Teisco WG-2L

1965-66. 22 frets. Japanese decent. I'm not sure about the wood, not my area of expertise. 2 vol, 2 tone, 2 rocker switches. Two single coils. Has a beautiful turquoise finish with a striped pickguard. Finish is also up the neck and onto the headstock. Has a crappy bridge that I will most certainly replace. You can adjust the height on either end, but not for each sting. Also can't adjust intonation. Has 4 ind. tuners, in the 4+2 configuation. They look great. Neck is on the fat rounded side.

This thing sounds unbelievable. Nice smooth vintage tone. The neck pickup has a totally diff sound from the bridge one, and each pickup has its own vol and tone control as well as an on/off switch, so many tones are possible. I have a Behringer tube amp that has digital effects and I mainly just use echo/reverb/distortion. On the clean channel, it sounds really jazzy and bluesy. It gets some really soulful sounds. Distorted, it sounds kick-ass too.

Strings sit just above the neck. It's really easy to play. I love playing this guitar and have had trouble picking up any guitar besides this one. I have...well, too many. It has a nice balanced feel. The neck and the body are heavier than most Teisco's. I think the finish is beautiful.

I would gig with this bigtime. I always take at least 3 guitars. Hardware is built to last, obviously.

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Been playing since 1965. I own 30 guitars and I'm not going to list them. I would def try to replace this if some lowlife peice of ....stole it. This is one of my favorite guitars. I often swap out "parts" but with this I'm just going to swap out the bridge with one I already have

Made in Japan circa 1963. Solid body, weird pick-up switches (on / off mic 1 2, it says) tone and volume controls for both. Pick ups are gold foil single coils (I'm told. I would have said humbuckers by the sound). Body wood unknown, neck ditto. Finish forty odd years old but not bad. Sort of mellow sunburst, nice metal pickguard. Body style japstrat, bridge style basic, missing trem arm. Came with original hard case. Features are that it has mostly what it needs.

The big surprise. I expected surf twang, but no way. Hard, rocky, bluesy. Played through various amps but for practice and small gigs a Gibson avt50, which gives a clear, hard edge. Not particulary noisy, controls slightly scratchy around the eight mark, OK other wise. Nothing to dislike about the sound at all.

This was all to cock when I got it. The bridge pickup sits higher than the neck, resulting in a 'set up for slide' action - people have jumped to their death off lower buildings than this.
Got the rear p/u lowered, bridge relocated, bar lowered, restrung, a fret job and the truss rod adjusted and what do you know? A low action, fine sounding easy playing guitar. Can't rate it accurately before this but the 'interesting' rear pick up height meant it can't have been easy to get a good set up.

It has survived 40 odd years pretty well. The odd crack and chip as you would expect but everything has survived intact. Good strap buttons and yes it has to be reliable. Pickups look like something off a 50's chevy and have lasted a lot better!

I think the warranty may have expired! Wouldn't even bother looking them up.

Every one should have one once. The costs include a good set up by a good guitar techy. It's light, it plays, it sounds good to me. Try and get the best one you can but make sure you budget for an overhaul. Wish it had the whammy bar! And being shallow, my fave features are the stripey metal pickguard and the pickups.

I bought this guitar around two years ago. This mighty beast dates back to '65, I believe. It hearkens from Japan. The guitar's got 2 single-coil pickups, and 3 Veg-O-Matic tone switches. More '60s kitsch than the "Batusi." And the Teisco hallmark? The aluminum pickguard, of course! Oh, it's bad. It's really, really bad. (In a very good way.) The body's made of a highly expensive "stick le Popsicle." And the action? Higher than Tommy Chong. Wouldn't change it for the world. (Okay, so I had a shim put in the neck socket. Sue me.) The headstock's missing the flashy Del Ray badge, but I'll affix a new one to it sooner or later. The world can wait. Anyway, the tuners are slop. They're the most regrettably bad. The rest, however, is beautiful garbage.

Know the Mummies? Tonal drek! And in a holy, sanctified way. If you wanna make warped, inside-out trash sounds, what're you waiting for? "Fret buzz? Playability? Singing sustain?" You dirty snob. Lemme answer them in order: 1. Yes, thankfully. 2. Is he a rapper? 3. Yeah, like a nightingale...begging for crack at a Jersey subway. Okay, lemme tell it to you straight: It sounds like a Tele and Satan made love. Put it on 10. Play "Stronger Than Dirt." I dare you!

*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA* Oh. Sorry. Well, it's a cut above the Soviet guitars. Those motherland mirthmakers are "a little too garage." The Reds "outshined" the Japanese, for sure. Get Lenin to play one of those gurglesticks and he'd apologize for communism pretty quick. Anyway, if you're worried about fickle this and get-a-life that, buy a PRS.

In the event of a nuclear explosion, all that'll remain will be the roaches...and this guitar. Also, beware the guitar's schematic -- it's wired like a Cambodian shortwave radio. Scratchy Pol Pots, indeed.

The wondrous Teisco name lives on under Kawai of Japan. I don't speak Japanese -- and just barely English -- so customer support ain't gonna happen. God bless those fine people, though!

Unless you wanna go Red and buy a Lenin log, it rarely gets trashier than one of these. If you like Hound Dog, the Sonics, or the Mummies, the buck stops here. If a Paul Reed Smith held an expensive banquet, my Teisco'd be the ill-mannered guest who farted loud with mouth agape and a stupor-dumb stare. Make sure to get a Teisco amp, too. Buy a Russian wah. Pride yourself in peeing on quality. It's a lovely way of life.