So… you may not believe it (heck I don’t even know if I do…) but I built this. Well, I built the body anyway, and I painted the entire thing, but the neck was purchased (I don’t have the equipment necessary to precisely place all of the frets).

It’s modeled after a ‘59 Gibson Les Paul, and took me about three weeks to complete. It is currently on display at the Huron County Fair, where it will remain until Sunday. It recieved a “First Award” and also won “Most Creative”, as an advanced woodworking project for 4-H.

(For those of you who are dial-up users, I apologize for the size of these pictures. I will be downsizing them as soon as possible.)

[Edit] Pictures have been re-sized, and are much smaller now (around 150 kb), so you dial up users shouldn’t have any problems. [/Edit]

Other pictures:

The back, showing the control cavities, before finishing.

After I airbrushed lacquer onto it, but before the hardware.

Close-up of the finished body.