Members Joranges Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 Anyone got any ideas/info? What should I look out for in a '68 Silvertone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A_Gitarman Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 I had a 3-pickup version of that as my very first electric! We 'rescued' it from the trash. Someone has tossed it out b/c it was missing the bridge & my father fashioned a replacement out of a piece of brass tubing (& I've been modding guitars ever since ). You sure that it's a Silvertone? Looks more like a kay/harmony/teisco (or just about any other store brand of the era) to me. As I recall, mine was labeled a Harmony. P.S. This is a '68 Silvertone: http://harmony.demont.net/model.php?id=693 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EJD Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 Sure looks nice. Can't say what it is though, not a Silvertone expert. All I can say is, for {censored}'s sake, avoid the modern ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A_Gitarman Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 Found this. That guitar was definitely made by Teisco... and could in fact be labeled Silvertone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wyatt Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 I had a 3-pickup version of that as my very first electric! We 'rescued' it from the trash. Someone has tossed it out b/c it was missing the bridge & my father fashioned a replacement out of a piece of brass tubing (& I've been modding guitars ever since ). You sure that it's a Silvertone? Looks more like a kay/harmony/teisco (or just about any other store brand of the era) to me. As I recall, mine was labeled a Harmony. P.S. This is a '68 Silvertone: http://harmony.demont.net/model.php?id=693 Kay, Harmony, Danelectro and Teisco all built Silvertones (Sears store brand) and lots of other store brands, depending on era or model. Sometimes they even outsourced the contract to one of the other companies (at on time Danelectro hired Harmony to build amps for Sear to sell as Silvertones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A_Gitarman Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 Kay, Harmony, Danelectro and Teisco all built Silvertones (Sears store brand) and lots of other store brands, depending on era or model. Sometimes they even outsourced the contract to one of the other companies (at on time Danelectro hired Harmony to build amps for Sear to sell as Silvertones). yeah... figured that one out just now It's just that over nearly 30 years of playing these infernal things, I had never seen a Teisco-made Silvertone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wyatt Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 yeah... figured that one out just now It's just that over nearly 30 years of playing these infernal things, I had never seen a Teisco-made Silvertone. They took over the student and store brand guitar business around the mid-'60's. Even non-store U.S. brands like Kay and Harmony eventually turned to Teisco and other overseas builders to make their guitars in their final years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzztone Posted November 16, 2009 Members Share Posted November 16, 2009 It looks like a 2 pickup version of the Silvertone 1405 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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