59 LP Build

jeremy-Budgen · 2011-01-17T13:33:41+00:00

calling any LP owners out there, i have recently be working on a model of the 59 and have just machined a top carving on my cnc with a supawood capping to see if the profiles are right, and i see that from the back of the body to the outside edge of the top is approx 50mm, is this correct, can some one out there measure theres and see if this dimension is correct, so that i can go on with the project. Thanks in advance Jeremy

jeremy-Budgen

Well i have finally gotten around to this project, and after finding some nice curly maple at country woods, i thought i had better start.

So here goes...

Firstly i made up the jigs for the body..

You can see the indexing pins i have incorporated in the machine design clearly.

Next i made an outside profile of the finished guitar with a little extra all round to trim off the final body...

Then i cut one of the sapele boards into three, as i have three children i thought i`d better make one for each of them, different colors so they will know who`s is who`s....

Then i did a rear route on all the bodies....

Then i laid the outside profile jig and marked and band-sawed all three to shape...

That`s about all i did today, after i had done some other wood working so i can make money as well as playing...

Will continue tomorrow with the inside routes on the bodies as well as lightening them as well...

Attila

hey that brilliant Jeremy.

Please pm me your email addy, I may have have some goodies for you

Attila

singemonkey

Kif to see this build going forward.

Are these African Mahogany? What's the weight like? Any way of estimating their final weight if you leave them solid - I'm a sucker for traditional solid-body LPs. My Tokai has a solid back and is very manageable, although I'll admit that my old Gibson is so heavy it's a bit much to wear it for more than 35 mins or so.

jeremy-Budgen

Attila pm sent

Singe thanks getting there at last, the wood is sapele and they weight in a 3.2kg`s at the moment, but i expect to get that down after doing a lightening tomorrow. Can you weigh yours so i can see then they are completed how much of a difference there is.

flatfourfan

awesome builds...........3???..........that's just showing off........ol

jeremy-Budgen

Thanks guys i will see what i can do today.

Planning on inside routing and lightening, then sanding the tops, then to cut out the outside profiles and finally glue them to the sapele backs, then tomorrow i will do the carving on the tops.

ET-Phone-Home

Please forgive me if this is a dof question :? but are these builds for yourself? Or maybe for friends or do you sell them? ???

Attila

@ ET - we dont like to talk about this but Jeremy has a multiple personality disorder, the net effect is that he does everything in 3's

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@ Jeremy - converter on its way

singemonkey

I'm going to try get my hands on a scale today and weigh my LPs.

I'd like to see you leave one solid though, for comparison ?

jeremy-Budgen

@ET these are for my three little ones to get them of to a good start in the music industry, 11,9 and 5 i will keep the five year olds one back at the moment until he is a bit older.

Once i have gotten all the finer details ironed out, i think i might just get around to building for other people.

Thanks again attila for the files you sent and now i understand where the three thing comes from, no you don`t, yes i do, who the hell are you, i don`t know who`s who these days only horton know`s best.....

jeremy-Budgen

Here`s what i got done today.

Firstly just a few photo`s of the machine i use its a biesse rover 2.3 machine, mainly for my cabinet business..

Firstly i routed the inside of the rear portion of the guitar for the control cavity and selection switch..

and within the same file it routed the lightening chambers, i weighed the bodies before doing this file and all three were very similar in weight coming in at 3.2 kg`s and after doing all the routing they weighted 2.5 kg`s.

Then i sanded the curly maple tops to thickness..

and then finally glued the tops to the backs, sorry for the bad quality photo it was a bit dark in part of my workshop today..

When i take off the clamps i will check that the body is straight, and if not i will skim the back before putting them back on to the cnc for the top carving.

ET-Phone-Home

jeremy Budgen wrote @ET these are for my three little ones to get them of to a good start in the music industry, 11,9 and 5 i will keep the five year olds one back at the moment until he is a bit older.

Once i have gotten all the finer details ironed out, i think i might just get around to building for other people.

Thanks again attila for the files you sent and now i understand where the three thing comes from, no you don`t, yes i do, who the hell are you, i don`t know who`s who these days only horton know`s best.....

Lol lucky little buggers ? Well if you do decide to build these for other people please let me know. ?
Good luck with the project ?

jeremy-Budgen

After taking off the clamps i checked the backs and found that they were a flat as a pancake so that good..

Then i took them to the cnc and did the re curve on the tops which took three hours to do all three..

Found that they actually came out very nicely apart from the one that's got a mark near to where the necks fits so hopefully i will be able to cover it with the fret board..

As i only have one set of tune o matic bridge i will only do the pups and post holes on the better one for know, but i will order two more sets plus pups for the other two at a later stage..

Might get to that tomorrow, depends if we go out..

kp247

Hell this is amazing! Are you going to put the Gibson and Les Paul logos on the headstock?

Can I put my money down for one too?

deefstes

kp247 wroteAre you going to put the Gibson and Les Paul logos on the headstock?

jeremy-Budgen

I think that would be pushing it legally wise.

Probably will go for the name of my children, but one of them is called martin so i`d better be careful there lol...

StephenG

jeremy Budgen wrote I think that would be pushing it legally wise.

Probably will go for the name of my children, but one of them is called martin so i`d better be careful there lol...

onE kid called Les one Kid called PaUL.. and the adopted one- Gibson.?

deefstes

jeremy Budgen wroteProbably will go for the name of my children, but one of them is called martin so i`d better be careful there lol...

Haha, I can already see it. How to infuriate two guitar companies with one headstock:

shaunf

*DROOL*

You can't seriously tell me you're going to spray a solid colour over those tops are you? Don't listen to your kids. They may want pink guitars now, but later they will wish they were 'burst tops.

Ok wait, let me stop being polite. If you do anything other than put a burst finish on those tops, you're going straight to HELL, Mister! >☹

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jeremy-Budgen

And so whats wrong with pink i prefer it to brown...

Firstly i thought of doing it like this..

Then i thought about this..

and finally i thought about this..

so which one would you choose if you had the chance of a lifetime to get free (well not for me any how) Les Paul guitar.

Lets take a poll over this..

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