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So my uncle surprised me with this little gem at the family Thanksgiving gathering Thursday. He found it at a pawn shop for $20 and was going to fix it up and flip it, but decided to pass it my way instead. It's a Teisco-made Decca with a comically small body, very fat mahogany neck, and a single gold foil pickup in that wonderful sweet spot between the neck and middle position. I'm loving it so far. It's a 24.75 inch scale with decent sized frets and a pretty flat radius. Not quite Danelectro flat, but it's close. The pickup sounds awesome. Kind of marries my favorite tonal qualities of lipstick pickups with P90s and throws in a healthy dose of microphonic trashy-ness. I still need to do a bit of work on the nut, the frets, and the electronics, but it's playing alright at the moment. I'll try to get some sort of demo recorded once I get everything sorted out.





And a size comparison next to a Les Paul

What a great find for $20! Cool uncle, haha.

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Wow, nice! (not much else to add, haha) *looks mesmerized at picture while a drip of drool falls from left mouth corner*

I was about to say, those things are great for playing slide. Then I noticed the slide sitting atop the awesome amp.

That Les Paul is awesome... very beautiful.

I've got one almost exactly like that (with more of an offset body shape.) Great little guitars, and yeah, those goldfoils really do have something very unique going on. Cool stuff!

And yeah, awesome Les Paul!

What great pick up placement. Looks like a great sized guitar for my gf, may need to keep an eye out esp for a price like that, damn.

$20?!?!?! Oh the envy....

Psyre wrote:What great pick up placement. Looks like a great sized guitar for my gf, may need to keep an eye out esp for a price like that, damn.

The necks on these are like baseball bats, fyi.

kosta wrote:

Psyre wrote:What great pick up placement. Looks like a great sized guitar for my gf, may need to keep an eye out esp for a price like that, damn.

The necks on these are like baseball bats, fyi.

This guitar just keeps getting better.

Yeah, they're super comfy for bashing around on. Necks are bound too even!

I want this.

bitchin short scale, always wonder how those kind of pickups behave whenever i see em