Cheap Obscure Guitars That Dont Suck?- Teisco Voletta & Kay E100

Another in the series but today looking at 2 guitars both share family one from the 60s built in Japan and the other from the 70s built in Taiwan
Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction to the brand
00:28 Link info
00:45 Teisco Voletta
01:20 Kay E100
01:47 The tuners
02:29 More about the guitars
03:59 Clever trussrod design
04:55 E100 Clean tone front of pup
05:13 E100 Clean tone rear of pup
05:34 Voletta clean neck pup
05:50 Voletta clean both pups
06:06 Voletta clean bridge pup
06:28 E100 with distortion
06:47 Voletta with distortion
07:30 Voletta gentle jam
08:29 E100 gentle jam
09:06 Conclusion and fretboard woes
09:30 B string probs and bridge issues
Wiki Link with interesting links to catalogues and history etc
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teisco#....

[@darwinsaye]

My first electric guitar was that exact same Kay, but with two pickups. Just so you know, Mine was labelled Japan, but I bought it brand new in 1979 or 1980. Not sure when they stopped making them, but a lot of people automatically assume all these kinds of Japanese guitars were all late 60s to early 70s, but they went until quite a bit later.

[@stevegroves]

Makes sense, I think there was a change over from Japan from late 60s ithrough the 70s but probably took some time, with some models still being made in japan for much longer.

[@Guitarin90seconds]

Nicely done! 🙏🙏

[@stevegroves]

Thank you! :)

[@steviemac8075]

Thanks 🙏 very informative 👍🏻

[@stevegroves]

Thank you!

[@mikebuckingham8958]

i started off with a teisco wish i could find one now just for old time sakes

[@stevegroves]

They really do have something thats for sure, they are out there but getting less common for any sensible price. Hope you find one :)

[@SantanaSasquatch]

Having an issue with the e100, the action is unplayably high but the strings are buzzing off the pickup when playing high? What the heck do I do? The pickup is on top of the pickup so it’s impossible to lower it

[@stevegroves]

Only cure that works for me with a same issue on other guitars is to cut cardboard shims that neatly fit the neck joint, that will raise the neck towards the strings rather than getting the strings down to the frets. Might take a couple of goes to get it just right but this does work. Good luck!

[@SantanaSasquatch]

@@stevegroves Hi Steve, so I fixed this today, what I did was cut out a hole in the pickguard to fit the pickup and then slotted and glued two small blocks of wood either side of the already routed parts of the guitar. I then screwed the pickup using a screw and spring into the wood pieces. Then put the pickguard back on, the pickup height is no longer an issue!

[@stevegroves]

@@SantanaSasquatch Cool! Well done, glad you fixed it. hope you have a lot of fun with your guitar! :)

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Don’t see a truss rod

[@stevegroves]

They are quite unique as the truss rod adjustment is from the base of the neck and not from under a cover at the headstock end. You might just make out the recess above the neck pups,