Les Paul Style Guitar - School Project

Good job on the guitar and Welcome to LJ’s.

-- - Martin

Looks like Alder.

check out http://www.wood-database.com/wood-identification/ hi res scans

Let us know.

-- Nicky

Thanks for that Nicky but I’d say the top wood looks a lot more like this: http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/amazon-rosewood/ I certainly wouldn’t expect alder to have such distinctive sapwood as the guitar does. I should mention that the top is made up of 4 separate pieces of wood that I arranged to make the guitar look sort of symmetrical with the sapwood running down the middle.
I’ll try to get a higher resolution image of the guitar so you can see the grain of the wood better, these pictures from my phone don’t really do it justice.

Just put some higher res pictures on. Hopefully you can see the grain of the wood better now

I’ll take a look.

BTW, I did not say in my post that the guitar is really nice, and you did a great job.

-- Nicky

Very nice, how does it play?

-- A childs smile is payment enough.

It plays very nice. It has a very deep, rich sound from one pickup, perfect for playing chords and a bright, trebly sound from the other.
I think the sound quality is probably on par with my £400 vintage SG replica.

beautiful guitar! I’d love to be able to build something like this one day!

-- Rob, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Gotta love Les Paul’s music. I use to dj for a local jazz station years ago.

Nice work.

-- Harold

Nicely done Dan!

I soooooo want to try to do this one time. I’ve said it many times that I’ve yet to meet an ugly guitar, though some are prettier than others, but the Les Paul is hands down my favorite!

If you think about it, post up something on youtube strumming this fine creation!

-- I don't know what this is going to be like, but there's only one way to find out..........

nice guitar

-- John

Very nice work an “A” for a “A” class project.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/