Help: Identify that guitar?

Hoping someone can help identify a guitar I saw on tonight's "Celebrating America" Inaugural special...

What make/model is this red electric guitar that the guitarist is playing? Looks like someone threw a Rickenbacker and an Epiphone Cornet in a hybrid-making machine. I dig it.

 

Looks kinda like a Mosrite Combo with a replaced neck pickup.

 

For those who don't want to watch/listen, here's the 2 best views I could grab:

 

It’s a KUSTOM brand guitar, late ‘60’s. KUSTOM was famous for their ‘roll and tuck’ upholstery on their amps. Could also be an Eastwood brand (present day) replicant.


Kustom K200 deluxe c 1968 Zebrawood original vintage usa k-200 roger rossmeisl bigsby | The Bonfires Vintage | Reverb

 

epiphone wilshire? I have one with the batwing headstock.

 

My buddy’s dad has an old maple Kustom. It looks like this:

 

It does appear to be the Eastwood with the extra dots on the frets.

 

Thanks! Boy, that Zebrawood one is gorgeous.

Unless Eastwood were to make a lefty version of that, I think I'd be out of luck.

 

They offer a few whacked out lefties

Guitars

 

Yup, but not of that model.

 

IIRC they weren't that great...

 

I've looked at a bunch of photos now, and think that the one played last night was an original.

The extra dots were a feature of Kustom's deluxe model with the Bigsby, and is something Eastwood copied. The basic model with the trapeze tailpiece had fewer neck inlay dots.

The visual giveaways that he was playing an original are:
- Where the neck meets the rhythm pickup. The original Kustoms have a gap between the pickup and the neck, covered by a small metal plate. The Eastwoods have the pickup directly against the neck.
- The nut. Eastwoods have a cream-colored nut, while the original Kustoms have a metal nut.
- The bridge. Kustoms had a boxier, deeper bridge mounted right behind the bridge pickup. The Eastwoods have a modern thinner tune-o-matic bridge, with rounded ends, and it's mounted further from the pickup.
- The Eastwoods have a truss rod cover on the headstock. Original Kustoms did not.

 

Hi @stevemoss , good eye on the Kusom Vs. Eastwood. Give the RH Eastwood a try, rightly played lefty didn't stop JM Hendrix!