SAVING a WRECKED GIBSON Les Paul

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My brother knocked over his 60's Gibson Acoustic Firebird. Sent me a picture of the head stock broken off. I called him immediately. He is in his 70's and bought it very close to new. When he answered I said "Man are you ok". He cried for a few minutes. That was tough. He ended up having a guy in NYC fix it for him. You couldn't tell. Great job on this one! I think I said OMG like 10 times watch this! You sir are an artist.

I'm an amateur luthier myself. I've done a neck reset pretty similar to this on an Epiphone Les Paul. Someone had dropped it and separated the neck. Their solution was to try to make it a bolt on. they had done a fender style neck plate and a 5th screw angled up to pull the neck into the pocket. Honestly, it wasn't a bad repair, all things considered. it was just an orc repair. I repaired it properly and we refinished it in a silver edge burst

I'll never tire of these kind of guitar resto vids,...done in your own style of course, really good watching.👍

work with wood. had no clear idea how to get that neck out.now i do .what a job he has done, its beautiful . built kits to learn set ups and fret work and such, man is amazing you did get the right man for the job!

That’s amazing work and I’m a guitar repairer here in England. Re pickups(in England anyway) a lot of people want a Les Paul that looks like a 59/60, but want it to sound like a 70s one! It took me a while to work that out.

Beautiful work on a beautiful guitar.my guitar teacher had an 81 Les Paul custom he would use in our lessons it played wonderful, .. back in 1987 , and I'd had not yellowed yet, just a light cream still.

You rarely get the chance to see major restorations like this on vintage guitars because the more you mess with the original (especially a refin) the more you reduce its value value. But when a guitar has already been violated and left on death's door like this one you have no choice. This was very fun to watch.

Amazing work, that was a fun watch :) Keep going brothers!

Love this video of guitar restoration! Alex is a wizard!

Absolutely amazing! Great piece. Was captivated the whole video. He is a true artist!

Amazing work, and it is the attention to the details that matters. I'm in the middle of replacing a truss rod in one of my guitars, and it's been an education, the biggest lesson so far is not to rush; any errors so far have been because I've rushed what I was doing, this stuff takes time to get right.

Did a similar on a SG. Guy had repaired with dowels on headstock, destroyed overlay and insert, used dowels to repair broken neck and also some mahogany insert wrong grain direction! Cut holes in front for different electronics, sanded it with maybe 40 grit so shape was all wrong! BUT.. because it was such a collectible, a locally renowned and famous blues guitarist bought it to me like that after they gave up on restoring. It had 4 old levels of finish. It also looked like it had been dragged behind a truck for a few miles! I’m retired @ 74 and only do a few special guitars now that have NO short timelines! This one took 4 months! Opppps can’t post pics, sry, new subscriber.

Awesome video! I once sanded down my dad's 1980 The Paul that he had badly refinished in some kind of cherry sparkle. I took it to a luthier and he told me he'd have me learn how to do it. I sanded id down in several passes and buffed the headstock (which was natural from the factory but refinished in gloss black). Guitar looks great now.

Awesome work! I love that guitar and how he saved/made it better than new!

That was one of the most satisfying repair videos I’ve ever watched! Yeah!!

Wow! Pure Artist and Craftsman! Such incredible work on your Les Paul. Years back, had a slight hairline crack on a Les Paul. Top side of neck, near headstock. Brought it to South Side Guitar Center, where I purchased it. They sent it to Chicago Music Exchange, where they performed a headstock/neck repair. The work that CME performed was flawless. Color matched the cherry finish. Repair is undetectable, and well, perfect. This is why appreciate what your Luthier, Alex performed on your Les Paul. Hats off! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

* Marlboro Yellow

Beautiful restoration! My 87 is super yellow like that one. Still smells like smoke when you get up close as take a whiff. 😁

Awesome. My best guitar is a 1978 Deluxe heavily modified. Brass nut, with Dimarzio Super Distortions