Thread: gibson double cutaway

start here Make Your Own Electric Guitar - Hiscock : CARBA-TEC

read through the threads on here...
plenty of info


that dude looks like a catfish

Yep, that book is great, Arran, and welcome to the forum. There is a cheap but reasonable source of parts at Home.

If you want to clone that guitar exactly, other than the stupid stickers then fair enough, but there is are quite a few decisions to make in any case.

When I started out building my 2, I read through the first 25 or so pages of posts here; there's an amazing amount of good information, and even a lot of the stuff that had no immediate relevance to me has been filed away for a rainy day when I encounter something similar.

Good luck, and ask questions.

Andrew

This should help a bit

New Build - LP DC Pro - My Les Paul Forums

thanks heaps guys, indeed i will be asking a lot of questions haha, speaking of questions where is a good CHEAP site to order desings / stencils?

Originally Posted by arran101

i have about 12 weeks to do it which is 4 one hour classes each week so with the proper planning im hopeing ill be able to pull it off.

So you've got 48 hours to build this guitar. Like you say it's going to require some very good planning. I'd be doing a detailed written plan for each session with time allocated to tasks etc. Id also be thinking of what could go wrong or not to plan and have contingency plans in place for same.

If you were attempting an acoustic I'd be having serious reservations....I take around 200 hours to build a basic acoustic (that doesn't include any fancy inlays etc).

Good luck with the project and post up progress pics if you have the time.

Cheers Martin

Originally Posted by kiwigeo

So you've got 48 hours to build this guitar. Like you say it's going to require some very good planning. I'd be doing a detailed written plan for each session with time allocated to tasks etc. Id also be thinking of what could go wrong or not to plan and have contingency plans in place for same.

If you were attempting an acoustic I'd be having serious reservations....I take around 200 hours to build a basic acoustic (that doesn't include any fancy inlays etc).

Good luck with the project and post up progress pics if you have the time.

Cheers Martin

200 hours!!!!! Wow maybe Ill put plans of joining the dark side on hold for a bit!! I was thinking of an acoustic build but perhaps ill wait lol!

Wow, you'll definitely have your work cut out for you with this one Arran. It took me 48 hours just to make a cigar box style ukulele in one of my school woodwork projects. Make sure you get stuck into that as soon as possible then, you've got a mighty big job ahead. Best way is to multitask as much as you can as possible i.e. anything you can try and get done while glue is drying etc.

YEA COGGG!!

yewwwwwwwwww

man i love Cog, saw them at Metro last weekend, which was my 13th time seeing them, met them all a bunch of times, frigging top blokes.

if you pull that guitbox off, should try catch up with Flynn and get him to sign it

ah yea Arran,

these 2 links should help you out a bit dude

http://web.mac.com/wes.folkerth/folk...-ver10full.pdf

http://web.mac.com/wes.folkerth/folk...files/LPJR.pdf

they are in PDF so save them to your ../ then scale 'em up to 100% and print

success.

first link gives your the head stock, second link the body and angle etc.

rock on dude

Originally Posted by Hearse

YEA COGGG!!

yewwwwwwwwww

man i love Cog, saw them at Metro last weekend, which was my 13th time seeing them, met them all a bunch of times, frigging top blokes.

if you pull that guitbox off, should try catch up with Flynn and get him to sign it

yer unfortunatley ive only seen them once at big day out last year, really hard to see them as im only 16 and pretty sure there calling it a day now

would love flynn to sign it, then id frame it haha

yea man heard about that, spewing they are probs breaking up.

grab their DVD, awesome stuff, i was at that gig, sssiiicckkk yew.

where are you buying your wood for?

you making templates out of MDF?

Originally Posted by Hearse

yea man heard about that, spewing they are probs breaking up.

grab their DVD, awesome stuff, i was at that gig, sssiiicckkk yew.

where are you buying your wood for?

you making templates out of MDF?

yer got the dvd its sick, ####ing aussie legends they are

i think i can buy wood through my school, ill probs gor for mahogany but if the school cant get it ill just get it myself some how

would you recommend making the templates out of MDF?

yea man 12mm MDF

and spend a LOT of time on the template, then you get a router bit with the bearing at the top of the bit, so you can 'follow' the template

it makes the job a LOT neater

mahogany is nice wood to make

im making my Dean Razorback out of Mahogany.

A gibson Les paul single or double cutaway is probably the worst choice for a first guitar build particularly with a restricted time frame.
-it has a carved maple top which is quite a challenge
-the edge is bound and the neck is bound which adds to the time requirements
- the set neck has to be just right in angle and this need an understanding of the geometry which you are unlikely to posess yet.

For a 12 week project you would be better off with something else, perhaps a bolt on style using a premade neck and just build the body.
Not trying to say you should never build a Les Paul, just not in this time frame for a project you have to finish for assesment.
Having seen LP builds documented it would seem quite easy to spend 48 hours just on building jigs and templates