Description
Here we have a wonderful factory Left-Handed Gibson L-50 from 1935! This vintage acoustic archtop is in excellent condition and is featured in the book Uncommon Sound: The Left-Handed Guitar Players That Changed Music by John Engel.
Specs include a carved spruce top, maple back and sides, mahogany neck and rosewood fingerboard. It has an arched top with F holes, flat back, and a cantilevered neck with a 14-fret joint. The body is 19.25” long with a lower bout width of 14.75”. It has a floating pickguard, pearl script Gibson logo inlay, Grover tuners and an adjustable ebony bridge.
This guitar appears to be all original and well-maintained. It has seen some playing time with light pick marks on the guard and a touch of wear at the apex of the V neck. The frets show light wear down low in the usual areas, and there are some light dings and surface marks across the body. There is a crack on the back that looks to have been lightly glued and is stable. There is checking over the surface of the finish and a nice light patina about the instrument in general.
The guitar weighs in right at 4lbs. The neck measures .990 to 1.100 at the 1st and 9th frets. It has a full, vintage style V neck profile with a sloped shoulder and a pronounced apex. The guitar has excellent clarity with a warm and mellow mid-range. It’s colorful and woody with good volume for its size. Overall it’s an extremely rare factory lefty variant that has survived nicely in-tact for nearly a century.
Includes the original hardshell case.
