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Vintage Inspired Guitar Equipment

Vintage guitar tone is magic -- it transports you to another place where the music is pure and the experience unforgettable.

Capturing that elusive quality is our mission. For our fellow enthusiasts intent on infusing their beloved instruments with authentic vintage vibe, RETROSPEC delivers the very best, most authentic vintage-inspired guitar products available today. We invite you to check out our collection and feel the hum as we relentlessly pursue vintage guitar tone.

RETROSPEC Cellulose Nitrate Inlays

RETROSPEC is proud to take Cellulose Nitrate Inlays to the next level. Introducing RETROSPEC Inlays, featuring the exact pattern used on Vintage Les Pauls from the 1950's.

Cellulose Nitrate inlays

Vintage les paul inlays
 

RETROSPEC Inlays are genuine cellulose nitrate, manufactured by Mazzucchelli in the original Italian factory, in the correct vintage pattern. The thickness is 0.070" with the pattern running all the way through the material to allow for sanding. 

Using genuine vintage guitars for the ultimate color reference, RETROSPEC has refined the inlay color to achieve the correct warm, ambered hue.  New RETROSPEC inlays look vintage correct, right out of the package, with no additional coloring required.

RETROSPEC inlays have been slowly laser cut for accurate, ultra-smooth edges and a perfect drop in fit.

Available in Historic Cut or Vintage Cut.

$149.00 / set

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No-Wire ABR-1 bridge

A beautiful nickel plated zinc No-Wire ABR-1 reproduction with nickel plated brass saddles, as originally featured on late-50s Les Pauls.  Authentic vintage vibe. No wire ABR-1

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58 59 Les Paul Junior Doublecut Historic Tortoise Pickguard

Available now through Retrospec a limited run 58 / 59 Les Paul Junior Tortoise pickguard.These were traced from a 2007 Gibson Historic Les Paul Junior doublecut pickguard and precision cut from the most accurate vintage tortoise-shell patterned material available.

Complete the authentic vintage look of of your otherwise exceptionally accurate model from the Gibson Custom Shop. Because of the limited amount of this accurate material, we can only offer these until this material runs out.

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NEW – RETROSPEC Strat Saddles

RETROSPEC is proud to release vintage-correct strat saddles, made in the correct materials to exacting specs, right down to accurate tooling marks. Available as a set of 6, and also as part of our complete bridge assembly.

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Industry First RETROSPEC Offset Tailpiece Studs

Introducing a first of its kind: the RETROSPEC offset tailpiece stud set.
A specially engineered offset stud allows your tailpiece to sit at the correct vintage angle, on the plane between your volume knobs.

Vintage enthusiasts have bemoaned the “straight” tailpiece for years. Some have gone so far as to perform irreversible work, plugging and redrilling the hole in the correct location.

Now, for the first time, vintage enthusiasts can simply screw in our offset stud set and achieve a vintage correct look without expensive work and permanent modifications. Offset stud set includes one traditional stud and one offset stud, finished either New Old Stock or Lightly Aged.

Achieve the sought-after vintage-correct tailpiece angle the easy way!

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RETROSPEC Steel Tailpiece Studs

RETROSPEC is excited to launch it’s newest product: vintage-correct steel tailpiece studs! Based on a perfect set of original 50s studs, RETROSPEC’s new tailpiece studs are made to exacting vintage specs, including the slightly rounded-off top lip. Made from nickel-plated steel, our new tailpiece studs are available in both Vintage and Historic lengths, for a perfect fit. Available either NOS or aged to vintage perfection.

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Luxe Capacitors Now at RETROSPEC

RETROSPEC has just added Luxe Capacitors to our lineup of the very best vintage-inspired parts. Luxe lovingly handmakes incredibly faithful recreations of the capacitors found in vintage Gibson and Fender guitars. Available on their own, or paired with True Vintage Taper pots in complete electronics kits.

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New: True Vintage LP Control Kit

RETROSPEC is proud to announce our new True Vintage LP Control Kit. Designed for true vintage performance, the TVC kit includes:
- 4 RETROSPEC custom CTS “True Vintage Taper” (TVT) 500K pots
- 2 Luxe .022/400V “Bumblebee” capacitors, and
- 2 strips of vintage-correct ground wire

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Just Arrived: DMC Vintage Hot Tail

RETROSPEC has just received its first shipment of DMC’s new “Vintage Hot Tail” Lightweight Aluminum Tailpiece. Dead Mint Club has produced an incredibly faithful reproduction of a late 50s aluminum stoptail, which period-correct tooling marks, for authentic vintage vibe and performance. Available NOS or Aged.

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New RETROSPEC Knurled Switch Nut

RETROSPEC has manufactured the most accurate, vintage-correct knurled switch nut on the market today. Made with nickel-plated brass with exact specs as those on vintage bursts, RETROSPEC’s new Knurled Switch Nut is indistinguishable from the real deal. Available as NOS, lightly aged, or heavily aged.

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