Teisco was in production thru 1968. I bought this can opener beauty in the early ’90s from Guitars on George, back when it was called We Buy Guitars.Yes, the guy who sold Live all those goofy clothes they wore on SNL back in the day.This cool Neck Pickup came from a Teisco Guitar. This Teisco is branded Silvertone, which was the Sears house brand. Teisco was founded blah blah blah steal the info from Wikipedia like last time.
First off it had super high action so I lowered the saddle to the lowest height. It sounded great in the guitar. This pickup read 5 38K Ohms on my meter.
These guitars predated the current cookie cutter clones of well-known brands. I specialise in 1960s Japanese budget guitars - Audition, Kay, Teisco etc. The body is hollow and has one center brace. This one has the nicer-grade, 5-piece maple neck with a Gibson-style profile and 24 3/4' scale length. It's a Teisco-made (Japanese) instrument and I've known several versions of these from walk-ins in the shop. This came to me via trade.
Clean the volume and tone pots with Deoxit to get rid of that scratchy pot sound. The nut had been cut too deep on the G string so I repaired it with baking soda and super glue and recut the nut. 018″ at the 7th fret with a capo on the first fret and the string held down at the 17th fret.
It’s actually plywood and that sweet sunburst finish is actually hiding the layers.The pickups are really low output so you may want to run a boost pedal on the front of your signal chain just to get the volume up to normal levels. It’s a certainly a cool, old trashy guitar for that certain sound.The body looks pretty nice at first, but take off the pickguard. It’s definitely a cool little guitar but it’s temperamental and requires skills to make it playable and keep it in that condition. You should be able to resell it $100-150 bucks easy, unless they’ve read this blog, then they will probably try to talk you down to $80.
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