Les Paul Jr. Photos

This guitar is a bolt-on version of the popular Les Paul style guitar, hence the Jr. naming.  The guitar has a pair of Lindy Fralin P-90 pickups.  This is basically a kit guitar build but a great learning tool.  The paint is a Nitrocellulose lacquer with a two-color burst of black and translucent amber.

Just finished up cleaning the frets.

The spraying is finished and you can see a bit of the dimples towards the edge of the guitar.  Wet sanding here I come.

After wet sanding and a good buffing.

In the middle of spraying clear coats to protect the burst.

Putting the last pieces together, adding the output jack.

Body and neck before wet sanding.

Taped off frets to prevent having to scrape the lacquer off the fret board.

Added Gotoh tuners.

You can start to see the depth of that amber color with a bit of flash.

Same photo as above but without the flash.

Working on soldering all the electronics together.

Tune-o-matic bridge and tail piece.

Getting ready to wet sand.

Les Paul Jr.

This guitar is a bolt-on version of the popular Les Paul style guitar, hence the Jr. naming.  The guitar has a pair of Lindy Fralin P-90 pickups.  This is basically a kit guitar build but a great learning tool.  The paint is a Nitrocellulose lacquer with a two-color burst of black and translucent amber.

Coming Soon

The archtop will start in late April, pictures will be added at that time.

The Shop Basics

Below are photos from the school.  The student workbench, a neck jig, a small shot of the CNC room, and a quick photo of the spray booth.

The standard bench that I use day in and day out.  It is roughly  48" wide, 38" tall and 24" deep.

The desk looks like this every day.  Cleanup happens before lunch and before  leaving for the day.

This a is a neck jig that has been mounted on top of a storage cabinet.  It is a good idea and space saving if you have the ability and tools to make.

This is the CNC room, basically a computer controlled router  that can move on 3 different axis.

Half of the spray booth.  It is about the size of a  1 1/2 car garage.

Amp Photos

All end to end soldering by hand, no solid-state parts.

Standard Fender Tweed with Oxblood grill cloth.

All together now...

A Jensen C12Q, 35Watt, 1.25" cone, and 8 ohm.

Put together from the top down.