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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on Apr 26 2006 02:10 PM
Hey guys! I'm obsessing again about the Teisco Del Rey Spectrum ~ King of the Monster Japanese Surf Guitars. Does anyone have one on here????? If so, my plan is to recreate one and I need your help. I'd like an outline drawing of the body. OR - does anyone know where I could get the plans for the body? Thanx! |
Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 133 Austin TEXAS! 
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Posted on Apr 26 2006 06:25 PM
Didn't they reissue these a couple of years ago? —
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on Apr 27 2006 10:27 AM
Yeah... but the new ones are made of plastic and only available overseas... |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 51 |
Posted on May 01 2006 10:05 AM
I've got an original Del Rey which I like a lot. Eastwood used to have a Del Rey reissue. They keep coming out with great GAS inducing oddball reissues. It is probably only a matter of time before he does a Spectrum... |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on May 02 2006 10:50 AM
Do you have a Spectrum 5??? |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 51 |
Posted on May 02 2006 11:05 AM
Unfortunately no, just the Del Rey. |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on May 02 2006 01:09 PM
which one? I have a '68 "sharkfin" K3-L in teal blue. It's in pretty decent shape... |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 51 |
Posted on May 02 2006 03:10 PM
This one... I picked it up cheap on ebay listed as an "Unknown model, lots of switches" sometimes those are worth checking out! |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on May 02 2006 04:28 PM
A W E SO M E !!!! Looks like it's in nicer condition than mine! I've been looking for a 4 pickup model, too! I troll ebay constantly... Anyway, good luck with it. Do you have any recordings you've used it on you can post? I'd love to hear it. |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 51 |
Posted on May 04 2006 08:11 AM
Hey CC check out image #1 in the "SCOTS fans - Rick Miller's guitar gallery" post. |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on May 04 2006 09:31 AM
THANX! Cooooool.... |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 250 Port Fierce, Florida 
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Posted on May 04 2006 10:16 AM
This was the largest image I could find of a Spectrum 5: The only thing I could suggest to make an accurate outline would be to resize the image to get the shape. The amount of resizing would be the tricky I imagine, but figuring the standard neck width at the hell of most guitar necks is 2 3/16" (55mm) on most Fender guitars (and assuming that the Teisco neck is slimmer than a standard Fender neck, possible closer to a Mosrite with, which I don't know (?))... The trickier part of the body building process would be the German carve around the edges. It sounds like a pretty intricate body to replicate. — |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on May 04 2006 10:32 AM
Thanks. I will probably just "eye-ball" it and do a rough drawing using french curves. As for the German carve - that would be impossible for a novie like me, so it will be a flat-top version. I'll post some pics when I get the project uderway... |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 250 Port Fierce, Florida
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Posted on May 04 2006 11:57 AM
I found this blog from a guy who documented buillding his own Mosrite - may come in handy...definitely post pics of the building process, I'd be interested to see it. http://www.robstudio.com/guitar/archives/2003_11_27_archive.html — |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 55 New York City |
Posted on May 04 2006 12:21 PM
AWESOME! Thanks |
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