Time Machine Les Paul GoldTop
-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 UF adhesive
-Holly headstock veneer
-MOP inlaid logo
-Braz fingerboard
-Cellulose nitrate Sorokin Pluma Model inlays - Raw sheet stock manufactured by Mazzucchelli in Italy.
-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
-Hand made 2 ply truss rod cover (with 'roll-markings')
-Kluson keystone button tuners, single ring/single line- aged in house
-Custom Mojoaxe designed, locally milled, Joey Landreth open C tuning and gauge compensated wrap tailpiece. Vintage ‘hand ground’ softened edges, 32 gram’s, milled from aircraft grade 7075 aluminum.
-Vintage correct long bridge studs with extra long bushings
-Ron Ellis LRP PAF style pickups
-Bartlett Guitar Parts replica M69 cream pickup rings
-1959' style "C" neck profile
-1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high fret-wire
-Metered and matched 500k audiotaper ViPot's (Designed to replicate the taper and torque of vintage Centralab pots)
-Speed knobs with period correct numeric font; aged in house : I soften each knobs edges, shaping their tops to have a more vintage like ripple; Mounted to an old pot shaft in my drill press. Then darken their amber tone and polish them back up.
-Period correct volume indicator washers, with a soft rounded over point
-Luxe Paper In Oil (PIO) "Bumble Bee" 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 black
-Switchcraft jack
-Switchcraft toggle switch with early 50’s style flat nut, fine knurl.
-Catalin toggle switch tip turned from vintage rod samples and UV aged in-house
-Vintage correct #19 AWG Tinned Copper Ground Wire
-Orange spaghetti 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.
