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With its exaggerated offset body horns, four pickups, and an almost bewildering array of control knobs and switches - including a volume for each pickup and a single tone - this Guyatone-made Saturn guitar is certainly an eye-catching example of 1960s Japanese guitar-making.

The Saturn brand was, according to the eBay listing, sold through the Canadian catalogue Eaton's.

This is a nice example of this guitar from 1968. There is some cracking in the pickguard around the 3rd pickup and apparently the tremolo is not original (although you'd never know it).

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This is a Hayman 2020 guitar, a rare model with f-holes. I'm guessing from its bolt-on neck design it's more of a "thinline" rather than a semi-acoustic, although it's hard to say from the photographs alone.

The guitar was designed by Jim Burns and would have been produced in the UK in the early 1970s before the distribution deal with Dallas Arbiter finished and the Shergold brandname replaced Hayman.

Note the glass(?) "H" logo inset into the headstock. This is what was missing from the hole in the headstock of the left-handed Hayman 4040 bass we looked at in October.

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Further to our Electric 12-string Fiesta last Wednesday, here is my own particular favourite and one that I would dearly love to own (I still regret being outbid on one of these by a measly couple of quid in the closing seconds of an eBay auction a couple of years ago).

It's an Ovation Deacon XII, this one dating from between 1973-75. The Deacon was a sister guitar to the Breadwinner and was essentially a more upmarket version of that guitar featuring a natural finish (which looks positively red on this particular example), bound neck, fancier "diamond" fretboard inlays, and pearloid buttons on the machine heads. Otherwise, pickups, electrics, etc, are all the same as on the Breadwinner.

Alas, for anyone interested in this example, the auction has already finished. Sorry about that, but I thought it was still worthy of a blog post being such a nice example of this guitar.

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I like to post blog entries about interesting left-handed guitars - as and when I find them. After all, left-handed people deserve to have a better choice of interesting guitars. The off-the-shelf choices are so limited that some southpaws end up seeking out custom instruments.

This oil-finished left-handed Telemaster looks to be one such instrument, a self-build perhaps. The Telemaster - as its name suggests - is a hybrid of a Telecaster and a Jazzmaster. That is, a Telecaster with a Jazzmaster body. Or is that a Jazzmaster with Telecaster routing and hardware? It's actually a guitar with a bit of a cult following amongst self-builders, guitar projecteers and custom builders. A quick Google search will turn up loads of them!

This auction finishes in just a couple of hours, so if any interested lefties are reading, you might want to snap it up quickly.

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