Welcome to Paul’s 1946 LG-2 commemorative guitar build webpage! This page will contain picture updates of the progress on Paul’s guitar as it is being built. Updates will be posted weekly.
Some of the features of this guitar include:
- Mahogany back and sides
- Vintage style body and neck stain
- Torrefied German Spruce top
- Vintage style sunburst
- Modified V Honduran Mahogany Neck with 2-way adjustable truss rod and carbon fiber rods
- Curly Maple binding
- Ebony headstock veneer
- Brazilian Rosewood Fretboard
- Vintage style rosette
- 24.75 scale
- 1 3/4 at the nut
- Waverly Butterbean Tuners
- L. R. Baggs Anthem Tru-Mic Pickup System
Routing the saddle pocket in the bridge
Drilling the bridge pin holes
Cutting the wings on the briged before sanding
Cutting out the recess for the bridge pins
Saddle is ready for the traditional MOP dots
Joinery between the body and the neck
Fingerboard being glued onto the neck
Guitar front
Gutiar Back
LG-2 back angle
Brazillian Rosewood binding is cut from fingerboard scraps to make blind fret ends
Brazillian binding has been glued on to the fretboard for blind frets
The fretboard is being radiused on the edge sander
Fretboard radius is being verified to a 12 inch radius
Numbers position planning before routing
Number routing
The pockets are ready to go for the inlays
Numbers fit and are ready for epoxy
Epoxy is setting up on the 1946 inlay
Position dots have been located and are being drilled
The fretboard is now ready for fretting
The frets are undercut to produce blind fret ends
Fretboard side market dots positions have been marked and holes drilled
Position dots in the process of being glued into their respective dilled holes
The frets are being pressed into their slots
The fretboard is complete. Final dressing will be done once on the guitar
Trimming top and back flush
Top and back have been trimmed flush to prepare for binding channel routing
Cutting Back binding channel
Back binding channel cut
Top Binding channel cut
Back binding channel and purfling channel cut
Back purfling glued in
In the process of gluing side purfling
Top and side purfling glued in
In the process of fitting the back binding
Back binding has been fitted and epoxied in place
Top binding in the process of being epoxied in place
Front view – binding on and glue setting up
Rear view – binding on and glue setting up
Binding on and glue setting up, side view
Front view with binding before sanding
Side view with binding before sanding
Back view with binding before sanding
Neck Block ready to band saw
Neck Shape after band sawing
Channel for truss rod cut and fitted
Neck angle being cut with rotuer and jig
Pocket cut for fretboard extension
Verifying neck angle fit for adjustments
Holes drilled for neck dowel bolts
Channels cut for carbon fiber reinforcement rods
Carbon fiber neck rods have been epoxied into the neck channels
Just beginning to shape the neck on the edge sander
Most of the neck shaping on the edge sander has been completed
Ebony headstock veneer being epoxied on
Ebony Veneer headstock plate is glued on, rough shapped, ready for final shapping
The Brazilian Rosewood block that will become the fretboard
Brazilian Rosewood Fretboard has been shaped and thickness sanded
Fretboard is ready for cutting the fret slots
Fret slot cutting is complete
Neck and fingerboard preview
LG-2 preview, more work on the way.
Tone bars and finger braces being glued
Begin with the end in mind – how will the controls fit around the popsicle braces
Gluing the popsicle braces around the sound hole and the bridge patch
Top braces in the process of being carved
Cutting the top and back rim radius profiles
Back rim profile cut complete
Sanding the back rim to 15′ radius
The top rim is marked to confirm when sanding is complete
Top Rim Sanding complete
The top has been fitted in the top rim in prep for gluing
The back has been fitted to the back rim in prep for gluing
The Inside of the sound box has been sealed
The Sound Box has been closed up
LG-2 Channel being routed for inlaying Rosette
LG-2 Channel cut and ready for inlay
LG-2 Fiber strips perpared for rosette
LG-2 Rosette
LG-2 Rosette with top
Back Braces Layout
Profiling back braces
Back Brace Glue-up
Carving back braces
Center Strip Glue-up
Back Braces Complete
Mahogany for side bracing and kerf lining
Mahogany is cut for kerf lining and inner double lining
Kerf lining is being cut
Kerf lining and side braces are ready for gluing
Rim jig is aligned to the shape of the LG-2 profile
Side braces are complete
Kerf linings have been epoxied in place
Side bracing and Kerf lining complete – sides are stiff as a drum
Mahogany back is joined
Brace wood cut to thickness and ready for back and top bracing
Sides joined with neck and tail blocks
Neck and Tail blocks ready for joining sides
Wood for Neck and Tail blocks
Sides and binding after the bend
Sides in the bender
Hond. Mahogany sides and curly Maple prepared for bending
Curly Maple binding
Curly maple block for Binding
