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cheers all, quick snap from the shed, just got to wire it up

cheers all, just wiring up the LP, so I'll do a vid of both

glued the neck in, so strung it up for a test, finishing next

cheers all,

No OCD mojo, just bought a cheap wiring harness from axerus, because it came with all the bits, knobs, jack, switch etc

FatD

Sapele back, quilt maple top

Mahogany and wenge 5 piece neck, rosewood board and binding, paua birds, ebony headplate, bone nut, big frets

Warman zebra pickups

Wilkinson aluminium wraparound bridge

Triple stain, no sandback, 2k clear

looking good as usual Amdy - curious tho' - is that another LP I see in the back-shot? was this the "template"?

Ha, no had some templates & half way thru building remembered I had that LP copy in a cupboard somewhere. It was a £80 kit guitar and my 1st ever 'build'

Drilled the control holes, its time for some colour

dyed with a golden oak colour, then sanded this back

Then covered the whole thing in amber stain and tried to burst in the golden oak again

couldn't resist a mockup

cheers all, got it wired up sounds fat, very tubey neck pickup. Be interesting to see what the LP sounds like with the same woods but chambered.

frets in

Really hard to get a decent photo with the phone, its brown when the suns in, then amber, golden orange when the suns out

Headplate on. Found I had a bass sized ebony board, so chopped a bit off & still enough left for a 24 fret guitar

binding on

trimmed down the headplate

still shaping, getting the pickup curve

Drilled the bridge in

Got some cocobolo, that's not wide enough so might bookmatch for the headplate

cheers for the pics

Neck from the leftover blank used for the PRS

Cutting the tennon

and routing the top to the same angle

test fit, wasn't quite fitting, then I realised I forgot to cut the end of the tennon to 4 deg, doh

routed the pickups and started carving the top

out of the clamps and trimmed down yesterday

How thick is a LP back? Need to thin it down.

Did a little colour test

and today after spraying the PRS, started on the fretboard, 2nd inlay job + bonus sock and croc action

levelled the inlays down

this one was the worst, should be good with a little fill after radiusing. Also too a nick out the boardwith a chisel but glued back down ok

Question on the binding, been looking at various pics but not sure yet. In the horn, does the binding go up to the top of carve leaving a little bit of maple top showing underneath that then gets stained with the back?

Don't like the look of binding that varies in height I've seen on some.

had a play with some magnets

don't know if I like the finger cutout

and today the rain stopped and the sun came out so got a couple of clearcoats on

was hoping you wouldnt chamber the hell out of it. Prefer my LP's heavy as a chieftan tank.

But no matter. your gitirs are always rockin, so i rekon it will look the nuts when done.

Never even played a chambered guitar, so figured as the body is the same wood as the PRS I'd give it a try & see what different it makes if any.

F hole? Not sure if I even like f holes.

cutout

and glue

thought I try some chambering

Got bored while waiting for the 2K to finish the PRS, so started another

top

ripped and glued

which way round for the flame?

Zebra pickups were a good choice. Too many people hate on Zebra and I can't figure out why.

not decided yet

That is a very tasty stain job.

Amazing that you are able to be the greatest swirl engineer I have ever seen (your Jem swirls are amazing) and you are great at stains and other things. It is not fair.

cheers rad

Levelled & recrowned the frets, stung it up for a test

Still no finish, waiting for some 2K supplies to turn up

Jewellers saw turned up from ebay, so had a go cutting out a logo, need more practice so sticker for this one

Got a bought nut in at the mo, started making a bone one, never made a nut before! was just bodging it from whatever files I had.

Any recomendations for proper nut files, the ones I've been looking at a like a hundred quid a set?

hardware check

Rosewood dye

add Yew dye

add yellow dye

gave the binding a scrape

Cheers allFound the birds on ebay while searching for side dots, last min purchase otherwise I wouldn't have attempted my first inlay on a board that was already glued on, bound and radiused

Roughed out the carve today with the angle grinder

Marked it out

cutouts with a drum sander in the piller drill

started smoothing out

cut the pickup plane at 2 deg to transfer from the bridge to the neck angle

and the routed the bridge pickup

and now can start the carve

cheers

Chucking it down with rain again today, so thought I'd do a bit more

Heres hoping..

phew

Is it in the right place?

Wilkinson wraparound bridge - went on the stewmac site scale calc & it said 25.006" or what ever to the centre of the posts, but luckily I noticed that they changed the design from this bridge to the newer one. This one, the saddle ends are 6mm further forward than where the centre of the posts would be.

just a bit of neck shaping today