of guitar-playing age in the 1960s and couldn’t afford a Gibson or Fender, chances are one of the offerings from the Japanese company Teisco captured your attention — and your budget. In fact, if you came of guitar-playing age in the ’70s, there’s a strong possibility that you started on a used Teisco, a guitar that would have been cheap enough for your parents to write off if your interest in guitar failed to take hold. Despite their budget prices, many of Teisco’s offerings were entirely playable and sounded cool, too. Take the circa-1966 Teisco Del Ray ET-460 featured here. It had enough body points, pickups and switches to excite
