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Coinciding with my purchase of the new Strat, I finally finished the Les Paul Copy 3. I made three guitars out of the one body blank I bought in 2009 and now they're all finished. I ruined the neck on the LPC3 and it took a lot of effort to fix it. Its all done now so its time to celebrate! Here's a few photos

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The LPC3 was finished except for lacquer and it had a very chunky neck. So one night I got a bee in my bonnet and started sanding it thinner but didn't realise it was taking off the edges as well. It left a very sharp edge on the fretboard making it something like a V-shape

Its a bit hard to photograph this, the edge of the fretboard should be in line with the envelope

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This is something I never want to do again. It took a lot of thinking and setting up and once the router was going it was extremely nerve-wracking hoping to not mess it up

 

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I decided that I was not going to take out the frets, I had done enough work on this already. So I glued the binding to the ends of the frets then I found out later that that is the way Gibson do it as standard practice and its what they call "nibs"!

 

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Now its all done and I was hoping the repairs would blend in better than this. But I'm not going to let it get me down, I just don't care any more and besides if it hadn't been for this oversanding stuff-up I never would have done Fretboard Binding. And another good thing to come out of this, is I love the neck profile. So sometimes good comes out of bad, necessity is the mother of invention, but I would rather not, I really wouldn't

I don't know what I'm going to do with this guitar if I'm keeping it or sell it. Maybe I should just accept it with its faults like me and my faults LOL

 

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All done. They could be better, they all have cracks in the lacquer and all sorts of other blemishes. Maybe I can pass them off as "Reliced" but for now its onto the next project!

 

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41 minutes ago, Crusader said:

I was hoping the repairs would blend in better than this.

Have you ever wondered why many Gibsons have a black burst in the heel and volute areas? Especially mandolins...

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Another thing I did is radius the Oversized LP which originally had a flat fretboard. It was built before I had the Stewmac radius beam. That thing was expensive but can't do without it

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The Les Paul Copy 3

I played it in church on Sunday and it went well, played quite nicely, sounded good. I have an AT-1 Dimarzio in the Bridge and PAF in the Neck. I showed the neck repair to someone and it was really hard to find. Over time the lacquer will darken and it will be even harder to see

 

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