Left handed Gibson

[mandobassman]

Saw this on CL. Something you don't see everyday. Is it genuine?

http://delaware.craigslist.org/msg/5628453228.html

[Ken Waltham]

Nope.

[MikeEdgerton]

I'm pretty sure that's a late 90's/early 2000's left handed fern. They always look weird.

[MikeEdgerton]

For posterity

[MikeEdgerton]

Not a whole lot of pictures. This is a later F5 at Opry Mills.

[MikeEdgerton]

I just figured out this has been discussed at least one time before.

[G7MOF]

I have asked to buy this quite a number of times, but I presume they don't advertise on CL with the intension of shipping to the UK.
A pity really, as he/she would have sold it by now!!!

[Ken Waltham]

To me, the scroll on that mandolin just doesn't look Gibson. The scroll on the Opry Mills example is very different, and looks totally genuine to me.
Maybe I'm entirely wrong, but they look quite different.

[HoGo]

To me, the scroll on that mandolin just doesn't look Gibson. The scroll on the Opry Mills example is very different, and looks totally genuine to me.
Maybe I'm entirely wrong, but they look quite different.

Agree.

[T.D.Nydn]

Yes , I mentioned it before, the Gibson scrolls are tight,,also,,the Hanging Gibson F holes look correct to me...

[Jim Hilburn]

The bridge location may be a giveaway.