Building my third Les Paul.

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• PN

  @PNWJEEPER01 · 12 days ago

  That’s an awesome shop at the beginning. You can’t overstate the value of quality raw materials. I realized that I wanted to build guitars when I was 12. My family was in the wooden boat business. Mostly Columbia Bar trawlers, which are mostly steel vessels built in factories now.<br>My Grandfather taught me to build a wood library and how to harvest, season and select for each part; how to see the potential in a raw piece of lumber and bring it out through milling and conditioning. That’s been some 40 years ago. Currently I have a pole barn which houses 8 sheds which are all individually climate controlled, housing everything I’ll need to build guitars, mandolins, violins, cellos and basses for the rest of my working years.<br>Most people don’t get that there’s an entire ecosystem that goes into a guitar.

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• PO

  @Pomfritz_034 · 3 months ago

  I really like how you used the leftover pieces of the guitar body throughout the build, amazing work!

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• GB

  @Gbag0101 · 2 months ago

  Wow! Absolutely beautiful build. So well documented too. Your jigs are incredible too.

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• ST

  @stevenRZ51 · 1 year ago

  I work in the Gibson Factory... You sir are a wizard! I hate to say this but even our custom shop guitars aren&apos;t built this meticulous. Amazing work!

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• LO

  @loopmasta5104 · 1 month ago

  Very clever tooling. I think I&apos;ll have to steal some of your ideas. Thx for sharing this great build.

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• DR

  @DrLumpy · 1 month ago

  Mahogany colored snot when sanding an LP body..😀

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• PI

  @PieroMtMz · 6 months ago

  Thank you for documenting all of this. This video helped me to get by with my day! You were so precise and careful with every detail. You remind me of my grand father who said many times; if you are going to do something, do it right.

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• RM

  @rmxrider20032000 · 2 months ago

  Safety third.

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• DA

  @danballou2202 · 9 months ago

  Absolutely unbelievable craftsmanship! Just designing and building the jigs and fixtures was next level. You sir are one stone cold guitar builder!!!!

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• SC

  @ScramJamJohnson · 7 months ago

  Safety sandals on

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• RA

  @RafaelHarich · 2 months ago

  Awesome job!! Pretty guitars

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• CR

  @cripmeister9104 · 1 year ago

  Jig master level 10, great stuff

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