Rare Bird 67' Teisco DG-67

[mike_C]

Happy Holidays Y'all. First post here ...

Found this guitar in Pocotello in the mid 90's. After playing show kid at the door asked if I wanted to see a guitar no one had ever been able to identify. I was like - um yes? It was pretty clear right off the bat guitar was Japanese. Eventually I found Teisco emblem on wayy-cool case latches. Following year I was touring through again and kid said he'd given up on guitar. I inquired about Teisco and ended up buying it. Fairly certain guitar wasn't meant for export. I assume it came home with a Vet or something.

Guitar sounds exactly like it looks. Very clear and not much sustain. I keep flat-wounds on it and it's usually in G or D (w/ capo)

I've only seen one before, in a Japanese Ebay auction, and it was sunburst. Pics don't do yellow finish justice. It has a very silver-pearl element to it as well.

Have seen DG-67's in Teisco catalog where it was priced same as Spectrum 5.

While I love American guitars as much as the next guy, and own more than I should, I really have a soft spot for the unusual. I find if you take the time to find there particular voice, step one imo is to not play them too hard or too loudly, you'll be rewarded.

















More Pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48732540@N00/sets/

Enjoy!
Mike

[Spud1950]

Wow,thanks for posting this. What a beauty! I've never seen that model before so I Google'd it. Found it mentioned in an article about Teisco history from Vintage Guitar Magazine. They too speculate that it probably was not exported.

"The DG-67 was another decidedly different Teisco solidbody debuted in '67, under the new Kawai hegemony. Certain Spectrum influences are visible in this axe, but perhaps more significantly, they're also more than a bit of Burns. For reasons I've yet to discover, a number of Japanese manufacturers became quite taken with Burns products. The 1967 and '68 Tele-Star lines (manufacturer unknown), for example, were full of Burns Bison and Jazz Split-Sound interpretations. Kawai was another company enamored of the inwardly turned Bison horns.

Thus, it's curious that the DG-67 had an offset double cutaway body with very sharp, inwardly curving horns. The body had a German carve contour along the horns to the slightly offset waist. There was a taper to the lower bout. The bolt-on neck ended in the new check-mark headstock; truss adjustment was at the body. The bound fingerboard had a zero fret and block inlays. The two pickups were black-covered with exposed poles. The neck pickup was angled slightly back toward the bridge, as would be subsequent Mosrite-copy guitars, and a tiny multi-lam pickguard sat between the pickups. The three-way toggle was on the lower horn, while the volume and tone were mounted directly on the top of the lower bout. This had a roller bridge and a new, square, almost art deco Bigsby vibrato design.

I'm not sure if this very interesting DG-67 guitar ever made it to the U.S. I've never seen one and have never sighted anything similar in Teisco Del Rey or any other catalogs."

[VintAxe]

A rare bird indeed Mike, great score. You are probably right about this model not being exported, they don't show up in the Bennett Brothers and Alden catalogs that probably distributed the majority 67 Teisco guitars to North America.

Thanks for sharing your instrument.