Victor's LP goes on a diet..

Stunning Dave! WAY better than the original top. Did I miss the final weight?

Best as I can tell on my bathroom scale, 7.3 lbs.

Man that bridge is on the deck. Couldn’t have gone a 1/10 of a degree lower. Nice job

Stunner! Nice work LT. Congratulations, Vic.

FWIW: My chambered '09 LP Premium + weighs 7.5lbs. Now I want to fade it a bit to look more like Vic's.

Dave, I have been a repair guy for 30+ years, and I can honestly say that this is some of the finest work I have ever seen. I know what it takes to do what you have done here, and your work is top notch. Thanks for showing us the process along the way, as it is quite a testament to your fine skills. You have taken a nice, well loved guitar, and turned it into an heirloom to be passed down to future generations. I love the fact that it will be played out live, and enjoyed. Cheers to a job well done. You should be very proud. Things like this are what the internet is good for! Thanks, Kerry

tmgcustom said:

Dave, I have been a repair guy for 30+ years, and I can honestly say that this is some of the finest work I have ever seen. I know what it takes to do what you have done here, and your work is top notch. Thanks for showing us the process along the way, as it is quite a testament to your fine skills. You have taken a nice, well loved guitar, and turned it into an heirloom to be passed down to future generations. I love the fact that it will be played out live, and enjoyed. Cheers to a job well done. You should be very proud. Things like this are what the internet is good for! Thanks, Kerry

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Wow, thank you so much! I'm grateful for your kind words..

VictorB said:

As soon as I get it, I’ll gig and video it FOR SURE!

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Any updates?

Soon I hope!

Victor is waiting on shipping. It will be there soon..

Waiting with bated breath!

Joe Desperado said:

Man that bridge is on the deck. Couldn’t have gone a 1/10 of a degree lower. Nice job

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Agreed. My ES-335 is similar and I love it. Makes me wish my Les Paul was as low.

Nice job @LtDave32 - looks like fantastic work.

lowatter said:

Waiting with bated breath!

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ETA is next Monday, the 14th.

Victor is so patient.

I had a shipping issue (now resolved), I hit the wrong button on my phone, and as a result stopped receiving email notifications for my UPS account, which is a different email than my regular email.

I kinda screwed myself. Wreaked all manner of havoc with my shipping. fk'n boomers, hit the wrong button, screw everything up.

The phone mess to fix this was astronomical. 20-minute wait, get sent to another guy in India, 30-minute wait, more runaround, fail.. Try again next day, wait on call back that never came, now it's the weekend, nobody there, here's Monday, more hold, more wait, more shenanigans..

Yeesh. What a fk'n mess.

But all is back to normal now, with my quick shipping restored.

just think of all the genuine aging the guitar gets from its 350,000 mile journey to Victor

DeafDumbBlind Kid said:

just think of all the genuine aging the guitar gets from its 350,000 mile journey to Victor

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I just want them to treat it better than how USPS does it. Gorillas don't play guitars.

Today...

It has arrived, my GF brought it in the house, I won't be home until 5p or so...

It’s here, can’t put it down to write a review just yet…

VictorB said:

It’s here, can’t put it down to write a review just yet…

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I'm putting a call in now to local EMS.

No word in 36 hrs, we are sending in an extraction team.