Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Les Paul with Cross Inlays


































Each year around Christmas, I make an instrument which sums up the year. This year it is a Les Paul style single-cut with crosses inlayed as fret markers and in the head piece. The body is mahogony, which I left clear. The top is a piece of quilted cherry. What I like about the top is the way I was able to work the quilting to make it go from very dark at the bottom to seemly burst into firey flame. The cross inlays were at the request of a friend who is a player in a couple of bands and is a big fan of Black Sabbath, and Tony Iommi. I'm getting to the point where I've collected so many that I need to sell, and I'm thinking I'll get some advertisment by letting him play this one in the band. (He loves it by the way). It is wired as a standard LP. Finger board is ebony. Inlay is gold MOP.

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