Time Machine Guitars
TM Les Paul
Goldtop
Specifications
- One piece Honduran mahogany neck & body; hot hide glue throughout — neck set, truss rod filler strip (eastern maple), fingerboard
- Eastern hard-rock maple, adhered with UF adhesive
- Holly veneer; MOP inlaid logo; 1950s correct 17° angle
- Brazilian rosewood; cellulose nitrate Sorokin Pluma Model inlays — raw sheet stock by Mazzucchelli, Italy
- 1950s single action 3/16 steel, polished washer & brass nut; hand made 2-ply cover with roll-markings
- Period correct nylon 6/6
- 1959 style C
- 1959 spec nickel-silver medium/high
- Kluson keystone button, single ring/single line, aged in house
- Custom Mojoaxe/Joey Landreth open-C gauge-compensated wraparound; 32g aircraft-grade 7075 aluminum, hand-ground softened edges; vintage correct long studs & extra-long bushings
- Ron Ellis LRP PAF style; Bartlett Guitar Parts replica M69 cream pickup rings
- Metered & matched 500k audio-taper ViPots (Centralab taper & torque spec); speed knobs with period correct numeric font, softened edges & aged in house; period correct volume indicator washers
- Luxe Paper In Oil (PIO) “Bumble Bee”
- Luxe #8 gauge black PVC tubing (wiring cavity); Luxe braided #22 AWG orange cloth 7-strand tinned copper hook-up wire; #19 AWG tinned copper ground wire; orange spaghetti cloth insulation for grounds; ABS black rear control cavity covers
- Switchcraft jack; Switchcraft toggle switch with early 1950s flat nut, fine knurl; Catalin toggle tip turned from vintage rod samples, UV aged in house
- 1950s aniline dyed brown pore filler; period correct bronze flake gold; unplasticized nitrocellulose lacquer — weather checking is real
