The top carve

Here is the top after going through several passes with the safe-T planer.

Since this is my first top, I made a few mistakes here, but overall, it feels pretty nice.
The top is not as tall as a Gibson I believe.
This was due to me to ledge and contour with the safe-T planer, so in order to have it flow nicely, the top ended up a little shallower. I also don't have another Les Paul to compare with.

I did have the plans to compare with, but I think that it is pretty difficult to get the contours based on the plan, so a person could go crazy. I ditched the plan and just went by the "art" of it after I was frustrated.

The differences I can tell is that my top is not as tall, and the edges are in further from the edge with deeper dishes.

I wanted some deeper dishes around edge, because I think that is a really cool feature of a Les Paul