Teisco Fender Bass VI copy

This is one of those cheesy 60's companies in Japan who pressed out very tacky looking basses and guitars. I am guessing it was a 1964 model (Sience it seems everyone who played a Teisco in the 60's had a 64 model). It had 21 frets (Looked like little bars of nickel silver pressed into the neck more than frets), 4-strings, 2 double magnet Teico Del-Raybuckers, did they even make active basses in the sixties, body and neck is mahogany, rosewood fingerboard, opaque cherry red finish, very thin Fender Bass VI baritone body shape, non saddle metal bridge with a chrome cover the size of a George Forman grill, tuners with these funny little wiggly knobs, I'm guessing a 30" scale length, and I bought a Kahler tremelo for an extra $20.00 with it (Behold, soon it will be the first Super-Jaguar style guitar). The Wiring is strange for a bass, 2 cheezy looking yellowed buttons to turn the individual pickups on and off, 2 cheezy yellowed knobs with chrome inserts for volume and tone, and a striped aluminum 1/2 Jazzmaster pickgaurd with a flat black painted, Lower corner mosrite shaped, aluminum control plate.

I never heard how it sounded because the pots were too grungy, the bridge had no saddles, and It was in pieces when I got it. The new changes in sound when I transform it into a guitar will be when I put a Seymour duncan invader in the neck and bridge positions, a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder Jaguar in the middle, individual slide selector switches for each pickup, push/pull coil taps, seperate rhythym circut that operates the all three pickups, and a Black ice AND tone control for the lead circut, a lead volume, and a master volume not on a controll plate next to the bridge pickup, and a push/pull strangle switch on the volume pot. All installed onto three black plated stock Fender Jaguar replacement control plates, and a custom black pearloid pickgaurd with a black plated strat style jack at an angle to the lower treble side of the bridge.

Had no action when i got it, the damn thing had no bridge saddles on it. The pickups looked cool to begin with but i soon turned the supposed polepieces around upside down to turn them into bladepieces (Just 1 little bar down the center of the pickup). The pickups will look even better when I plate the magnets, I am going to put them in a Jag-Stang based bass I am building for a friend. As for the neck, I planed off the fingerboard into little chunks of rosewood, removed the trussrod and tuners, then sanded off all the cracking and chipping paint removing the Teisco Del-Ray logo as well which is now a keepsake in my toolbox. Then I shortended the neck, put a reverse banana headstock on it made out of plywood (shame I know but it's cheap and nobody's done it before). Then came the body, I removed all the paint, chopped off the body into a Jaguar shape but with a little deeper waist on the bass side, routed it for an H/S/H configuration with all the essential controls, and filled in the cavitie between where the end of the volume/tone/black-ice control plate ends and before where the strat output jack begins. I am going to stain the body teal green transparent to show off the lovely mahogany underneath.

It was flimsy when I got it, with cracked paint, major chips, cracked pickup magnet, barely moving tuners, rusty bridge cover, corroded bridge, corrosion on the aluminum pickgaurd, not much gloss left on the paint, yellowed plastc that cracks easily, and damaged wood. Eiother the last owner abused it or it was flimsy. After I am throught this thing will stand an A-Bomb with only a few minor scratches.

Ony goto no know no Japanesia ongoto to speako. Outo buisnesso tokoto.

Sucks as a bass but sience I am making it into my dream guitar (Not a bass)I am going to kill all who try to take it from me.