Blues On A 60 Year Old Guitar (Teisco Semi-Hollow Body)
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- This decades old budget guitar, from Japanese guitar band Teisco, still plays with a classic vintage guitar tone! Granted, this is not the easiest playing guitar... and it has a few issues, but it's still a fun trip back in time.
What do you think of the sound? Did you ever own or play one?
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I miss that era of guitars. Nothing like those now. Pawn shop specials. More like gems
I really wanted one of those Sears Japanese guitars when I was a kid in the '60s.
That guitar sounds and looks awesome! My first guitar was a Teisco Del Rey, a solid body, sunburst. I traded it for a box a comic books when I was 11 or 12. I have fond memories of learning on it for the first year of playing. I still have it. Would love to get it restored someday and use it again. Great video, as usual. Thank you!
I had the same model as you for a first guitar . It gave me blisters like no other.I learned Yardbirds,Beatles and Chuck Berry on that monster. Worst action I ever seen and I loved that guitar. I got it with a amp around 1963-4.
I had a Teisco in natural very similar to that one years ago. I loved it.... it had a wonderful tone.❤
I love my Tesco's I have 3 all from The 60's
I have a 68 silvertone mosrite copy. Love it , has lotsa mojo
My first guitar was a 4 pu del Ray! It was very hard to play, but I got hooked as soon as it was in my hands!!!
My first bass, back in '73, was from a Teisco sub-brand, Kimberly. It was a violin-shaped hollow body short scale in sky blue. I loved that bass, gigged it 4-5 nights a week for several years, then gave it away when I joined the military. Wish I could find another one.
My first YT video was about my Teisco TT-200. Yes, I am constantly adjusting the action, but it is fun to play, and the foil pickups have a unique tone. I use it for slide guitar a lot because of the high action.
I had one of this guitars in 1970. It only lasted a few weeks. The neck block at the body broke from the body. It was not mistreated or damaged. I take excellent care of my guitars. Just bad factory construction. Replaced it with an Aria guitar that seemed much better made and it played for years,
I've got a 1964, red burst model that I am restoring, had it since college, not currently playable. I played it often in my student apartment, and people called me "Tim the Bluesman." Good days.
I love tiescos!!!! I find them for extremely cheap in Arizona! Nobody knows they’re gems!
I have two Teiscos. Not as nice as Max's. Both solid bodies. Sold in the UK as Audition by the Woolworth department store. They did a 10 watt amp too. We called it 'the Woolworth wall of sound!
Ta Max.
"The Woolworth wall of sound", you gotta love it.
Hey! Hey! HEYYYYYYYY!!!!!! OH EM GEEEEE!!!! I've got the EXACT SAME GUITAR IN THE EXACT SAME COLORS!!!!!!!!!
It's a "DECCA"
Decca was made by Teisco!!
Mine has the GIBSON "open book" headstock!
Kind thought of yours to get an easy playing modern guitar for your buddy, Fred. Be nice to see that happen.
Gotta love these old catalog guitars... Nothing else captures that aesthetic now, besides maybe some modern Yamaha models. I've got a funky little "Heit" branded red burst strat style with a body shape that looks like something a modern boutique brand would sell, and the wankiest trem system known to man. And those pickups- they just sound sooo different.
I have a similar version of that guitar, that I bought in the late 1970s for £30 UK pounds
Forget the bound fretboard, this was more basic. And when I bought it, there were grooves in the frets, and at least one off the tuners were bent. And the spring was for the vibrato was missing
I bought it as something I could fix up
It now has a Trapeze Tailpiece, and the 3-way switch went - replaced by an on-off-on dpdt for each pickup and a series/ parallel on-on switch
and I basically took the neck off the guitar, straightened it - and leveled the frets in the most simple way possible
The frets are not well rounded, but they no longer have dents in them, or have high frets
There's no way you could mistake it for a Gibson ES330, and it would probably squeal with feedback at any sort of volume.
But I can put it in Series mode, or ir phase or out of phase mode because of the switching I hacked into it
Yes, I've modded a 1960s guitar that was probably as cheap a guitar as you could possibly buy
But it was completely unplayable when I bought it. And I bought it with the aim of making it playable.
Me and by brother each bought the tulip model back in 1968. New at the local Drug Store Chain for $20.00 each. Thought we were going to be the next big thing. They sounded really good through a Heathkit TA-16 amp. I liked the way the necks were made with all those thin strips of wood... no warpage gonna happen there.
Laminate necks...won't see that these days...everyone confuses laminate with plywood so the elitist cork sniffers will steer you clear of them if you don't know better
love it ...great content max.
Thanks!
I currently only own 2, but have had over 25 of the old Japan, and Korean made guitars of the 60's and early 70's. My 2 current are a Kawai SD4W ( Hound Dog Taylor) and a WG-4L, both 4 pick ups, both Tabaco burst. Had both of these since 79, bought them at a garage sale for 25 bucks. I've had to refret them both several times over the years. My favorite things to do is dip the pups in a 60/40 paraffin/bees wax. If you go to heavy with the paraffin it deadens the sound a bit(at least to my ears). medium jumbo frets. if it has a zero fret then the nut does not matter, otherwise I'll do a brass or bone nut. Most of mine had lousy pots that were 50k. So I change them to a 250k, cap size is of course important but I like to use 22 to 47s. Love the pickups on most of them, I do miss my hollow body though mine was green. If you can get the action set right(neck angle is always a challange, change out the bridge(mine have an odd gretsch style roller bridge), and use light gauge strings they play great.
Imagine my surprise when I saw you playing a guitar that is almost a perfect match for the rhythm guitarist's guitar in a band I played with in high school (I'm 72)..In 1965 the guitar was just a bit lighter yellow and was used for Beatles songs mostly. 😊
Played a couple over the years. They are actually better than you would think.
That was my FIRST EVER GUITAR!
My mum bought it for me when I was 11 years old...from Woolworths here in the U.K!
Sounds really good! 😊
I had a teisco tulip bass that originally sold at Woolworth's for $30 US...sold it because it was super short scale, several inches shorter than a normal 30" short scale...but I actually made $100 on the sale so I can't complain, some people love those little things...also had a '68 silvertone violin bass made by teisco for sears that was actually an awesome instrument...also made money off the sale...good investments perhaps?
I like the way you color your sustained notes. Very nice! Thanks again for the background info!
I Had a G Holiday. That was on the Head Stock. Strat Shaped Sunburst 2 single coils sorta similar that's on yours. 2 switches on the pickguard. Trem kinda like yours also.
The first time I went to do a setup on a guitar with a floating bridge, after snipping all the strings, I went to pick up the guitar and watched the bridge fall to the floor. 😂
Great sounding guitar, it has personality…I had a Japanese guitar for my first instrument…the name on the head stock was BRUNO MAXITONE…like that one it was a semi hollow…had single coil pickups…they are still out there used online, unfortunately mine is gone long ago.
I've got a 1970s Avon Rose Morris Les Paul style, made in Japan guitar, it's older than me, probably needs a bit of rewiring, and maybe a 3-way switch, as it came with a two-way switch. I'm half tempted to buy some upgraded pups for it, not sure yet. It sounds okay, probably needs a new setup too, I've unstrung it, cleaned it all over and restrung it, and it does look beautiful and gleamy without all that horrid dust on it. It's a Les Paul Custom style guitar, but one of those with the fret inlays stopping at I THINK the fifteenth fret.
I bought a Teisco Satellite Bass (short scale )around 1966 on the Facebook Market for 30£ to restore. Everything is perfect but I have to change the pickguard but pickups work great.
Very nice!
@@GuitarMAXMusic your Teisco pickups have a great sound. My bass has good pickups but I have to finish the restoration and mount new strings to hear how it really sounds. Teisco made decent guitars and basses on a budget.
I had something similar only mine was a Gibson Les Paul solid body version with a fender strat neck like this without a name on it , it was my first electric guitar I bought for 75 well over 30 years ago
Still have my Teisco. A small body single neck pickup guitar that was probably meant to be a student or beginner guitar-it was for me.
As a blues player working on my debut album, I’m dying to get an affordable semi-hollow.
Look at Eastwood stuff.
@@mikeellis9720 I’m a big fan of their guitars, I’m leaning towards Gretsch at the moment.
@TylerJohnstonGuitar even better!
@@mikeellis9720 I have my eye on one in the 4-500 dollar range (can’t remember the model, too many numbers lol) but it’s got Filtertrons and a Bigsby and it looks great and sounds even better. Unfortunately with 3 kids, even that’s a lot to spend for me.
@TylerJohnstonGuitar I wish you Happy Hunting, hope ya get it soon.
Very similar to my audition. Very light and high action due to surface mounted pups.
I still have my Teisco Del Rey ET-200 that I've had since I was a kid. It's like the one from the catalog in this video and is in near mint condition. It's quite the garage rocker.
Awesome guitars made at that time in Japan. Nice to hold a piece of Rock and Roll history in your hands. Great post!!
YES I have this guitar. Except mine has the Gibson type 'open book' headstock. Otherwise, identical.
I had a 1962 Baldwin f hole hollow body in tobacco sunburst that was a blues machine, best clean tones ever! Crank up the gain and you could play great dirty tones for days! I miss that one.
I always loved these guitars the first time I saw them. I love the tulip ones and the Spectrum 5 especially. You got some great tones out of that and looks great!
My Dad bought one from a Sears catalog back in early to middle 70s I learned to play on that guitar and I played it in church with my Dad. I never could keep it in tune and the action was really bad, seeing you with it does bring back a lot of memories.
Cool guitar. This is actually an old kawai not a teisco hollow body guitar. Kawai ended up buying out teisco in 1967.
i have one from i, believe 64 or 65 i had to make a bridge change and tuner change to make it playable. it was in bad shape but now it's alive and sound s good
it's a et 200 tulip style sunburst with a repainted black headstock and new tuners. had to do it could not let become trash. i dont regret it at all.
From a Simpson-Sears (Canada) catalog, my dad bought a solid body one in 1968, I'm guessing $70, tops. Through the internet, I only relatively recently learned about Teisco, as dad's guitar was stamped with another name (they did this from retailer to retailer). Granted, I was 6 and could not play, let alone I didn't understand intonation, action, string gauge, neck adjustment, but it was the most cumbersome thing with a ton of switches on the guitar and etched pinstripe metal pickguard. Had it been the only guitar in my life, I may have been turned-off from learning. My dad was happy with it and it accompanied many family sing-alongs. My sense is that the Japanese manufacturer of electronics perhaps reversed engineered other brands without fully understanding guitars. The general consensus to the boomers whose first guitar brand it was is generally, yes, it was crap, but they still have a high nostalgia for Teisco, as it's the guitar that got them started. P.S.- last week I saw a picture of a young Eddie Van Halen with his mom, holding his first electric guitar. It was a Teisco.
I think I have something similar to this, but a 12-string version. The main differences I see between yours and mine are the pickup selector on mine is a knob on the control plate (of the same shape), the headstock on mine is a typical 6x2 headstock in a natural finish with an open book crown (identical to Gibson or Epiphones of old), and the horns on the body of mine are more like shoulders in that they don't curve up so much. I also don't have the cover for the bridge, but I don't know if it had one that got lost decades ago.
I actually don't know if it is a Teisco, but I believe it is. It is damn-near identical to what you have there. Searching for Teisco Semi-Hollow 12-String electric brought me here.
I bought it off of a friend today with an Epiphone Electar Tube 30 for $300 total. It needs some love, but I was prepared to give it all the love it needs when she first sent me a picture of it. I love the shape of it, and those pickups are wonderful even on this 12-string with only five very old strings.
I've got one of those, without the trem. They're pretty cool. They can have crazy feedback, but if you're easy on the gain, it's not too bad. Mine was my first electric guitar. My dad bought it for me when I was about 13. He got it used from a local music store.
It's in pretty rough shape now, but I'd like to restore it. Not because it's worth anything, but because my dad passed several years ago, and I'd like to be able to pass it on to my boy.
That is a Tiesco Delray guitar. (T. S. Co.) There is collectibility in the brand. They don't command huge money but as an entry-level purchase into guitar collecting it's a good starting point.
I have a 1967 Teisco. I have to do a refret on it. A number of frets are worn down to nearly level with the fretboard. She got played A LOT!!!
My first guitar was some sort of Teisco that I bought used in 1971 or 72. It was a Semi Hollowbody, but had two rocker switches to turn each pickup on and off instead of a two way toggle like that one. It also had a 3 tuners on a side headstock. It was a piece of junk when I got it and got worse the more I tried to play it. The bridge had absolutely no way to adjust the intonation and the action was attrocious. I suffered with it for a couple of years then bought a Telecaster in 76 and never touched it again. My sister found in in my Mother's basement just before she died and gave it to my Grandson when he gushed over it. I think he messed with it for about 2 seconds before he also gave up on it.
Yo, Max! I don't know if your schedule allows for this idea, but since I like listening to and watching you play, what about a feature called "A Max Minute"? You could use that minute to demo riffs, talk a little music theory, some insight you wish people knew about your show, share some tips or advice about playing or style, but only for a minute. The one minute time frame is perfect for setting the tone re: expectations, restricting how much you reveal in a teaser, minimizing the time and effort you need to put into it... The positive side goes on and on. And another cool thing is "A Minute Max", "A Max Minute", "2 Max Minutes" or even "Just a Minute" however you want it, sounds pretty cool. Anyway, it's just a thought. Thanks for another great video!
I've owned several through the years. All solid bodies, though. The tulip bodies. I own one now, as well. The one I have now has a laminated neck. I don't think it could possibly warp or break, lol. I use it for slide and have it strung left handed. Because of the way the bridge works and the zero fret, it's really easy to swap from left to right and also string sizes.
My brother had the one with the whammy bar !! ✌
Interesting playing Max.
Haha I had a Teisco when I was a kid, in the early 80s ,it was my uncles guitar and he gave it to me as my first electric guitar..that guitar went through a lot of paint jobs..lol and then years later it was given back to my uncle for his kid..lol...im not sure the model it basically looked like a regular strat, body was thinner then my modern guitars, had an old style vibrato bar with a coil spring on the surface...
fun fact old singer/guitar palyer Glen Campbell played a teisco t-60 back in the 60s which actually had a similar hole in the body like steve vais later monkey grip..
Amazing guitar, it is beautiful and appears well taken care of. That's what a well owned old guitar should look like, not this relic "stuff" everybody seems so taken with. It sounds great, Max!
Depending on what is used as the finish, sometimes it's near impossible for the guitar to not naturally relic over the years. Thin nitrile, especially satin, will wear off relatively fast compared to poly.
My very first electric guitar was a Teisco similar to that. I was a sophomore in high school ('72) and traded a cheap acoustic for it. It looked great, sounded good, but had a terrible neck. Same sunburst too.
A few years ago I picked up a Teisco hollowbody on Reverb. It was a 335-alike in sunburts and for the price it was hard to resist. 100 bucks shipped to my door for a vintage instrument with a quirky look, finish checking and all that? Figured it'd be an easy job to set it up, change the strings, check the electronics etc. Oh how wrong I was. These things are a nightmare to set up, and no matter what you do they refuse to be playable. It's a shame because it looked absolutely killer
Cool guitar
The EVH Teisco Spectrum 5 is the holy grail. Played one in Rudy’s Manhattan. Check out VH finish what you started.
Hi Max, my first electric guitar was very similar to the one in your video. Teiscos were imported into the UK in the 1960s by Woolworths and rebranded as "Audition".
I came home from a school trip to London when I was 11 years old and my Dad had bought it for me. The body was like that of an Epiphone Casino but with horns similar to an SG. The layout was pretty much the same as yours but it had a bolt-on neck with a Gibson style headstock. It came with a felt-lined,white leather case and an "Audition" branded practice amp. It was probably 20+ years old then and the amp didn't last long before it gave up the ghost.
I still own it due to sentimental value, though at this point it's pretty much unplayable. I managed to get another identical model off ebay a couple of years back which I restored and set up so I could play it properly. I couldn't bring myself to work on the original my Dad gave me. It makes an interesting blues guitar or sounds great with a bit of echo,delay and reverb for that classic '60s instrumental tone.
Nice old guitar. I have my original Kay Value guitar with 3 pickups I think it's a late 50s. Nice dark sound to it still plays well.
Also have a rare 1964 Ibanez model 483 semi hollowbody. Also kind of hard to play because of high action, old style non adjustable re inforced rod. Sounds great though for rythum. Old guitars sound great. Thanks for the video.
I recently acquired a Teisco solid body Mosrite style sunburst electric with three original domino pickups. It has volume sliders and on/off switches for each pickup. The neck is back bowed a bit and the truss rod is as loose as it will go. With thicker strings, currently 10s, it is more playable. I’d go for 11s to make it even better
I had one as my first electric guitar. Mine was without the vibrator arm.
🔥 I have a Squire starcaster classic vibes... the sunburst one. It is 🔥 as well.
I just tele Grammed your mom. She's coming over for some net flix. We ain't got time for scammers. I sold my scammer watch. Loser😂
I have a near mint Del Ray that has a perfectly straight neck and low action, but the pickups stopped working. Its on the repair list, but lots of projects... It sounded really good
As a BASS player, I fantasies on Teisco basses. The Japanese know what they are doing. the zero fret, yup, Japanese.
Did you enjoy this relic ???? How about playing your favorite metal solos on it ???? You'd be the B.B. King of metal !!!!
40 - 45 years ago I had a Del Rey model. I taught myself how to play a bunch of Steve Howe bits from YES's "Tales" album. I ended up trading it for rent money. I think I got the better end of that deal ;-)
Back in the day you'd see Japanese guitars at the local auction. $10-15 . I'd get them just for the pickups. I always took my ohm meter and guitar cord w me to make sure they weren't broken.
Nice Tone!
You made that sound fantastic! Never owned a Teisco. I do own Matsumoku-built Greco and Univox semi-hollowbodies and a Fujigen Gakki hollowbody bass, which are much better built, as well as a Kawai-built short-scale Appause guitar and a National (no relation to the American dobro company) bass which are roughly comparable to the Teisco. The later Teisco-built instruments, after Kawai bought the name, are usually branded Del Ray and are much better-built instruments. Unfortunately for the Teisco owners they didn't have a very good reputation and were starting over trying to build a name (and a good reputation) at a time when Japanese imports were collapsing; they did not last long.
Interesting, I've never heard of Teisco. Like many post-war Japanese industries, they would start out not making a really good product. They would perfect the product over time. I wonder if the Teisco guitars got better over time just like the Toyotas did. Thanks for showing this historical guitar.
Good point!
Thanks 👍@@GuitarMAXMusic
"This guitar has a lot of flaws and isn't comfortable to play but is still a fun guitar!"
I had to laugh when I saw the lead-in photo…by the way, my name is Fred…and I’m at least twice your age…and I just got a 2 pickup solid body that’s the brother of your semi-hollow…I thought mine was a Teisco, but there’s a sticker at the back/bottom of the headstock that reads “Korea”…there was also a sticker on the neck plate that read “7002”…turns out to be made by Samick (one of the top Korean makers)…Branded “Audition” with a metal decal on the front of the headstock…Googling “Audition Guitars”, it turns out “Audition” was the brand name for Woolworth’s Department Stores, like Sears & “Silvertone”. The same guitar was designed for customers to put their own name & model #…such as my “Audition” #7002…and the number of slight variations in the models is amazing…I also have a 1960 “Trump” single pickup (made by Teisco), a Teisco Del Rey single pickup “Tulip” guitar, a 60’s Harmony (H802) (2 pickups)….the “Audition” is one of the best guitars I’ve ever played….
I had a guitar like that in the mid-80s and it had four pickups like your guitar. It was a cool sounding guitar but the small frets made it hard to play anything but chords.
TEISCO...Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company
glen campbell played a t60 teisco
It isn't a Teisco, but it's a Harmony H-802, which isn't far off. They were sort of the American equivalent to Teisco since they were both sold in Sears catalogs. The guitar itself is sort of a cheap knock off of a Fender Jaguar. It's probably my favorite guitar that I own after my main Strat. It's a reliable workhorse that's super easy to play. It's impressive for a cheap piece of plywood that's older than I am.
Get a gretsch electromatic single cut (the one with the gibson like tailpeice (not the v shaped 50s type)...its a great guitar it sounds and feels like a les paul with a slyte 50s type of drive ..but with its own character ....its a realy underated guitar ...the gretsch electromatic (usualy u see them with a silver sparkle)
I agree with everything in this review. I have a stratocaster shape with a tremelo bridge. The drawbacks are narrow neck, metal frets are too low, without hendrix style f I can't press the g string down enough, the intonation is not great as the tremolo bridge is basic, it's easy to get overdriven out of control treble. Although I feel like after a few weeks if I cover a song by someone like the ventures, the guitar can do it better than a modern one and sound great. I think this is because tone is in the fingers, and this is how the great guitarists learnt to make simple lines sound fantastic. I struggle to make my modern guitar sound good at low volumes. Maybe this guitar allows good low volume playing whereas my 335 doesn't probably because of the pickups. I also think strumming sounds better. This all may be because this guitar was one of the best you could get at one time. I also think the poor intonation contributes to the 60s sound. It takes concentration to strum a chord, both pressing strings down and strumming in time
Mine made my fingers bleed, I became a drummer. I smashed it during a talent show..
First of all I have never criticized you but that is the same kind of bridge you find on Gretch hollow bodies or Gibson hollow body guitars. and yes, I use to have one and wish I never sold it.
I wonder if a Mustang might be easier for your friend to play with it's 24" short scale & slinkier strings? Could maybe even try thinner strings with it in addition?
Btw, a friend & his father restored an Aeronca Champ from around 1947. He took me up once ☺️
I had a Teisco Delray solid body....it had all kinds of effects built in..... I gifted it to my niece....Eddie Van Halen played one... Cool Axe. Your chops are developing...I could feel your pain and hardship... Time's is Hard.... AIN'T IT JUST AIN'T IT 😜 lols
Where do I start? I have owned a tisco strat style guitar for over 30 years. And no, there are no markings. It took me years to even find out what it was and vaguely some of the information on it.
hey max have you heard about rebel relic guitars a guy named Luke Whitaker builds them he built a strat style guitar from 400 year old barn wood it be awesome if you review one
Max...you play the blues like me try to be a shredder. Lol. I'll leave it at that.
I have one. it's a proper piece o shite, so I turned it into a Seasick Steve 3 string Transwonder. It's a fun novelty to play now
Hi Max. This reminds me of the Avalon AV guitars, played by the legendary Shaggs girl band. Any chance to review one of them ?
Amazing guitar! Any thoughts of selling?
Quality control was erratic to say the least, and the pickups are guaranteed microphonic...but if you find a good one, they're special, no doubt
My first ever guitar was given to me by my grandpaw. A Tiesco Tulip.
Not that great.
Now decades later I recently found one almost identical to it at a pawn shop. Yep, I bought it.
For slide guitar it roars.
very similar guitar at my local pawn shop. dude wants $400 usd. havent played it yet. very interesting.
Were dis you get it
I had one just like it that was stolen 35 yrs ago hummm I wounder if it is ...
It looks like a Gretsch and a 335 had a child...
Your average Squire or Harley Benton plays infiny easier than those old relics did brand new.. and cost a fraction of the price if you figure in what the $ was Worth then
I was alive then. And if I had a chance to get one new. Or a choice of Epiphone. Or Burnes. Or almost anything comperable in price. I would have went with the alternative. But. None were very good back then. Unless You're Les Paul or wed Montgomery...
Just for context. I didn't have much money as a teen. And I bought my first cheap Electric Guitar at a department store on Staten island NY called Masters. It was a horribly cheap Japan made solid body. Double cut. Almost like they were shooting for be Fender styling. But it looked more like if a fender Fu¢ked a Mosrite....? And that cost $75.00 in 1976.. jeez. Guitars are So much more affordable now.... In '76. $75.00 would have been probably $250. Today's equivalent
I have two of these! one with the thin body, fender headstock, same pickups as yours but white and the top one is slanted that my dad used to own and another with a fatter body and a without zero-fret 20 fret openbook headstock neck with straight black pickups but with square non adjustable pole pieces I got from ebay both with the whammy bar - aaand both were terrible but my dads one was worse .you can't even string it up ..the E's just hang right off the board now like the neck shrunk or the issue with the bridge just got that much worse I was gutted about it but it's not worth saving .. my other one with the fatter body is was much better until the neck pocket started caving in. Now both are pretty much just wall hangers.. when they were both playable the action was stupid high and shimming the neck didn't help much. The ebay one had a wider neck so it played better .. I'm wondering how you're playing that thing with gain and it's not feedbacking like crazy
I had a very similar Japanese guitar but in red, biggest piece of crap guitar I've ever had. Looks like you have a decent example … sounds good
It is pronounced "Tee-esco" Teisco Del Ray was popular in the 60's and 70's I think....
Something about old shitbox guitars that you don’t get with anything else. Hard to explain because we live in the golden age of cheap guitars where I could get a Harley Benton or a Squier and it would be more playable and really a “better” guitar than my old Danelectro but they don’t inspire me like my shitbox Dano does.
Dude that's way more reminiscent of a fender Coronado II than a gibson 335.
Look up Fender 60s coranado II and a Gibson 335 and tell me it doesn't look like the Fender right down to the pickups bolt on neck and headstock.
The bridge is a floating bridges that's how they are. You could pin it OR you could do like I did with my 5120 Gretsch and used 2 sided fabric tape from the craft store in the sewing section.
I watched the Brian Setzer rig run down and that's what his tech does to his guitars. The thing never moves.
Had a EP 2L 1962, not a fan.