Every day that a Les Paul neck is cured is a good day haha.

Very nice work....a labour of love

Thanks for sharing your work. I can only guess that the owner is thrilled after the transformation, they're probobly playing it right now.

Really nice. I just got bought a neck from someone that had every spec I was looking for but is 0.9, where my other guitars are more like 0.86. It's only finished with tru oil so I wasn't too intimidated but, still, it's inspiring to see someone come out with such a beautiful result.

Thanks for sharing, looks great

WOW Excellent job............. Thanks for Sharing...............you are Blessed....

Nice work. Thank you for the lesson , I appreciate your craftsmanship.

Nice job. Thank you for sharing.

Looks great. I have an epi explorer that kills my hand so I’m going to try this

Good job mate

Beautiful

Hi. Great and very informative video! Thank you so much .

thanks, I got a new epi SG custom, and the neck feels weird, but I love the front! LOL gonna be doing this

Great! I love slim necks like Ibanez Wizards. So I sanded down a Harley Benton and a Kramer Assault. But I have still to go a little more on them.

look mom no scarf joint.haha..what grit did you start w the long fabric paper???my necks black on guitar so hoping maples okay underneath,but I wanna go for it..looks nice great job..

Nice job ! I just bought a new accoustic and it's hard to play clean with the big ass neck . So I'm going to try to make it like my strat neck .I had a strat once that had a hard to play neck and took a sander too it .

Great job! Liked and subbed!

Very nice,man!Would you can do this for my guitar too???No,joke!I did it by myselfe in 3 sessions and the result is more then i expected,wonderful!I did this on a Harley Benton Aeolus Bengal Flame,and now it´s so much better than before!Without the lack!Nice C-profile and a very nice design;eingeleimter Hals: gerösteter Riegelahorn!!!It looks and feels fantastic!

great job

what about the binding?did you tape it? and does it blend in w out lip on the outer sides by binding?**it looks like it has binding this guitar?***I just got a sweet deal $36 vintage brand Les Paul ,necks way fat n I'd like to shave her down as your found,tough to do certain useful chords w it being too wide n chunky..but my binding has a aged look n I don't wanna fudge up the curb appeal, any ideas,best $36 guitar I ever had,put mini humbuckers,cts pits good caps 50,s wired,n put $30 set Grover mini tuners I like better than big tulip knobs n faux Jade always despised them tuners klusons I guess ..I've done this on few guitars but never bound neck..I didn't catch ehat oil your using(type wise)..I like bare wood necks,once your hand oils do the polishing n really gets very fast for leads..nice vid thanks reply be helpful..winter project yes. .

Hi there. I’ve got a “vintage” fender strat reissue with a “thick C” neck profile. How much might this service cost near me? I want it to play like my other strat. Thanks

How much a job like that cost? Thanks!

I really want to do this exact thing to my LP. But I had a bad refret once so i'm terrified to have someone do this because other than the neck being too fat I love how it plays.

I have a FG710-s yamaha that sounds incredible but has terrible D type neck....shoulders are uncomfortable. Neck is very thin with sharp shoulders. I'm a little worried that even if I just take a bit off the shoulders I may make the neck less stable....it's thin. I want to just round them a little.

So I have a Slash Epiphone Firebird that the neck is D shaped, It felt fine when I played it to buy it but the longer I played it I started getting thumb pain, its the shoulders on the D shape of the neck. I could do the same as you do on it correct? Except what would you recommend for getting past the poly coat? ( I know patience and sanding) I wouldn't think using any chemicals as that would mess up the binding, Did you use grain filler on the neck or just applied the True Oil?

Very nice work that came out looking very nice. Did you only use sand paper the entire time to take away material?

I would love mine done but I can not do that

How difficult/easy would you say this job was? I am thinking of doing a overhaul on my epiphone les paul as my preferences have changed so one of the changes I want to do is make the neck less fat and more like a strat or my jackson.

With all that sanding, how do you manage not to remove the side position markers (dots)?

Would a neck or headstock repair prevent one from sanding down their guitar’s neck exactly as you did here? I don’t have any info on the repair but based on what I can see it doesn’t look like the repair/repaired crack extends to any portion of the neck; mostly on the headstock and the area where the head meets the neck that you did some fine tuning on. Thanks.

Nice work. I'm considering getting this done to a Dean ML with a bit of a baseball bat for a neck. Does sanding it down like this change integrity of the neck? ie. being more susceptible to temperature change/ needing neck adjustments more often? -Thanks.

How much might someone expect a service like this to cost?

Hi, can I use mineral oil to finish a neck? Thank you

I love this. Would this affect the structural integrity of the neck, making it more prone to the dreaded Gibson headstock snap?

Hey Jamie, where do you think I could send my Les Paul to get this done? Do you have a shop?

Great video and nice work. What are your thoughts on converting it to a thin "D" shape by just standing the center flag and leaving the shoulders pretty much as is?

I kinda want this on my lp too now xp

Great job! Where could one find those neck profile cards you were using? I’m about to do this very thing to my Les Paul Junior.

Great video. I just had this done to a Harley Benton LP style guitar. My hands just never fit with the fat LP neck. What was that finish oil you put on?

Buy a Cabinet maker's gauge to check the profile of the neck in progress. You can take a perfect snapshot of the profile at any fret, compare it to your templates, and be a whole lot more accurate and quicker. They're not expensive ........

Is posible to add more wood to sanded guitar neck? To make it thicker.

is there a change in the sound after the procedure?

The only scary thing for me- if you hit truss rod groove. I seen it few times. Do you have any "trick" to not fail here?

Aside from the two oil applications, how long did the sanding and shaping process take? Thanks

The necks on Gibson's/Epiphone with that wide shoulder instead of rounded neck makes the neck feel unnatural for me. However I do own an Epi SL which is the cheapest les paul available and the neck feels great! haha..Its more similar to my ESP/cheap strat.

Where's your contact info? I've got an Epiphone Les Paul 100 that has a tree trunk neck that needs to become a Hendrix sized neck. I've only got my Dean Strat HSS knockoff and my Jay Turser Knockoff SG in the meantime until I can get it sanded down.

Can this be done on an acoustic with a rod in the neck? I bought a brand new Taylor online and the seller is ripping me off on the return ($500 restock) so I'm either going to sell it or modify it.

Isn`t his procedure dangerous for the Truss Rod?

Great video! Just the thing I was looking for! I used to own a Gibson Les Paul 1960 Classic in tobacco sunburst she was beautiful! She had a fall and broke her neck. I have a Les Paul Studio....it has more of a 50's style neck...kind of fat. Could I do something like this to make it more of a 1960's cut? Subscribed with the bell!

would it be very hard to put it back to d shape ?

Where u locate and HM u charge ?

What grit you ise to remove the paint layer

interesting, thanks!

What brand of oil did you use? Did it change the tone of the guitar?

Making a Les Paul what it should have been in the first place.

Nice. But.. Is it safe? What about truss rod? Thanks

Great job! It looks like it came off the assembly line, like that!

Do most guitar techs do this

Where are you located and how much does this service cost?

Great! I worked it in my SG to V profile neck its sooo nice😍

What kind of oil did you use on the neck?

I guess you're matching a set profile, but I feel that one would only need to sand the bottom half, behind the lowest strings? Also, that Les Paul's neck must be very thick because I don't remember Stratocasters having thin necks, been awhile though.

I do the same to most of my guitars :)

Thanks for the video! I've been wanting to try this for a long time. I'm wondering about the grain on a mahogany neck. Do you think there is a need for pore filling? In the video, the surface of the neck looks very smooth and consistent. Did the original pore filling go deep enough that the sanding didn't "re-expose" the grain? Thanks again!

Cabinet File works best for this job. I shape necks all the time. Just quicker but otherwise you did a beautiful job

The job itself looks well executed but the guitar looks odd to me. I would have preferred if more transitional marks were done mimicking the wear the hand would do at the top and bottom of the neck.

How did you make those profiles? Thanks!

I want to do the same on my Epiphone Casino coupe.

Good job! But, I would have refinished the whole back of the neck including the back of the head stock.

what would be the cost for that?

Thank you Jamie! I found this highly informative, and now I'm not as frightened at the idea of having my les Paul neck thinned out!

I've been wanting to sand the red finish of of my SG but I'm not sure what gade sand paper I should use just to remove the finish without accidentally misshapping the neck

I have done several like this, only takes 30 minutes or less.

what oil did you use?

"tried and true oil" is that tru oil?

Hello, I am trying to do that to my LP, when you are using the wheels you add something like a white bar, what is it? . Minute 10:53 Thank you in advance.

werent you worried about going to far and exposing the truss rod?

I am so glad to see someone do this. I have a Epiphone Les Paul Gold Top that I really like. But the one thing I dont like about it is the neck carve. I am a fender guy and Gibson and Epiphone necks tend to have fat shoulders which I am not a fan of. So, not I see this is something I can totally do myself. Looking forward to it. Thanks for sharing.

Wow

Jamie, great post!! Can I ask how you were sure you didn't sand through or near to the truss rod. That's what stops me doing the job on my ES339

Mahogany neck? Looks like maple.

you could've put some red tint in that oil

That buffer damaged my hearing! lol

If that's a genuine Gibson, that's one hell of a way to devalue it...

Some of those 70s les pauls had such thick necks, they were almost unplayable-very fatiguing if your on a long gig & is what kept me away from PRS guitars

should have atleast matched the stain

Sounds like you’re masking an Irish accent

Comparison: 0:01 - 11:54

Seems to me the customer is just asking for his Les Paul to end up with a broken head stock. The head stocks on Les Paul's already seem to snap off with ease with the stock thick d shaped neck, the customer better never accidentally drop this guitar, even on carpet.

I don't know.....

why dont you buy a guitar with a slimmer neck? this is painful to see

This is a crime against humanity 🪦

I hate C shaped necks, this made me weep. Just so you know.

How do I say this in a nice way......here goes....this is a crime against humanity

You should have removed all the lacquer in my opinion off of the hill and the back of the headstock leaving only the black face of the headstock and the lacquer on the body itself the transition marks look cheap.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG and here I am trying to find fattest neck I can. Can’t stand skinny necks. My hands and fingers too big. I couldn’t finish watching. Good work tough for those that are interested in skinny necks. Thx.

Dodgy shaving down the neck it’s easy to hit the truss rod, then it’s only good for fire wood 🪵 😂😂

I would prefer to get a proper thick D shaped neck on my Stratocaster and remove some of the banjo sound. I would never ruin my Les Paul like that.

SACRILEGE!