The Fender ’59 P-Bass Closet Classic was built as a part of the Custom Shop’s ‘Time Machine’ series, which includes ‘bought and stored’ to ‘heavily reliced’ replicas.
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The Gibson L-00 Sustainable was a limited run instrument built during 2019 in Bozeman MT using sustainably harvested indigenous woods. The L-00 model was first built from 1932 to 1946, with a body shape influenced by ‘Parlor’ models. Ultimately its place in the lineup went to the LG2, which was produced from 1946 to 1962
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This wonderful and pristine Fender LTD 51 Telecaster NOS (New Old Stock) Blonde model shows off what the Custom Shop can do, subtly mixing vintage features with modern advancements. This Fender LTD 51 Telecaster NOS guitar started with a two-piece Ash body in the 1951 ‘NoCaster’ style and ‘NoCaster Blonde’ finish and an AA-grade quarter sawn Flame Maple 51 style neck. From there, the neck received a compound radius – 7.25 to 9.6 inch radius – tall narrow frets (Dunlop 6105 style), a 19/56 ‘V’ profile, and a bone nut.
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Here we have the wonderful and very well preserved Ignacio M Rozas No. 114 classical guitar, built in Madrid during 1991 at Calle Mayor 66, a few doors from the Contreras shop. Ignacio M Rozas began building guitars in 1959, at age 16 as an apprentice to Jose Ramirez III and worked with him until 1969.
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This Gibson Flying V Reissue was built during 2005 at Nashville, and combines features from at least two major versions of the Flying V. When introduced in 1958 for its very short production run – 81 that year and 17 in 1959 – the Flying V was built of Korina (a Gibson name for African Limba wood) with a Rosewood fingerboard, and a string-through body with a V-shaped plate on the front.
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The Ratliff R5 mandolin is built by hand in Church Hill, Tennessee, part of a small lineup of F style and A style mandolins. The company was originally started to produce left-handed F-Style instruments, but has grown to produce right hand models, and offers both F hole and oval hole versions. This Ratliff R5 seems to be a discontinued model, superseded by the slightly more elaborate R5 ‘Master Model’.
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