My buddies $10 guitar
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beaubrummels
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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...
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...
beaubrummels
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Re: My buddies $10 guitar
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
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
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Dave Locher
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Re: My buddies $10 guitar
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.)
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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Re: My buddies $10 guitar
He stopped by WD Music today and picked up a bridge and tailpiece and a bone nut.
He stopped by WD Music today and picked up a bridge and tailpiece and a bone nut.
beaubrummels
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Re: My buddies $10 guitar
Thats a pretty punk guitar now. Right on.
Thats a pretty punk guitar now. Right on.
