{"id":15243,"date":"2019-11-13T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the7.io\/elementor-starter\/?p=169"},"modified":"2024-09-23T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T08:47:51","slug":"fusce-aliquam-nunc-ac-suscipit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mackguitarworks.com\/?p=15243","title":{"rendered":"1969 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I had a 1969 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe (sandwich body) for restoration. My customer thought, that he made a great deal buying a vintage instrument… But I have to say: this was one of the complicated restorations I ever made. I took a while to get this done, about 9 months.<\/p>\n

It was born as a gold top, then equipped with a Bigsby (maybe, but who knows), then chiseled (ouch) for humbucker. The nightmare doesn’t stop here. The gold was scraped away, and the top was painted with a brush. After that, somebody started to fill the chiseled gaps with clay(???).<\/p>\n

The customer wanted to restore the instrument in its original form, as close as possible. What makes this complicated is the sandwich body… a small layer of maple sheet is laying in the pickup cavity.<\/span><\/p>\n

I rerouted the cavities to get clean gluing surfaces. I sandwiched mahogany\/maple\/maple with matching grain pattern and glued it to play.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had access to a 1968 small headstock LP Goldtop, to match the color. I mixed different gold powders to match it 95% close to the original color.<\/p>\n

Overall: it turned out great. There are no signs of restoration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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