Unlike some Teisco models, the ET-460 had a truss rod, with adjustment accessed at the body end, and many had a zero fret. The overall styling makes them strangely lustworthy in the eyes of many retro-minded players The bolt-on necks of some were carved from planks made with several thin laminates of wood, although some examples had a three-piece maple neck. The guitar’s simple vibrato is some amalgam of a Bigsby and Fender’s Jaguar/Jazzmaster tremolo, with a bridge that looks much like those on the latter models.Īlso distinctive is the ET-460’s aluminum pickguard, with alternating stripes of gloss and buffed-satin finish, an appointment that featured on many guitars of the 1965-’69 era, when this model was made.Īlthough the luscious antique-white finish of the featured ET-460 hides any hint to its timber, the bodies of sunburst ET-460s reveal a wood that can occasionally appear to be alder or mahogany but is most likely one of the more generic species used in many budget Japanese guitars of the era. Teisco Del Ray ET-460 (Image credit: Drew Gansz)
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