by Bassassin » Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:25 am
I'm 95% sure it's a Korean guitar, probably late 70s/early 80s, the truss rod cover & headstock sticker type tend to make me think it's made by Cort. That sticker is very likely the model number.
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.
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I see everything before me at last...
