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'52 Goldtop Restoration
This guitar was spec'd out as follows:
-One piece Honduran Mahogany neck and body
-Hot hide glue construction throughout; neck set, truss rod filler strip, and fingerboard
-Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
-Cocobolo fingerboard
-Celluloid nitrate dot inlays
-1950's correct 17 degree angled headstock
-1950's style single action 3/16 steel truss rod with brass nut
-Period correct nylon 6/6 nut
-Kluson strip button tuners - aged in house
-Mojoaxe,
33 gram
aluminum wraparound bridge -
Machined from 7075 aircraft grade lightweight aluminum bar stock
-Vintage
correct long bridge studs with extra long bushings
-Sanford Magnetics custom wound "SS90" dogear
-1954' style medium-large "C" neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fretwire
-Metered 500k audiotaper CTS pots with Luxe PIO bumble-bee capacitor
-Luxe #8 gauge black PVC Tubing inside wiring cavity - which even smells old
-Custom order Luxe braided metal shield #22 AWG ORANGE Cloth 7-Strand Tinned Copper Hook-Up Wire
-Switchcraft jack
-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-1950's accurate, UV-fading, aniline brown pore filler and aniline sunburst dyes
-Unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Weather checking is real.
Some build progress pics of 6 0006
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'52 Goldtop Restoration