Time Machine Guitars
TM Les Paul Junior
Sunburst
Specifications
- 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 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
