Hi,

I've just placed an order with Pit Bull for a LP-1S kit. These are on back order at the moment but I hope to have it, here in the UK, in late August.

I am 50 years old, and have only been playing guitar for a little over 3 years, but I love it and decided that I would really like a Les Paul style guitar to add to my Gibson SG and 1985 Epiphone Sheraton II. In particular I want it to be a deep translucent blue. Epiphone do a really nice one, but at the same time I want to learn about how guitars work, how to fix them and how to maintain them properly. I doubt that by the time the build is finished I will have spent less that I would have done on the Epi, but I will be more knowledgeable, more experienced and I will hopefully have had more fun. I also aim to have the same amount of hair as I do today.

It is the existence of this forum that in large part swayed my decision to first go ahead with a build, and to buy from Pit Bull. The tireless and endless patience that I have already noted even after a quick spin through the posts here makes up a remarkable resource for a complete beginner like me.

So I've got about a month, but I've got a lot to read, and a lot of videos to watch, so I'm off to make a start, but there will be a lot of very basic questions incoming

RB