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schrammguitars
 Post subject: Finished my first LP
PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:51 pm 
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Recently finished my first LP build. There are three pages to the build diary if you want to see step by step how I built it.

The build diary home page: http://schrammguitars.com/Les_Paul_Build.html
The neck:http://schrammguitars.com/LP_NECK.html
The body:http://schrammguitars.com/LP_BODY.html
The fingerboard:http://schrammguitars.com/LP_FINGERBOARD.html
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Ken C
 Post subject: Re: Finished my first LP
PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:55 pm 
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Very nice, David! Great job with the finish! Gorgeous! Mind sharing a few details on your finishing process? Did you mask bindings or just spray and scrape? How did you do your burst, hand or spray?

I am just at that point with mine and am debating how best to approach it. Would appreciate whatever steps you could share.

Also saw you ran your strings out the back of the tailpiece and over the top. Never seen that done before. Was this intentional or were you just testing us? :D

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:26 pm 
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Thats for sharing your build pics. I'm ready to start my own lp build but I couldn't figure out how to do the tilt for the neck.
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Hesh
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Beautiful David - absolutely beautiful!!! [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap] [clap]
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Bob Shanklin
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:21 pm 
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David

Beautiful guitar.

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Mike Baker
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 11:06 pm 
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Beautiful work! Absolutely gorgeous!
Ken, I'm not David, but the way he wrapped the strings around the tailpiece is typically done to get a better break angle over the saddles, so that the tailpiece can be screwed down flush with the body and the strings will clear the back of the bridge without touching. It is kind of an old school way of doing it that you don't see a lot of, but is the way I string mine as well. Some people think that you get more sustain with the tailpiece flush to the body(I tend to agree).

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:40 am 
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nice pictorial!! i love the binding man, that neck veener is beautiful man very nice, makes me want to building electrics. very nice indeed.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:06 pm 
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Stringing Lps that way also gives a slinkier feel as well, to my digits that is.

David, Great job.

I am jealous...in a good way.

That finish looks like thick honey over wood colorant - beautiful.
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James Orr
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:44 am 
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Fantastic. I love the way you created the neck angle! Heath Blaire is in Visalia, but other than that, I had no idea another builder was so close. I'm building a Les Paul with the Bartlett templates, too.
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Ken C
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Mike Baker wrote:
I'm not David, but the way he wrapped the strings around the tailpiece is typically done to get a better break angle over the saddles, so that the tailpiece can be screwed down flush with the body and the strings will clear the back of the bridge without touching. It is kind of an old school way of doing it that you don't see a lot of, but is the way I string mine as well. Some people think that you get more sustain with the tailpiece flush to the body(I tend to agree).


Makes sense. I had never noticed one strung that way before. Thanks for enlightening me!

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alan stassforth
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 8:56 pm 
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sweet!
what colors did you mix up to get that dark red, or what i might call plum?
i can't seem to get that color,
and i think it's beautiful.
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douglas ingram
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:52 pm 
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Nice job! Like I'm surprised...

I was wondering how it was coming along when I saw your post about the lattice bracing.

How do you like it?

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Nice work..!!

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