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Originally Posted by River
So, no practical advice on how to trim a pound off an LP? 
I've got a '92 Standard that needs to lose 1.5 pounds. Stop me from doing something ugly. |
Dan Shins of Lay's Guitar in Ohio has a way of chambering heavy Les Pauls.
Mind you, this is a solution for players only !
The weight relief hole "purists" don't need to contact him...
If you don't want a hollow one, then you could also send it away to get a thinner body and / or have a tummy contour put in it like the Dicky Betts red top.
I don't know if that fits into the "something ugly" category for you. From a player's point of view, there's nothing that should hold you back. Heck, I've put drills on guitars that are now considered to be "vintage" because I didn't like the stock tuners or because I wanted a Bigsby on it.
On a long enough time line, every guitar becomes vintage.
All real players put aside, I think even the "purists" will have to admit there were more than a couple of Standards produced in '92 and quite similar instruments before and after that year.