Build thread: Pancake body les paul deluxe

WezV

back is done too



and some more pics of the rest in different lighting.. i think i now have the level of sheen just about where i  want it

usedtobe

Looks awesome!

BigMonka

Looks frickin awesome!

juansolo

Yep, like that lots!

Andyjr1515

I really struggle with many relic' guitars because they look so overdone.  

This one - I have significant GAS! I genuinely want this guitar for my very own!!!!!  It looks absolutely right - very, very authentic looking wear.  Very nicely understated.  

WezV

another pic with its (even less authentic, and even more reliced) sibling

joeyowen

Old thread.... but fecking wow

WezV

it is an old bump - I am not updating pics so if anyone cant see them go here

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/112304/getting-around-the-photobucket-curse

Grangousier

Thanks for that! It's solved a huge amount of frustration with the photo links. And the guitars are lovely, so thanks for that, too. 

Grangousier

A-and having read through the thread properly now I can see the photos, I see it's guitar singular. Wow! Fantastic work. Considerably brightened my lunch hour. 

WezV

necro bump

I liked this guitar a lot.  It still gets regular play and is often used for testing pickups.... But i have been increasingly unhappy with the ageing  on the finish.   It was one of my first with a knife.   i went too deep on some and the patterns are all wrong.   I got better with a knife by copying high res images of actual old guitars, rather than gibson custom shop examples.   These days i tend to use a bit of knife work and a bit of temperature checking, sometimes both depending on the finish i am trying to emulate.

So anyway, i got fed up of looking at it and stripped it ready for refinish.   Still gonna go black top though as I love the look

it started the day like this



now stripped and undergoing a couple of binding repairs before finish sanding

WezV

not far off ready for paint now

WezV

Back to black.  


Gonna keep all the plastics black this time too.

I haven't done grainfilling on this beyond some sanding sealer.... I want the lacquer to sink in as it ages.  Just needs a lot of clear now

PeteC

Really nice @WezV     I see what you mean about carved black tops! 

WezV

so the back was bright orange from rattle can tinted lacquer... this is full on amber



its now had a few coats of a much subtler amber.  The grain looks much nicer for it, and its got back the nice shimmer good honduran can have

normula1

That's lovely

WezV

buffed to a soft satiny kind of level - like VOS i guess, just trying different things out



i'm kinda tempted by a torty guard too.   I know that will split the crowd

SteveRobinson

WezV said:

i'm kinda tempted by a torty guard too.   I know that will split the crowd

Any 'guard at all will be frowned upon by some here

It would have to be a black one for me. The guitar isn't fancy enough to stand a bound torty 'guard which would be my second choice.

WezV

and the back - ignore the cavity for now. This guitars been re-wired so many times i should probably start from scratch .I suppose I can trim  the pickup leads now these are staying in there

WezV

SteveRobinson said:

WezV said:

i'm kinda tempted by a torty guard too.   I know that will split the crowd

Any 'guard at all will be frowned upon by some here

It would have to be a black one for me. The guitar isn't fancy enough to stand a bound torty 'guard which would be my second choice.

i probably have a 5-ply black one I can try, and a more orangey tort one somewhere.  I also have an engraved aluminum one 

I think it will either be torty guard with amber knobs or black guard with black knobs.  Agree a bound one would be too fancy  It's drilled for a guard anyway, whether it stays on is another thing