The short scale bolt on neck has a rosewood fretboard with pearl dot inlays and no zero fret and the original plastic button tuners that work well and the matching headstock is a nice touch. The finish is well applied and these were available in red or blue both with competition stripes. It does have smooth front and back contours and feels substantial enough to hold. Unlike the late sixties Teisco Mustang "copy" (and Tomson copy) the body on this is solid timber although still not quite as thick as a real Mustang. It generally works really well with few of these guitars showing twisted necks after 50 years. This is a very strong way of making a neck with lots of laminated pieces glued together to stop twisting. The construction of this guitar shows lots of Kawai including the multi laminate neck that Kawai primarily used from the late 60's after buying the Shinko factory in '66. It is also believed to have made some Fernandes guitars and it was the factory that made the very good, and very collectible Moonsault model in the late 70's. The Enshu Kougei factory, which had started producing Kawai guitars in '63, was Kawais piano factory and had good knowledge of wood and wood drying techniques and Kawai had great distribution contacts for it's keyboards.īy the early 70's this factory made all the Kawai, and Teisco branded guitars up until the late 1977. This Mustang copy was made by Kawai, who were primarily concentrating on Fender and Gibson copies in the 70's having dropped a lot of the truly great and innovative designs of the late 60's. He seriously did not want to put this one down.Anyone who get's lost in my blog knows I've written A LOT about Teisco but that's because I have lots of them, and I love them. The rotary switch on mine was a two position switch, and those buggers are hard to find!! Buyer beware!! Anyway, after fixing it all up I have a great guitar that plays better than it ever did, even straight from the factory!! And to think I played it for so many years, fighting it all the way! Too bad I don’t play out anymore! And then here’s good ol’ Mike Dugan giving it a demo. See, often a refret will involve sanding the neck to work out all the humps and bumps, but the neck inlays on these Teiscos are really thin, and sometimes just wear right off with sanding! Dano is the man, I keep tellin’ y’all! Dano also had an issue with the rotary switch because mine just kept turning round and round. This particular shark fin had two pickups wired out of phase, FROM THE FACTORY!! Too funny! Dano had to sort out a bunch of things with this guitar because of the neglect I had laid upon it’s sharp shoulders, but hey, any good tech can sort it out! This one got a refret, which can be a dicey proposition.
When I was younger I knew about three other guys who swore by these guitars! They are real road warriors and build well. I’m a total sucker for blue guitars, although when I look around the studio I have a ton of red guitars!! Anyway, the blue on these is a really cool metallic color and holds up rather well. They are very light, but the necks are slightly heavy so that strap button placement on the neck is a neat way to balance it all out. Often called a “German carve” on the front, these bodies have a very silky feel and are really comfortable to play. What I think is really cool about these guitars is the carving around the edges of the body.
Teisco guitar neck serial#
Tricky!!!Īll of these Teisco guitars had a nameplate or sticker on them that identified the model and serial number, but mine has fallen off! I suppose a lot of them have over the years. It’s probably a good way to date the guitar!! In fact, if you take the pickups apart (you have to be a nut like yours truly), you’ll notice that even the construction of the pickups changed, even though they looked the same from the outside. Most of the guys I knew bought these for the awesome sounding pickups, which usually read out in the 7k range, but curiously, the pickups read out weaker as the guitars got close to the end of their run, like the guitars from the later 60s. I would see these all the time hanging in second hand stores and pawn shops. These shark fins were around during the same time span as the famous Spectrum 5, but for whatever reason this guitar here is just so much more plentiful. Teisco must have sold a boatload of these guitars in the 60s, because this same guitar was also branded as a SIlvertone in Sears catalogs.
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