A Crafted Selmer 1954 Saxophone Artisan Legacy Panel

Picture this: a luthier's legacy board for an electric guitar — Gibson, Kalamazoo, 1959. Left section: historical precedents and influences, showing Lloyd Loar's innovations, Les Paul's "Log" prototype, and early Gibson solidbody attempts alongside lineage lines connecting them, factory order forms photographed, and period photographs of rock and roll's birth. Center section: the Les Paul Standard in exploded view, every component separated and floating—carved maple top, mahogany back and neck, Brazilian rosewood fingerboard, PAF humbucking pickups—tonewoods identified, sunburst finish nitrocellulose aging documented, electronic properties annotated alongside pickup frequency response and le