| Excellent condition, 8/10, this is a recently |
| restored and refinished guitar (probably around |
| 2018) in Limed Mahogany typical for circa 1955 ( |
| Limed Mahogany or Natural finish, It has been |
| defined as the Mark 1 version of the TV color , |
| pleasantly darker and more transparent then the |
| beige color or the canary yellow on later TV |
| Models), the guitar has all original or at least |
| era-correct parts for a 1957 Gibson guitar except |
| for the tuners which are modern replicas of the |
| single line Kluson Deluxe 3-on-a-strip without any |
| markings on the back, pots date 134713 (13th week |
| of 1957) and 134734 (34th week of 1957), but it |
| has some stories; the neck and fingerboard has |
| been replaced with a near perfect replica |
| (possibly because of a neck break, very common |
| solution), and there seems to be evidence of a |
| filled neck pickup cavity so this guitar was |
| probably routed for an extra P90 before it was |
| restored, all the body cavities correspond to 50 s |
| specs including the pickup cavity popsicle rout |
| and no traces of sunburst color so we believe this |
| to have been a TV finish from the factory, comes |
| including a 1970 s shaped black Gibson hardcase |
| with no logo on the lid and blue lining and a |
| CITES document |
