Just got the switch and control cavity covers made and installed today, so it was time for some “glamor shots”. Kind of tongue-in-cheek, since there’s so much crap in the background… 😉
Thanks for looking,
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Les Paul guitar almost finished.
I haven’t posted any pictures of this project yet. If I posted in-progress pics of everything I make, I’d never get anything done.
So, anyway, this one is finished, except for the control and switch cavity covers, which I can’t make until an order comes in. Also I need to buff the back, but I won’t do that until the covers are on.
The top is curly maple I got off of Ebay. The body and neck are mahogany. The headstock veneer and fingerboard are ebony. Finish is nitro lacquer, with a tobacco burst.
These aren’t the greatest pictures, and don’t show the whole thing, so I’ll post more when it’s completely done. Maybe even a sound clip. 😀
And this is what I had planned it to look like:
I made the above picture with this cool program:
http://frankmontag.com/sc_guitar.htm
Later,
Less Paul is finished
More or less. I have to fix a couple things before I can sell it, but it’s strung up and playable.
It’s not very loud acoustically, and the f-hole is a real pain to make and to polish around, so I’m going to leave it off of the next version.
Right now both pickups are wired to the jack, but I intend to add a 3 position switch as soon as I get one.
