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 scavenging ...

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 seller sa...

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 David Gilm...

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=wap...

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=wap...

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 the...

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 be...

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

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 t...

Garth wrote: Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:13 pm
look i'm a guitar

Ha Ha I know! What I love is that having cut out the body, (apparently with a hand held fret saw), he/she went..." Yup, that's about what I wanted" and carried on!
GENIUS!..... of a sort.