Lotus L570 Custom all-original made in Japan, brass nut pancake body vintage, Les Paul type, L 570 MIJ

*Please always contact me first, before paying, it might be that the guitar isn't available anymore, due to selling it outside Reverb. Thank you!

I have a 100% original-state survivor here! This was a case queen for the last 40 years or so.
Long neck tenon.
I took a look at the pots, yet I couldn't find any code. Maybe someone's got an opinion, please let me know. Instead, there's the pancake body style (see last pics, including a pic of the mini-switch). So it's definitely a pre-'80, probably even a pre-'77.
As to the country of origin, I would have to say Japan. Reason is, by the time Lotus production shifted from Japan to Korea, nearly all models were bolt-on. Very few had binding, let alone 5 layers front and back of body, and 5 layers on the headstock. So my educated guess is MIJ, in the early 70's.
There's 5 nicely done layers of binding on the top of the headstock and the body (front and back), very well done, very pretty.
Set-neck, great contour on the heel, check picture. Better access to upper frets than most Les Pauls...very comfy neck indeed.
You'll notice the bridge saddles and nut are made of brass, still 💯% original and unmodified, wow! The brass contributes to a different tone, a bit louder and more brash than you'd expect from a set-neck LP copy. Definitely a different tone, but a GOOD ONE.
Most Lotus LP copies out there were bolt-on necks. Mine's a set-neck. But nevertheless, a MIJ afficionado surely knows everything about these. Tokai, Burny, etc., were all about marketing. But in the end, all of them were coming out of the good hands of the same 70s Japanese luthiers.
3 or 4 frets up the neck are a little too high, so a fret leveling would surely come in handy, otherwise you're left with a high action in order to hear them ring. *Update* on that: it's been corrected and it now plays like butter!

I'm not sure about the hard case.
There's always 2 possibilities with these things... On one hand I've seen these Lotuses sell with this very same case (yellow padding), so it could well be that they were originally sold in them back then. We'll never know. Forums aren't rich on such info. Fact is this case does fit it well enough along its shape.
But there's also the possibility that owners were buying these cases back then as an option, in order to keep them safe. Nevertheless, these yellow-padded ones are the ones I've seen with this guitar.

In my opinion, this is a made-in-Japan-gem, it's not for every Gibson-fan out there, but it surely beats the hell out of the Gibby, the way my ears sense it.
And it's damn heavy!

I'm listing it as Excellent because of its age. Nevertheless, it has been gently although a lot played in the past 30 years, and before that aswell.