The rotary switch on mine was a two position switch, and those buggers are hard to find!! Buyer beware!! Anyway, after fixing it all up I have a great guitar that plays better than it ever did, even straight from the factory!! And to think I played it for so many years, fighting it all the way! Too bad I don’t play out anymore! And then here’s good ol’ Mike Dugan giving it a demo. See, often a refret will involve sanding the neck to work out all the humps and bumps, but the neck inlays on these Teiscos are really thin, and sometimes just wear right off with sanding! Dano is the man, I keep tellin’ y’all! Dano also had an issue with the rotary switch because mine just kept turning round and round. This particular shark fin had two pickups wired out of phase, FROM THE FACTORY!! Too funny! Dano had to sort out a bunch of things with this guitar because of the neglect I had laid upon it’s sharp shoulders, but hey, any good tech can sort it out! This one got a refret, which can be a dicey proposition. 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. Itsa good playing condition, with a very playable neck and low action. Often called a “German carve” on the front, these bodies have a very silky feel and are really comfortable to play. This is a Teisco Del Rey ET-460 from about 1967 or 68. What I think is really cool about these guitars is the carving around the edges of the body.
#Teisco del rey et 460 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. 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.
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.
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