{"id":113,"date":"2018-12-18T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/?p=113"},"modified":"2022-01-11T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:24:22","slug":"ngd-1965-telestar-rd2v-gold-foil-pickups-mirror-pickguard-chunky-neck-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/2018\/12\/18\/ngd-1965-telestar-rd2v-gold-foil-pickups-mirror-pickguard-chunky-neck-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"NGD. 1965 Telestar RD2V. gold foil pickups, mirror pickguard, chunky neck, Japan. Offset like a jaguar or bobkat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just picked a piece of history. Quite beautiful to look at.<\/p>\n

Telestar RD2V circa 1965. The huge oversized mirrored pickguard is a real showpiece on this one. Made in Japan of 60s vintage. Maple neck which is very very thick, the thickest neck I’ve ever played.<\/p>\n

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Edit 2022: From Reverb info page:
\n“There is one good way to distinguish a Kawai (or a Kawai\u2013era Teisco) from an original Teisco: look for a string bar on the headstock. Kawai used this feature on a majority of its solid bodies, while original Teisco guitars never used string bars and instead favoured pitched headstocks.”<\/p>\n

Also, I sold this turd off. I didn’t have a tuner and took it to Florida in my van on big road trip. I couldn’t tune it (by ear) and I got so pissed off I wanted to throw it in the (Disney Coronado Springs) Lake.
\nAnyway, I sold it off in Florida to someone who wanted a vintage 60s era instrument and was happy. Sold it for about double what I paid for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just picked a piece of history. Quite beautiful to look at. Telestar RD2V circa 1965. The huge oversized mirrored pickguard is a real showpiece on this one. Made in Japan of 60s vintage. Maple neck which is very very thick, the thickest neck I’ve ever played. \u00a0\u00a0   Edit 2022: From Reverb info page: “There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,2],"tags":[57,36,7,56,6,55,54,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}