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#Teisco del rey ep 90t professional#
This really was striving to be a professional model! These tuners work well too. You know, Kawai was using laminate necks on almost all their guitars during this period, but here we see solid construction. I guess they are kinda related in a sense. There are a few guitars with this wavy headstock, and sometimes people refer to them as “cousins”.
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And thankfully, it’s not broken! These headstocks usually always have that longer “horn” snapped off. One of the cooler headstocks to ever appear on a Teisco guitar, it has a wonderful carve and the craftsmen took their time to make these. The last cool feature of this model is the headstock. These guitars were billed as “professional” models in their day, and were the most expensive Teisco hollowbody guitars in the 1969 Bennet Brother’s catalog, except for the 12 string model. These EP11T guitars were only made for a year or two, and did appear in a Sears catalog, because this one (even thought the sticker is gone) was labeled as a Silvertone. Hints of birdseye are all over the place! This Teisco was made by Kawai, as were all Teisco guitars starting in 1968. And check out that beautiful figuring in the wood. It has really good acoustic tones, and that just enhances the electrified sound. You’d think that big bottom would contribute to a bassy sound, but this guitar sounds snappy, and loud.
#Teisco del rey ep 90t full#
And one aspect you’d miss unless you held one of these in your hands is that the body is a full 2.5″ deep! In comparison, most of the Teisco hollows from this era had a body depth of 1.5″ or thinner. Okay, so you have this big body and the pickups are squeezed into that tiny area near the neck, so as you can imagine this guitar can feel a little strange to play. There was also a 12 string variation of this guitar! This guitar got a big ‘ol butt! Ha!! Check out that lower end, that’s just some serious oversized acoustics happening in that area! One of the more interesting hollow designs from the late 60s Teisco, the EP 11 T was just a big ‘ol biggie, and shared some of the same dimensions and construction as the more famous Teisco Firebird.