Vintage 60’s Teisco Silvertone 319.14559 Hollowbody Electric Guitar

Description

A completely stock, deluxe guitar design from the mid 1960’s Japanese import boom!

A cool guitar in the clean condition! superb recording and live tone!

Includes original case!

Welcome and thanks for looking. Here you have a rare opportunity to purchase a super nice Vintage 1960’S Original Silvertone Model 319.14559 Thinline Hollow Body Guitar in Beautiful Sunburst Finish. The condition of the guitar is very good to excellent for its age. All body binding in excellent condition. Very minor scratches, with no dings and a few minor hairline cracks or they might just be scratches to the finish, I can not entirely determine which, I attached pictures of it, the upper neck on the side has a little bit of wear as seen in the photos, also the tuning knob for the b string is a little tough at times, and the plastic casing around the pickup is cracked as seen in pictures, all damage is photographed it is minor and please give it a good look and ask any questions you may have before purchase!

The guitar is all original and working properly. It has original pickups, one volume, one tone, and one 3 position switch that all work smoothly and properly. The neck is straight and the action is great and easily adjusted. Intonation is right on. The guitar has 20 frets that show average wear but plenty of life left. The scale is 23.75″. The tuners are original and work smoothly. Thin line design…only 1.5 inches thick. Light weight at 4.5 pounds. Super sounding and playing guitar. Quite rare.
Not many of these floating around especially in the condition found here. Comes with the original case.

These were sold as part of a full catalog line of instruments under the Silvertone name through Sears catalogs with some of the line that were made in Japan and some that came from companies like Harmony, Supro, Danelectro, and Kay. When this wave of new Japanese guitars hit the US it spelled certain disaster for the future of budget American made instruments from these US companies and by the early 70’s they were all folding. But these cool and wacky early Japanese imports occupy a certain space in my heart I cannot ignore. The sound of many of them is raw and nasty in all the right ways, but they have a lot to offer someone in terms of high quality tone. They did things in their designs that the Fender and Gibson brands never would have tried and had a certain Si-Fi Modernist Futurism to the lines, look, and vibe of their instruments. But in examples like this one they achieved pretty amazing results in keeping a close eye on US pickup design and construction while doing their best to make a very decent product.