I got this old red Teisco guitar from my dad's farm (long story - old dude who hoarded musical instruments):
Unlike the lovely but mostly unsavlageable Kent hollowbody electric that's to it's left (another long story . . . the neck was warped and the top was badly spit. I gave it to a friend ages ago because he wanted the gold foil pickups that were in it) the Teisco guitar has a relatively straight neck. It even has a truss rod. And . . . lemme check . . .
Yep! The truss rod even works!
It has the smallest frets I've ever seen on a guitar. They're like less than a half millimeter wide and tall. Picture very hard strands of hair. I was able to get it set up well enough to do some chords on it, but it's just a painful guitar to play if you're trying to do anything approaching a bend.
I've had it for like . . . six years? And only picked it up twice. Weird neck on this thing. It's a 24 inch scale (not 24 3/4) which isn't really my bag. The other part of the problem is that the toggle switches are all pretty bad. If you wiggle them back and forth a bunch you can kinda hear the pickups kicking on and off, but there's a lot of weird buzzing and random cutting off of sound. But at least they make noise.
Also, the guitar looks like it was mauled by grizzly bears at some point in its past. Most of it's scratches have scratches. There are dents and dings everywhere.
So, how hard can it be to refret a guitar? :P
Unlike the lovely but mostly unsavlageable Kent hollowbody electric that's to it's left (another long story . . . the neck was warped and the top was badly spit. I gave it to a friend ages ago because he wanted the gold foil pickups that were in it) the Teisco guitar has a relatively straight neck. It even has a truss rod. And . . . lemme check . . .
Yep! The truss rod even works!
It has the smallest frets I've ever seen on a guitar. They're like less than a half millimeter wide and tall. Picture very hard strands of hair. I was able to get it set up well enough to do some chords on it, but it's just a painful guitar to play if you're trying to do anything approaching a bend.
I've had it for like . . . six years? And only picked it up twice. Weird neck on this thing. It's a 24 inch scale (not 24 3/4) which isn't really my bag. The other part of the problem is that the toggle switches are all pretty bad. If you wiggle them back and forth a bunch you can kinda hear the pickups kicking on and off, but there's a lot of weird buzzing and random cutting off of sound. But at least they make noise.
Also, the guitar looks like it was mauled by grizzly bears at some point in its past. Most of it's scratches have scratches. There are dents and dings everywhere.
So, how hard can it be to refret a guitar? :P
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