{"id":439,"date":"2009-06-12T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-06-12T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:00:37","slug":"lp-special-conversion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/2009\/06\/12\/lp-special-conversion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"LP Special Conversion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As advertised previously, I have been working on converting a knock-off Les Paul Special (kind-of) to a headless design. Since the subject in question is actually not playable (neck is bent beyond repair), I have not attempted to make it a nice looking instrument. Instead, I am merely trying to illustrate some of the levels of freedom you get with EGS.<br \/>\nHere is the end result:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449\" title=\"img_0820\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0820.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I began with the converted Tune-o-Matic tailpiece that I have shown earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" title=\"img_08061\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_08061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-441\" title=\"img_08071\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_08071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a $100 guitar that was given to me as scrap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-442\" title=\"img_0808\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0808.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-443\" title=\"img_0809\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, I have routed a ditch behind the tuners to allow access for the fingers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444\" title=\"img_0812\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0812.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the head, I decided on an adventurous design, again only to illustrate the flexibility of the EGS string locks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-445\" title=\"img_0815\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You lock the strings from the inside of the &#8220;V&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-446\" title=\"img_0817\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"img_0818\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0818.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The end result again:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-448\" title=\"img_0819\" src=\"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-content\/img_0819.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t have the Tune-o-Matic available as a standard product. Please do contact me though if you have one that you would like to have converted. In the future, I may develop this concept further, but for now I will rely on standard parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As advertised previously, I have been working on converting a knock-off Les Paul Special (kind-of) to a headless design. Since the subject in question is actually not playable (neck is bent beyond repair), I have not attempted to make it a nice looking instrument. Instead, I am merely trying to illustrate some of the levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitarworks.thestrandbergs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}