If you read the 'Timeline' page then you should be able to make a rough guess. Q: The serial number on my guitar/amp is ? when was it made?Ī: Identifying the exact age is usually impossible - no records were kept of serial numbers and manufacture dates. Also bear in mind that your guitar may have been modified at some stage in its life.

All I know is here on the website if you look hard enough. Some exceptions are pickups, pickguards, logos and headstocks. This has, in most cases, nothing to do with a particular year but more to do with what happened to be to hand at the time. What is it?Ī: If it looks like a ? it almost certainly is a ? Because the factory used to change the hardware at a whim there will be slight variations. Q: I have a guitar which looks like a ? model but it's a little different. If that changes in the future I'll say so on here.Ī: According to various sources, some from Japan, the best guess is tey (as in 'hey!') - sco. The site is currently a time capsule, i.e.

Q: If I can't email you anymore how do I contact you if I have info you might want to put on the website?Ī: You can't. However, the FAQs below should offer some help. Sorry, but please don't try to email me as I just don't have time to respond to the dozens of emails I get each day. CO, Ltd who's fantastic research I've referenced quite a lot for source material, especially on the 'Timeline' page. I would also like to credit writers Michael Wright in the USA and Paul Day in the UK and the Kawai musical instruments Mfg. Many of the photos that are on the site come from numerous other online sources and I'd like to apologise now to the original owners for any photos that I've mis-credited or not credited at all! I hope you don't mind and enter into the spirit of this site. I found out (eventually!) that it's an SS-4L made some time in the early/mid 60s. I created this site out of frustration at not being able to identify the model of my first Teisco despite my best online and off-line efforts. This site is dedicated to all you guitarists out there who ever owned an old Japanese Teisco guitar, especially those of you who started out with one and still have it today. Welcome to the unofficial home of vintage Teisco guitars!

Teisco guitar identification