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    Don't know how it uploaded sideways. I bought this Japanese guitar for $50 from a friend that is no longer with us. A previous owner glued the bolt-on neck and created a nitrocellulose pickguard and headstock face cover cut like hindu style flames. I changed the tuners, installed Seymour Duncan Dynasonic pickups, brass roller bridge and an ES 355 tailpiece. This guitar sounds magnificent. I just cannot find any other guitar like this one online. Some believe it is a Teisco and others are unsure. Have you seen something like this before?
    Last edited by Jeffblue; 03-20-2020, 02:55 PM.

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    Re: Does Anyone Know What This Guitar Is?

    Originally posted by Jeffblue View Post
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    Don't know how it uploaded sideways. I bought this Japanese guitar for $50 from a friend that is no longer with us. A previous owner glued the bolt-on neck and created a nitrocellulose pickguard and headstock face cover cut like hindu style flames. I changed the tuners, installed Seymour Duncan Dynasonic pickups, brass roller bridge and an ES 355 tailpiece. This guitar sounds magnificent. I just cannot find any other guitar like this one online. Some believe it is a Teisco and others are unsure. Have you seen something like this before?
    Looks like an old harmony

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      I've seen old Kent semi-hollow guitars that looked quite similar
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        Boy, that's a new one on me.
        aka Chris Pile, formerly of Six String Fever

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          I wanna say I saw something like this and it was in the Cort, Fernandes type vein.

          but I could be totally fuguing on this -as we are talking about my Pawn Shop habit in the 90s type memory
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              It might be in the running for ugliest pickguard design of all time. Looks like they just melted some plastic and screwed it on.





              :P
              Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!

              Originally posted by Douglas Adams
              This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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              • #8
                Re: Does Anyone Know What This Guitar Is?

                I'm gonna guess its ... Yours
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                  • #10
                    Re: Does Anyone Know What This Guitar Is?

                    Kent.
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                      Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges! I beg pardon, but back in the 1960's, the companies that were importing Asian manuf...

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                        Re: Does Anyone Know What This Guitar Is?

                        Originally posted by Dave Locher View Post
                        Kent.
                        There are some similarities to Kent, but this model doesn't look like the OP...body shape is way off, "F" holes are different, trapeze tailpiece is different, pickups are different, controls are located differently, jack is on the side in the OP. But the pickup rings and switch plate look similar.

                        It could be just a different model of Kent, or Teisco, or any of a number of imports that had arbitrary "brand names".
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                          Re: Does Anyone Know What This Guitar Is?

                          The body is a Harmony. Not sure about the neck. They came with DeArmond-Rowe gold foils.


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                            Originally posted by GuitarDoc View Post
                            There are some similarities to Kent, but this model doesn't look like the OP...body shape is way off, "F" holes are different, trapeze tailpiece is different, pickups are different, controls are located differently, jack is on the side in the OP. But the pickup rings and switch plate look similar.

                            It could be just a different model of Kent, or Teisco, or any of a number of imports that had arbitrary "brand names".
                            I changed the pickups, tailpiece, bridge and tuners. The original pickups looked like some odd humbuckers and a cheap looking tailpiece.

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                              Originally posted by DavidRavenMoon View Post
                              The body is a Harmony. Not sure about the neck. They came with DeArmond-Rowe gold foils.


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                              The guitar had weird humbuckers.

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