This is fantastic, I am just now building a Les Paul also, I just routed the neck mortis, a short modern 80mm long mortis, and about 32mm wide. Its been a couple of years since my last Les Paul build and I´ve already fu*ked things up a little bit, but it can be fixed, I have not started on the neck yet, i cut the Mahogany a little over-size so I can take of a little bit more once its time to build the neck. My next step is to route for the binding on the body and get all that done. After that I will start roughing out the neck and start the neck build, I will try something new this time, and that is building a box with the angle on one side that match the angle of the top 4.2 Degrees and fasten the neck in that box and use my table router to rough out the wideness of the neck tennon. I also have original Gibson fretboard that I took of from a 1989 Gibson Les Paul Standard, to have as a template, also I got the original body so that´s how knew the dimensions of the neck mortis. I am sure I will mess up more things over the next 1-2 weeks haha.. does your workshop get cold in the winter ? you are in south England right ? Thanks for the video.
I'm not familiar with the more modern Les Paul build, Over the years I've tried many different methods to try and improve accuracy but like you I still make plenty of mistakes, I think the art of guitar building is being able to hide your mistakes! The important thing with the neck joint is the alignment (in all planes) if the joint needs packing that's less of an issue than the neck being wonky!...Good luck and thanks for commenting.
@@3rguitars890 Yeah, it gets cold sometimes in the winter even in the south east, in my area there will soon be 1-2 meters of snow and -30C.. I am not looking forward to it though..
Great Videos, thanks for the Upload.For Routing the Inlays i made a jig that holds the 3 different sizes of the Inlays and i Route along on my pinrouter. So they end Up all the Same and IT goes way faster than Cut each piece by Hand. Greetings from Germany ✌️👍😁
No I haven't, just read about it on Wikipedia, sounds like it would be a good option for a fretboard, although would probably be very expensive. There is a very pretty Madagascan wood that is a good alternative for Brazilian rosewood, although it looks like rosewood it isn't so not restricted as far as I know.
@@davidbarfuss After I've used this stock of Brazilian rosewood I'll be looking for alternatives, I've used a Madagascan wood that's very similar but that's still very expensive.
There is Honduras Palisander and Amazonas Palisander on the Market as Well. I used the honduran Palisander and IT has a bit of that Rio smell in IT when sanded. These are around 40 Euros inted of 300 for a Rio Board. I used a cocobolo on on build. I ready that Gibbon used Cocobolo Back in the day as Well....
Is that a right handed R9 board ? I have seen Left handed R9's with side dots on both sides of the board ! When you say VINTAGE you mean reproduction don't you??
The R9 board was from a left handed LP, it has dots on both sides, the drawings I did are from a genuine '53 and the R9 board is identical with vintage fret spacing and crown inlay sizes so I use it as a reference, it also matches the Bartlet fretboard jig...Thanks for the comment.
Always love your frank honesty making these brilliant videos.
Thank you very much, the comments mean a lot to me.
Just putting some splines in me les paul headstock break, Backs killing me nice to relax and watch this cant get enough. Thanks.
Sorry to hear about your LP...Ugh, I've repaired a few of them!
Absolutely priceless information. Hurry back.
Thank you very much, shouldn't be too long until the next update.
❤ Amazing work Chris 😎
Thank you,always nice to hear!
This is fantastic, I am just now building a Les Paul also, I just routed the neck mortis, a short modern 80mm long mortis, and about 32mm wide. Its been a couple of years since my last Les Paul build and I´ve already fu*ked things up a little bit, but it can be fixed, I have not started on the neck yet, i cut the Mahogany a little over-size so I can take of a little bit more once its time to build the neck. My next step is to route for the binding on the body and get all that done. After that I will start roughing out the neck and start the neck build, I will try something new this time, and that is building a box with the angle on one side that match the angle of the top 4.2 Degrees and fasten the neck in that box and use my table router to rough out the wideness of the neck tennon. I also have original Gibson fretboard that I took of from a 1989 Gibson Les Paul Standard, to have as a template, also I got the original body so that´s how knew the dimensions of the neck mortis. I am sure I will mess up more things over the next 1-2 weeks haha.. does your workshop get cold in the winter ? you are in south England right ? Thanks for the video.
I'm not familiar with the more modern Les Paul build, Over the years I've tried many different methods to try and improve accuracy but like you I still make plenty of mistakes, I think the art of guitar building is being able to hide your mistakes! The important thing with the neck joint is the alignment (in all planes) if the joint needs packing that's less of an issue than the neck being wonky!...Good luck and thanks for commenting.
Sorry I forgot, Yes I'm in the South East and it does get too cold at times!
@@3rguitars890 Yeah, it gets cold sometimes in the winter even in the south east, in my area there will soon be 1-2 meters of snow and -30C.. I am not looking forward to it though..
Great Videos, thanks for the Upload.For Routing the Inlays i made a jig that holds the 3 different sizes of the Inlays and i Route along on my pinrouter. So they end Up all the Same and IT goes way faster than Cut each piece by Hand. Greetings from Germany ✌️👍😁
Thanks for a very informative video! Have you ever used African Blackwood for a fretboard? It's in the rosewood family.
No I haven't, just read about it on Wikipedia, sounds like it would be a good option for a fretboard, although would probably be very expensive. There is a very pretty Madagascan wood that is a good alternative for Brazilian rosewood, although it looks like rosewood it isn't so not restricted as far as I know.
I used Wood called brazilian blackheart. It was verry hard to Work with but DARK as brazilian Rosewood. ...
@@davidbarfuss After I've used this stock of Brazilian rosewood I'll be looking for alternatives, I've used a Madagascan wood that's very similar but that's still very expensive.
There is Honduras Palisander and Amazonas Palisander on the Market as Well. I used the honduran Palisander and IT has a bit of that Rio smell in IT when sanded. These are around 40 Euros inted of 300 for a Rio Board. I used a cocobolo on on build. I ready that Gibbon used Cocobolo Back in the day as Well....
Is that a right handed R9 board ? I have seen Left handed R9's with side dots on both sides of the board ! When you say VINTAGE you mean reproduction don't you??
The R9 board was from a left handed LP, it has dots on both sides, the drawings I did are from a genuine '53 and the R9 board is identical with vintage fret spacing and crown inlay sizes so I use it as a reference, it also matches the Bartlet fretboard jig...Thanks for the comment.
it has been said Gibson get their boards pre fabricated in China!!
It wouldn't surprise me, Epiphones are all made in China I think?