Building a Les Paul style guitar

Handcrafting a Les Paul style guitar. Using my tool set, and from researching similar projects that people have posted about on the internet, this is my attempt at building my first guitar.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Inlays are cut

Hi all,

I thought cutting out the inlays was going to be a pain but it went relatively fast. Last post I had on my blog, I explained how I opted for the 1oz pearl pack from StewMac instead of the precut inlays. Turned out well because now I have 2 whole pieces left over, plus a bunch of smaller scraps for cutting some sort of headstock inlay. Now to get creative and come up with that design...

Here's a pic of the inlays on top of the plan. I used the tracing paper to get the shapes of the plan and transfer the lines to the pearl.
I used a jeweler's saw, I think it took about an hour or so.
The white dust was all over the place though, and I used 3 blades to cut these. I broke all 3.


Inlays are sawed to close, but sharp shape


This was actually a pretty fun job though. Turn on the tunes, and just cut... no power tools.
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