Greetings, 2 of mine, not new but much loved!

[elskipper]

Hi. new to the forum, but long time customer from the 90's. Thought I'd post my two mutts

First up is an LP I purchased way back in about 94 or 95. Started life as an alder one-pickup white Les Paul Junior-type with a single Duncan '59 and a Schaller 456 bridge. First neck was a Chandler with huge frets and a reverse banana head, not by design, that's what I had. Never liked that neck, bought the 2nd one as soon as I could. It was a mahogany lp neck with a rosewood board. She's on her 3rd neck now after I broke the 2nd one beyond repair, now a maple 24 3/4" LP neck, nothing fancy just maple, rosewood and dots, just the way I like it She's since been routed for a neck pickup and an old Kahler I bought in '89. Never did like the Schaller bridge, she had a Carvin hardtail for a while, but the Kahler will be staying put now. New bridge pickup is an 80's MJ wound Duncan Distortion, and the original '59 has been moved to the neck. Many paint job revisions later, I've given up trying to make her pretty anymore, now I just play it to death....

Back shot showing the string ferrules from the Carvin bridge...

Pictured here with the goofy Bug that inspired the current ''finish'' (which in turn was inspired by old German fighter planes).

Next is my Tele-Gib. Built as a home for a Duncan SM_3 minibucker. Didn't like it in that guitar either, now houses a Gibby 490T. Wired up Esquire-fashion, I get a lot of great classic rock tones on this one....

 

[JaySwear]

very nice! love the bf-109 bug AND guitar haha very very cool. the esquire tele is pretty damn sweet too!

 

[Mor Paul]

I'm likin' that tele.

 

[elskipper]

Jay: Thank you!  ccasion14:

I don't have any old pictures of it anymore, it used to be white with a hand-cut white-black-white Les Paul Junior guard. It has been the subject of many many modification ideas, because it's what I had. She's one of my best players, despite being as ugly as she is!!!

I want to do an LPS with another Kahler and just the Distortion bridge pickup, but it'll be a while before I can.



Max: thanks, that was my first Tele despite having played for 20 years. Very glad I got it! The Esquire switching was the latest change, it really sounds great in the "Tone Bypass" position.

 

[Mor Paul]

Bent the switch, did you?

 

[elskipper]

Yeah, I kept whacking it. Got the idea from Erlewine's book. I do it to all my Tele's now.

 

[NLD09]

I'm loving that LP. It's making me rethink a few of my ideas.

 

[elskipper]

I'm loving that LP. It's making me rethink a few of my ideas.

Thank you! I have kicked the idea of refinishing it to make it a little prettier, but heck with it, she's fine th way she is  :icon_biggrin:

What did you have in mind for yours?

 

[NLD09]

Something along the lines of this.

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=222.0

From what I understand any flat top can be made to work with a 24 fret, 24 3/4th scale neck. A flat top  LP version might be just what i'm looking for.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Cool, like the matching "beetle"

 

[SlingBass]

I can appreciate a gorgeous guitar as much as the next guy...BUT...I truly enjoy a real played guitar shot any day  ccasion14:

 

[elskipper]

Thanks!

Might as well post this one as well, it's half a Warmoth. 12 string neck and a modified Squier body. With a pair of GFS Retrotron pickups of the Memphis variety, it sounds just fantastic!

 

[Mor Paul]

That looks pretty cool too.

 

[hannaugh]

Thanks!

Might as well post this one as well, it's half a Warmoth. 12 string neck and a modified Squier body. With a pair of GFS Retrotron pickups of the Memphis variety, it sounds just fantastic!

I like it.  :headbang:

 

[elskipper]

Thank you!

A friend of mine on another forum kind of inspired me to dig it out of the closet, I hadn't played it in a while.

Needed a final set-up, no idea what took me so long, but it's playing and sounding really good now!

 

[elskipper]

Finally found an old pic of the LP as originally completed, around '97 or '98. We were messing with my poor sister!!

 

[Nando Vallart]

It looked very good, but made me sad... this pic looks "old" and I was a teenager when it was taken, so I'm getting freaking old :sad:

 

[Unwound G]

Thirteen years later I am sure your sister now looks very different but amazingly, Slash still looks the same.

Nice guitars are interesting stories of each.

Can you remember where you got that LP Jr. pickguard ?  Did you had it cut or original Gibby's dimension fits a Warmoth Jr. ?

 

[elskipper]

It looked very good, but made me sad... this pic looks "old" and I was a teenager when it was taken, so I'm getting freaking old :sad:

Boy I hear you. I was a good 65 pounds lighter then, too. Maybe 75  :icon_biggrin:

Thirteen years later I am sure your sister now looks very different but amazingly, Slash still looks the same.

Nice guitars are interesting stories of each.

Can you remember where you got that LP Jr. pickguard ?  Did you had it cut or original Gibby's dimension fits a Warmoth Jr. ?

Oddly, my sister doesn't look all that different, except for a propensity for cowboy boots and Steelers jackets.

I hand-cut that white pickguard and the black one that is on it now on a VERY old scroll saw. All free-hand, took a good bit of shaping with sandpaper to get it right.  Kind of my personal take on the old Junior guard, it's intentionally rounder up near the top part, where a neck pickup would be.

Actually, the black one that is on it now is the original guard it had. It was replaced by the white one, then I modified both when I added the neck pickup route. The white one is now long gone.

Truth be told, looking at that picture, I think I'd like to build another white single pickup LP. This time build it from the get go with the same spec neck as the grey one and the Kahler. It'd be ice for her to have a younger sister, dontcha think?

 

[Dan025]

Finally found an old pic of the LP as originally completed, around '97 or '98. We were messing with my poor sister!!

oh man that reminds me of a strange girl that was hanging out with my friends when there band released there cd. i dont have the pictures but we took her hat and got her a top hat and some big glasses and threw my budies les paul studio in her lap.

she was cute as anything but alittle odd. i thought it was her accent (she was from puerto rico) combined with the fact that she like everyone else was drunk and/or high but the next day when we went to breakfast and she tagged along she was still a weirdo.  

i attached a pic of the girl but dont have the one with the hat and guitar,
we never saw her again after that day.