Greetings from the Netherlands

Hi all!
I'm Thijs, 33 years old & from the east of the Netherlands.

Always been a fan of guitarmusic & only started playing acoustic for about 3 years now. But I thought it was time for me to take the step to electric.

I have some experience in woodworking & crafting due to my work at an interiorbuilding-company, so I was interested to see what I can make of a Les Paul based LP-1M. With the flamed maple top.

Placed the order & a few weeks later it came to my doorstep. Now I'm just searching for the right color of green I like & then it's time to start.

Greetings, Thijs

Welcome to the forum Thijs. Start a build diary and ask any questions you have there. Best of luck and good choice of kit

Welcome Thijs, good luck with the build.

Welcome Thijs.

Welkom Thijs from another Dutchie. I hope you will open your build diary so we can follow your build.

Welcome to the forum Thijs, cant wait to see your build diary

Welcome along - green LP - keen to see how it turns out!

Hi Thijs and welcome from the UK.

Welcome Thijs, a green LP sounds like an excellent project

Thank you all for the warm welcome!

I'm planning on opening a build-diary.

So far I'm still searching for the right color of green.

Hi Thijs, welcome to the forum.

What shade of green were you considering? Light, bright lime green or more towards dark emerald green? Obviously it will be hard to find the exact colour off the shelf and will probably require mixing some blue & yellow stains/inks/dyes. I have successfully used fountain pen ink on a Red J Bass but saw there was also an emerald green ink colour available. Also used cyan blue ink jet ink on another build and have pondered several times whether to buy some yellow and experiment to find a desired shade of green to use on a future build. Not sure you can get them in your part of the world but Ubeaut dyes or Keda dyes could be worth investigating.

Thanks for the advice Wazkelly!

I work at a interiorbuilding-company & we also paint everything ourselves. I'm trying to get the color of a transparant green 1996 Les Paul Classic. Might also be used on other years & models, I really don't know...

I'm getting help from a colleague in using pigments to get the right stain-color. So hopefully I can get the color spot-on.