Price Drop...1963 L-7C with factory installed patent number pickup

[Cunamara]

Doug Raney played an L-7C with a modded inset pickup for years and had one of the nicest tones I have ever heard on a record.

[Mccolalx]

Bump!

[Mccolalx]

Still available!

[Chris236]

20 years ago I had a L7P with pickups routed into the top…..sounded incredible both acoustic and amplified. Whoever ends up with this will almost definitely not fine a better sounding guitar with an awesome personality. Mine was crushed on a plane

[Mccolalx]

Bump for last price drop before keeping it of taking in for consignment

[Mccolalx]

Hefty Price Drop!

[Stu_Silverman]

What are looking for price wise with the drop? Feel free to dm if that's preferable for you.

[Mccolalx]

Hey Stu,
the dropped price is in the original listing.

[Mccolalx]

Bump!

[LimehouseBlues]

Exactly my style of guitar. Love it. Wish I had the funds!

[Mccolalx]

Bump for new low price...$500 off!

[burchyk]

Damn, wish I was in US... Someone is going to get an amazing instrument!

[Mccolalx]

Open to possible trades...really looking of a Murphy Lab Les Paul

[TAA]

Not to say # 24 above is incorrect but here is my L-5C. The FON is from 1951 and the serial number from 1952. Like the early Mustangs that were 64 1/2, this L-5 is a 51 1/2! The fingerboard is either ebony or dyed rosewood?

Of more interest to me is the comment in # 14 about oiling the ebony fingerboard. In the early 1960’s I had two L-5’s but no one ever mentioned that need. I’d like to know what oil is being discussed and where it can be had, if anyone knows.

Thanks!

Tom

[Jimmy blue note]

Not to say # 24 above is incorrect but here is my L-5C. The FON is from 1951 and the serial number from 1952. Like the early Mustangs that were 64 1/2, this L-5 is a 51 1/2! The fingerboard is either ebony or dyed rosewood?

Of more interest to me is the comment in # 14 about oiling the ebony fingerboard. In the early 1960’s I had two L-5’s but no one ever mentioned that need. I’d like to know what oil is being discussed and where it can be had, if anyone knows.

Thanks!

Tom

Lots of things aren't mentioned about taking care of a guitar but they assure longevity. Fingerboard oils are commercially available, lemon based and easy to apply. Doesn't take long and it's a good part of careful maintaining a guitar. Sure you'll see old guitars that have never been oiled, and as a luthier and seasoned tech, I've seen more than my share of ones that did have cracks.
This goes for older vintage as well as newer guitars where at mid level, you're not going to find real ebony. The hardwood that's blackened to be ebonized can be just about anything, and many of these guitars are built in factories where tropical woods are plentiful. Just sayin.

[TAA]

A few years ago, I was making a for-end tip for a rifle stock, I was using a piece of what I thought was ebony. A friend told me that Winchester would dye wood black and pass it off as ebony. So the chunk of wood I was using was probably not ebony. Didn’t really matter as this was an appearance thing only.

Tom

[gitman]

The difference between an "ebonized" i.e. dyed rosewood is pretty obvious as the pores in rosewood are quite large and visible even when filled in with some kind of filler-paste. There are however very modern artificial/man-made materials available today that offer the same density, haptic and visual characteristic as real ebony, such as this Swiss invention :

Home-made "tropical" wood could help save forests - SWI swissinfo.ch


Re the sound difference between an early post war L5/Super-400 with a rosewood board and those with ebony boards I cannot comment since I have not had the chance for a side-by-side comparison. My hunch though is that there won't be much more difference as there always is between one guitar and another of the same design and era. We depend too much on our eyes when choosing an instrument ....

[jim777]

If you are looking for a fretboard oil for ebony I would suggest Bore oil, as used on clarinets. I use Yamaha's, as it was what my local place had. Lemon oils can eat through nitro finishes, so I would be careful with them on a nitro finished guitar.

As per Martin: FAQs | Martin Guitar

"Martin Guitar does not recommend using lemon oil on the fingerboard. The acids in lemon oil break down the finish of your guitar. It may also speed the corrosion of the frets and decrease the life of your strings."

[Mccolalx]

Open to reasonable offers…

[Cunamara]

Boiled linseed oil. About one drop is adequate for the entire fretboard. Wipe it around, wipe it off. Done in about a minute. You just want a light sealing coat on top of the wood.

[Mccolalx]

Another price drop

[Mccolalx]

Another price drop…somebody’s gotta want this!

[TAA]

From #24 above:

Almost all if not all postwar L-5s and Super 400s up until the early 50s have rosewood boards


My L-5C has a FON from 1951 but the serial # is from 1952. It has a (hopefully not dyed) ebony fingerboard. Like the ‘64 1/2 Ford Mustang, I call my L-5C a ‘51 1/2!

So maybe mine snuck through or was the first ebony version.

Tom

[Will T.]

Is this still available?

[Mccolalx]

Yes it is