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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on July 18, 2013 at 12:51pm

I think you may possibly have some kind of "Frankenstein" guitar. The body reminds me of a Harmony Stratotone. The controls do match very early Teisco http://www.mark-cole.co.uk/teisco/guitars/j-1.htm

but, I can't find a pic of a Teisco like that.

The headstock and the volute are throwing me off for Harmony too though.

Can you tell if the hardware appears to be original? Are there other screw holes or indentations indicating that it may not be the original hardware? For example, the pickguard looks suspect.

You may be able to very carefully wet-sand the headstock with fine wet or dry sandpaper until you get through the black paint to see if there is a logo underneath.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 19, 2013 at 5:17pm

yeah  thats  lookin  like  a  hintz 57 ..

it's  got  some  acoustic  parts  and  some   mix  matching  . 

i almost  suspect  the   guitar and  body/neck   being   a soviet  model   .. and  fitted  with  teisco  parts  .

does  the  jack    look    replaced     from  a much  larger   hole    to  fit  a standard      guitar    cord ? (  most  ussr  models   had  a    special  cord  with  like  5  pins      looks  more  like a computer    plugin  ) 

does   the    pickup   say  teisco  on  it  ? 

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Permalink Reply by Joerg Gruenfeld on July 20, 2013 at 11:04pm

It appears to all be original and as best as we know of the back story it is a guitar bought and owned entirely in Australia. There are no indications of any modification what so ever apart from the repaint.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 21, 2013 at 12:10am

i'm  still leaning towards  what i  already  stated,  and    she  looks  Russian  ,  ..  but   you  can     run  it    past  my teisco  lovers  group  and see  what  people think  there  . 

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/group/teisco-lovers-group

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Permalink Reply by Joerg Gruenfeld on July 25, 2013 at 1:46am

Can I just post a link to this discussion there or do I need to start a new post?

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on July 25, 2013 at 2:00am

sure     you  can  just post  a    link   in  the comments  on the  front   page 

 

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