ES 335 Lefty oddball

[jmendoza]

Wish I had taken pictures of this one, but let me describe it:

My buddy in San Clemente Ca. purchased an ES-335, cherry, lefty guitar around 1972. He said it had been in the Four Muses music store for some time, as it was a lefty, and the only guitar they had he could play, as he was left handed. They gave hime a discount on it so he bought it. Around 1990, he had enough fret wear that it began to buzz a bit so he brought it to me for a fret leveling and polish. Upon close inspection, I saw that the neck edge binding had the black dot on the bottom! This meant it was a right hand neck that was put onto a body that got drilled for left hand controls. I drilled the edge binding on the opposite side of the neck and added the black dots for him, which he really liked. The guitar had one of those black and pink labels inside, and had block mother of toilet seat fret board inlays.

 

I guess during the Norlin years, all sorts of stuff like this got out on the market, pretty poor quality control if you ask me.

[capmaster]

The QC employee was probably right-handed and too confused oneself to notice the mistake.