

This still had the old, elongated Strat head. Still available was the Harp-8, an 8-string console with two pickups and some sort of electronics controlled by four floor pedals. Pickguards were the new striped metal affairs introduced the year before, extending from above the strings down through the lower bout control area. Ironically Kawai, the owners of Teisco at this point, also produced guitars under their own name and a few designs borrowed heavily from Teisco. The easiest way to search for Teisco guitars on eBay is to search by the brand and type of guitar you are interested in, followed by the year it was manufactured, if this is an important selling point. All were double cutaways, but gone were any traces of the single cuts of yore. It's helpful to know that Teisco exported to both the United States and the United Kingdom under different brand names. The company had been importing guitars to the USA since the late 50s, but in early 1964, Teisco guitars started to really flood the American market. Teisco was probably the most popular Japanese guitar name back in the 60s. Tremolo Not all Teisco guitars came with a tremolo, but they can be. The TRG-1 was a slightly more asymmetrical variant of the WG body style, with offset double cutaways and offset waists. Along side the Vegas 40 in the Japanese catalog but not the Teisco Del Rey was the Vegas 66, presumably named for the year.
