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6 0007

​This guitar was spec'd out as follows:

​-One piece Honduran Mahogany neck and body
​-Stinger headstock detail

-Hot hide glue construction; neck set, truss rod filler strip, and fingerboard
-Eastern hard-rock maple top: adhered using a 
Urea-formaldehyde adhesive 
-Holly headstock vaneer
​-Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
-Cocobolo fingerboard - Unbound, 'ala very first goldtop's
​-Celluloid nitrate trapezoid inlays
-1950's correct 17 degree angled headstock
-1950's style single action 3/16 steel truss rod with polished washer & brass nut
-Period correct nylon 6/6 nut
-Kluson keystone button tuners, non-branded - 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" soapbar pickups - aged in house
-1954' style medium "C" neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fretwire
-Metered 500k audiotaper CTS pots with Luxe PIO "Grey Tiger" capacitors
-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
-Switchcraft toggle switch

-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-Orange spagetti cloth insulation covering for crounds

-1950's accurate aniline dyed brown pore filler and period correct bronze flake gold finish
-Unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Weather checking is real.
Some build photos of 6 0007
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