Uncle Lou premium tips are the most accurate reproductions of vintage tuner tips on the market.
Uncle Lou has stopped producing these fabulous tips, so when they run out, they're gone.
Normally $79.00 - Now $71.10 for the Holidays.
Retrospec Cellulose Nitrate Inlays and Uncle Lou premium tips.
The most accurate reproductions of vintage tuner tips and Inlays on the market.
Uncle Lou has stopped producing these fabulous tips, so when they run out, they're gone.
Holiday Savings Special
Vintage correct Cellulose Nitrate inlays, featuring the exact pattern used on vintage Les Pauls from the 1950's. Manufactured by Mazzucchelli, the original Italian factory that supplied Gibson in the fifties.
RETROSPEC inlays are 0.070" in thickness, with the pattern running all the way through to allow for sanding. RETROSPEC has refined the color to achieve the correct ambered hue, for authentic vintage vibe, right out of the package.
Laser cut with ultra-smooth edges, for a perfect drop-in fit.
Holiday Savings special
'Standard'
For 2012 we have discontinue Package "B" and "C". We are now offering the 'Standard'
The 'Standard' is everything our Package "B" offered with the addition of the 50's style Top Carve and Cellulose Nitrate Inlay installation.
Priced at $2012.00 This package comes in with over a $200.00 savings.
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Retrospec -It – Yourself
We have a high end line of replacement parts from Retrospec
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.
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.
Also available aged through Eastern Maple Carved Tops:
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. 
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.
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!
1" Vintage Length and 7/8" Historic Length
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.
