Ben, yes it started life as a Les Paul BFG. It was purchased, new, with the intent on total renovation of the instrument. It started life sorta like this (seen with partial finish removal... to see if I'd need a strong stripper. I didn't, just lacquer thinner.)
Greg said: ....it looks like you didn't calculate enough of a neck angle to use TOM + tailpiece. The TOM might be within acceptable parameters, though to me the ideal is to have'em all the way down in their bushings. The stop tailpiece seems hella high, though, no?
Well blame it all on Gibson. My own thoughts though, are to leave about 1/8 inch yet to drop, when the strings are at proper playing elevation. On the stop bar, I try to go for about the same break angle as is on the nut, and to hell be damned the "must be low" mindset types (present company excepted of course). There's about 160 or so lbs pressure pulling on those studs. The body is hollow. I did it my way!
The pickups are the stock P90 and BB-3, now with covers, bridge with mounting ring as well. The controls are volume, middle, and treble. The middle control is a direct rip off of the very nice L6s middle control. The "varitone" is not a varitone. What it is, is a 3 pos. rotary switch, that selects between both pickups in series, either singly or both pickups in parallel, and both pickups in parallel semi out of phase with a phase delaying capacitor inserted (again, as the L6s does). This way you get all the great "normal tones" plus two additional "special tones". One being very phat with no loss of highs, the other being a very "Strat-like" tone when a Strat is in its #4 position (except this one is a bit phatter being HB and P90).