Les Paul Copy Revamp

[feral_smurf]

A while ago I bought a hohner arbour series les paul from the 'bay as a general practise piece really for my finishing skills and fretboard and inlay work.

This is the guitar that bought:

I am removing the old tired fretboard for an ebony one with square block les paul inlays. I am also doing a complete refinish and veneering the top. I think i may also experiment with winding my own PAFs form stewmac's kit.

This shot shows off the vacuum veneer setup i got going. This is the first incarnation of the bag which i have replaced with a more airtight version. The pump is a tyre compressor in several plastic bags with a pipe leading in. It works pretty well as instead of taking in air from all around the air is sucked in form the pipe leading to the bag only.

This is where I am up to as of now. The top has been veneered and dyed to get that 3d effect and the sunburst is drying as I speak. The neck is still in the stage just after striping as i need to wait till i complete my router planning/radiusing jig combo thing before i can do the fret-board and glue that on.

[Narcissism]

I'm looking forward to this one! I wanna see what you can do with it.

[feral_smurf]

I'm looking forward to this one! I wanna see what you can do with it.

Cheers Narcissism, If I can get it to look anything in the region of a les paul standard I will be happy.

As I mentioned I am planning to start winding my own pickups. I plan to build a winder using a fan motor and some cams for the traverse, but I am struggling a bit on the counter side as I have not done anything like it before. Is it ok just to use a reed switch attached to a cheapo ebay counter and a magnet on the motor shaft? Or is there a better switch that I could be using?