Machine 6 Buttercream Left Hand #2404ML

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This is a left handed solid body electric guitar made from cherry and finished in an opaque buttercream finish. The body is 1.75 inches thick and was hand shaped on a sander with a ¼ round edge all the way around. It’s a string through body with a HipShot chrome hardtail bridge. The hardware is also all chrome. The pickup configuration is a single coil in the neck position with a humbucker in the bridge. I wound these pickups myself and they measure out as follows; the neck pickup has ALNICO 5 magnets and reads at 5.7k and the bridge pickup also has an ALINCO 5 magnet and reads at 12k. The neck pickup sounds pretty clean by itself, and the bridge pickup is warm and gritty. The electronics are wired with one volume pot and one tone control with a three way selector switch. The neck is 22 frets and bolted on with recessed chrome ferrules for a sleek look. The neck is maple with a 9.5” radius wenge fretboard and maple position markers. The truss rod is a dual action spoke type and located at the heel end. My necks are all hand carved and the profile is considered a “C” shape. This one measures .870” (22.09mm) at the 1st fret and .886” (22.40mm) at the 12^th fret. The frets are Medium Nickel-Silver .084″ wide by .039″ high. The tuners are chrome HipShot staggered inline open gear type. The nut was hand shaped from buffalo horn.

My guitars are set up to play with great action. The frets have been leveled, crowned and polished. The string height at the 1^st fret is .012” and at the 12^th fret it’s .060”. You’ll notice how smooth they are right away.

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