Ayrton
New member
First you start with a perfectly good 1989 Orville Les Paul Custom. Feel free to Google if you have no idea what an Orville or Orville by Gibson is.
Mine needed to be refretted, but that's boring...
So here is what we started with Saturday night.
Jason (Dankstar) came over with some brewskies, and a couple of hours later we had this.
The finish is poly, but thankfully it is thin and easily removed. The suck part is I want to save the binding intact, so no stripping, no sanding, and no heat gun.
You have to scrape it off with a razor blade. Actually several razor blades as they tend to get dull.
The headstock has a Holly veneer, but the "inlays" were paper thin and glued on. I made quick work of those.
This settles the debate about having a maple top...
Still some scrapping to go...
Not really sure where this is going, and I may totally fubar the whole thing.
Stay tuned kids as I have no idea what I am doing, and who knows how this is going to turn out. Could be Overhaulin', or it could be Jersey Shore. :lmao:
Mine needed to be refretted, but that's boring...
So here is what we started with Saturday night.
Jason (Dankstar) came over with some brewskies, and a couple of hours later we had this.
The finish is poly, but thankfully it is thin and easily removed. The suck part is I want to save the binding intact, so no stripping, no sanding, and no heat gun.
You have to scrape it off with a razor blade. Actually several razor blades as they tend to get dull.
The headstock has a Holly veneer, but the "inlays" were paper thin and glued on. I made quick work of those.
This settles the debate about having a maple top...
Still some scrapping to go...
Not really sure where this is going, and I may totally fubar the whole thing.
Stay tuned kids as I have no idea what I am doing, and who knows how this is going to turn out. Could be Overhaulin', or it could be Jersey Shore. :lmao:
