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Just wondering if anyone knows anything about these. One of my guitar students picked it up on ebay for a song, and wants any info he can get on it. Apparently it's a bass amp?

Travis

We put a Teisco guitar on the wall at our jam night place. It's been there for well over a decade. It's a real hunk of junk, albeit a distinctive one. It looks something like the one in this picture. Same paint color, and the same faux-wood pickguard to top it all off. We plugged it in once, and you could yell through the pickups. One interesting feature is the neck is made out of many thin laminated strips (1/8" each), laid in such a way that the neck looks perfectly quartersawn. Then they slap a fretboard on top. One word comes overwhelmingly to mind: 'craptastic.' Never tried a Teisco amp, though. Those might be craptastic, too.

First off...apologies for posting this in the wrong forum.

Second of all...that guitar looks really rad.


Travis

thousandshirts wrote:We put a Teisco guitar on the wall at our jam night place. It's been there for well over a decade. It's a real hunk of junk, albeit a distinctive one. It looks something like the one in this picture. Same paint color, and the same faux-wood pickguard to top it all off. We plugged it in once, and you could yell through the pickups. One interesting feature is the neck is made out of many thin laminated strips (1/8" each), laid in such a way that the neck looks perfectly quartersawn. Then they slap a fretboard on top. One word comes overwhelmingly to mind: 'craptastic.' Never tried a Teisco amp, though. Those might be craptastic, too.

My very first guitar back in 74 had a trem exactly like that, the brand was " Conqueror "
One day during a whammy fest the arm just broke off
I have a pickup similar to those, one day I might do something with it.