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McCartney with 1950's leftty goldtop

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Heritage69

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Yeah, thats a great guitar. MB used to find all the cool guitars /mandolins back in the day. Lotta old country players around with electrics where we grew up.
The coolest guitar he found for me ,was Ronnie Van Zants 64 sheraton. He played it in the 1% band days.
Linda may have gotten a good deal. How many lefties did they make? But I cannot think of a more deserving recipiant than Paul. Mb never met Paul and he did say that he must have put grovers on some time after. I would like to see him play it live. :peace2
 
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What amazingly lousy photographs... pity, they could have been good.

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Heritage69 said:
Yeah, thats a great guitar. MB used to find all the cool guitars /mandolins back in the day. Lotta old country players around with electrics where we grew up.
The coolest guitar he found for me ,was Ronnie Van Zants 64 sheraton. He played it in the 1% band days.
Linda may have gotten a good deal. How many lefties did they make? But I cannot think of a more deserving recipiant than Paul. Mb never met Paul and he did say that he must have put grovers on some time after. I would like to see him play it live. :peace2
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He plays his lefty burst live. I saw him play it at the Hollywood Bowl recently. :salude
 
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Another lefty from 1960 surfaced about three years ago, bringing the total number of known lefty burst to four, one 1959, and three 1960.
 
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Went to both Hollywood Bowl shows..

No GT in site ..sorry lads & lassies.
Soundcheck

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ROCK ON!
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..SO many LP pics , too little time..
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the Gold Top was not at the Bowl show..
this pic from Miami..maybe with half dozen shows left ..i doubt it...
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guitarvoodoo

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oceantoad, now THOSE is nice lefty pics!:salude :salude :applaude

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This tour noticed the "cherry" on the horn is faded out..but shoots red ..sometimes..not..
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Oi..........he's cornered the market for lefty LPs.........just goes to show ya what a few hit tunes and a handful of years in the business can do:lol
 
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Hey everyone.

I didn't sell Paul his Les Pauls. Although he owns at least 5 instruments that were mine at one point he has never bought anything from me.

Linda did buy the 1957 PAF Gold Top for him as a gift. She took good care of him, buying him things he was too cheap to buy for himself.

The near mint lefty '57 with PAFs that I owned was the one Norm Harris had for years. I bought it from him. It is easily one of the best Les Pauls ever built. Too bad it's in a non-working collection now, along with the Stroup Burst and my '53 Telecaster.

Although I've played McEnroe's rather trashed 1959, and McCartney's 1960, the only one I owned was the Stroup Burst (twice), which I originally bought from Albert Molinaro. It was a terrible instrument, with a vertical neck split from overtightening the rod, internal chamber and channel from being built using a right handed body blank, and a weak neck pickup. But she's a looker...

According to Rick Nielson, McCartney's company traded him $10K worth of gear for his 1960 lefty Burst. I had sold several instruments to raise the $10K asking price (this was 1987' after all, and I was still a partner at Voltage). Gruhn was brokering it. When I called to wire the funds, I found out that Rick had pulled it and sold it to McCartney. Oh well, at least I've gotten to play it, and he's put it to better use than I would have.

Gibson built lefties in runs of 4 in the 1950s through mid 1960s. This is true of any model they shipped left handed, guitar or bass. There are four known lefty Bursts, and four known PAF Gold Tops. There are at least 16 lefty P-90 Gold Tops that I've owned or brokered, including one that belonged to Cesar, dating from 1953 - 1958. Two of them having later serial numbers than all four of the PAF equipped ones.

According to official sources over the years, Gibson did not separate out lefty production totals until 1974, with the Les Paul Deluxe.

I hope that is some help. I'll post images I have of them when I get a chance.

Scott Jennings
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route66guitars said:
Hey everyone.

I didn't sell Paul his Les Pauls. Although he owns at least 5 instruments that were mine at one point he has never bought anything from me.

Linda did buy the 1957 PAF Gold Top for him as a gift. She took good care of him, buying him things he was too cheap to buy for himself.

The near mint lefty '57 with PAFs that I owned was the one Norm Harris had for years. I bought it from him. It is easily one of the best Les Pauls ever built. Too bad it's in a non-working collection now, along with the Stroup Burst and my '53 Telecaster.

Although I've played McEnroe's rather trashed 1959, and McCartney's 1960, the only one I owned was the Stroup Burst (twice), which I originally bought from Albert Molinaro. It was a terrible instrument, with a vertical neck split from overtightening the rod, internal chamber and channel from being built using a right handed body blank, and a weak neck pickup. But she's a looker...

According to Rick Nielson, McCartney's company traded him $10K worth of gear for his 1960 lefty Burst. I had sold several instruments to raise the $10K asking price (this was 1987' after all, and I was still a partner at Voltage). Gruhn was brokering it. When I called to wire the funds, I found out that Rick had pulled it and sold it to McCartney. Oh well, at least I've gotten to play it, and he's put it to better use than I would have.

Gibson built lefties in runs of 4 in the 1950s through mid 1960s. This is true of any model they shipped left handed, guitar or bass. There are four known lefty Bursts, and four known PAF Gold Tops. There are at least 16 lefty P-90 Gold Tops that I've owned or brokered, including one that belonged to Cesar, dating from 1953 - 1958. Two of them having later serial numbers than all four of the PAF equipped ones.

According to official sources over the years, Gibson did not separate out lefty production totals until 1974, with the Les Paul Deluxe.

I hope that is some help. I'll post images I have of them when I get a chance.

Scott Jennings
Route 66 Guitars
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Great background information. Thank you! :salude

What is your source of information regarding the batches of 4 lefty instruments being produced at Gibson during their golden era? IIRC, in the case of bursts, there is one '59 and three '60s currently "known". Do you believe these were all from the same batch?
 
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route66guitars said:
The near mint lefty '57 with PAFs that I owned was the one Norm Harris had for years. I bought it from him. It is easily one of the best Les Pauls ever built. Too bad it's in a non-working collection now, along with the Stroup Burst and my '53 Telecaster.
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Great info Scott - thanks!

Are you sure about that non-working collection? Paul plays all of his favorites in the studio and onstage - including high dollar collector pieces like the burst and the Hofner bass, and I am positive I have seen that '57 played live by him on at least one occasion.
 
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Keef, Scott isn't talking about McCartney here. This is the near-mint lefty 57 that Scott's refering too, not owned by McCartney. Paul also doesn't own the Stroup Burst.
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Fred Hullerum

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route66guitars said:
Hey everyone.
Gibson built lefties in runs of 4 in the 1950s through mid 1960s. This is true of any model they shipped left handed, guitar or bass. Scott Jennings
Route 66 Guitars
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If this applies also for the Junior- or TV- Models:
Where are the other three lefthanded DC Les Paul TV guitars that have been made in 1960?

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