Lefty 1964 Fender Lake Placid Blue Strat, 100% Original w OHSC, Near Mint/Investment Grade Condition!

To even suggest that such a guitar exists would be the very definition of Insanity! However, I am not insane (or so I’ve been told), it is here, it is very real, and, needless to say, it is Xtremely rare:

Spectacular Lefty 1964 Fender Lake Placid Blue Strat, 100% Original w OHSC, Near Mint/Investment Grade Condition!

This is the cleanest Custom Color Left-Handed pre-CBS Strat I’ve ever seen, and probably one of the cleanest Custom Color pre-CBS Strats, lefty or righty, on the planet! True pre-CBS, with all date codes from 1964:

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1965 Lefty Fender Strat, Green Guard/Clay Dots

Here’s a Lefty 1965 Fender Strat, early 1965 Green Guard, clay dots, L-Series, VG+ condition, 100% original with OHSC. Has a fair amount of finish wear, but it’s all there and VERY correct: all original with perfect solder joints, untouched and unmolested survivor guitar. Lightweight at around 7 lbs, really good playing and sounding pre-CBS Strat!

Dates:

Neck Plate: L86681
Neck Stamp: 2JAN65B
Pots: 304-6516
Pups: 2/1/65 & 1/20/65

PUP Ohms:

Neck: 6.35
Middle: 5.72
Bridge: 6.14

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Lefty 1966 Gibson ES-330TDC, 100% Original with OHSC & Tags, Near Mint Condition!

Factory original Left-Handed Gibson ES-330TDC with OHSC, collector quality/investment grade vintage instrument! The cherry finish is absolutely beautiful on this one; a very deep cherry with completely unfaded top and back. The chrome hardware retains a high gloss and shine. This is an unmolested 100% original lefty vintage ES-330.

The back of the neck has some wear, and there is moderate fret wear, but plenty of fret life left. The rosewood fretboard is DARK brown and looks fantastic against the deep cherry red!

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Pre-CBS 1964 Fender Jaguar, Black Refin, EXC Condition with OHSC

Left Handed Pre-CBS 1964 Fender Jaguar, older pro-refin in Black, has just undergone a complete inspection and expert set-up including a perfect refret with original spec wire by Scott Freilich of Top Shelf Music(www.topshelfmusic.com). This guitar now plays beautifully and needs nothing!

Neck date is 1MAY63B, neck plate is L48xxx, pickups are 6.13K/Neck, 7.09K/Bridge. Has a few replaced parts: 2 pots are mid-60s, tuners are repro, otherwise the guitar is original. Includes what is probably the correct case: early 60s brown Jaguar/Jazzmaster in righty, which is typical of the lefty Jaguars and Jazzmaster from the 1960s I have seen.

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Lefty 1962 Gibson ES-345TD with PAFs, EXC Original Condition!

Very rare left-handed PAF-equipped ES-345TD from early 1962, serial # 54xxx, factory Bigsby, was a custom order factory Bigsby with no Custom Made Plaque(I’ve never seen another), beautiful unfaded Tobacco Sunburst finish with minimal checking, slight worming on the back, Dark Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard, just a scorchin’ PAF Gibson! PAFs are VERY potent on this guitar, measuring 7.46K/Neck and 7.44K/Bridge.

The guitar is 100% original except for the switch tip(probably a newer replacement), but does include a late 1950s brown Stone Case Company case with pink interior, which many collectors prefer over the Lifton case from that era. The guitar had 2 crumbling tuner tips(typical for these guitars from that era), which I replaced with 2 original single-ring tuner tips. I actually bought 2 vintage tuners from the 1950s with the correct tips and used the tips on this guitar (the tuners with paperwork are inside the case). The original tuners have never been
off this guitar!

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