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pointbreakspy
on 21 December 2006.
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the trem, string hold-downer (?), bridge and even the way the body is shaped look a lot like a "KINOR" I once got for 3 bucks from a pawnshop. I got rid of it cause it sucked and I wasnt going to do anything with it, it was just the body and neck.
I found a few kinor-guitar pics on te neck, check them out. It might well be any other japanese sixties brand though, I guess.
(small headstock pic)
http://images.speurders.nl/images/20/2093/20930878_1_list.jpg
this is the one I had body and neck and some hardware from:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=230045866123
there's one in this pic too:
http://www.projectknoxville.com/images/allbutone.jpg
I can't include them as pics in the comment, sorry.
WR
that almost looks like a harmony, are you sure its not one of those?
Japanese are the hardest guitars to id. There's SO many of them and many nameless. Lot of them made by the same manufacturer, so there are lots of similarities. I've got an Inter-mark guitar, pawnshop special as well, same maroon burst and the headstock (from what I can see) looks almost spot on. Had the same string retainer and tuners and perhaps headstock shape. Same bridge as well, but electronics and vibrato are different. Is anything written on the truss rod cover or neck plate?
thanks for checking her out....i'm gonna put new pickups in it..what sort?
p.s. used for my track on sg101 2006 - melody line and trem dips!
I had one of those, once. I painted it red and stuck a Mr. Spock 'Live Long and Prosper" badge on the headstock ...then gave it to my nephew. He sold it for spending cash.
looks like some sort of tiesco.
it almost looks like my Stadco Soundmaster
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/iommiSG1970/Soundmaster01.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/iommiSG1970/soundmaster02.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/iommiSG1970/soundmaster03.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/iommiSG1970/soundmaster04.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/iommiSG1970/soundmaster05.jpg
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y282/iommiSG1970/soundmaster06.jpg
looks sorta like it im going to post a new thread about this soon, i need to take pictures of the guts im trying to rewire it but i think i did so,mething wrong and now i can't hear anything coming out of it!
I got a Teisco with exactly this tremolo unit and arm. Even the body is similar to a Teisco... But I don
t think its a Teisco. And, yes, there are hundreds of different and similar looking funny guitars from Japan! Sometimes they are okay, sometimes grabby...I like this old stuff!
Twang cheers!
Ralf Kilauea
http://www.myspace.com/thekilaueas
On some KAY guitars are exactly the same tremolo units and bridges!
Those tailpieces only appeared on Kay guitars towards the end of Kay's existence, when they were using Japanese hardware. By then the Kay name had been acquired by a Chicago-based importer, unused Kay and Harmony parts were sold off to Japan and reassembled with Japanese hardware and electronics.
This guitar is a dead ringer for a student model early 70s Sekova (same factory as Teisco) that's been hanging at a local pawnshop for as far back as I can remember. Foul and depressing.
hey, that's my old guitar!...the pickups are both wired straight to the jack. ohh it's got a '0' fret, forgot to mention that.
pickups and body shape are almost like one of my old Silvertones but that has an inlaid logo on the headstock. Cool by any means .
I have a guitar a lot like this but it has 3 pickups, that look like just like this. It says Premier on the headstock.
It's a Fisher Price, dude!
either don't palm mute or cut off the bolts. whiner.
I always cut off the bolts on the bridge adjustment, then make sure you go over them with sandpaper or a file to smooth them off. Metal slivers are the WORST!
Looking at the U-bracket in front of the nut and the tremolo, as well as the pickups, all which match an old Teisco that I had in my teens, I have little doubt that this is one and the same. However, what name this was marketed under beyond me.
The string spacing is delirious. The low E is off the fretboard and the G and D strings are too close to each other. This is not set up to be played.
Sustain on such guitars is usually brief, like a mandolin, because of low hardware mass at the string ball end.
'nother vote for Teisco
Very cool guitar, definitely Japanese made. The knobs are Teisco, but the guitar could be branded under any name (Sekova, Guyatone, Kent, etc). I'd go for Teisco or Kawai, as they were the main Jap makers. Info on these old Jap imports are limited.
Definitely not Teisco or Guyatone manufacture. Kawai would be my guess for manufacturer but could have been branded many names, Pleasant, Kay, Prestige, Sekova etc. etc.
That guitar looks identical to one I just bought, although the Tremolo arm is missing on it. Mine is a Raven. Hope that helps.
It's pretty much a "Top Twenty" which was sold by Woolworths in the UK 1960s.
I had a violin-shaped red-to-black-burst solid-body that I bought in 1967 or 68 from Boston Music on Boylston St., with those exact pickups and vibrato. It was unbranded, but definitely made by Kawai. That's what they told me at the time, and I confirmed it later. Those pickups were ubiquitous at the time, and the guitars that sported them were definitely marketed under a bunch of different names, or under no name like mine.