1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor

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1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor

The late Hound Dog Taylor made this Teisco Beltone solid body famous, and was the very first artist on now-famous Alligator records, back in 1971. He also had six fingers on each hand, but I don't think that had anything to do with his name or guitar skills! The Beltone brand circulated through the instrument manufactures of Chicago before finding its way to the headstocks of Kawai/Teisco built instruments in the late 1960's. The Beltone features a maple body with set-in neck, four single-coil pickups with individual on/off switches, chrome pickguards a half inch thick that housed all the electronic components, and a matching chrome tuner-plate. The instrument has a primitive tremolo unit which we have bypassed to help make the guitar play in tune, and features a Gumby-esque take on fender's headstock shape. Bound ebony fingerboard, 24.5" scale, 1-11/16" nut. The guitar's tailpiece cover is missing, but so was Hound Dog's. Changed tuners (a good thing), and trem-arm tip. Everything works well, and the guitar had a plethora of cool voices - thanks to all those individually switched pickups.
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1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor
  • 1960's Teisco Beltone Hound Dog Taylor

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