My DIY Led Paul

[Kenneth G]

Built my guitar about a year ago and still love it. I had the electronics replaced, but the rest of the work is mine.

[Canada Moose]

Wow, that is beautiful, and i’m so impressed that you built it yourself. Congratulations. Did I mention that’s it’s beautiful?
When are we going to hear it in action?

[jadm]

Very Good job!
did you build from a kit or order the parts separately?
and did you run into any problems fitting the neck to the body and getting the string height to work for you?

[Garry]

Looks incredible. You’re one highly skilled luthier! Congratulations!

[Kenneth G]

Thanks Fella’s

I’m an amateur luthier at best. This was a kit, so I just had to finish and assemble. Luckily I have a woodworking background so that helped me quite a bit in that regard.

The neck fit perfectly, the only real problem I had on the kit is that some of the glue from the veneer leaked onto the top and I had to sand that off without burning through the top and losing my wood grain finish.

String height was tricky I actually took it to my local guitar shop to have that fine tuned. When I first put it together to the strings were WAY high off the fretboard.

It may not be a Gibson, but its pretty cool to play a guitar you built yourself. I bet if I ever played a Gibson or Epiphone Id notice some differences, but Im blissfully ignorant and I think it sounds good.

[sunjamr]

Lovely! And did you save much money by building it yourself?

Sunjamr Steve

[Kenneth G]

When it was all said and done Id say it cost about as much as a used Epiphone Les Paul.

It would of been less if I didnt switch out the electronics. The stuff that came with the kit did work and sound ok to practice with, but needed an upgrade if I wanted to do more with it.

Definitely didn’t cost as much as a Gibson 😉

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