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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2009, 12:29:12 PM »
Nice job

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2009, 09:13:04 PM »
Fly straight to Lost Wages to make major bets.  You're on a roll!
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2009, 06:10:54 PM »
Well I got a phone call today telling me that the painting of the body is done, and I'll retrieve it later this week. (My schedule is a bit tedious here)

In the meantime, I did some work on the neck, I filled up the chips and dings in the finish with Black shellac and buffed the thing to a shine and then I installed the tuners, it makes for a very classy look.

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2009, 01:24:20 PM »

Well here's the body in black, the white residue you see is from the wet sanding.


And from another angle, all whats needs to be done is spray it with a yellow tint lacquer to give it that vintage tint. And then I have to wet sand it again and polish it.

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2009, 03:19:10 PM »
WOW ! Really nice work on that !
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2009, 07:11:09 PM »
Well I got the body back home, buffed it to a shine and started assembling it.









All I need to do now is install the pots, wire it all up, install a pickguard and I'm done.

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2009, 08:23:38 PM »
great job ,Blaze! now it an Iblazernez
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2009, 07:00:32 AM »
Awesome! Looking very classy now. And those tuners are really sweet!

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2009, 09:50:56 AM »
That guitar is lucky you found it !
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2009, 10:35:41 AM »




It's done.

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2009, 02:36:25 PM »
With that "lightining bolt" reflection in one of those shots she should be known as the "I-Blaze" (pronounced "I-bur-laze") Laze-Paul

10/10 - A* - well done lad...

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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2009, 03:09:32 PM »
Damn.  Simply damn.  BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2009, 06:28:27 AM »
Very nice!  I love rehabbed guitars and basses.  It's really fun to bring them back to life!  Well done. 
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2009, 05:34:06 PM »
Nice Job!
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Re: An Ibanez fixer upper Les Paul...
« Reply #29 on: May 19, 2009, 05:13:07 AM »
Great job!!