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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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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 the anonymous pick on October 2, 2015 at 11:36am: i believe his bridge has 2 mounting screw holes like this

Comment by Where's Uranus? on October 2, 2015 at 11:32am: This is the bridge I have on my Silvertone, it's a great little bridge.

https://www.allparts.com/GB-0506-010-Economy-Solid-Body-Bridge_p_15...

Comment by Where's Uranus? on October 2, 2015 at 11:30am: Is the bridge fixed to the body atall? Looks like it's one of those you can slide, if so that's your intonation.

Comment by the anonymous pick on October 2, 2015 at 11:03am: ps .. your guitar is a Kent Vegas 530 if you want to compare it to others .

Comment by the anonymous pick on October 2, 2015 at 10:57am: hummm.. that is a 60's kent bridge .. so.. it's puzzling why everything would be out of whack if the neck is fine. unless it's the other end (the nut ), or a wrong replacement neck .

a mystery indeed . sleuth on ;-)

Comment by Paul Craig on October 2, 2015 at 10:42am: Obviously, it's a no-brainer. What is the distance between the strings and frets at the 1st fret and the 21st-22nd fret?

Comment by Seth Kent on October 2, 2015 at 10:23am: Ill have to take a look at guitar fetish!

The wheels are all the way down and I still have a lot of string lowering to go. My other concern becomes, at this point, the strings actually contacting the bridge after the tail pice so I think I will try shims first and then a new bridge if needed. Hopefully I get myself a hot/fun guitar out of this that can gig about with me. My last name is Kent so obviously I needed this guitar...

Comment by Paul Craig on October 2, 2015 at 10:15am: Looks like an attempt to make an intonation capable bridge. I'm thinking that the string height is the solution to both of your problems.

Are the adjustment wheels froze in place? Would try some WD40 or other lube spray to free up the wheels.

Or are the wheels all the way down? I would see if it is possible to remove the adjusters and dab a little dot of glue to hold the bridge in place. Worst case - replace bridge entirely.

There's a thread over on TDPRI about someone rebuilding a similar guitar and replaced the bridge with a Fender Jaguar style bridge from Guitarfetish.com. That bridge had a very close string spacing. Also many of the Japanese bridges and pickups had string spacing similar to Gibson P90's(50mm). Just measure the spacing you have and see what you can find. Good luck.

Comment by Seth Kent on October 2, 2015 at 9:22am: The bridge is cheap and white. Ill snap a photo and try to post it. Hope it is not as ridiculously huge as it looks right now...

Comment by Paul Craig on October 1, 2015 at 11:06am: That's definitely a weird one Uranus, has a Eastman vibe to it. Like the Mustang/Jazzmaster style tremolo.