My buddies $10 guitar

[Swampy]

Any ideas on what it might be?

[Swampy]

Re: My buddies $10 guitar

[justFred]

Re: My buddies $10 guitar

a Messco???

[Adieu]

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What's the thing with posts under the strings? Missing proprietary bridge?

[beaubrummels]

Re: My buddies $10 guitar

The body, bridge, tailpiece and bridge-middle pickups look like Teisco. The neck looks like a TeleStar that the badge came unglued from. Teisco was rebranded, sometimes several times, in multiple markets, so it could be a straight rebranded Teisco, a Teisco with a replacement TeleStar neck, a TeleStar that used a Teisco body kit for its rebrand, or something in between. Just my guess.

It should command big nickels on the used market. They look great on the wall of a studio. Makes people think you have an eye for mod interior decoration. Whatever you do, don’t plug it in. Unless you are the Picasso of music. Then by all means, into the future...

[Adieu]

Re: My buddies $10 guitar

IF the neck is playable, $50 into knockoff gotohs or lockers, a chinese tunamatic, new nut if needed, and 1 or more random used or decent knockoff pickups --- and you could breathe new life into it.

[Diego]

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Send it to Jack White!

I think he's done playing crappy crummy guitars and into Ernie Balls now, but who knows?

That thing looks really short scale or is it just me?

[Swampy]

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He took the neck off at practice tonight.

[Adieu]

Re: My buddies $10 guitar

Interesting.... walnut maybe? Or not, kinda pale for that. Cheap rosewood that didn't grade for fretboard use by the standards of the day?

[beaubrummels]

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He took the neck off at practice tonight.

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Does it sound better now? ;-)

[Adieu]

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Does it sound better now? ;-)

That pocket shot actually suggests total hardware-ectomy and refret then modernization might just be in order... if the neck aint warped.

Surprisingly clean and crisp workmanship, potentially good materials = good candidate for total makeover resurrection


Ooh i know, that pickguard shape is giving me ideas here: drop a KAHLER on it!!! Drop in some hotrails, do an XJ Stainless refret, strip and oil the back of the neck, and build an EBMM/Wolfgang killer

[Chris Pile]

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Interesting.... walnut maybe? Or not, kinda pale for that. Cheap rosewood that didn't grade for fretboard use by the standards of the day?

Luaun - aka Phillipine Mahogany. Not a true mahogany, it's softer and not as stable. But it looks like mahogany, works like mahogany (for the most part), and takes finish like mahogany.

[Diego]

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I was thinking it was either rosewood or some sort of mahogany as well. It looks surprisingly nice, for lack of a better word.

I'd stick with it!

[Dave Locher]

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It might sell well on eBay if you list it as a vintage MIJ and use words like Teisco and Harmony and Kent in the description. I sold a teardrop hollowbody a couple years ago for ten times what I paid for it.
Otoh, if you like it then bolt on a good neck, bridge, and pickups and rock out. (That's actually what I did with the teardrop for the first 10 years I owned it. Just keep all the original parts.)

[Swampy]

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Otoh, if you like it then bolt on a good neck, bridge, and pickups and rock out. (That's actually what I did with the teardrop for the first 10 years I owned it. Just keep all the original parts.)

He stopped by WD Music today and picked up a bridge and tailpiece and a bone nut.