Have played many Gibsons, Fenders, Guilds, a Gretsch or two but these Teiscos are unique. Anyone have experience potting Teisco pickups? It would probably tone down the extreme microphonic characteristics but I don't want to completely kill the brilliant chimey tone that most of these pickups offer. They generally don't squeal up to moderately loud amp volumes but magnify body noise and any pick contact with pickup covers, so require considerable care when playing. Most of the Teisco pickups seem to be pretty microphonic. All stay in tune pretty well and have decent necks. They are an ET 460, an SS2L (nice slide guitar) and an unknown ultra-cheap ET dual pickup model which has killer woman tone. Some photos attached of my small collection of Teiscos. Here's a great site for Teisco's.Lots of models here that are probably not familiar to most people.
This is the Spectrum 5,the Holy Grail of Teisco's and '60s Japanese guitars.These are really rare.Can be played in both mono and stereo mode. Very nice quality guitar.Nice German carve on the body top. Here's a really nice ET-440 that recently sold on eBay.Very cool guitar! Teisco made a dizzying array of models.Quality goes from poor on the really cheap ones to very good on the upper scale models.Most people are only familiar with lower grade models.Here's a few of the better ones. Am reluctant to take apart working pickups for fear that I might damage them.įrom my limited experience Teisco guitar tend to have marginal tuners, fret work is a little iffy, hardware is cheap and guitar finish is poor to OK. I would like to build copies of Teisco pickups if I can find out how they were made (many variants for sure). Teisco appears to have embraced production speed over finish quality in choosing products when finishing guitars back in the 60's. I will say on 60's models that they often used Honduras mahogany for the body with Brazilian rosewood fingerboards and that neck quality is quite good if you are willing to adjust the truss rod (if so equipped) and dress frets. They tend to be pretty microphonic but this is not all bad if you can manage howl and don't play too loud.įrom my limited experience Teisco guitar tend to have marginal tuners, fret work is a little iffy, hardware is cheap and guitar finish is poor to OK. Run into a 36W Marshall clone (36TMB with VVR) they produce beautiful clear clean tone at moderate volume and get pretty insane when cranked for distortion. These pickups just sound different, but in a good way. Output on these is not that bad however being just a little lower than good quality 50's type Strat pickups. Coil height is very low, coil size is not large and on my unknown 'ET' Robin's egg blue model resistance measures only 2.5K on both neck and bridge pickups. The pickups are crazy different from standard Fender & Gibson fare and it is hard to see how they even work.
The other 2 have required work but both have straight necks and with some hardware substitutions have turned into great players that stay in tune. I put on new strings and adjusted the bridge and at this point there isn't much else that really needs changing. One is a stock 64' SS2L which just kills. Must admit, I have been having a ball with these unique guitars. Spud1950 - Really enjoyed the TDPRI thread.įor reasons that aren't immediately clear I have acquired 3 Teisco guitars (or mutant spawn) in the last 2 months. would that have anything to do with the tone? i guess its normal for humbuckers to have a 500k and single coils to have 250k, but it sounds good so i dont complain. My question is: what on the teisco guitar would contribute to the tone? what kind of pickup would i wanna get for my strat if i wanted that teisco tone? also i looked at the pots for the teisco. im guessing the pickup resistance is basicly the same but the teisco has much better sound. The strat however has more of a rock sound. the teisco sounds very chill, even when the treble is up. i like the versatility of the strat but the tone is suffering when compared to the teisco.
i started playing guitar on this guitar and i thought it sounded pretty good. i also replaced the bridge with a tuneomatic one so i can intonate it.
it has one single coil pickup and a volume and tone knob. i believe it is the Et-110 or something like that.
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