This guitar is a bruiser!! Big, fat, muscular tone. A heavy, thick necked, offset guitar that is a really pleasant surprise in every way. It stays in tune, the neck is straight, the electronics work, the tremolo works and the guitar is generally in excellent shape for its age. This guitar embodies what I always hope for, to find inexpensive diamonds in the rough, guitars that don't break the bank and are not only very playable, but smile inducing.
Its no fast flyer like your perfectly set up Strat, but this guitar plays really well and I haven't even had it set up yet. It also provides certain tones that you would never be able to conjure from more so called -elite- instruments. I love the look of it as well, can't beat that retro vibe. But damn those rocker switches for pickup selectors. With all that Japanese ingenuity you would think they could have just settled on a Strat or Tele-like selector switch. Though they are working fine, these switches are a pain in the ass and tend to fail. Teisco made a number of different configurations of this model. It seems the ones with the 4x2 tuner setup on the headstock like this one are all beefy, cool guitars that can still be found at bargain prices. Make sure they have a truss rod and an intonatable bridge and you should be able to set it up to your liking.
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| I generally don't get into wild headstock designs, but this one is rockin'. It totally works for me! |
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