Tags: 60's, 70's, chicago, double cutaway, dual p90s, gibson, glued neck, guitar, les paul, les paul junior, rare, seventies, sixties, univox, vintage

The Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company. Teisco, Founded by Hawaiian guitarist Atswo Kaneko and electronic engineer Doryu Matsuda in 1946, built guitars under several brand names including Teisco, Silvertone and Kent to name a few.

They were too distributed out of Chicago and supplied to Sears & Roebuck. The Teisco factory built many of the Japanese copies in the 60′s and 70′s.

This dude is a total unknown no namer – have seen it once before – but it more than likely came out of the the Teisco factory. Dual single-coil pickups and maybe a whammy. Nice sounding little lightweight guitar, again, a good one for the Girl-ette’s.

Previous owners include Sonny Liston. Hahaha

Tags: 60's, 70's, dual single-coil pickups, fender, guitar, japan, lightweight, rare, seventies, sixties, stratocaster, teisco, telecaster, vintage

Another one for hanging on the wall at the shop. I stole this from my father many years ago. He bought the sucker from new. Unbelievable.

Anyway, it’s a ’75 TK-120, large bodied, dreadnought-esque acoustic, with a cool adjustable bridge and a cool triple-pronged-horn headstock.

Takeharu guitars ran from ’73 to ’79 and were the result of a collaboration between Yamamoto Takeharu and the Kizo Suzuki Violin Company.

Takeharu is a Japanese guitar player and composer who played a large part in the development of popular music in Japan, along with his teacher and trainer Masao Koga, the original pioneer of popular music in Japan.

Tags: 60's, 70's, acoustic, fender, gibson, guitar, japan, martin, masao koga, rare, seventies, sixties, takeharu, vintage, yamamoto takeharu

This Strat knock-off sounds better than most new cheap Fenders I’ve heard. Kent guitars didn’t make it out of the 60′s. I reckon this one is pretty late on, probably a ’69.

Another lawsuit model. Another exact copy. Its really weighty – possibly the heaviest solid body I have ever held.

Nice big tone. Classic Strat sound. Out for Refurb and Restoration (R&R)

Tags: 60's, 70's, blues, electric, fender, guitar, harmony, japan, kay, kent, rare, recording, seventies, single-coil pickups, sixties, strat, stratocaster, vintage, whammy