Kim talks Vintage Guitar Parts
Retrospec Inlays (Celluloid Nitrate)
September 5th, 2010
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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.
$149.00 / set
Historic Makeovers does Dallas
April 22nd, 2010
Historic Makeovers attends the 2010 33rd annual International Vintage Guitar Festival.
Kim LaFleur of Historic Makeovers celebrates his 23rd year at the Dallas International Guitar Festival.
Woodstock Music Festival Of 1969 Tribute
August 15th, 2009
Woodstock 1969
The 60′s were a turbulent decade. The assassination of JFK kept us fixated on the TV for days and gave us an insecurity that other decades had not felt before.
Those of us growing into our own during the 60′s were also very much affected by the war in Vietnam. We would all watch the "war lotto" to see which of our friends and loved ones would go across the world to fight in a country that we had not even known had existed.
For me, like other teens my age, the lotto was especially painful as I had a brother that was just 2 years older than I was and I wasn’t ready to let him or my other friends leave our safe, secure Long Island town.
The 60′s was also showing pains from the growing racial issues that faced us all. Segregation, desegregation, marches on Washington. We all needed to become equals.
Many families were separated by what has been termed the "generation gap". Parents not knowing what their children were doing and children learning not to trust anyone over 30.
There was confusion and mis-trust between the "straight" and the "heads", music was going in directions that most didn’t understand.
The world was spinning out of control and we were all angry about something.
Then for 3 days in 1969 the world stood still
