Les Paul Special to Les Paul Jr guitar mod
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- čas přidán 7. 04. 2022
- Turning a pawn shop guitar find into a punk rock machine. From refinishing the paint to soldering in a new toggle switch, I almost bit off more than I could chew with this one!
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FYI - Today's "poly's" don't come off with stripper. You need to either use a heat gun or to sand as you did. you didn't do anything wrong with the remover.
Turned out very well! Lovely!
Thank you! Cheers!
I thought this was being converted to a Junior? It still has two pickups.
Too bad there wasn't a playing test! Loved the video
Good for you man awesome. Punk for life
Did a very similar thing with an epi lp special p90, made a modified lp jr pickgurd and relocated controls. new bridge, nut, tuners, etc, and i have it tuned down to c-standard as my "pseudo-baritone" guitar.
great job!
That sounds like an interesting one!!!!
I just got a Epi Special on ebay for a hundred bucks plus reasonable shipping to do the P90 conversion. It gets here Friday. I'm not planning on stripping the finish unless necessary (fit of the new pickups- and there are Humbucker fit P90s if that what it takes). It's a cheap guitar, so I don't know everything I'm going to do. Photos showed it to be in great shape, but I know original pickups aren't that great, and I have a Gretch Electromatic with cheap humbuckers already. The only P90 guitar I have is a 1954 Gibson ES125 with the pickup at the neck. It's great, but a different animal entirely. Your project was a labor of love, and it came out great. Thanks for the vid.
Sounds like a great plan .
Very cool. On your next one try to worry less about blemishes - like the sticker on the back - and I think you’ll find it more freeing 🤘
The original Les Paul Junior was a single P90 guitar with a wraparound bridge so the only thing about this mod that is even slightly Junior like is the odd pickguard change. It looks a bit weird with the volume knob in the pickguard and the tone off it but strangely I'd say it is an improvement over the look of the pickguard that is on an actual Gibson Special... at least to my taste.
Nice job making the guitar your own even if it was far from perfect, the final result is a unique instrument that looks pretty cool.
My guess is the veneers on the top and back of the guitar are factory standards. They are all made the same to reduce cost. So, a solid color guitar has the same body veneers as a Sunburst. Anyway, I enjoyed the video very much. I have a USA Hammer Special that was in a fire in a store. I had to reset the neck because it got so hot the glue broke down into mummy dust. I am converting it to a Jr by plugging the neck pickup cavity with mahogany. It’s not a very long tenon so I’m hoping all that extra support over the tenon will help the sustain, etc. I also hope the neck glues weren’t damaged too much. Thanks...
Your correct. I'll bet it's to keep the finish looking uniform;
It looks like it was made with 6 pieces of wood and they may absorb paint differently. The caps make for a uniform finish. I'll bet the "mahogany" is Okoume ; Cheap mahogany relative.
I took a Maestro LP Jr. and made it into a replica relic Gibson LP Jr. and put in a P90 dog ear pickup.
I just bought a Maestro LP jr to mod up. Did that dog ear fit right in, or did you need to do any routing?
Looks very pro. Inspiring video.
Agree . Excellent job . It looks amazing
Very inspiring. I have a similar guitar that I’ve thought about doing a mod on . Thx for the video . It looks amazing. Much continued success.
I’m impressed! You really did a good job! Who cares about the flubs?! Really, it gives the guitar more character! 🤘🤘
I may grab an Epiphone and do something similar. I have a problem with them not being better. I feel like Gibson and Epiphone should be able to produce killer products that don’t cost and arm and a leg but still be updated for today’s players.
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left hand body blank flipped upside down maybe?
The veneer is so the different grains of the butcher(ed) block body , and seams , do not show up on front and back thru paint
An even finis is then achieved
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Makes sense!
So what about this makes it a Special to Junior conversion besides the pickguard? The Juniors I know have 1 pick up usually in the bridge with a few exceptions of neck pick up models.
My two Epi’s are a 2011 bolt on Junior and a 2021 Les Paul Special I
I'm not sure what the official answer is, but it is my understanding that a Junior has 1 pick up and no neck binding. A Special has neck binding and 2 pick ups. I have a Gibson Special and Junior and used to own an Epiphone Les Paul Junior (1 humbucker). SGs seem to be similar. My SG Juniors have no binding and 1 pick up. My SG Special has 2 P90s and neck binding.
wood in this specials is always different sometimes its plywood
It would be better if you put a concentric 500/500 pots to mimic the gibson standards 2 volume 2 tone config
$125 at a pawn shop...Guitar Center used to blow these things out for $79 brand new out the door. You could have talked the pawn shop down to like $50-75.
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@@PattheMovies did it come with a hard case?
Times have changed dude. You can’t find any of these used for $180-200 anymore
Maybe the original finish was some kinda of epoxy or two-part system, too tough for the stripper to handle.
Could be!
It's mahogany wood with a veneer on it. That's why stripper doesn't work!
Im planning on standing the neck down as well. How hard was it to remove the paint?
It actually comes off fairly easily with fine sandpaper. I think I used 1000 grit for most of my neck, which was way overkill in retrospect, but worked out fine
@@PattheMovies oh wauw, 1000 grit is really fine. I was thinking to start with 180 and move up as the paint comes off to get a smooth feel on the neck
Hi ,you have a pdf to this pickguard?
If you can cut a pick guard, you can draw a pick guard
this looks great. as a person who knows absolutely nothing about building guitars and this whole process, how hard would it have been to convert the pick up cavities for p90s? is it even doable without spending a fortune?
As a person who knows slightly less than nothing, I think it's doable!
Looks like there's conversion kits on ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/142722840814
Other websites say you might need to chisel/route out the holes, but I don't see any reason you can't get the job done with hand tools
You could always go the route I'm going, I'm getting Seymore Duncan Phat cats which are already humbucker sized. I think DiMarzio makes some good humbucker sized P90's as well.
Polly is more of a plastic than it is a paint ! That's why your paint stripper don't work
Great video! I have an Epiphone Les Paul Standard.
If your guitar sounds anything like mine. I think you will be very pleased.
Not a steal , but , rock on
Time Lapse Sanding is generally fine if you are talking Over, but not if your voice is a Chipmunk.
Oh ok
So you turned a Special into a ...Special? Why call it a Jr?
I see a lot of Specials listed as Junior Specials and vice versa. There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding of what these designations mean.
That's not a steal. I got mine for 40 English pounds.
That looks really bad honestly. Maybe you could do a 3 color sunburst like that Fender does on strats to cover up the back of the body instead of this because the sides especially look really bad.
Dude, get some social skills
@@jerbear7952 when it comes to socializing, if you can't say you don't like something in result everyone would use you. Other than that I cannot see how not liking a paint job means someone doesn't have any social skills.
Why would you call this a Jr? No dog ear p90. Two pickups. Not a Jr.
How is that a Junior with 2 pickups?
So you went from a Les Paul Special to a Les Paul Special! I guess I somehow missed the part where you converted it to a single pickup P-90 LP Junior!