Man did I ever get lucky on this one! It popped up with a Buy It Now of $229. I'm shocked it lasted as long as it did, but the pics were not the best and kinda fuzzy/out of focus. I think everything on this jewel was bone stock, even the dust and oxidation on the frets! Whoever owned it obviously knew how to take care of a guitar! I think I have found only 3 tiny dings and about 6" of very light belt buckle worming on the back.

The tonal capabilities of this thing are not easily matched. The toggles are coil cut and the rotary puts the pickups in single, both parallel in phase, both parallel out of phase, and I believe both in series in phase. I still need to confirm this but going on what it sounds like that's my guess. I can't say enough about this guitar. The gamble this time paid off well.

The pickups squealed like a herd of angry pigs but dipping them fixed that pronto. They have excellent warm tone yet bright, and are very harmonic responsive. Sustain is excellent, and the action easily puts a stock LP to shame. The frets requred dressing as the normal fingerboard shrinkage had taken place over the years but any more I can do that in my sleep.

Thanks goes to the guys at Fiesta Pawn in Texas!