Hofner type Acoustic Sunbusrt LEFTY (with video)

I’ve had this unknown 50s / early 60s guitar in my collection for 30 years (got it in '91). It’s a regular right handed F-Hole acoustic guitar (no center block) but it was set-up lefty. It was bought in Belgium in the early 60s (I’m the 2nd owner), and the funky stickers are 60 years old. Sort of looks like a Hofner but I don’t think it is. The stitched case is original.    

Around 25 years ago the neck sort of bent and twisted, and the action was irrecuperable. There is no truss rod. So I transformed it into a slide guitar. I added the acoustic pickup (this is not an electric guitar pickup) and control knobs, and kept it with acoustic strings. She really found her purpose at that point. I gigged and recorded with it quite a few times. The neck never got worse during all that time, in fact it just never budged. It’s still sort of loose when you unstring the guitar every 5th year or so… But the string tension keeps everything in place, it doesn't even remotely go out of tune.  I just restrung it for resale, but seriously it sounds better when the strings go dead.  Kills of the highs and dampens sustain like on the old blues recordings.  But as is, it’s solid, stays in tune and all. Tuners work really well, no quirks.

The body is an old nitro finish with all natural wear.  Most of it was pre '91.  

If you want a quirky studio tool for that instant Robert Johnson intonation and tone, look no further. I even play it with a bone slide sometimes. This thing just oozes swampy blues, be it in open D or G. As you can see in the demo, I never did become much of a slide guitarist somehow so it’s time to move on.    

On the demo it’s clean with volume cocked back, then full. Then I kick tremolo, slap back, overdrive, distortion, and to close off a bit of clean grit.

Fender strap is included as it is screwed on there.