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OK so I've been talking to Elliot Easton on leftyfrets.net which is a forum for lefty guitarplayers to hang out on. Elliot had recently registered and everyone was falling over themselves to get answers to every question to lefty-ness even remotely linked to EE and his collection. I was no different and being the cool guy EE is he answered my questions.

Now then; a while back I asked if you guys knew where to get lefty Vibrato pieces, built in a Mosrite style. Got a couple anwers, thanks again for those, among which was the remark that even Elliot's had a righty vibrato. that's here

Now here's what I got from the horse's mouth;
[QUOTE=saintOlav]Seems like this thread could become a whole subforum
Hello Elliot, I saw you posted a Mosrite guitar a couple pages back, this would be a Japanese built? I'm a member on mosriteforum too and when asking about lefty vibrato pieces a member produced this video of you, telling me even your's didn't have a lefty on it;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBAvCQFivrY&feature=player_embedded#
@ 00:37 I can see you with a pearlwhite with tort pg. Was there a righty Vibrato on there? I can't make it out. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Elliot Easton]japanese built-lefty vibrato.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=saintOlav]Thanks for that Elliot, so there was never a righty vibrato? People were talking about a guitar built for you by Semie Mosely. Is there truth in there?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Elliot Easton]He built me 2. Both with lefty Vibramute. One was metallic blue and one was a triple pickup in red. I think I sold them to a lefty player who worked at Dave's Guitar shop in LaCrosse WI.[/QUOTE]
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Bit of Mosrite 'wisdom' I thought I'd give back to the forum.
Now I'm off to fine comb the net for pics of EE with his M's.

Elliott's Pearl White originally had a right-handed unit. It is documented in the September 1987 issue of Guitar World, page 72.

Hi Adam, would you be able to produce a copy of said entry? Google won't give it up for me.
The guy owned so incredibly many guitars, maybe something slipped his mind...

Thanks for that Adam, I couldn't have gotten that on my own.
Funny really coz we can clearly see mr Moseley playing a flipped lefty and it is white.
I can't make out the vibrato on your pics though, so I couldn't say if it were a lefty or a righty, also the article doesn't mention it. Can you make that out in the original you seem to have in your collection?
Do you (or anybody) maybe have an idea if mr Moseley built lefties for other guitarist besides Elliot Easton?

In the original photo I can clearly see it is a right-handed trem, and if I had a scanner you could see it as well (just like Angler87's Maphis):