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Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:26 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Now I am back to the body. I made a paper templet to transfer the location of the pickups, and channels for the wire.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:27 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Then I cut the 1/4' MDF to use a a routing guide.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:30 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here is a pict of the body after the route. I made the recess for the P-90s deeper than I think I will need at the sugestion of a friend, who told me that I should add shims later to get the height right after the bridge is installed.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:33 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
I did the same thing for the access panel on the back. I made a templet, and then routed a recess for the walnut cover plate.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:34 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
I then cut a plate from the walnut.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:36 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Then using a fostner bit I drilled a recess for the end jack.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:46 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
I am using a set of plans for the Les Paul that has a carved top. I am not going to carve the top, so I had to re-figure the neck angle. I made a full size layout on butcher paper, and used two straight edges to find the right angle for the action. In this case 2 degrees seemed to be right. Then using a hollow chistle morticer, I drilled a recess on the neck block to create the tenon of the neck.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:50 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
I posted the wrong picture on the last post. Here is the picture of the morticer. I then routed the mortice in the body for the neck (previous picture).

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:52 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here I am gluing on the neck.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:54 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Using a round over bit I routed the body.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:56 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here is a shot of the body, with the top glued on and the roundover sanded.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:59 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
And here is a shot from the front. I am getting close. I am not sure I wil make the deadline, but I am going to try. This is my first electric, and I am having fun just holding it. I am glad I decided to join the challenge.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:57 am
by Tristan Williams
Thats looking great!
I'm always glad to join the challenge, it gives me a push to do something and an excuse to try new things.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:07 pm
by david frassetto
I agree, That looks great! I really like the top, the way the lighter stripe comes down the middle. My favorite version of the Les Paul. Keep pushing on, I don't want to be the only one to finish mine <BG>.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:01 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
I finished last night! I have got a bunch of pictures to post, but she's done. I am very happy! I put D'Addario 010-046 strings in it and it plays great. I love how easy it is to set the action with the tune o matic bridge. The best part for me was that my Rogue amp has an earphone out, so I can play late at night without bothering anybody. I played last night until about 1;00 am. I couldn't put it down. Here are some pictures of what I did in the last couple of days. The first is a shot of the control recess area, I applied copper tape to shield the cavity.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:06 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
I did the same thing for the pickup recess.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:12 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here is a shot of the wiring. I used a schematic from Stew-mac for two P90 and single tone and volume setup. I grounded the bridge by drilling a hole from the cavity to the bridge mounting hole, and running a ground wire before I installed the bridge.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:18 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here is a shot of the top with the bridge installed. I messed up a little bit here, the strings don't line up exactly with the 6 magnet screws on the P90's. There off by about 1/16". I plays great, and dosen't seem to effect the output from the pickups any, but I might adjust them later.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:23 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here are a few shots of the finished Les Paul. First a shot of the peghead. The trussrod plate is just double faced taped on for now, I have to get some sm black screws.

Re: $100 Local Materials Challenge,Patrick DeGreve's Pine walnut Les Paul Jr.

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:24 pm
by Patrick DeGreve
Here is a shot of the back.