I got this guitar for free at a garage sale. What is this thing?

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So... yeah. Today was Garage Sale day in my area, so I did some garbage inspecting. I went to several, and saw nothing special. I then went to one that had some guitar stuff. Loose pickups, a few BOSS pedals, and an amp. Definitely more than your average garage sale. I then went the owner's free section, and I saw this... thing. A no-name brand, thin-bodied piece of crap. I just had to have it. A free project guitar? Definitely.

He said that it was his son's. Other than that, he knew nothing about it. It's obviously something that the kid was working on; it has a ghetto pickguard and a random hole drilled halfway through the body.

Is that body from anything? It looks like it was grain-filled and professionally-painted at some point, not like some kid in his garage. I believe I've seen Danelectros/Silvertones with a similar shape and width. Close, but not quite.

Without a doubt, I have a cool idea of what I want to do with this. I want to make it a single P-90, single volume with a TOM. I'd like it to have a standard hardtail, but the body is so shallow, I'm not sure how it would do. If it doesn't quite work, oh well, I'll just Townshend it. Zero dollars.
 
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Teisco Tulip.Its been resprayed, they wrere all(?) sunburst color.
Good news is parts are available on Epray. Asess whether the neck is tweaked b4 spending any $. ..These used to be the the ubuquitous pawnshops guitars ( I'm a dinosaur) hanging all virtually every pawnshop wall for 30 or 40 bucks, now they want 200 and upwards.

(A good thing to do with any funky old guitar like that is check ebay listings under "Vintage Japanese guitar ", and wade through plenty of listings). If you get it Humpty Dumptied again, you'll have a guitar with action like a suspension bridge..lol.;

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Teisco E110, neck is likely original to the body. Would have had a burst paintjob originally.

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RoteGitarre said:
Teisco E110, neck is likely original to the body. Would have had a burst paintjob originally.

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The neck seems old/cheap as well. Plywood construction, open-gear tuners, a thick string retainer that's drilled all the way through the headstock, and a zero fret.
 
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RoteGitarre said:
Teisco E110, neck is likely original to the body. Would have had a burst paintjob originally.

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Neck is original...heres the whole Guit-box. Those wrere capable of some cool funky tones, but you won't be doing any Steve Vai shredding hahah;

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Had something similar as a teenager. Had TWO pickups, super thin body, but was more or less Stratish. Looking back, it would have made a great slide guitar tuned to open D or the like. Tiny frets and mile high action, most definitely.

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Upon closer inspection, it definitely was repainted.
 
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Could be a cool project nonetheless, enjoy!!!
 
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Aceman said:
SOMEONE gets it!

Tiesco is shabby-chic, trashy-cool, lo-fi hi-style. I dig it. Do a refurb.
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Exactly. I'd grab some funky GFS pickups, set the action a little high and have a cool slide guitar.
 
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Update: I took off the pickguard to find all the hardware hidden underneath. For such a shallow body, there's plenty of room under the hood. That weird surface-mounted puckup looks so retro. If I want, I could just put them all back on. I'm still going to modify it, though.
 
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It's from the German company called Whallhangarr...
 
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JB_From_Hell said:
Exactly. I'd grab some funky GFS pickups, set the action a little high and have a cool slide guitar.
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Absolutely. I'd polish and grease/smooth out all the critical parts, set it for slide and keep it in an interesting open tuning.
That thing looks so cool.
 
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