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When I was younger I knew about three other guys who swore by these guitars! They are real road warriors and build well. I’m a total sucker for blue guitars, although when I look around the studio I have a ton of red guitars!! Anyway, the blue on these is a really cool metallic color and holds up rather well. They are very light, but the necks are slightly heavy so that strap button placement on the neck is a neat way to balance it all out. Often called a “German carve” on the front, these bodies have a very silky feel and are really comfortable to play. What I think is really cool about these guitars is the carving around the edges of the body.
#1965 teisco del rey guitars serial#
Tricky!!!Īll of these Teisco guitars had a nameplate or sticker on them that identified the model and serial number, but mine has fallen off! I suppose a lot of them have over the years.
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It’s probably a good way to date the guitar!! In fact, if you take the pickups apart (you have to be a nut like yours truly), you’ll notice that even the construction of the pickups changed, even though they looked the same from the outside. Most of the guys I knew bought these for the awesome sounding pickups, which usually read out in the 7k range, but curiously, the pickups read out weaker as the guitars got close to the end of their run, like the guitars from the later 60s. I would see these all the time hanging in second hand stores and pawn shops. These shark fins were around during the same time span as the famous Spectrum 5, but for whatever reason this guitar here is just so much more plentiful. Source: Michael Wright, Guitar Stories, Volume One.Teisco must have sold a boatload of these guitars in the 60s, because this same guitar was also branded as a SIlvertone in Sears catalogs. Updated information from noted researcher Michael Wright has confirmed that certain Heit Deluxe models share similarities with Teisco Del Rey guitars, leading to the conclusion that Teisco/Kawai built many of the models for the Heit/Heit Deluxe brand name. However, it is possible that other importers distributed this brand as well. The Heit and Heit Deluxe trademark was a brand name applied to guitars imported into the U.S. Instruments previously produced in Japan during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Likewise, they were imported in the U.K under such labels as Arbiter, Sonatone, Audition, Kay and Top Twenty. under several brand names including Silvertone, Kent, Beltone, Duke, Encore, Heit Deluxe, Jedson, Kimberly, Kingston, Lyle, Norma, Tulio and World Teisco.
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Teisco guitars were also imported in the U.S. Teisco guitars were imported to the United States since 1959 or early 1960, and then re-badged as "Teisco Del Rey" after 1964. It has a sunburst finish to the body, and a bolt on neck Heit Deluxe guitars were made in Japan by Teisco during the sixties and early seventies and imported to New York.
#1965 teisco del rey guitars code#
2 ON/OFF PICKUPS SWITCHES NECK STRAIGHT FRETS ARE GOODVERY PLAYABLE GUITAR GOOD SOUND!!! RARE! code VA765 VINTAGE HEIT DELUXE 2 PICKUPS ARCHTOP HOLLOW BODY FLOATING ADJUSTABLE BRIDGE TREMELO TAILPIECE WITH THE ARM***.