1953 Les Paul Gold Top Restore - Full Time Lapse Video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
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I have spent 12 months building and restoring this guitar. What an amazing journey! here if the full time lapse video.
Issues with Guitar:
Broken Headstock
Cracked Body with multiple large dents
Bondo all over the neck
Missing Body Binding
Missing Neck Binding
Gouges in Fretboard
Missing Cover Plates
Tuners Slipping
Electronics not working
Neck Pickup Dead
Body Wood - Mahogany w/ Maple Top
Neck Wood - Mahogany
Fingerboard Wood - Brazilian Rosewood
Scale Length - 24.75"
Nut Width - 1 11/16"
Pickup(s) - Gibson P-90s
Song #1 by Down Maggie - Pink Floyd is calling
Song #2 Glen Playing the Les Paul
Song #3 Custom Song by Justin Johnson
Part 1 Project intro: th-cam.com/video/1cQbKGSheJI/w-d-xo.html
Part 2 Taking it Apart: th-cam.com/video/gigmqyfRGsY/w-d-xo.html
Part 3 Fixing the NecK: th-cam.com/video/8wxwrr67Ov0/w-d-xo.html
Part 4 Fixing the Body: th-cam.com/video/GUKOrzVh2Kg/w-d-xo.html
Part 5 Binding the Body: th-cam.com/video/GUKOrzVh2Kg/w-d-xo.html
Part 6 Repairing the Fretboard: th-cam.com/video/OMHQVgW61Ww/w-d-xo.html
Part 7 Repairing The Headstock: th-cam.com/video/wD-cymV7K-0/w-d-xo.html
Part 8 Assembly: th-cam.com/video/EGCwQmvomFI/w-d-xo.html
Part 9 Final Finish: th-cam.com/video/RQNzXZlogQE/w-d-xo.html
Your work is impeccable.
I’ve read comments about how so much restoration was done, it probably wasn’t worth it or there’s not enough of the original guitar left to justify the work. I total disagree. This was a labour of love and the guitar was brought back to life again to make music. It’s not a broom, or an axe or a ship. It’s a musical instrument and all that matters is that it will make music again
I mean, there's definitely most of the original guitar there. A neck-repair refin 1953 Les Paul is still worth 30k+
Yes, but it's a case of going too far, imo. Like a aging supermodel, who gets way too much plastic surgery instead of aging gracefully. Necessary repairs to restore playability and stability are one thing, but his guitar didn't need a whole new back. It's been robbed of all it's earned patina, and the life experiences that made it unique. Too each their own of course.
@@AnAbortiveRomance Yes you make a very good point.
Not everything should be weighed up against financial viability.
@@AnAbortiveRomance you saying youd rather let it be dead and un-playable with a broken headstock?
The older guitars are history and need to be preserved. That was an awesome job. They are truly works of art.
Bravo!!!!! Many years ago in’68I got my first Les Paul. It was a well used ‘56 someone had sprayed white with a rattle can. I stripped off the finish but butchered the binding in the process. Our local luthier fixed that and refinished it for me. He refused to shoot the gold top for health reasons, so we settled on walnut. It’s out there somewhere
Well done! That piece of history was in good hands! I loved how you salvaged the headstock inlay! Great work Derek!
I'm in the process of building a Goldtop from a custom kit I purchased from Precision Guitar. Ive watched this video and others in the series a few times. It has been a huge help to me in my process. Thank you for sharing and all your excellent tips.
I have been watching the entire process and bravo ! That thing was absolutely wrecked, especially how smashed in the body was, that was amazing to see fixed.
Some more “finished” shots would be cool but fantastic work!! Brings a tear to my eye seeing an old Les Paul being brought back from the grave to rock for another 70 years!
Have you seen the 25/50 yet? Watched it last night, very impressive.
@@camilo1455 just did, it was magical.
@@boscocat4973 Big D knows guitars, huh. Magical, the word I was looking for, I guess. Couldn't be more impressed.
EXACTLY
That was a tremendous amount of work put into resurrecting this instrument. How can the guitar gods not smile on such loving care?
Good job. Enjoyed hearing Glen play it. That added a lot.
Man he is super talented.
I could watch these Les Paul restore videos all day
This restoration cost lot of effort than build new guitar😵
Great job👍
It’s definitely worth it tho for a gold top
Derek, all I can say is you work miracles, brother. Outstanding craftmanship. Thank you so much!
Amazing craftsmanship! Truly a labor of love. Every time I thought he was done there were like eleven more steps for each part.
Man, you've got some crazy good repair skills. The guitar looks great! Thanks
1 minute into the video, must say, the fact you heat the blade instead of the fretboard to unglue it is a majestic tip, thanks.
That’s like 8,000 dollars of labour!
Great project and fantastic result!!
Haha. It was!
@@bigdguitars Joe Bonamassa might be interested in acquiring that '53 for his collection! !
@@blakjack3053 Joe only buys originals. This one is worth a fraction of what an unmolested example goes for
@@apo11o38 not always! Remember his guitar Lazarus!
@@juarezpinto8381 I thought he saved the finish on Lazarus and just threw a clear coat on top.... idk could be going big brain
Unbelievable craftsmanship!!!! Wouldn't want to venture a guess at how much it cost to do this restoration. Without a doubt the most incredible restoration I have seen on TH-cam to date .
Cost of materials - $100. Value of time, workmanship and effort - Priceless.
What a transformation. Great job.
The God of ALL guitars… I have owned an Epiphone gold top Les Paul since 1996… the closest I’ll ever get to a proper Gibson!
An absolutely brilliant restoration! 👍🏻
Such a great job, Derek! You saved a classic for sure. So worth it to restore such an iconic guitar.
It’s like the ship of Theseus. I’d say that what you’ve created is far more special than what you started with!!
Wow! Unbelievably ambitious!! But excellently done and saved it to fight another day. Outstanding work
Yes you deserve big kudo's for what you did with this & the end result !! Awesome job !!
Please don't take this the wrong way because I too do projects like this that make me wonder about my sanity. For you this was a journey, a labor of love, and a test of your skills and you obviously are good at what you do , BUT.........just because something CAN be done does not necessarily make it a good idea. I personally would have given Sam Ash the $3,000 and just bought a brand new one and spent all that work time playing the new guitar, but that's me and you are you. Good job!
Thank You for giving new life to that very distressed piece of history. Proud of you. Gary Moore would approve! I'm certain..
True demonstration of skills. This was way more complicated than your staining/dying videos. Much respect.
Love the resurrection in high speed. It sounds as good as it looks. That’s a five star repair. Is that enough smoke? To everyone at BigDguitar have a Merry Christmas
Hi Master! You are not a luthier, you are an Art designer!
Amazing job!!! Well done!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Amazing job! It's really nice to see that a piece of history like that is back to life!
Amazing work it was a pleasure! DB.
I am flummoxed and in awe. All of that (jam included) is magic!
Meinen Respekt vor ihren handwerklichen Fähigkeiten. Aus einem Stück zerbrochenen Holz wieder ein Musikinstrument zu bauen ist beeindruckend. Sehr interessantes Video, danke fürs zeigen 👍👍👍.
I have not seen everything in rebuilding till this man comes around damn great work
Beautiful work Derek.
Man what an effort!😎✌
The craziest luthier on TH-cam. I have never seen someone do this much work on a guitar.
Amazing repair and tons of work. Great out come but I can't believe in the collectors world that guitar is worth 500 bucks
Fantastic restoration!!!!!
Amazing patience and craft.
A restored Stradivarius will always be a Stradivarius. This is just the same. Great work!!
This is amazing! Great work by an extremely skilled luthier. I would love to see an hour and a half to two hour video...this moved SO fast I couldn't begin to comprehend what was happening without re-watching sections over and over. Absolutely fantastic repair job!!!
What a journey - great work as always. Love that Floyd inspired background track as well.
Glad you restored this fine old axe; didn't care for the "so fast, you can't tell what's going on" video style very much. I have to say, you're obviously very talented. But not everyone digs videos that make them dizzy if they try to see what's going on. Good fortune follow you, always; I hope you save many, many old smashed guitars - you'll heal a lot of smashed hearts. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Dang that must have been hard I watched the other video from a while back equally as scary. good job!
Thank you. This was hypnotic. Loved every minute of it. Skills and confident. Great to have them together. Have a great Christmas and wonderful new year. Good bless and be safe.
Great project! Congrats!
This is beyond craftsmanship.
I don't think a resurrection like this would ever happen to a Strat. Les Pauls are beautiful.
In-cre-dib-le job... My jaw was on the floor from 5th minute on... (also - just BTW, some years ago have purchased 5 Dawgtown pickups - 3 humbuckers & telecaster pair - they are INCREDIBLE. Plea say 'hi' to John! Very, very happy customer here!)
The was unbelievable & Incredible!
You are the guitar whisperer 👌
Thank you!
Excellent job and she sounds great. I love those P-90's.
Time and materials exceed the restored value of the guitar. It was a labor of love, but not a moneymaker.
Awesome video. Awesome and the guitar sounded wonderful. Thanks for playing it there. Thanks for fixing it. I would love to be the one helping you and learning from you fixing guitars I’m a Kansas City Chiefs fan too.
This video was truly watching a master in action. Wonderful.
Amazing video. Love watching you work.
That is an LP you could not make me own but that is some excellent work!
Yeah Buddy! Loved watching the time lapse. It was cool to see the owner playing this after it was all done.
Wow!!! What an amazing job in this guitar!!! congrats!!!
you're the first person i've seen take everything off and put the repairs underneath. great job
Out fu***** standing!!!! I'm glad you got the guitar to fix
Impressive! I wish I was that good with woodworking. It’s so tedious. My heart would be racing the whole time working on this thing😂
Usually I knock myself out to save an instrument worth just a fraction of this ‘53. I imagine the reward is greater, but maybe you’re constantly considering what’s the least necessary restoration as well because of the inherent value. It takes a lot to put out something like this because certain choices can always be deliberated by a random viewer like me. But well done. I’d love to have been in real time asking questions about a number of things that I’ve never done personally. And of course I’m envious of some of your shop tools. Bravo!
Wow - that was a LOT of work! I restore old drums and that is so much easier! The video was too fast so I put it in 3/4 speed and the music was nice and swampy........killer job and finish! I can't believe you have all those machines in your garage! Great playing at the end, too.......now it's time to "heat the joint"......rock on!
Wow and Remarkable! Thank You for letting us look over your shoulder! Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Great job, it's fantastic to restore an old beaten up guitar into a valuable and desirable classic once again!
Thanks for posting.
Lot of work for a beautiful classic!
It's probably the most spectacular restore you've pulled off... yet... It looks beautiful and it sounds amazing!
thanks buddy hope all is well with you.
@@bigdguitars looking good. Happy 2021, D. Wish you all the best and fantastic health, peace and happyness and riches.
The soul of the guitar was still there. The soul is infused into the guitar by every single person that works on it, plays it, repairs it and loves it. I am firmly convinced of this attribute that inhabits the guitar. Even the asshole who tried to destroy the guitar gave it something but most of all it’s the person who takes that wrecked and destroyed guitar and brings it back to life, back to where you never knew she was that destroyed and muted piece of her former glory and makes her whole, makes her sound like she was supposed to sound that puts the most soul into that axe. God bless you restorer of lost things into new things
Hey Derek, good old-fashioned craftsmanship made you almost win the guitar building competition by an knch and made an absolute beauty from this wreck. I wish you and your family all the best for the upcoming holy days. Thx for sharing thid video Cheers Fred
Thank you my friend!
I've never seen a better restoration. That guitar looked like it went through a Junkyard metal shredder. I'm totally blown away.
Incredible. There's no way on earth I would have the patience, never mind the skill, to execute such a project. You must have a solid $10K or more in labor in that thing. Outstanding result, though.
It's a true labor of love to bring something that beat up back to life.
I love seeing a giutar come back from the dead, done a couple myself, so Fricking awesome to see. Well done bud your repairing skills are brilliant 👏
Most impressive restoration I've seen. Great content!
That’s a lot of money in to power tools. Hand tools too. Great job 🎉
I was impressed by the two soldering irons clamped to the straight edge, to remove the finger board-good idea!
There are a couple things I would have done differently but I would never have had results you got either. You are definitely a master restorer. Beautiful Les Paul!
thank you
Awesome restoration. Great work!
Bless your heart for rescuing that old soul.
Amazing that’s just god giving talent to make it look so real the Gibson sig at the top I’m very impressed!!
Excellent Job 👍
Incredible work!
Wow, nice work man, there was a lot of work but it must have been enjoyable too? Thanks for video and very good guitar playing.
You are HIRED!!!! If i ever ( God willing) have a barn find or mess like that you're hired!!! Fantastic job on a beautiful guitar congratulations guys great work!!!!!
killer stuff loved the diggin in when you were playing nice job all around.
What a great job Glen...WOW ..amazing....
What a pleasure to watch and saw some techniques new to me, too.
Ummm that was incredible to watch at least for me. Only a luthier could love a guitar that much!
Great video and your level of commitment should not be overlooked......
Thanks for this
Cheers
Doug 😎
Really impressive work. I’s like to see it in “real time” segments with a narrative.
Excellent job.....
What a wonderful journey!
An astounding amount of work and an epic journey. Wtg, truly impressive.
Absolutely Amazing...loved every second of it.🎶🎸❤️
Thanks for the playing . I enjoyed it very much.
Very good job! thanks for all the videos
Great work and superb Music 😎
Unbelievable Work, you have to be the best ive ever seen.
Thank you
Man you are a true craftsman, beautiful work.
That’s real talent at work 👏