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'52 Goldtop Restoration
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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'52 Goldtop Restoration