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Well while VB got his strat project, my grandpa (golfxzq if you dont already know) and I got a new les paul project. He found at a garage sale on friday for 25 bucks. :thumbsup:[attachment=0]
sorry if the pictures are bad. I took them with my phone. We dont know the brand. we think somebody painted over the headstock because you can see brush marks. there is also someones intials on the head. we have some parts but not a lot so please give recommendations on what to use to make this a blues machine.
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A brand-less LP. Nice project.
Funny to see the tuners still present but even the bridge and tail studs are pulled out.
Judging from the photos I can't make out if it is a solid wood or layerd (ply? wood) body.
The only photo, - photo 4- that is clear enough to see the state of the paint on the guitar seems to show a nicely aged paint layer, at least on the back of the body, that's vintage !
If the front of the body has a likewise aged paint layer, I would leave it on ! instant relic and it does the guitars age justice.
The neck and the headstock are difficult to judge by the pictures right now, but if the damage isn't in the way when you slide your hand across the neck AND the paint has aged as beautifully as the body's has. I would consider leaving it -as it is-

Do a check if the neck is still "straight" and hasn't warped. If not, try to find some used hardware (bridge - tailpiece humbuckers [zebra ! ]) get a new set of pot's, switch, wire and a capacitor. put it together for a testdrive end see how she plays and sounds. Then make up your mind about taking this beauty apart for a makeover. (I wouldn't if I could get away with it)

My choice would be to try and restore it to a playable state and leave this grand ol' lady her dignity :) an aged look almost makes her a BLUES MACHINE

When shopping for the bridge and tailpiece, make sure your have measured the distance between and size of the stud holes.
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My earlier attempt at a post here vanished into the ether - but HBLs post has said it better, so that's worked out well.

That's a good find by grandpa for $25! :clap:

At least with it being a bolt on neck it is easier to replace either the body or the neck if necessary. Hopefully the neck is in good shape, and nice and straight.

HBL's right - when you get any of the hardware double check (if not treble check) on the measurements. As far as I recall (it's a long time since I attempted a Les Paul bolt on self build) there are even different lengths of spindle on the pots depending on the thickness of the body shell between the top and the cavity.

If you're getting new pups might be worth considering one of the newer makers trying to make a name for themselves - can get really good value for money but a quality product too. Some of the established big name makers have terrifying prices (especially if you're not sure of the overall quality you can get from the body / neck in the first place).

Once you've got enough new parts on to be able to test drive you can start thinking about whether any of the existing parts might need an upgrade / renewal.

Sounds to me like you've got an exciting project on the go here. I look forward to seeing (and especially hearing!) progress. :thumbsup:
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:big_smile: Thanks for the great advice HBL & VB... I removed the neck and it seems to be nice and straight and not twisted. The frets really need to be replaced, but I'm not sure I'm up for that just yet, any advice on that? We were in hopes it was a Gibson or Epi but tonight I gently sanded down the headstock paint job layer-by-layer... no logo... DARN!! It's just as well, I've never refurbished a guitar, this is a learning experience for me and Aggiefan so I don't guess it would be a good idea to learn on a $$$$ guitar. I see your points about the "vintage" look but I've been a woodworker all my life, I just can't resist the challenge. However, I don't plan on trying to make her look new... just better. I will probably do a light overcoat just to hide the blemishes and then put on some new lacquer to make her shine. I'll post some progress pictures from time to time if anyone is interested. I am working on the body/neck/wiring part and Aggiefan is picking out and finding deals on the parts we will need. The guy who sold it to me had the pots so I can check the stem lengths. All of the cavity covers were included as well as three out of the four knobs. We may replace them all and go with gold, haven't decided yet. There is no input jack and no head nut but those are easy to come by. Aggiefan has already found some on ebay. Only one pickup included, so new pups are in order.

The inlays are rather crude but not terrable, another indication that it was not made by Gibson. Someone, years ago, slopped some stain on the fretboard so I spent a couple of hours cleaning that up with a little mineral spirits and 600 grit sandpaper. I would love to remove the frets and sand the entire neck, but I did the best I could, being careful to go with the grain. In the picture, I was actually working my way up the fretboard, the nice clean, shiny area is what I had already cleaned but it was still wet with mineral spirits so you can see what it might look like once it is finished.

We plan on adding some sort of decal or logo to the headstock... more research.
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Golfxzq wrote:I removed the neck and it seems to be nice and straight and not twisted. The frets really need to be replaced, but I'm not sure I'm up for that just yet, any advice on that?
Good start that the neck looks OK - hmm, hopefully someone here can advise on fret repalcements - one of a number of guitar maintenance jobs I've never had the nerve to do - mind you, I've tended not to have guitars old enough to need it.
Golfxzq wrote:We were in hopes it was a Gibson or Epi but tonight I gently sanded down the headstock paint job layer-by-layer... no logo... DARN!! It's just as well, I've never refurbished a guitar, this is a learning experience for me and Aggiefan
It's a nerve-racking experience enough doing the first refurb, so you're right, a "no-name" guitar is probably the best patient.

Golfxzq wrote:I see your points about the "vintage" look but I've been a woodworker all my life, I just can't resist the challenge. However, I don't plan on trying to make her look new... just better. I will probably do a light overcoat just to hide the blemishes and then put on some new lacquer to make her shine. I'll post some progress pictures from time to time if anyone is interested.
I'm very interested in seeing progress pics, especially when a skilled lifelong woodworker is involved. I am quite nervous about the "finishing" side of guitar builds and refurbs. Not as frightened as when doing soldering :sad: , but it's close.
Golfxzq wrote:I am working on the body/neck/wiring part and Aggiefan is picking out and finding deals on the parts we will need. The guy who sold it to me had the pots so I can check the stem lengths. All of the cavity covers were included as well as three out of the four knobs. We may replace them all and go with gold, haven't decided yet. There is no input jack and no head nut but those are easy to come by. Aggiefan has already found some on ebay. Only one pickup included, so new pups are in order.
Sounds very organised and under control. If you do go gold, probably best not to go too low budget as the gold finish has a tendency to wear away, particularly on the cheap stuff. I remember having a pair of gold finish pickups, which after a couple of years where silver between the end of the pickup and the first string, from the contact they got from my playing hand. :wall: You've got a big choice of pickups, but as I said in my earlier post there are some very good options out there other than just the usual Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio etc.
Golfxzq wrote:Someone, years ago, slopped some stain on the fretboard so I spent a couple of hours cleaning that up with a little mineral spirits and 600 grit sandpaper. I would love to remove the frets and sand the entire neck, but I did the best I could, being careful to go with the grain. In the picture, I was actually working my way up the fretboard, the nice clean, shiny area is what I had already cleaned but it was still wet with mineral spirits so you can see what it might look like once it is finished.
Wow - what is it they say about a picture paints a thousand words. If you can get the neck fingerboard to look like that when finished that'll be a great success. :drool:
Golfxzq wrote:We plan on adding some sort of decal or logo to the headstock... more research.
That will be most interesting too. Something I've thought of doing a few times, and never got round to, or should that read chickened out of? :icon_whoknows:

Please keep posting updates. I think you could get a beauty out of this. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you both. :thumbsup:
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Headstock... Who is MG; I would say a hooligan who understands on guitars as much as a pig on silver-spoon :big_smile: :cry:
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Hay Aggifan , (and Granddad) I have looked for a good explanation how to do a fret job. I choose to pick a site that give some pics, because my english is to poor to explain it all the way. But before you take the frets out you can try to save them by sanding them carfully with a straith piece of wood with some fine sandpaper glued on it make the strokes side wards over the frets to flatten them over the full length, and keep the radius in tact Take car that the hight in the middle is not lower than on the sides of the neck, After that the frets needed to became round again There are special files you can buy but i used a small 3sides Keyfile fore it and tape the fredboard firts in with some ducttape ore a piece of plastic from a blisterpack. I hope this is usefull. If you placed in new frets you have to do this job anyway so try it en learn if it works it wli do for years and if in did not you learn al lot from it.

Anny way here is a link on ( you tube there are all so inc some vids) http://www.instructables.com/id/Poor-Mans-Fret-Job/

Good luck with the job I be the proud owner of a collection of scrapheap saved examples of el cheapo's, and rare examples (16 pieces )
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:clap: Thanks for all the info and encouragement guys....

ElMano... you have gotten me psyched about changing the frets myself now... great web link. By taking off the fret wires I will be able to do a much better job on the neck. I may give this a go.

I agree with you Pena... who would SCRATCH his initials in a headstock? Actually... "MG" went even a step further... he etched his full name and social security number into the neck plate.... I will not disclose this information... I don't know who he may be but letting this info out could cause him some major headaches.

Thanks again to all...
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:yikes: I've done it now... ElMano's link on replacing fret wires gave me courage... I used a razor knife to cut the bond along each wire to try to minimize the chip out, heated each wire (a lot) with a soldering iron. At first I tried gently prying the ends up with a tool... nothing. Finally I got up my courage and grabbed one with my needle nosed pliers, held the neck in my lap, and gave it a hefty tug... popped right out.

I still got a little chip out on a few frets. With no fret wires I was able to give it a proper sanding (400 and 600 grit on a foam pad). I tried to save as much of the the sanding dust as possible in a plastic bag. After I was satisfied with the sanding job I used a toothpick to spread tiny bits of white glue in the chipped out places. Then I packed the spots with the saved sanding dust. Tomorrow I'll give it another sanding to smooth out these little spots. With the proper stain and lacquer finish they should not be visible at all. Now... got to get some new fret wire and see what I can do with it.

Aggiefan has found us a new nut on ebay (plastic, but that will be OK for this guitar)... ordered it tonight. He is now looking for a set of good, but reasonable, tuners. Any suggestions? Nothing real expensive but good quality. We are going to go with silver trim for a couple of reasons... 1. VB said that we would need good quality gold or it would wear off (Uh.. lots more $$, no thanks) and 2. We already have some of the trim parts that came with the guitar and they are silver so we are going to try to shine them up and use what we can.

More to come....
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Golfxzq wrote:He is now looking for a set of good, but reasonable, tuners. Any suggestions? Nothing real expensive but good quality. We are going to go with silver trim for a couple of reasons... 1. VB said that we would need good quality gold or it would wear off (Uh.. lots more $$, no thanks) and 2. We already have some of the trim parts that came with the guitar and they are silver so we are going to try to shine them up and use what we can.
:aha: For good value for money budget end hardware I've always found Wilkinson parts to be a good bet, but I don't know how easily they are available in the US. Wilkinson is UK based - he owns Fret-King guitars and has had a major hand in restyling the "Vintage" brand and making it a major contnder in the budget market. He specialises in maximising what can be got out of a lower budget. They do a range of 3x3 machine heads including Rotamatic, Kluson, Schaller styles. This is just a link to a UK site but it shows the sort of range that's available:-
http://www.axesrus.com/Axe3x3Machine.html

You have my admiration for taking the fret issue bull by the horns - nice trick with the glued sanding dust - that's what experience does for you! Good luck with the replacement fret wire. :thumbsup:
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Wow !! You guys are buzzin along here !!

Must be a hive of industry in your workshop .........neck off , sanding , fret wires out !! ................Phew!!

It's lovely to watch ..............I am not feeling great temptation to join the DIY guitar brigade at the moment though.

More than happpy to be an armchair supporter :D

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Nice Job you guitar(RE)builders :peace: I found a pcture on a Dutch builders forum where they give advise and show there solutions for the things that come up while the process is going on. This is a selfmade fret bender to give the new fretwire the exact radius fore the fingerboard, maybe something you can use??
Over her i can buy the wire and the do it for me when i give them the radius for the board. But i am planning to build one myself now
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Check out Stewart Macdonald. They have all the tools and parts to do any kind of lutherie job, and lots of good tips and advice. I did my first fret job a few years ago, (on my '52 Gibson ES-125 :yikes: ) and it went quite well. (actually it needs a little work now, it set too long in our arid climate and a couple are pulling up :sad: )
El Mano is right, you need to pre bend them or you will never get the ends to lay down. Also, a radiused sanding block is great for doing the bare fretboard and the frets after installation. They aren't too much from StewMac, and can be useful for maintaining the frets on a guitar that is played a lot.
Hmmm, my Strat is coming due for a fret job soon :sad:
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:pray: Thanks for all the great tips and links. Here is the status for tonight... more filling of those little chip-outs on the neck, it takes several layers. As the glue sets up the little patch shrinks in and you have to layer in another bit of sanding dust and glue. Sort of boring and repetitious, so no pictures of that.

Aggiefan came over after his school today and cleaned the body, sorted out all the miscellaneous parts that came with the guitar and made a list of what we will need. He is on an ebay shopping spree..

I took the cleaned body and did a little epoxy filling of a bad spot and painted the body cavities. That's not really necessary, just makes for a cleaner looking repair job.

So far the work has been mostly cosmetic but we have been talking about how we will rebuild the guitar. I've got a few questions that I hope you guys can help us out with...

First off... VB, I have been following your Strat project very closely, all the tips and information have helped me think forward of the things that we will have to watch for. This project is not nearly as sweet as your Strat... that is a beautiful guitar. Similar but different projects, yours is a total build, ours is a refurb.
HalfBlindLefty wrote:Judging from the photos I can't make out if it is a solid wood or layerd (ply? wood) body.
Plywood, I'm afraid... but that's OK since it is our first guitar project.
HalfBlindLefty wrote:try to find some used hardware (bridge - tailpiece humbuckers [zebra ! ]) get a new set of pot's, switch, wire and a capacitor.
It came with a few parts... no bridge, no tailpiece, no pickups, three of the four studs. It has pots and a selector switch. Should we reuse them or buy new? I told Aggiefan tonight that we should use what we have and if there is a problem we could change them out... mistake or not?? How about wire? Any specifics on what gauge to use? Regular plastic insulated wire or anything special?

Thanks HBL & VB for the hardware and hole info... great to know that there could be a difference.
VikingBlues wrote:Once you've got enough new parts on to be able to test drive you can start thinking about whether any of the existing parts might need an upgrade / renewal.
OK... I guess that answers one of my questions... try it with what we have and swap out what might be needed??
It came with one humbucker but it's in pretty poor shape and we don't even know what kind it is so we aren't even going to try it... new pups!

ElMano... your link on fret replacement was excellent... gave me courage, thanks.
VikingBlues wrote::aha: For good value for money budget end hardware I've always found Wilkinson parts to be a good bet, but I don't know how easily they are available in the US. Wilkinson is UK based - he owns Fret-King guitars and has had a major hand in restyling the "Vintage" brand and making it a major contnder in the budget market. He specialises in maximising what can be got out of a lower budget. They do a range of 3x3 machine heads including Rotamatic, Kluson, Schaller styles. This is just a link to a UK site but it shows the sort of range that's available:-
http://www.axesrus.com/Axe3x3Machine.html
OK... tuners (machine heads is the proper term?). The ones which came on the head had two screws holding them onto the head. The ones we have found on ebay have one screw. I can modify the head to accept the one screw type but is this something to be cautious of?
Strummer07 wrote:More than happpy to be an armchair supporter :D
And we are certainly happy to have the support... thanks.
ElMano wrote:This is a selfmade fret bender to give the new fretwire the exact radius fore the fingerboard, maybe something you can use??
Another great link... I can make something similar. Thanks for the great tips, I can tell you have done this before.
I especially like the beer bottle to the right... I will probably make an American style bender... with a Budweiser.
BlindBoy wrote:Check out Stewart Macdonald.
Will do... thanks.
BlindBoy wrote:Also, a radiused sanding block is great for doing the bare fretboard and the frets after installation. They aren't too much from StewMac, and can be useful for maintaining the frets on a guitar that is played a lot.
I made a radiused sanding block at first but the taper on the fretboard made it hard to use, I kept getting out of the radius so I ended up using a foam pad to sand down the fretboard. I would guess that a professionally made board would be easier to use and more accurate. After replacing the frets will I need to sand them to get the proper radius? I'll check this out from StewMac.

Take a look at the last picture... the neck cavity. This worries me a bit, but I guess we should expect these kinds of things from a "no-name" copy LP. There is lacquer in the cavity. It seems like it might have run down between the neck and body and hardened in the bottom. One spot (where the knife blade is) is loose. I hesitate to remove this because this is the way it came off and if I remove this bit it will take out some wood and could affect the neck to body contact. But,then again, it is loose... I thought of waxing the neck, pouring some sort of thin liquid wood filler in this area and bolting the neck on and letting it dry. Or maybe I should just glue this bit down and bolt the neck on. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks Everyone....
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Golfxzq wrote:
HalfBlindLefty wrote:Judging from the photos I can't make out if it is a solid wood or layerd (ply? wood) body.
Plywood, I'm afraid... but that's OK since it is our first guitar project.
Yes, I agree. Also with it being a bolt on then either the body &/or neck can be upgraded in the future if necessary.
Golfxzq wrote:
HalfBlindLefty wrote:try to find some used hardware (bridge - tailpiece humbuckers [zebra ! ]) get a new set of pot's, switch, wire and a capacitor.
It came with a few parts... no bridge, no tailpiece, no pickups, three of the four studs. It has pots and a selector switch. Should we reuse them or buy new? I told Aggiefan tonight that we should use what we have and if there is a problem we could change them out... mistake or not?? How about wire? Any specifics on what gauge to use? Regular plastic insulated wire or anything special?
Is there a name or any reference numbers stamped on the back of the pots that might indicate to us the quality? If it has a full set then it's probably worth trying to use them, although I do know if I do that I'm reluctant to change later due to all the unsoldering and resoldering (not my favourite job!). Any decent guitar parts supplier should have shielded/insulated pot wire that will do the job. Possibly over the top to go the full hog and get vintage cloth wire - this is not the easiest to work with in any case.
Golfxzq wrote:It came with one humbucker but it's in pretty poor shape and we don't even know what kind it is so we aren't even going to try it... new pups!
Very sensible - you need a mtched pair for both sound and power rating.
Golfxzq wrote:OK... tuners (machine heads is the proper term?). The ones which came on the head had two screws holding them onto the head. The ones we have found on ebay have one screw. I can modify the head to accept the one screw type but is this something to be cautious of?
Both my Hagstrom and Tokai have single screw machine heads and I don't remeber havingg this decision to make on my self builds. I think you need to be pretty sure that the size of the fitting on machine heads you buy is right for the diameter of holes in the neck head - I guess this is a more important factor than the number of screws which is more of a cosmetic problem. I think someone else can mayne better advise on this - I've always tended to get my necks and machine heads from the same place so that I can be sure they'll match!
Golfxzq wrote:Take a look at the last picture... the neck cavity. This worries me a bit, but I guess we should expect these kinds of things from a "no-name" copy LP. There is lacquer in the cavity. It seems like it might have run down between the neck and body and hardened in the bottom. One spot (where the knife blade is) is loose. I hesitate to remove this because this is the way it came off and if I remove this bit it will take out some wood and could affect the neck to body contact. But,then again, it is loose... I thought of waxing the neck, pouring some sort of thin liquid wood filler in this area and bolting the neck on and letting it dry. Or maybe I should just glue this bit down and bolt the neck on. Any thoughts on this?
I would tend to leave as is unless it looks like it might stop the neck from sitting fully embedded in the neck cavity. If it is a bit loose it should be squashed tight by bolting on the neck. But .. I am just guessing here.

Nice to see the progress and things taking shape. Be warned though - this might be habit forming! :big_smile:
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I have give a Chinese J&D Les Paul a big sustain boost by place in the neck & cavity one ½inch dowel between the screws. The neckconnection will by much more strong and special on the plywood body's If the neck and the neck cavity is not exact matching you ar able to higher ore lower the angle by gluer a layer of fineer and sanding it down till it fits perfect. Afther that and when the neck is fitting well you can glue it whit the kind of glue that fills and became hard as a rock. It has done a amazing job on my bolt on neck Les Paul that now sounds like a setneck. Even think about put in some P90 pick ups that wil give the special vintage sound of the blues, Check out on youtube the difference between the sounds!!
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El Mano is right. If the neck is acceptable, and you get the angles right, glueing it in is a good way to get more sustain. There is a thread on shimming a strat style neck which should cover some questions. I have also drilled a bunch of quarter inch deep holes in the bottom and sides of the neck pocket, and used gunsmithing glass bedding compound and techniques to install a bolt on neck with good results. (after all shimming was finished)
By the way, a way to check the neck angle without having to string it up is to use a metal straight edge from the bridge to the nut. :thumbsup:
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:beer: Thanks ElMano, VB and BB... all great tips. I guess I need to do a little research on how to set the neck properly. We don't have a bridge or a nut yet. The nut is on order and we are still shopping for a bridge so setting the neck will be down the road a bit anyway. I haven't thought of gluing the neck into place. That defeats the ability to remove it if that would ever become necessary but if all is correct, why should we ever have to? I'm glad to hear of this approach, it will be much easier than trying to repair that little uneven area in the cavity.

I'm not posting pictures tonight... today I taped off the neck and stained the fretboard and constructed a temporary paint booth.

More later... thanks again.
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VikingBlues wrote:Is there a name or any reference numbers stamped on the back of the pots that might indicate to us the quality?
There are three small pots and one larger one. Two of the small pots have A500K and 3J on the back. One of the small pots has B500K and 3H on the back. The larger pot only has 6E on the back. The small pots are 5/8" diameter and the larger one is 7/8" diameter. Two of the smaller pots have capacitors soldered on with the letters SAM HWA and 2A473 on them. I found a company on-line with the name SAMWHA which makes capacitors, but no SAMHWA. I double checked, and that is the correct lettering on the capacitors.

I found the attached wiring diagram on line... it says to ground the wiring to the neck. Does anyone know how this is done? Is it connected to the truss rod? Is it just tucked under the neck? Something else?

Last night I stained the neck and it is drying. I also started over spraying the body in my home-made spray booth. Not much other progress... the staining, painting, and sealing is going to take a while. Meanwhile we will be gathering up the hardware and asking you guys for the proper way to install it all.

Thanks for the help...
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The ground should be on the bridge, that's what the schematic in your last post is stating to. (that way the strings are connected to ground)

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