Here was my second attempt at converting plain stripped Gibson SG's into Gibson Custom Shop Tony Iommi Signature SG's
The guitars started out life as a gutted 1967 Melody Maker and a 1972 Deluxe. The Melody Maker had a repair made to the headstock from a previous break. Here is the 67 Melody Maker
I futher added strength to the break by adding 2 splines across the break as seen in this example picture
Once the repair was done, I removed the Rosewood fingerboard in preperation of gluing up an Ebony fingerboard. After the new fingerboard was in place, I set about the task of drawing out each different sized crosses for the inlays and transferd the patterns to the Mother of Pearl. After the inlays were cut, I routed out the shape of the crosses in the fingerboard for the different positon markers. Once that was done came the task of epoxying in the inlays with black colored epoxy.
I also enlarged the Melody Makers headstock to make it look like the larger "Open Book" Gibson design
Fingerboard finished being inlayed,bound and fretted. Its almost ready for the gloss black finish. Note the tuner holes have yet to be drilled into the head stock !
After some finish sanding and grain filling it was ready for paint. Here is the finished product !
