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Grog
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Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 22, 2012, 12:23:20 PM »
I came across this company that is producing a good aftermarket contol plate for a Les Paul Recording. If there was enough interest here, we could contact them about making them for the "Hobbit".
http://www.littlebrookengraving.com/Gibson_Guitars.html
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Basvarken
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 22, 2012, 01:30:47 PM »
Depends how close they get to the original.
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Grog
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 22, 2012, 04:39:52 PM »
Chandler offered one but it didn't have any of the engraving on it, just a plain control plate.
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Basvarken
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 23, 2012, 03:51:40 PM »
Yeah and they had it wrong. They didn't know the difference between a Les Paul Recording Guitar and a Les Paul Bass...
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hieronymous
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 23, 2012, 08:28:36 PM »
Would there be a way to reinforce the corner by the output jack? Mine is in decent shape, but I have lost the tip of that problem corner.
Gratuitous pic that doesn't illustrate the problem:
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Basvarken
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 24, 2012, 12:05:08 PM »
Yes there is a very effective way to reinforce that control plate: I mounted a (thin) duplicate aluminium plate underneath the three ply plastic one.
I'm afraid I don't have pics.
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Grog
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 24, 2012, 01:59:32 PM »
A number of years back I made a few of these out of .015 spring steel. PM me your address & I'll send you one. It seems to stiffen it up quite a bit.
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Grog
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 25, 2012, 05:06:26 PM »
Here is a picture of the plate installed. I bought a NOS control plate with all of the controls on it, paid way too much for it & wanted to make sure this one lasted..... even if I stepped on the guitar chord!
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June 26, 2012, 11:23:40 AM »
I can only recommend the steel stiffy, have it on mine too.
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jumbodbassman
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June 26, 2012, 01:51:54 PM »
will have to look into a steely one...
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Re: Les Paul Recording Control Plates
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June 26, 2012, 02:27:54 PM »
That's a great fix!
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