There are two guitar shapes that just do it better than anything else… The Telecaster and the Les Paul. And this Les Paul… Incredible!

It’s a 2010 standard in an amazing honey burst finish. I’ve always wanted one and when this one came in for a set up and a service and It made me want one even more (infact, after doing this one I spent weeks searching online and picked up the elusive 2017 Green Ocean Burst Les Paul Classic). 

All in all, this guitar was in great shape. It needed a bit of a clean up and then a decent set up. 

So, off come the strings, off comes the hardware and a full clean starts to take shape. Once the body and the headstock are good its time to move on to the neck.  Using fine #0001 grade steel wool I follow the grain and take off any dirt.  I then oil the fretboard and get it nice and hydrated. Then go to work on each fret to polish them up with the 1500-12000 grit paper. 

Once done, a set of Ernie Ball 10-46’s is put on the guitar, its strung up, stretched in and the set up is finished off!

After the set up, I plugged it in to see how it sounded and it was one of the nicest playing and sounding Les Pauls I’ve heard in a long time.