The Specs |
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Custom built for Joey Landreth; this guitar is the prototype build of my new model, the Pluma - Junior.
It is 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
-Custom art gold ink headstock silk screen applied with 50's era thread count mesh.
-Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
-Cocobolo fingerboard
-Celluloid nitrate dot inlays, hand punched and installed to slightly shrink back into inlay cavity
-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 17-56 Stringjoy custom string - tuned to open C
-Kluson 6-inline strip button tuners, in-house replaced ivroid buttons - 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
-1956 vintage P90 sitting in until Ron Ellis dogear is ready
-1956' style medium full "C" neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fret-wire
-ViPots -Metered and matched audio taper Centralab inspired pots
-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) "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
-Celluloid 4 ply rear control cavity cover, in tort pattern
-Switchcraft jack
-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-1950's accurate aniline dyed brown pore filler and period correct opaque yellow with aniline dye tobacco brown burst
-Unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Weather checking is real
-Main Stage custom made flight case
It is 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
-Custom art gold ink headstock silk screen applied with 50's era thread count mesh.
-Mother of Pearl inlaid logo
-Cocobolo fingerboard
-Celluloid nitrate dot inlays, hand punched and installed to slightly shrink back into inlay cavity
-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 17-56 Stringjoy custom string - tuned to open C
-Kluson 6-inline strip button tuners, in-house replaced ivroid buttons - 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
-1956 vintage P90 sitting in until Ron Ellis dogear is ready
-1956' style medium full "C" neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fret-wire
-ViPots -Metered and matched audio taper Centralab inspired pots
-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) "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
-Celluloid 4 ply rear control cavity cover, in tort pattern
-Switchcraft jack
-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-1950's accurate aniline dyed brown pore filler and period correct opaque yellow with aniline dye tobacco brown burst
-Unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Weather checking is real
-Main Stage custom made flight case
Final pics
Paint, aging, silk screen
Neck carve, fretting, inlays, and pre-paint inspection
Body and neck rough work
Fingerbaord
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