Bit late but... VERY nice job on that Mory!!!

This passed thru recently: real early mid to late 50s Teisco EP-11
Has a neck on it like a Rugby prop's thigh but plays like butter (well very old butter) due to somebodies attention to the neck and frets in the past.
These are superb pickups too. (Glen ...

The Beautiful Guitars thread reminded me that I needed to start preparing for a trip to Tokyo this spring. Will be there for less than a week on a longer family trip to SE Asia to see our in-laws. So I can do a little scurrying away here and there, just not sure how much.

Ideas for gear ...

Yeah I’ve never seen those Teisco J models before but you can bet I added them to my saved searches


Early days for Teisco. I'm not sure if the J-1 was the actual first model that wasn't a lap steel and made to be played in the conventional guitar manner but it's from around that time. The ...

Wowee, look at me, I changed a pickguard on a 70s Fernandes FST70 (a great Strat with a unique neck profile, kinda pencil-like but not too thin).

https://i.imgur.com/AcD5fKn.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/evk6skX.jpeg

I'll get black replacements for the other plastics so nobody mistakes me for ...

Google lens search pulls up some interesting results, including another one with a union jack on it. Maybe it's the same one before it was cleaned up? Trem system is different.

https://aucview-aucfan-com.translate.goog/yahoo/w1106524606/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp


Well ...

Google lens search pulls up some interesting results, including another one with a union jack on it. Maybe it's the same one before it was cleaned up? Trem system is different.

https://aucview-aucfan-com.translate.goog/yahoo/w1106524606/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp ...

Nate above, it's a perfect match except the tuners are different (and both are era-appropriate) so I think you found the archetype. The fake Gibson decal is obviously not the original. I know Matsumoku / Greco did a few pointed-horn Strat type bodies in the early 70s, perhaps one of those since ...

Any thoughts out there as to what this might have been.
Once had a water slide decal name on the headstock that has been scraped off.
Definitely Japanese, most likely early 70s (possibly late 60s) open book headstock, bolt-on neck. Seems to have had a trapeze or vibrato all along but this one has ...

I have just posted up a demo of sorts using this guitar and a bunch of other appropriate things.
Fill ya boots!


https://youtu.be/OdA4x-Ls0fo

This is what it looked like when I got it. Maybe I should have left it alone but it was unplayable even with a bridge put on it between the pickups. Of course...... 'unplayable' is a somewhat relative term IMO.
That's just a tail block behind the back pickup, not a bridge. The bridge was where the ...