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I just realised I have neglected posting the progress on repairing this guitar. It was a massive headache but its turning out quite well

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I am fortunate enough to have some off-cuts of Mahogany left over from the 1990's

I always thought there must be something I can do with these

 

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Oh well so I just had to dig deeper and find a piece that was big enough and got on with it!

 

 

 

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Cheers thanks, it was an awful lot of work but I like this guitar so its worth it

To finish off the repair I put binding on which I really like and I want to put on any future projects. Its funny I never would have bothered with binding if it weren't for this stuff-up

Also: I thought this is a very unconventional way of doing binding so I was going to ask how to go about it from here but much to my surprise there is a tutorial on StewMac how to do it this exact same way, so its not so unconventional after all!

(I also want to do block inlays, but I think thats asking for trouble!)

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  • 6 months later...

Now that the ES-137 is sprayed I have time to focus on the LPC3

My main concern was how to do the Binding but it went well after I got into it

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Next I tackled the nick in the Headstock from the router

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I found the offcuts

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Did some fancy cutting

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Glued in, cut out excess and smoothed off

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Getting back to this one, after I repaired the left-hand side I noticed the right-had side needs some TLC as well

The first photo shows a nick in the Headstock veneer and look closely the mahogany repair strip goes along too far

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So I set up a jig just to take out some of the veneer

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Dad's old saw still works fine

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Now both sides repaired

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Put in some Fret Dots and and its ready for sanding and lacquer

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22 minutes ago, Bizman62 said:

Didn't you just patch the headstock veneer? Now where's the patch now? Sorcery, I say!

I forgot to point out this is the other side. So thanks for comment, I have re-worded my post. Cheers

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