This is a set of plans for building a solid body electric guitar in the style of the Les Paul. It is sold as a digital download. The plans are not an exact replica of any guitar, and the seller is not affiliated with any guitar manufacturer.
The design has a Honduras mahogany body and neck, with a book-matched curly maple carved top. The neck is glued to the body with a mortise and tenon joint. The guitar has 22 frets, a 24.75" scale and two humbucking pickups. Each pickup has its own tone and volume control, and a 3-way toggle switch selects the pickups.
The plan set includes views of the top, back, side and front, along with body and neck sections, a body cavity layout, a detailed wiring diagram and a fret spacing table. A template sheet covers the body and cavity routing, neck profile, headpiece, tuner layout, pickguard and cover plates, and fretboard. It also has a contour map of the carved top in 1/16" increments and six sections through the top.
- Format
- Digital download plans with included template sheet
- Scale length
- 24.75" (628.7mm)
- Body size
- Maximum length 17.33" (440.1mm); maximum width 13.03" (330.9mm)
- Body thickness
- 1-3/4" (45mm) plus carved top
- Body wood
- Honduras mahogany
- Top
- Curly maple, book-matched grain, thickness varies; plastic binding around top perimeter
- Neck wood
- Honduras mahogany
- Neck joint
- Mortise and tenon, glued
- Neck reinforcement
- 18" dual action adjustable truss rod with hex nut, adjustable at headpiece
- Peghead
- Standard Les Paul type, 12.9 degree angle
- Fretboard
- Ebony or East Indian rosewood
- Fretboard specs
- 12" (304.8mm) radius; maximum thickness 1/4" (6.35mm); 22 frets
- Nut width
- 1.69" (42.9mm)
- Width at 22nd fret
- 2.22" (57.3mm)
- Tuning machines
- Classic Kluson Waffleback 3+3, perloid keystone buttons
- Bridge
- Classic Nashville Tune-O-Matic
- Tailpiece
- Gotoh stop tailpiece with .990" (25.15mm) bushings
- Pickups
- 2 matched humbuckers, neck and bridge, based on Seymour Duncan SH1
- Controls
- 1 volume pot and 1 tone pot for each pickup; 3-way toggle switch
- Switch positions
- Up: neck pickup on; center: both pickups on; down: bridge pickup on
- Jack
- Standard side-mounted 1/4" mono phone jack with jack plate
- Plan sheets
- Top view with fretboard and headpiece, back view, left side view, front view cut through neck, lateral body section, longitudinal section through body, neck and peghead, neck sections at 1st, 6th and
- Templates
- Body and cavity routing with wiring channels; neck profile with headpiece and tuner layouts; pickguard, cover plate and truss rod plate routing; fretboard routing with fret positions and radius guides