Building myself a Les Paul

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:12 pm

I love days where I can work seriously without any distractions. And go home with a feeling of "Well I sure did a hell of a job today."

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The Routing template on the Flamed Maple and Cedrella.

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The back of the body, cedrella sure looks pretty.

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And shaping it up.

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The electronics compartiment, watch it don't rout it out too deep.

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The body after I finished routing, aint that a pretty top.

Last year we built a couple of 335 style guitars and we ended up with a couple of surplus necks, I adopted one of those for my project
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The body and neck, as you can see I have yet to rout the channel for the trussrod.

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and here it is a few minutes later with the Trussrod neat and flush

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And here it is with the fingerboard in place, ready for frettting.

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Here's the way it should look when finished.

I was thinking about putting a Kahler flatmount trem on but that big bullet adjuster of the trussrod kinda hinders a locking nut.

dale_fortune · Post by **dale_fortune** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:14 pm

Pretty Nice Blazer

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:09 pm

A little update, I sanded the body smooth today making life easier on me after I routed out the neck pocket, the spring room for the Kahler and the pickup cavities.

After doing so I made the body wet to expose the gorgeous structure of the wood and took took a couple of pictures.

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This will be a flat top guitar but the structure of the wood almost gives the impression that it's an archtop.

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:20 pm

You should do a Rick next... ... ...

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:19 pm

And getting myself sued by John Hall?

I made one bass with a Rickenbacker shape and I got some trouble about that one. No actual lawsuit but enough objections on the instrument even existing. So no, I'm not tempting fate anymore that Bass will STAY a one-off.