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Post by Leftee on Oct 29, 2020 16:18:23 GMT -5
Last year (or the year before?) I built the Jazz Paul. The original was a Padouk top on a chambered alder body with a 24.75" scale Padouk/Ebony neck. The pickups are a pair of DiMarzio PAFs. It was the Les Paul you could sneak into your surf/jazz gig.
Well, I did some experimentations upon the back of the body... and let's just say it's living its life out in a leper colony now.
So I ordered a new body, only this time a Padouk cap over a solid mahogany back. The original guitar/neck was finished w/Tung Oil. So I sanded the neck a bit to bring some color/grain back up and, this time, the body and the neck (except fretboard, of course, are finished with clear nitro.
I'm very pleased with the outcome.
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Post by Leftee on Oct 29, 2020 16:20:37 GMT -5
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Post by Riff Twang on Oct 29, 2020 21:04:19 GMT -5
That looks really good. Very pleasing aesthetically.
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Post by Tinkerer on Oct 29, 2020 23:04:34 GMT -5
That is beautiful!! Well done!!!
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Post by Sharkie on Oct 30, 2020 7:13:24 GMT -5
Nice work Leftee!
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Post by Leftee on Oct 30, 2020 10:26:25 GMT -5
Thanks all!
This really is a great player. Especially with me being a Les Paul feller.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Oct 30, 2020 18:48:43 GMT -5
Whoo! I am not a fan of gold hardware because I think it looks a bit too 'fake it 'til ya make it', but on that red wood grain it looks...pretty dang nice!
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Post by Leftee on Oct 30, 2020 18:51:11 GMT -5
Thanks!
This guitar could have gone either way. I went with gold the first time around.
Sometimes a guitar just screams gold.
Or some sort of voice from somewhere.
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Post by tiller2 on Nov 23, 2020 19:15:22 GMT -5
Yeah, Leftee, that looks beeyoutiful. Did you pore-fill before applying the tung oil? If so, what did you use?
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Post by Leftee on Nov 23, 2020 20:55:37 GMT -5
No fill. These days if I’m not painting, I don’t grain fill.
Edited to add...
The back of the neck was tung oiled. I sanded it a little and shot some clear gloss nitro on it for this iteration.
This new body is just sanded and shellacked/nitro.
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