ryeisnotcool Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 this is my first one it was an old vantage les paul that i stripped all the paint of to find out that it was all mahogany! the headstock had been broken off and the switch was moved so i vennered ebony on the headstock and did an inlay over the old switch hole. it was my first finish job and man do i hate finishing a guitar! http://imageserv.futurecube.net/uploads/04...LPheadstock.jpg http://imageserv.futurecube.net/uploads/04....03/lepside.jpg http://imageserv.futurecube.net/uploads/04...ackmopflame.jpg this last one is a pbass that i refinished this is the carvin headstock that i designed for it. like i said before these are my first inlays and finishing projects so please be gentle with your criticsms thanks rye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_ed Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Dude, What's to be critical of? If I could do work half that nice I would be jump for joy. Very nice work, and very nice layout for the pix. Guitar Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Here's the link for the second one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 i agree with guitar ed,looks great.on a side note i believe all les pauls are mahogany,body AND neck.gibson is famous for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulNeeds Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 Excellent. I'd be stunned if I could do those as first attempts, cos I know I don't have the patience for one thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryeisnotcool Posted May 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 thanks guys so far ive only done four totaly and i love doing them so whenever i have a freind who buys an old guitar i always try to talk him into letting me inlay it with something,so far it worked twice.the first two are my own though. hey wes actually the les paul was built by vantage so thats why i was surprised to see that it was mahogany! i thought for sure it would've been somethin else,so did myfreind who sold it to me boy was he bumbed when i told him what it was.haha but it sounds as good as any real les paul! and plays just as great! thanks for the kind words guys it realy helps me want to persue guitar building as a career. i gotta get out of my contsruction job its killin me! rye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 DUDE!!!! That stock inlay blew me away! Wanna get soem more practice in on inlay?? ill pay ya to do some for me BTW what color is that lp? Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 Excellent work bro What are you using to protect the body while your doing all of the router work, or are you doing all of that using hand tools? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted May 1, 2003 Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 ooohhhh,well rye i saw that you said vantage but to be honest i thought you meant vintage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryeisnotcool Posted May 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2003 hey brian accualy i did the headstock inlays and the sun inlay on the body before i finished it (it was stripped down ) it accualy had a really cool bookmatched swamp ash vennered top but the venneer was very very thin so when i was sanding it itsanded through the top venneer wich was a bummer cuase i was gonna do a trans. finish on it. but on the inlays that i do to already finished guitars i use painters tape(its usualy blue and sold at home depot) that stuff doesnt leave any sticky residue after wards. i just place it around the area that the dremel router base would ride on . most of the inlay work i do by hand with the dremel but for removing the mass of material inside of my inlay lines i use a dremel router base that i attached a clear plexy glass bottom to becuase they only come with a round edge and that is not good enough to work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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