1958 Gibson ES-335, Museum Quality!

Sometimes you just shake your head and wonder in amazement; this is one of those times. Simply stunning DOT Neck 335 from 1958; this is the finest vintage guitar I’ve ever acquired! 100% original with OHSC, factory stop, looks unplayed, 9.8/10 condition, just a spectacular vintage instrument. Charlie Gelber at OK Guitars had a chance to look it over, and said it was the 2nd or 3rd finest 335 he’s ever seen out of more than 200 ES guitars that he’s owned.

And it has THE neck PUP; no guitar I’ve owned can compare. Neck PUP/7.62K, Bridge PUP/7.97K. Tremendous resonance, perfect weight around 7.5 lbs. Nice full 58 neck, plays unbelievably.

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Left-Handed 1956 Fender Tele, 100% Original, EXC Condition with OHSC, Extremely Rare Vintage Lefty!

Left Handed 1956 Fender Tele, 100% Original, OHSC, EXC Condition. This is an extremely rare, desirable, and unmolested lefty vintage guitar-I have only seen 2 other lefty Teles from the 50s! Body is dated 1954, neck is dated 7-55, pots are Stackpole 304620(20th week of 1956), neck plate is 113xx. Fender probably made a run of a few lefties from 1954, so they used what bodies were available in later years from that original inventory, something we’ve often seen with Fender lefty vintage guitars from the 50s and 60s. Has Lefty markings on bottom of bridge PUP, bridge PUP cavity, and bottom of neck(see pics).

As is consistent with the other 2 lefty 50s Teles, the bridge is stamped in the 196x range(1960). This is something mentioned in THE book on Teles: AR Duchossoir’s The Fender Telecaster on p.70(a detailed discussion of bridge plates) and on p. 78(the use of random serial #’s in dating bridges on the earliest Teles).

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