For Sale: Rare, Oddly Shaped Japanese Guitars

During their prime in the ’50s and ’60s, Teisco guitars weren’t necessarily high-end objects of lust. But the company packaged their instruments in weird form factors or add odd features (extra knobs and pickup bars), which made them appealing.

The Teisco Del Rey EV-3T is one of those guitars falling in the weird form factor setting. Said to produce a sound in line with the lo-fi surf rock aesthetic, an EV-3T is available on Etsy for $US600. Shred in style. [Etsy, Wikipedia]

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    Sam

    Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    Heh, article fail; according to your own source the “…Del Rey EV-3T…” is “…a clone of Vox Phantom…”

    That fact in itself means that the EV-3T isnt unique or unusual. And at that, the only thing that IS unusual about the Phantom/EV-3T is it’s shape, which isn’t really any more radical than a Gibson Firebird.

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      Brody

      Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 5:28 PM

      not to mention these guitars are most often poorly built.

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    Charles

    Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 12:17 AM

    Hmm yeah they can kinda suck. My friend bought a Teisco Strat-esque thing and it looks badasss and doesn’t play too badly, but the pickups are unbelievably microphonic. You can’t turn the amp up louder than… obviously subjective, but like 1 on his Orange 50W head. Meh. Gimme more guitar stuff, it’s fun.

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    Jordi

    Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 12:16 PM

    This was exactly my first guitar the first electric guitar I ever bought, I was 15 years old, I am 30 now, I bought it at a pawn shop for $35 later I sold it for the same price to save money to buy a strat! great memories I thought it was cool and I actually recorded my first demo with it, but the action wasn’t very good.

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