Silvertone Teisco-Style 4-Pickup Model

made in the 1960s by the Silvertone co. in Japan. It strikingly similar to some Teiscos i have seen... Like a startocaster and an SG started smoking crack, had sex, and had a love child... an interesting conglomeration. it has 4 (yes, 4) large, retangular clunker single coils that act like microphones on speed. they are turned on and off by 4 on/off switches, in any order. it has a weird 2-way switch for ryhtm/solo that looks alot like a toilet flusher... Tremolo reminiscent of a Bigsby, works very nicely. im pretty sure the wood is mahogany...

it works wonderfully, just the way it acts the minute i plug it in, it suits me perfectly... i like guitars with a lot of low end, and those psycho single coils have more bottom end than Roseanna Barr on a binging spree. But it is also extremely bright and twangy, also. And i think this guitar and my BigMuff pedal are in love, the two of them combined gets an EXTREMELY nice over-the-top Pumpkins-ish "Hello Kitty Kat"/"Today" sound that none of my guitars can get that close to... all of this and very little feedback. not bad for a 40 year old jazz guitar...

setting the action up was HELL. after the first month of having this guitat i was ready to pawn it, it was so annoying... but, im rather glad i took it to a tech to have the neck worked on, it made all the difference... some of the frets were so worn that they didnt do anything, and the neck was badly bowed, even though that was just a trussrod problem. Now the neck is wonderfully ideal, given the size of my hands (huge). the pickups are great, the bridge is eh a little rattly (as in loose screws rattling while playing) but it still works and its fixable, im just lazy... but i think someone mustve spilled their beer on it in '66 or sometime around then... the insides were completely rusted. most of it sanded off, but the volume and tone knobs were so badly damaged by oxidation that i had to have them replaced. But, all this is rememdied now... so it gets a 7

ive seen blocks of concrete that were more susceptible to abuse...

i suppose i COULD take this to Sears (where it actually DID emerge from in 1963), but they probably wouldnt think i was very funny

ive been goin at it for about 2 and a half years now. if it were stolen (as i have said in my Teisco reviews) i would track down the thieving sonofa bitch, take the guitar and brutalize him with it until he was a bloody bag of broken bones :-D simply for the fact that the guitar could take the abuse.