged me either by your vote or PMs or in the thread.

On your build, I thought the integrated neck/body and neck stabilization of your build was great to see - gave me some ideas, and I love the top too! This view is awesome!
http://allthesound.com/2012/213.jpg

as well as this one:
http://allthesound.com/2012/214.jpg

The finish was first rate too!
http://allthesound.com/2012/265.jpg

I'm a fan!! I tell ya, 21st is the place to be!! :lol:

On my build(s) - I'm always trying progressive stuff and not everyone is into the direction all of that takes, but that's what I am interested in and these challenges have really pushed me to do my best. I've built my best guitar yet, and the ideas I was shooting for worked our pretty well; so I'm overjoyed.

I'm also very happy to see the best of the best get the recognition they deserve!

Congratulations to ALL of the builders. Superb just superb.

Thanks Mojo! Someday I would love to try some body contours like yours, maybe a little complex for me currently but man i love the way it looks. I'll start with a carve top on the next which i was too chicken to try on this build. Dude that quilt scared me. :shock::lol:

Edit: I know what you mean about going in a direction not everyone will follow . I guess thats what i like about it most though there is not another like it. :razz:

I cant wait to see what you build next I really dig designs that dare to stray from the sandbox.

Thanks everyone for the support and encouragement. I'm humbled by the outcome.

What a year for builds this was. I can't believe the calibre of people here. We are the luckiest forum on the net, by far the best "support network" I've ever been witness to.

Besides, as I said earlier in the year to a fellow compatriot building his first,

I mean, we're making guitars! How freaking cool is that?!

:wink:

Every single entry was inspirational and great entertainment,every one a winner.It's my favourite time of the year on TDPRI.Congrats to you all.

One of these days I dream of moving on from assembling partscasters to a true build.

I enjoyed watching the Challenge this year. Thanks for the entertainment, and congrats to the winners! :grin:

Congrats to all the winners! And there isn't one of these guitars I wouldn't be proud to own or play. There are some real beautiful guitars this year. People's imgination is limitless! Awsome job to everyone who took the time, patience, and talent to show their love for the Tele. Job(s) well done!