Today I worked on a beautiful Gibson Les Paul Classic that needed a bit of attention. There wasn’t anything massively wrong with the instrument, but it just needed some elbow grease in a few areas.

Much of the hardware was heavily tarnished and lacked the lustre of a new instrument. Similarly, the fret wire was dull and starting to corrode in a couple of places, and there was also a little rust on a few of the pickup pole pieces.

To remedy this I used some metal polish along with my Dremel multi tool, and the hardware came up a treat!

The frets were fairly tidy in terms of wear, so I just needed to bring them up to a vibrant shine as above, and they now look great!

To finish I fitted new strings, adjusted the intonation and the pickup heights for an even response.

The fair amount of weight to the guitar, and 60’s neck carve really suited the instrument, and it sounded wonderful through my Marshall during testing.

Before and after…