Tuesday, April 28, 2009

1960's Melody (Teisco) 2 Pickup Electric

I acquired this guitar in the fall of 2008 and it has a market value of $85. It is a unknown Melody model 2 pickup Electric Guitar from the 1960's with 2 goldfoil pickups. The prize on this guitar is the goldfoil pickups and I've already used them for another project.

The Teisco brand name stands for 'Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company'. Teisco was founded in 1946 by renowned Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. Teisco guitars sold in the United States were badged "Teisco Del Rey" beginning in 1964. Teisco guitars were also imported in the U.S. under several brand names including Silvertone, Jedson, Kent, Kingston, Kimberly, Tulio, Heit Deluxe and World Teisco. While guitars manufactured by Teisco were ubiquitous in their day, they are now very collectable.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

2004 Fender Toronado Deluxe

I acquired this guitar in January 2009 and it has a market value of $475. It is a Fender Toronado Electric from 2004 that was made in Mexico. This thing plays well and sounds nice and everything works great. The Toronado features two humbucking pickups, alder body, maple bolt-on neck, and rosewood fretboard. As far as I can tell, this guitar is all original. This guitar does have a few minor nicks and dings in the finish that are hard to show in photos with a black guitar.

The Toronado is an electric guitar made by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation produced from 1998-2006. Introduced at NAMM in 1998, it is a part of the "Deluxe Series" Fenders which are produced in Mexico, generally to higher specs than most "Standard" models. The Toronado features two humbucking pickups, alder body, maple bolt-on neck, rosewood fretboard, and four control knobs (x2 volume, x2 tone) with Adjusto-Matic Bridge with Anchored-Tailpiece. The headstock features the famous Fender "spaghetti" logo and sports vintage style Gotoh/Kluson tuners. The body shape shadows the older Jazzmaster and Jaguar guitars. It has a 24 3/4" scale length like most Gibson electrics.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

1960's Knox (Teisco) 2 pickup electric

I acquired this guitar in the fall of 2008 and it has a market value of $75. It is a unknown Knox model 2 pickup Electric Guitar from the 1960's with 2 goldfoil pickups. The prize on this guitar is the goldfoil pickups and I've already used them for another project.

The Teisco brand name stands for 'Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company'. Teisco was founded in 1946 by renowned Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. Teisco guitars sold in the United States were badged "Teisco Del Rey" beginning in 1964. Teisco guitars were also imported in the U.S. under several brand names including Silvertone, Jedson, Kent, Kingston, Kimberly, Tulio, Heit Deluxe and World Teisco. While guitars manufactured by Teisco were ubiquitous in their day, they are now very collectable.

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Friday, April 17, 2009

1980's Westone XA1630 Genesis II

I acquired this guitar in the fall of 2008 and it has a market value of $91. It's a Westone Genesis II XA1630 from the 1980's. This model was produced in the Matsumoku Factory for the 65th anniversary of St. Louis Music. This thing plays well and sounds great and everything seems to work. As far as I can tell, this guitar is all original except I did replace a bad output jack. This guitar does have some nicks and dings in the finish as shown in the pictures. Note: Back cover plate, stringlock washers and bolts, whammy bar and Allen key holder from the headstock are all missing

Body is solid Poplar, Canadian Hard Rock Maple neck, Rosewood 350mm radius fingerboard (25.5 inch scale, 22 frets, 18% Nickel Silver), and graphite nut.

H/S/S pickups (All are Magnaflux V, 2 in the bridge position), 5 way switch, master volume and master tone controls, Mid/Shape control. Bendmaster Deluxe tremelo with fine tuners and locking nut.

Available in White Burgundy, Burgundy Pearl or Platinum Blue Burst

(Info from the 1987 'Limited Editions' catalogue) Appears in the april 1987 US pricelist at $499 and in the Sept 1987 and Jan 1988 US pricelists at $449

Electra guitars were imported from Japan by St. Louis Music from 1971-1984. Most of the instruments were made by Matsumoku in Matsumoto Japan. The Electra line replaces SLM's Japanese made Apollo and US made Custom Kraft lines. The first guitar, simply called The Electra, was a copy of the Ampeg Dan Armstrong lucite guitar and issued in 1971, followed quickly by a variety of bolt-neck copies of other brands. In 1975 the Tree-of-Life guitars debut with a leaf pattern carved into the top, and the Electra line expanded to 25 models. Open-book headstocks changed to wave or fan shape by 1978. By around 1981 ties with Matsumoku further solidified and decision eventually made to merge SLM's Electra brand with Matsumoku's Westone brand. Some Korean production began in the early 80's. In the fall of 1983, the Electra Brand becomes Electra Phoenix. By the beginning of 1984, the brand became Electra-Westone and by the end of 1984 just Westone. By 1987 or 1988 Singer Sewing Machines had bought Matsumoku and killed guitar production. SLM changed the brand to Alvarez (it's acoustic brand) and switched production to other plants, including Korea.

SLM was even competing with itself. Bernard Kornblum's Saint Louis Music (SLM) Electra brand competed with his own brother David Kornblum's California based Pacific Coast Music (PCM) Electra brand yet the two were not connected. Pacific Coast Music's Electra logo was nearly identical to the SLM Electra logo from 1972 to 1975 except instead of the SLM gold text, a black text on a white background was used. Both companies often imported from the same source. Pacific Coast often have an X on the headstock or the pickguard. In general, most favour the SLM versions to the PCM ones and the documentation and models are better represented by the SLM versions.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

1960's Norma EG 405-2 (Teisco)

I acquired this guitar in the fall of 2008 and it has a market value of $135. It is a Norma model EG-405-2 Electric Guitar from the 1960's with 2 goldfoil pickups. The prize on this guitar is the goldfoil pickups and I've already used them for another project.

NORMA HISTORY: Normas were built in Japan between 1965 to 1970 by the Tombo Company and distributed in the U.S. by Strum´N Drum, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. The company specialized in copying Italian guitars like EKO and Goya and sold them in the U.S.A as NORMA's. The most blatant EKO copy is the SDEG 490-4, a guitar that confused the heck out of MANY. The Tombo Company is still in business, but these days they specialize in harmonica production.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

1960's Sears Silvertone Model 1406 Mosrite Copy

I picked up this guitar in February 2009 and it has a market value of $80.99. This is a Sears Silvertone Electric Guitar Model 1406 from the late 1960's. The sticker on the back of the headstock was there when I found the guitar. Based on the headstock I believe this is actually a late 1960's model. As far as I can tell, this guitar is all original and complete. This guitar does have some nicks and dings in the finish as well as some crazing that is common in a vintage guitar. The pots are a bit scratchy and the knobs have chips/cracks in them but everything seems to work.


This is a late 60's early 70's Silvertone made by Teisco of Japan. This is a similar to the Mosrite or maybe a bit of Stratocaster. It's a small student/child size guitar. Teisco made guitars for lots of department stores and Sears joined up with them in the late 1960's.

The Teisco brand name stands for 'Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company'. Teisco was founded in 1946 by renowned Hawaiian and Spanish guitarist Atswo Kaneko, and electrical engineer Doryu Matsuda. Teisco guitars sold in the United States were badged "Teisco Del Rey" beginning in 1964. Teisco guitars were also imported in the U.S. under several brand names including Silvertone, Jedson, Kent, Kingston, Kimberly, Tulio, Heit Deluxe and World Teisco. While guitars manufactured by Teisco were ubiquitous in their day, they are now very collectable.


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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Teisco Norma Goldfoil Guitar Pickups from the 1960's

These are 1960's vintage Goldfoil guitar pickups similar to those used by Ry Cooder on his guitar. This was Teisco's version of the famous DeArmond Gold Foil pickups used on many Harmony guitars of the 1960's. These were pulled as a working matched set from a Norma branded Teisco guitar with other issues. The neck pickup measured 5.72K ohms and bridge pickup measured 5.74K ohms. The lead wires are about 4-5 inches long on both of the pickups. They have a value of $66 each.

Here's a earlier entry with a bit more information and pictures.

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Friday, April 3, 2009

Yamaha 120SD Telecaster Copy

I picked up this guitar in January 2009 and it has a market value of $80. It's a Yamaha Telecaster (Tele) copy from the 1990's. It may be the Yamaha 120SD based on what I found but there is no label that confirms this model. It has great versatility available from its dual humbucker pick-up configuration. It's an alder body with maple neck. Plays great and sounds great with low action. As far as I can tell, this guitar is all original and complete except for 1 missing/broken string. This guitar is in very good condition but it has several nicks and dings in the finish that are hard to photograph because of the black color. All I can find is information on the Pacifica and this isn't labeled as such. I think it may be the 120-SD model, but there isn't a tag or sticker that say so. This Tele copy is black and the guitar is setup with Yamaha pickups as follows:

Neck - Humbucker
Bridge - Humbucker
Construction:
* Alder Body
* Maple Neck
* 3 way Selector
* Side mount input jack

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