The host of the Southpaw Sanctum with The Man!		1954 Gibson “Les Paul” Model This guitar is one of 4 known lefties produced, and has been pictured in the following publications: “Guitars, Guitars, Guitars: A Pictorial Reference Manual” (Note that it is incorrectly identified as a 1953) By Dave Crocker, published in 1988 “Uncommon Sound” by John Engel, published in 2006
The control cavity as we received it	The control cavity as we have it now
The control cavity cleaned up	The control cavity cleaned up showing the early style hole for the input jack wire
The neck pickup route for the pickup wire	The neck pickup route showing how the polepiece route is hand done
The tan line	The bridge pickup route
An X-ray showing how the routing channel was done. You can clearly see that the routing for a lefty was done without any fixtures!	Check, Check

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