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I should clarify- Not specifically. I call it binding tape, but really it's more of high-tack masking tape with a little sponginess to it. Stewmac markets it as brown binding tape. Here's a link to the stuff in the picture...

Post #11: Fretboard gluing, Binding Install and Frets With the inlay complete, I glued the fretboard to the neck. I'll mention one good thing to note that I forgot about was removing the excess glue where the nut sits on the neck at the edge of the fretboard. It saves you a little work later...

This is a long one so buckle up! As I indicated in the first post, I wound up using a pre radiused and pre slotted fingerboard for this guitar. At the time of building and assembling, no where close to me had Indian Rosewood available in the lengths I needed to build a board from scratch. I was...

Post #9 - Truss rod Install With a large volume of wood work behind me, I moved into some of the finer bits of woodworking. Cutting a truss rod access is not what I would call "easy" but with a decent jig is very attainable. I made my own version of Gil's truss rod access cutter that was a...

Post #8: Neck rough-in and tenon fitting In an earlier post I roughed out the horizontal plane of the neck, keeping the fretboard side true as a reference. With enough material on the neck, I felt safe running the headstock face through the jointer to true the 17 degree angle. it ended up being...

Post #7: Binding With the body carve complete and the routing done, I moved onto binding. Binding is a project in and of itself, and I had to build a jig for carve tops in order to do this correctly. I built a tower type jig with drawer slides and a rabbeting bit. It works substantially...

Post #6: Top shaping, routing and control cavity work As a prerequisite before shaping the top, I opted to complete pickup routing. With a narrow contact plane for the pickups themselves, i had to go very slow as to not "over bore" any of the edges. Gibson used a pin-routing machine back in...

Grand Ligne- Just North of the Pinnacle, technically in Frelighsburg

Thank you! I’ll post more soon. I see you’re located in Sutton. I grew up in Cowansville and spent a lot time in Sutton near my grandfather’s farm!

Post #5 - Cavity Routing and Top Routing This part is tedious for me, because it feels the least artistic. With that said, it's important to find reason to stay focused because a wrong move hear can mean disaster! I use a 3/4" Forstner bit in my drill press to hog out some bulk material to...

Post #4 With the body and top blanks glued up, it was time to move into some shape work. Using a template, I traced where I wanted the overall orientation of the guitar to be. I used the old washer trick to space my pencil off the template a bit, so I can focus on cutting the line on the...

Post #3 With the body glued up, it was time for me to get to milling the top. This top showed signs of the exact thing my dad looks for when judging a top. He likes inconsistent grain patterns, a bit of a blend between curly and flame. This slab was labeled "AA" which I could see somewhat...

With the wood sourced, selected and general course plotted, I began building. First I joined the 2 piece African mahogany blank. I decided to do this by hand for the practice. I have a jointer, and it’s an awesome one from the late 70’s, but for this I decided to go at it the old fashioned way...

Hey everyone, I’m excited to bring a long-form thread to life about this 59’ build I’ve attempted. I build and sell a small volume of T-style guitars but this is my first LP that I’ve ever built. Post index: Post#1: (Material assembly, intro) Below: Post#2: Body blank glue up, Neck blank...