Fresh from the Vintage Vault:

1966-67 Hagström F-300 Solid body electric guitar 100% all original guitar!

some minor blemishes as expected for age, but over all a very clean guitar!

neck pocket on bass side is just a finish crack does NOT go through..

Kill switch does not work.. may have just been deactivated?

does not come w/ a case... will be packed very well for shipping

With three pickups, a whammy bar, a 22-fret neck, and a white creamy finish, this very clean example of a Hagström F-300, aka Hagström III, has retained its rock ’n’ roll swagger for more than a half-century.A Swedish gem that's still got tons of rock ’n’ roll swagger—and a lot of switches!

Well, you gotta have that one guitar in your collection that’s a little—or a lot—left of center to get that sound standard-model 6-strings won’t give you. Right? You can always count on getting classic tones from your Tele, Strat, Les Paul, SG, or whatever in the solidbody category, but you also need that oddball to give your palette something different.

There’s a cool backstory to this model. In 1963, Ben Davis, the owner of the London-based Selmer company, which distributed Hagströms in the U.K., wanted an update on the company’s Futurama model to stimulate sales. The result was the offset-bodied Futurama Coronado Automatic, which looked something like a Fender Jazzmaster. Only 200 were built, but they seemed to trigger a new-guitar wave at Hagström: Along came the Automatic, the two-pickup Hagström II, and, then, our F-300. the F-300 was a three-pickup model with a clear debt to the Fender Stratocaster, including a whammy bar …

The Hagström F-300 started shipping in 1965. The bulk of this model’s production was from its inauguration to 1967, although records indicate that limited manufacturing and shipping continued until at least 1972. The guitar has multiple switches, which affect the pickups, along its lower belly.

This guitar sports the key Hagström appointments of its era, and a little more. There’s the company’s H-Expander truss rod, which allows for comfortably low action. The birch body has a 3-bolt neck joint, and that neck’s got a comfortable rosewood fretboard with dot inlays. Although the headstock screams “Fender,” the body’s pointy double wings acknowledge the design of the Hagström II and, of course, the Gibson SG. And then things get happily weird. The guitar has multiple switches, which affect the pickups, along its lower belly. There is a master volume dial with the six switches. The first three are on/off switches for each pickup, which allows for more combinations than the standard Fender-style 5-way switch. Despite that, they are labeled L, M, and H, for low, middle, and high. The next three are, respectively, a tone switch that rolls off highs, a mute switch that acts like a pad, and another tone button that performs like a high-pass filter. So finding the variety of tones this guitar can produce takes some practice to extract. Or maybe not: I didn’t notice much difference with these switches engaged or disengaged. Maybe more experimentation with blending different pickups and switch-button positions would yield more noticeable results? According to the 1968 Hagström catalog, the original retail price for this guitar was $125.