*Teisco Guitar Serial Numbers
*Teisco Guitar Serial Numbers
*Teisco Serial Numbers
*Teisco Serial Number Lookup
*Teisco Serial Numbers
Recently I visited a guitar store in Palo Alto and discovered this fascinating little relic of the '60s waiting to be bought.This is a genuine 1965 or '66 Silvertone model 1435, basically a rebranded Teisco MJ-2L sold through Sears. The original retail price was about $90, which, adjusting for inflation, would be about $680 today. The body appears to be mahogany (not plywood, though in later years, under different management, Teisco was known to make plywood guitars). It has two single-coil pickups. Scale length is about 25'. The frets are low vintage-style ones, and are still in pretty good shape.
1960's VINTAGE TEISCO DEL REY ET-210 SUNBURST $300 OBO A beautiful 1960's Teisco Del Rey ET-210, Sunburst Double Pick-up Guitar. Serial number: 365757 - There are a few minor scratches consistent with age that I have detailed in the photographs but overall this is a very nice vintage MIJ guitar that has been properly maintained and cared for. VINTAGE 1959 TEISCO GUITAR SERIAL NUMBER PLATE TAG JAPAN MIJ RARE. TEISCO BASS BRIDGE. C $26.50 shipping. VINTAGE TEISCO GOLD FOIL NECK PICKUP FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR MIJ JAPAN 5.35K. Silver Foil Pickup Set 60's Silvertone, Harmony, Teisco style EZPZ GUITAR PARTS.
Teisco Spectrum 5. The obscure and rare Spectrum 5 model was a higher-end Teisco Del Ray. With a solid walnut body and hand-lacquered finish, the Spectrum 5 sported unusual electronics including three split-pickups, mono and stereo outputs, and color-coded pickup selector switches. Spectrum 5 guitars are at the top of the collector value scale. What is the Teisco Serial Number / Date Chart? The chart is a list of model numbers going down the page and a list of serial numbers going across the page. Guitar models have their corresponding serial numbers marked on the chart. Above the serial numbers is the estimated production dates for those serial. Teisco (テスコ) was a Japanese manufacturer of affordable musical instruments from 1948 until 1969, and now the brand is owned by Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd The company produced guitars as well as keyboard instruments, microphones, amplifiers and even drums. Teisco products were widely.Teisco Del Ray Guitar 1960sTeisco Guitar Serial Numbers
There was originally a whammy bar that fit into the round hole on the tailpiece, but it's long gone. As far as I can tell, everything about the guitar is original except the strap knobs and the strings. I even have the original case, which is a cheap little thing with thin, flexible walls and no padding.Just for the hell of it, I plugged it in and tried it out. On the plus side, it is fully functional, stays in tune, and sounds nice.
It makes a pretty chiming sound with both pickups active. Playability is nothing to write home about, but really not bad for an old, cheap guitar. Action is pretty low; actually a bit too low for my preference, though there is no fret buzz. Intonation is fairly decent until it goes sharp in the upper frets. Ergonomics are a bit wonky: the neck dives due to the thick neck and small, light body, and the individual pickup on-off switches are too easy to flip accidentally while you're playing (they don't click into place, for one thing). The tone pots are wired incorrectly; the tone is brightest at 0 rather than 10.
This could well be sloppy QC at the Japanese factory. Easy enough to fix, but why bother?This is definitely not the world's prettiest guitar, but by '60s Japanese standards it's not too bad. Some of Teisco's other models are, IMHO, hideous. The site has a number of examples.Anyway, I decided I liked it, and it was cheap, so it's mine. It will never be my #1 guitar, but as a child of the 1960s it gives me an odd sort of connection to life in that time. Now I have a sense of what it must have felt like to be a high-school kid in 1965 who managed to talk his parents into buying him an electric guitar for Christmas.Teisco Guitar Serial Numbers
Look out, George Harrison, here I come! How do you play the intro to 'Roll Over Beethoven' again? The Teisco MJ-2L was my first guitar. Exactly like the picture in the original post, but with a multi-color Teisco Del Rey badge on the headstock instead of the Silvertone logo. Talked my parents into buying it at one of those catalog/wholesale chains in the late 60's (1967?) for about $35.As far as I can remember, the body was a solid piece of wood (not plywood) and it had a fairly short scale. The whammy bar would never stay in place, having a knurled threaded sleeve that was attached by screwing into that fixture (seen in the photo) that looks like a 1/4' output jack in the tailpiece.I held onto it for over 20 years, eventually selling it at a garage sale for probably about $15.Teisco Serial Numbers
'This guitar is 'ET-220' (1969 or 1970 maybe). Made by 'Enshu Kogei' and distributed by 'WMI Company'TEISCO (originaly) was bankrupt in 1967, then, the TEISCO production, was taking over 'Enshu Kogei'(KAWAI).' -busterbus1963jpI would like to say a special thanks to busterbus1963jp, because he made my unknown guitar no longer unknown. I finally know just what model my dad's guitar is!! XD.History of the guitar.My dad bought this off of some random guy when he was in high school.Teisco Serial Number Lookup
The neck was nearly in two pieces, and the frets were falling off, some missing. So, he took it to, you guessed it!Teisco Serial Numbers
Another random guy, and he fixed it up for him. He no longer plays it, cuz his fingers are too big. Haha So, now, I guess you could say he handed it down to me.For anyone asking before they ask, no, this guitar is not for sale.
