Lefty Kimberly Heit Fujigen Teisco Japanese Professional Rebuild Handwound P90 Gig Ready Rat Rod

Here is a rare chance for you leftys who have been shut out of the 60s vintage Japanese guitars because there aren’t many leftys from that era to be had.

This is a righty-to-lefty conversion of a 1960s no-name hollowbody, which, judging by the shape of the headstock it could be a Kimberly, Merlin, Heit, or Fiama. Also, the construction of the neck with 2 stabilizing steel rods in addition to the trussrod is unique to Fujigen Gakki, the company that made all of these brands at one time.

The guitar came to me as just the neck and body with only the original tuners, all of which were in good condition. There are a good amount of chips, splits, dings and dents, but the overall bones are solid, structurally it is in very good condition. I added 2 lateral supports under the top as well as solid blocks under the bridge to support the new studs and inserts in order to give it a modern adjustable bridge with a new trapeze.

The neck is luan with the aforementioned trussrod and supports and a rosewood fretboard. I gave it a fresh 12” radius and new Jescar 47104 frets along with a new 1-11/16” bone nut- I kept the original tuners because they still work like new. It has a medium D carve- not chunky and not too thin- with a 24-3/4” scale, the action is low and easy.

The pickups are a matched set of my handwound p90s that are RWRM to hum-cancel in the middle position, and they crank. Matched with a lefty CTS volume pot and linear tone pot with basic 3-way toggle… it sounds exactly like you’d think it should.

This guitar plays great, sounds great and is ready to gig. Looks great too.

Set up with .010 - .046 strings

Gig bag included

 

Medium D

24-3/4” scale

New bone nut @ 1-11/16”

Jescar 47104 frets

Malinoski p90 pickups RWRM

New electronics

New modern bridge / studs

New trapeze

Weight- 5 lbs  4 oz