​Custom built for Joey Landreth; this guitar was spec'd out as follows:

​-One piece Honduran Mahogany neck and body
-Hot hide glue construction; neck set, truss rod filler strip (eastern maple), and fingerboard
-Eastern hard-rock maple top: adhered using a Urea-formaldehyde adhesive
-Holly headstock vaneer
​-Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
-Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard
​-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 (Nut radius and surrounding frets are working away from a 16" radius to facilitate slide playing)
​-Strung 19-65 flatwound - tuned to open C
-Kluson keystone button tuners, non-branded - aged in house
-Pigtail vintage replica, 32 gram aluminum wraparound bridge - grooved back without counter bores, just like the originals
-Vintage correct long bridge studs with extra long bushings
-ThroBak KZ-90 '52/'54 Soapbar pickups
-1954' style full "C" neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fret-wire
-ViPots -Metered and matched audio taper Centralab inspired pots (swapped in after these photo were taken)
-Speed knobs with period correct numeric font; aged in house
-Period correct volume indicator washers, with a soft rounded over point
-Luxe Paper In Oil (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
-ABS rear control cavity covers, in vintage correct brown colour
-Switchcraft jack
-Switchcraft toggle switch
-Catalin toggle switch tip turned from vintage rod samples and UV aged in-house (like on my window sill for months)
-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-Orange spagetti cloth insulation covering for grounds
-1950's accurate aniline dyed brown pore filler and period correct bronze flake gold finish
-Unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Weather checking is real.
-Cedar Creek custom made deluxe case
Neck, Body, & Fingerboard Process

Top carving & final assembly shots