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For all things Teisco. AND those sweet vintage japanese guitars with those vintage pickups made by Teisco that no guitar on the planet can match. if you have never heard em, you wouldnt understand. share,buy, sell, beg, whatever, have fun.

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here's some cool teisco links

http://www.mark-cole.co.uk/teisco/ great info and id your guit .http://www.myrareguitars.com/1960guitars.html some great guits here .http://guitar.webinjp.com/catalog_guitar.htm vintage teisco catalogueshttp://www.vintageguitar.com/1745/teisco-guitars-part-i/ teisco guitars part 1http://www.vintageguitar.com/1746/teisco-guitars-part-ii/ part 2

Discussion Forum

Cutting pickguards / using vinyl

Started by Where's Uranus?. Last reply by Paul Craig Mar 23, 2020. 7 Replies 0 Likes

So I have a 3 part question, I guess.1. What's the best way to design a custom pickguard2. How do I cut said pickguard3. I'm planning to use an old LP for the pickguard, any specific hints?This is…Continue

Short Jacks

Started by Where's Uranus?. Last reply by Paul Craig Mar 20, 2020. 10 Replies 0 Likes

What's a good replacement jack socket for an instrument with the jack socket mounted flush on the pickguard?In many cases the rout isn't deep enough for a regular Switchcraft, and most of these…Continue

64 Kiawa setup?

Started by mugs. Last reply by the anonymous pick Jan 31, 2020. 2 Replies 0 Likes

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Do you want to build your own Teisco-Copy?

Started by Hudson Wolf. Last reply by Paul Craig Jul 24, 2019. 14 Replies 1 Like

Some words about me and my drawings. As a hobbist I have built CBGs, electric basses and guitars for the last six years. Unfortunately it's difficult for me to do it now, because I'm working for the…Continue

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Comment by Barry Potter on February 10, 2013 at 6:35pm: Hmmm... well that may be true. I was under the impression it was a '65 or '66 kingston guitar. It says kingston on the truss rod plate. I was told kawai bought out Teisco in the late 60's its possible they were building something similar. And it's very easy to mistake different models for others cause this mismatched and swapped out parts all over the place as well as constantly badging them under different names. Switch out the pups and color and now its the "Decca" guitar or something.

Comment by BrianQ. on February 10, 2013 at 6:10pm: Hey Mr. Barry That red number's not a Tiesco,

That Bridge is a Kawai,the pup as well, I had one

of those when I was young,I don't remember the model #

Comment by BrianQ. on February 10, 2013 at 5:49pm: Pretty rough, don't know about a jackpot

those things have seen better days!!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on February 9, 2013 at 12:14pm: teisco jack pot alert . !

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-Of-1960s-Teisco-Norma-Silvertone-Decca-...

Comment by Dave Lynas on February 1, 2013 at 12:19pm: Hey Berry Potter, i just saw the Teisco rebuild ? in my email. What's the problem or problems? Any photos? I'm rebuilding many Teiscos lately. I've got one now with a broken neck screw. I'm not sure if i can drill it out, but that's my only idea so far, or add a new hole to the neck plate. I'll try the drill press... Anyhow, let's see that problem Teisco.

Comment by Dave Lynas on November 25, 2012 at 1:40pm: Wowser, that's one cool machine. Love the curly horns, not to mention all those pups.

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 25, 2012 at 9:43am: JUST FOUND THIS LIL HONEY POT ON EBAY .

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1960s-Teisco-Bizarre-Guitar-Project...

Comment by the anonymous pick on November 11, 2012 at 8:32am: yup .. you're in it ;-) i saw you guits .. and drooled a bit ;-) great stuff ;-)

Comment by Dave Lynas on November 11, 2012 at 5:52am: Hello Teisco lovers, I've been enjoying some ebay relics that needed rebuilding. In the past week i've done 3 of them. I love the Teisco sound and affordability. I've got several more to do. Mostly i get bodies, some with control plates and some with pups. I like this bringing back to life thing. Today i strip the black paint off a Mahogany Harmony body. It's got the striped control plate with polished and mat stripes. I've been collecting Teisco pups off ebay as well so i'll have a couple of surface mounts to add after refinishing. It started life as a sunburst but got painted all black after being dinged up a lot by some early owner. I won't try and get all the black off. I like the relic look. As long as it plays great and sounds great, some black goop in the dents is ok by me....