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Upgrading my Epiphone Les Paul Special II

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The original machine heads

I re-discovered a cheap Epiphone Les Paul Special II in my spare room. I haven't touched it in years, and it was certainly worse for wear. The electrics were dodgy, the nut broken and the machine heads were falling apart. So I decided that it would be fun to do it up.

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items are from between 08 Jan 2009 & 11 Jan 2009.

The original broken nut

Electrics cavity after conductive copper tape was applied

Bridge pickup cavity after conductive copper tape was applied

Neck pickup cavity after conductive copper tape was applied

Front view of the guitar after conductive copper tape was applied

The old tone/volume pots and switch

The underside of the cover for the electrics cavity after conductive copper tape was applied

The original pickups

The front of the guitar after removing the pickups

The front of the guitar after the neck was removed

The neck after I removed it

The original tone pot

The original pickup switch

The original volume pot

The electrics cavity before modification

The headstock, complete with new Gotoh machine heads and a new nut

The back of the headstock after putting the new Gotoh machine heads on

Close up of the new graphite nut

The headstock with new Gotoh machine heads and graphite nut

My drilling mishap

After the drilling 1

After the drilling 2

New hardware, electrics and copper shielding tape

Headstock before drilling out the holes

The full guitar before I worked on the headstock

The headstock with the original metal washers for the old machine heads

One of the original machine heads after it fell apart

The original machine heads

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