Also this guitar is perfect for people with smaller frames or you lady rockers out there. Great for garage rock or you retro rockers out there. Ahh don’t you love these guitars? Really nice red paint job here. Vintage 1960s Teisco Guyatone Red Rocker Bizarre Guitar Amazingly Cool Shape Up for sale we have a vintage Teisco Guitar. Very snarly and has a really nice bite that in Posted with Soundwise its what you woudl expect from this era Japan guitar. more It is playable up and down as well but you can tell the previous owner set it up for slide. Neck itself has some relief in it(there is no truss rod adjustment) and with the new taller nut it's more set up for slide with higher action. Frets are smaller profile and do show wear but still retain a playable profile. Has a really cool looking metal mirror finish pickguard. There's one tone and one voume control and a slider switch labeled treble/solo. Has 2 pickups each with an on/off rocker switch. Electronics are a bit scratchy but all does work. The"B" and high"E" string plastic tuner bushings are missing. All aprts appear to be original except the nut which is a modern replacement. Guitar has its original red finish and sports a maple neck with bound rosewood fingerboard. It comes with: an original chip case in ratty condition.PLEASE SCROLL BELOW DESCRIPTION FOR FULL-SIZE DETAILED PHOTOS Nifty made in Japan ca.1960's electric guitar. There's one small patched/repaired spot on the bass-side (pictured). There's finish weather-checking throughout (as usual) but it looks good overall. Pickups: 2x Teisco/Kawai square-pole single coilsĪction height at 12th fret: 1/16" overallĬondition notes: modified control plates, new wiring harness, otherwise original and in good order. Repairs included: fret level/dress, side dots install, new wiring harness, cleaning, setup. I replaced it with a new harness and simplified controls (3-way, master vol/tone) and filled an extra control hole with a blue amp jewel. an effort to fight feedback at high volume? Said flannel damaged the wiring on the way in, though, but it was already a replaced/modified harness. The wiring harness was simply non-functional and I found-out why pretty quick - someone had stuffed an entire flannel shirt along with some foam damping in. There were funny things to deal with, though, during repairs. It plays fast, it sounds great, and it's lightweight to boot. Third, the neck on this is the super-ply-maple construction that latter-era Sharkfin guitars used and that allows for this neck to be slim and modern while also being stable and functional. These sound great on whatever they're mounted-to and are a lot more saucy than the usual adjustable-pole, Strat-looking pickups found on the '60s Japanese violin basses. Second, the pickups are the Sharkfin-style single coils with the bigger square polepieces. It's either late-'60s or early-'70s and has three things going for it compared to "the usual fare."įirst, the body has a better shape on the treble side that looks cool and also hugs the leg so much better without leaving a bunch of indentations on your thigh for the rest of the day. I've worked on a lot of Teisco (at the time this was made, Kawai had bought-out Teisco) violin-style electric basses, but this is my favorite thus far.