I recorded a couple of clips playing my 60s Teisco this a.m. This is played through my modded Epi Valve Jr. and a cheap AS420 mic and recorded using Audacity.

I have the guitar listed for sale, but I may be having second thoughts, I'd love to hear opinions on the tone. My wife got me this guitar for free earlier this year.

http://www.box.net/shared/g2keq9h4j2
http://www.box.net/shared/yffbkb7tbp

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I think I'd hold onto that thing if I was you. Sounds pretty cool

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There's a market for those guitars. Check into it as you're definitely sitting on a few hundred dollars there.

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I have a '60's Teisco too. I like it, and I'd hold on to it if I were you.

Yours looks refinished, if it is that'll hurt the value, but there is a real niche market. Some of the models are astronomically priced.

Most of these guitars got beat to hell and back, so there's a rarity factor.

Which headstock do you have? (PS if it has the Teisco badge on it still that can mean a 50% difference in the price, I have seen them sell for more than some of the lesser priced model guitars themselves.)

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Like the Teisco Blues!!

Sounds like a keeper. I'd hang on to it. It's a fun piece of guitar history.

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Thanks Tim, I'll have to make quite a few recordings to catch up with you, I checked out your links, you have some pretty good stuff you've been working on.



I looked on Ebay and the prices were all over the map from like $150 on the lower end to $500 and up.



I'm pretty sure the finish is original, but not 100% sure. I did find this same model (but with 1 pickup) in gold, but on that unit most of the finish had been taken off. Here is a link to pics of that one:

http://guitarhunter.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... uitar.html

Mine has no badges or markings at all. The headstock looks like a strat.



Thanks Hop, just noodling around



Yeah, I don't play it much, but it was cool getting it for free and all. I may trade it for a Marshall Class 5 amp, I offered the Teisco plus $100, we'll see what the response is.

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Thanks Kong. It's all a work in progress. I am by no means a sound engineer, so it takes a lot of work to get the songs even to the point that I'm satisfied with them.
You know, after looking at this thread again, I realized that my little beater guitar is rather similar to yours. How did you identify it as a teisco?

I've just been using this thing to play slide on, and it doesn't sound near as good as yours.

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Your guitar looks almost exactly like mine. The only real difference I see is the string retainer and the truss rod adjustment is different. I just did some google searching on Teisco / Kay / Silvertone guitars. I think they were mostly made in Japan by Teisco and sold under different brands here in the states. I'm really using Teisco as a more generic term.

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Well I ended up trading the Teisco for a Marshall Class 5 amp. I had to throw in $150 which I did not mind since I got the guitar for free. Looks like the Teisco went to a good home too and it will be loved.

I am loving the Class 5 so far. Have not had it turned way up so I'm not sure about rattles (read some reviews complaining of rattles), but it sounds great at the low volumes I'm using. I'm going to post a clip of my Tele playing through this thing. It is really bringing out the tone of this guitar whether on the neck humbucker or the bridge pickup. It is such a sweet sounding little amp, I'm really in love! It is also the best tone I've ever heard through headphones, which was a nice touch for a tube combo.

Any other Class 5 owners out there? What do you all think?

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I don't own a class 5, but I think that was a good trade. Sounds like you got the better end of that deal.

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Unless the guitar was sentimental, like my first guitar or something, I would have traded for the Class 5 I own a couple of those funky old Teisco guitars.....and although kinda cool to have around, I haven't really been impressed by them. One I got for free, the other I bought from a pawn shop for $25 lol. I think you did very well, especially since the guitar you traded had been refinished......and the pickguard looked too new, like it was made from a sheet of pickguard material......alot of those Teisco's and similar guitars, had chromed steel pickguards and strange, almost one of a kind pickups!

Yeah I had no attachment to the guitar and I'm real happy with the trade.

As far as I know though, that guitar is all original, no re-finish and original pickguard. It is just in super amazing shape for a 40+ year old instrument. It was definitely a tamer model than some of those crazy Teiscos I have seen.

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I'd hang on tp that Teisco as they are becoming more rare as people are buying them up either for nostalgia's sake or the fact that they are funky sounding little guitars.My buddy had one and the neck was as slim and easy to play as any Hagstrom I'd played,he loaned it to a guy years ago and never saw it after.

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that guitar is just weird looking enough that i would keep it. upgrade pups though.
just go buy a class5, they are cheap enough to do so.

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