HELP IDENTIFY VINTAGE TEISCO LES PAUL

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First a little Teisco history.

"Company history
The Teisco brand name stands for 'Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company'. Teisco was founded in 1946 by renowned Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. The company was originally called 'Aoi Onpa Kenkyujo' (roughly: Hollyhock Soundwave or Electricity Laboratories). In 1956, the company name was changed to 'Nippon Onpa Kogyo Co', and changed to 'Teisco Co.' in 1964. In 1967, the company was acquired by Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kawai Gakki Seisakusho), who discontinued the Teisco brand name for guitars in 1969 (1977 in Japan), but continued to use it for electronic keyboards until the 1980s."

So your guitar was made sometime in the 1970s for the Japanese domestic market, during which time Teisco guitars were copies of popular American made brands. Here's a 1974 catalog page that I found on line showing a couple of Les Paul copies.





There's a different 1974 catalog in the VintAxe collection which shows your black version to be a model TLG-360B.

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WOW

You guys are amazing, cheers for the fast response