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i don't have one but i have seen some in the singular vintage guitar shop down here in my part of town.

I've always thought they were pretty cool. Seemed solid when i picked em up and played em. never plugged one in plus down here they go for at least 13 to 1400 bucks so its a bit of a different story for me! not so cheapy!

i even have played a semi hollow body one here with a tremelo and that osrt of setup. very cool.

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Seems like they'll mostly just have to be for slide guitar. The frets and neck might need serious work to get them as playable as a newer guitar, no? Either way, for $200 I'd grab one. Those pickups are probably badass and would give you that Hound Dog sound.

Well my bass is not a teisco but a 67' Ventura. Alot of guitars/basses from Japan were all produced in the same factory and a different name plate was put on them at the end of the assembly line. Mine is solid , and I picked it up on ebay. So Im confident in both the guitars and in buyin on ebay

I had a sunburst Teisco Spectrum like this blue one for a while. There are two models that go by the name Spectrum: this one and a pointy-er version with split single coil pickups like the old Fender XII. The necks are usually pretty straight because they're made of like 22 laminated strips of maple. The frets are small like most Japanese guitars. The pickups were super weak. Now, I don't like hot pickups so you'd think that would be a good thing. These were weaker than weak. None of that magic you might be searching for. Quality control was suspect so there may be "good" versions of these pickups but mine were not among them. I did take the time to make up a set of templates should I ever want to build one myself.

i like this one! I'd love to go jam it through a fuzz pedal and see where i end up! what with the 4 pups in it? gotta find at least on sound you like surely!

Sixty two pounds...isn't that like a thousand dollars or something?

lol £65 is like 100 of your american dollars