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Made backplates now, here it is with its 2008 Gibson LP Standard sister. Frankly, mine is nicer! The grain is much prettier and I never realised before how heavy handed the sanding is on the back of the gibson, the edge radius is almost gone in some places and it dips down to the cavities.
I'll do a video at the weekend with some tones.
Wide sky style Les Paul with tailpiece?
Baum Wingman style with 24.75" scale and set neck?
Slightly smaller ES-335 with chambered solid back and carved top?
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg
I have moved the bass side back as far as I can without it falling off the posts and it's still quite sharp at the 12th fret. The post should be about 3mm back of where it is.
I'm thinking that the only option is to live with it (not sure I can) or plug with maple, redrill and try and make good the finish. Going to be impossible to make it invisible but might be hard to see from a distance.
Any better ideas?
The Signum should work nicely, it even works with straight posts I think.
The Signum could be an option, but I think it might still have to hang off the posts and look a bit odd...and it's 120 quid! I do like the look of the Faber.
It's a solid colour, so more forgiving than a clear one.
http://imgur.com/gallery/FTnFtbn
Adam
It's not a particularly exposed location so should be OK.
Although the prospect of redoing it is never nice after all that hard work - once you do the alteration youll be really glad you did it.
On my carve top build i under-angled the neck break angle slightly and couldnt get the bridge low enough
- so had to strip the hatdware and recarve the top to bring the bridge plane down another mm or two. I was loathe to do it , but glad that i have
Go for it - its such a great build that you want it to play perfectly too