Under the top edge of the plate was a piece of grayish-green foam that muted the strings. The bridge/tailpiece was under a plate that attached with a single screw. The 21-fret rosewood fretboard was shown with rectangular position markers along the bass side and double blocks (one along the treble side) at the 12th fret. The headstock has an oversized silhouette that exudes an Egyptian-pharaoh vibe, and the crown on the logo plate alludes to the вЂњDel ReyвЂќ (Spanish for вЂњof the kingвЂќ) portion of the name. One of the more-seen Teisco Del Rey basses thumped in garages across the country was the solidbody EB-200, a simple, short-scale instrument with practical (and interesting) aesthetic features. market, changed the brand name to Teisco Del Rey. Which means, of course, that an untold number of American teenagers played instruments like these.Дuring that era, Teisco instruments were imported from Japan by Westheimer Sales, a distributor that, for the U.S. Teisco Del Rey basses from the 1960s are exemplary of the Japanese-made instruments that swept into the American market like a tsunami during the вЂњguitar boomвЂќ вЂ“ and were the primary contributor to the demise of AmericaвЂ™s budget-guitar industry. Please email me at if you know what model this is.Two of the finishes offered on the EP-200B, circa 1966. I have to be honest, I donвЂ™t know what model this guitar is so I took 3 guesses. I hope that helps if youвЂ™re on the fence about buying one of these. This may not be your forever or all the time guitar but it will be the one you pull out when you wanna get weird and make some noise. Again, donвЂ™t give this to your kid, unless you want them to grow up to play EDM.

This thing feels super small, light, and fun to play. It sounds like a guitar who needs a drummer who plays on some old metal trash lids. The sound of this guitar has that indescribable вЂњpawn shopвЂќ characteristic. The pickups are really low output so you may want to run a boost pedal on the front of your signal chain just to get the volume up to normal levels. ItвЂ™s actually plywood and that sweet sunburst finish is actually hiding the layers. The body looks pretty nice at first, but take off the pickguard. ItвЂ™s a certainly a cool, old trashy guitar for that certain sound. ItвЂ™s definitely a cool little guitar but itвЂ™s temperamental and requires skills to make it playable and keep it in that condition. You should be able to resell it $100-150 bucks easy, unless theyвЂ™ve read this blog, then they will probably try to talk you down to $80. If you can find one of these things for $80 or less in playable shape, buy it. Plenty of issues left with this guitar, namely it wonвЂ™t stay in tune and it wonвЂ™t intonate properly

New strings and gave it a cleaning all over that would make a hoarder cringe.

Clean the volume and tone pots with Deoxit to get rid of that scratchy pot sound.

The nut had been cut too deep on the G string so I repaired it with baking soda and super glue and recut the nut.

018вЂі at the 7th fret with a capo on the first fret and the string held down at the 17th fret.

Set the truss rod properly, measuring.

At which point I figured out that the вЂњRosewoodвЂќ fret board was just painted on, because I actually sanded off some вЂњRosewoodвЂќвЂ¦so I touched up the fretboard with brown and black Sharpie.

Filed down the fret sprout and leveled the frets.

I removed the saddle screws, marked the body where the screws sat, then drilled shallow holes 1/4вЂі into the body of the guitar so that the saddle height screws could be screwed in deeper and not stick up so high.

The saddle screws would poke me in the hand when I palm muted.

First off it had super high action so I lowered the saddle to the lowest height.

Teisco guitar metal pickguard