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This guitar was spec'd out as follows:

​-One piece Honduran Mahogany neck and body
-Eastern hard rock maple top
-Hot hide glue construction throughout; neck set, truss rod filler strip, and fingerboard
-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 brass nut
-Period correct nylon 6/6 nut
-Kluson single ring single line tuners
-Bigsby B7 tremolo
-Vintage correct ABR-1 bridge with stainless steel posts
-PAF style humbucking pickups
-1959' style neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fretwire
-Vintage style pick guard and pickup rings
-Metered 550k audiotaper Bournes pots with NOS Russian PIO capacitors
-Luxe #8 gauge black PVC Tubing inside wiring cavity - which even smells old.
-Switchcraft jack and toggle switch
-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-Unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Weather checking is real.

Finished photos 



The build process

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