Hello everyone

This is my first attempt at building a guitar, a kit, or anything more exciting than a picture frame. My goal is to use this experience to move on to building my own guitars from scratch.

SPOILER ALERT: the guitar is already finished. This diary is actually 11 months in the making, I purchased the kit last year and REALLY took my time building it. I took lots of notes and pictures throughout to document the process and all my errors!

Here is the inspiration for my build
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At first I was thinking of an SG/AG style kit, but that plan quickly changed once I saw the finish on that Les Paul. I guess I could have done a gold with black burst SG/AG kit, but at the time that thought never even crossed my mind...