http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/4 ... 2122081597
It's also in the 1979 Sears Christmas catalog, this time with the same tailpiece as yours, but now listed as "Imported":
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishbook/6 ... et-1360453
Statistics: Posted by lmrogp — Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:13 pm
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Any more info on these SG clones would be awesome. A prior thread with one that had a different bridge stated it was probably a Kent clone. http://www.vintaxe.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2064
You're not the only one with one though! Mine seems to be almost exactly like yours. I paid $150 for mine. Everything original minus the tuners. It struggles to really hold a tune for much more than an hour of light/medium jamming. I replaced the pickup magnets with some super-strong ones I pulled out of a computer hard drive which helped beef up the output. I've learned you can't really put strap locks on the original spot for where the strap holders go, so I get to relocate them sooner or later.
Seems to be a plywood guitar. Not very great sounding, but at least it's kinda fun to play on. Anyways, here's mine. I'll post better pictures when I get home if anybody's interested.
Statistics: Posted by gtkid2002 — Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:38 pm
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Statistics: Posted by skydog — Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:51 pm
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70s Korean guitars tended to be 5+ years behind Japanese in terms of build quality & type, which is why this looks a lot like early 70s MIJ. The truss rod cover (a style Cort nicked from Matsumoku) and headstock profile date it as late 70s onward, an earlier guitar would copy the Gibson designs. If you open it up, I suspect the potentiometers will have a logo that looks like "dp" - these are on most MIK guitars, I've never seen them on a Japanese instrument.
I'd say it's never had a headstock logo - many budget guitars of the era didn't - but to be honest it's so covered in filth it's hard to tell. Do give it a decent clean or you'll catch a life-threatening disease from it.
The "Teisco" you saw on Ebay was almost certainly no such thing. Ebay sellers love to make up rubbish to help punt their trash, and in many senses Teisco is this year's Ibanez, as far as funny old guitars are concerned, and any weird unbranded 60s/70s guitar these days is automatically a "Teisco".
Teisco guitars don't tend to be recognisable copies of other designs - - there were some Teisco-branded copies in the later 70s but these were predominantly Japanese home-market instruments, and to be honest, not as crude as your SG.
Jon.
Statistics: Posted by Bassassin — Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:25 am
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Statistics: Posted by knigel — Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:11 am
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My brother just picked up this SG looking deal at an antique store. There is no name on the headstock, which makes me think it was a badge of some kind that fell off. It is VERY similar to a Teisco I found on ebay, but we are trying to track down the model #. Any help would be appreciated!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/klaus_kins ... 407597374/
Statistics: Posted by knigel — Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:09 am
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