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60's Les Paul came in completely stripped and missing all binding, frets, hardware, electronics, etc |
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Photo of headstock as it showed up |
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Binding to be used for body |
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Frets cut and radiused, ready to be installed |
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Headstock with binding glued and taped (multiple ply's) |
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Missing chips of fretboard being filled and touched up before fretwork |
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Body being bound(custom Les Pauls have multiple layers of binding) |
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Binding ready to be scraped and leveled to body prior to painting guitar |
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Guitar in the paint process, 4 coats of black, then coats of clear, sanded and buffed out |
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Les Paul after complete paint job |
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Close up of final headstock |
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Picture of body after being strung and tuned |
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Picture of completed headstock |
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