The last of my five planned guitar build and modification projects covers the upgrade of a Westfield Mini Gibson Les Paul guitar I bought from U.K. eBay in January 2014. This lovely little 18.5″ scale, solid body instrument is an easily playable travel guitar for an adult or introductory electric guitar for a child. It sat unloved in its gig bag in my attic for around seven years and deserved to be improved to the best possible specification.
https://dsgb.net/projects/minilespaul/
Amongst other minor cosmetic upgrades to gold hardware, the modified specification includes:
- Tonerider AC2 Alnico II PAF humbucker pickup AC2B-GD
- Gibson OEM strap buttons (brass)
- Gotoh Nashville GE103B-T Tune-o-Matic bridge with large posts
- Gibson style speed knobs (gold)
- Bourns PDB181-GTR01-504 potentiometers
- Optima Gold 2028M string set (0.011, 0.014, 0.018, 0.030, 0.038, 0.050)
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