You COULDN’T HEAR a session coming out of L.A. Oh, by the way, do yourself a favour and catch up with Henry Kaiser.ĪNY musician (who’s actually a WORKING musician) SHOULD know about how important GLENN CAMPBELL was in MOST of the 60’s west coast sessions AS an ‘ax man for hire’ in the WRECKING CREW with HAL BLAINE/JIM GORDON – LARRY KNECHTEL/LEON RUSSEL – CAROL KAYE etc… etc… But sometimes you catch a really big one, and relling it in is so much fun! As a customer once stated, it is like fishing, catch and release. Once I get them, I start looking for the next and the initial romantic attraction wanes.
Cool things come and go every month, but this one was worth a mention for sure. So goes the lifetime obsession of guitar collecting. But wait… this one was a plexi Spectrum!! What the hell? Apparently they made 100 or so in Japan (where Henry got it earlier in the decade) so I’m guessing not many – if any other than this one – ever made it across the pond. Yes, a Teisco Spectrum is always in the top ten in my “trade-for” list. What did Henry have to trade? A Teisco Spectrum. He saw an older article from the My Rare Guitars website that circled around a particularly wierd guitar and was interested in trading something for it. The profile is also thicker in cross section, and the radius is flatter, more consistent, the frets are bigger, and rather than using Rosewood for the fretboard, or painting it (giving the major problem of the H-803 and H-804's neck), they decided to use a "baked maple" fretboard to give it the Rosewood appearance, either htat or they dyed it black/brown on examples like my white 2813 above.Vintage 1960's Teisco Plexi Spectrum 5 GuitarĪ while back I got an email from one of the worlds best “out there” guitar players – Henry Kaiser. Also, the zero fret has been eliminated using a proper Fender style nut.
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It also attaches with a full sized, blank, neckplate with a plastic "spacer" between the body and the neck joint. The tuning machines are "F-Mount", and most likely the same as Ping-Brand aftermarket Allparts budget tuners - which are much better quality than the six-on-a-plate found on the H-804/803/802/801. It has a wider heel than the original H-802/804 models, no truss rod adjustment at the body end, instead it's accessed at the headstock end like a CBS era Fender guitar.
The neck on these guitars is actually pretty much the same neck as found on the Harmony H-80T Stratocaster copy guitars. Other than that, the only other significant identifier that these are the same guitar is because despite the headstock relabel, they have a regular Harmony EST 1892 neckplate of the skinner H-804 variety. Actually, if you scrape off the paint over the headstock you will sometimes find a "Harmony EST 1892" waterslide in gold under the red repaint and Rogue waterslide decals. These guitars are easily identified because the red finish flakes off easily under heavy playing, as it's usually just a thin coat of red paint over the older black paint job used for the Sears/J.C.
Penney catalog except minus the case, strap, cable, and mini amp. They sold at $99.99 USD just like the same guitar under the Harmony brand did in the J.C. These are pretty much the same guitar as the late 1990's versions. Sometime around 1999, Harmony did one last round of H-804 to use up stock by painting these in a thin coat of red paint and labeling them with the "Rogue" brand for the Musician's Friend catalog.