Can someone identify this old guitar?

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Sorry I don't have any pictures. I was at a small party with some coworkers tonight and I was roaming around the back of my supervisors basement and found this old, extremely beat up guitar.

It was a hollow body guitar (instead of 2 F shape holes, they were like this: <> except vertical), and the headstock was more of a Fender shaped one. The headstock said "PAN" and above it was a small picture of a creature with hoofed legs, kind of like a devil or something, and it was playing I'm guessing a pan flute or something.

Apparently it was her brother's old guitar and it still works. It looks like the guy took nail polish to it at one point...the pickups are coloured blue, shit coloured all over where the whammy would go, even on the finish. Pretty ugly. The bottom of the guitar was busted up too...the back of the guitar at the bottom was separated as the trim (I don't know a better word for it) was missing in big chunks or hanging half on. All the electronics seemed to be in place, I'm not sure if it all works though. There was also a switch (kind of like Gibsons, but on the opposite side) that was pretty loose.

On the bottom of the neck at the back it said "adjustable steel neck" and it was made in Japan (probably just a cheap Japanese guitar...?) and the serial number was 0087764 (not sure about the last two digits there).

Can anyone tell me anything about this guitar...and it may or may not be worth it, but how much would it cost to fix something like that? (The busted bottom part).
 
It sounds like you may have stumbled onto an old Electra import. Way back in the mid 60s untill about the mid 70s Electra imported thousands of guitars form Japan, names like Tiesco, Checkmate and Truetone were pretty common back then. Many of them were cheaply made (to sell cheap to every 14 year old rock star wanna be) but some of them had some pretty hot pickups. In fact quite a few slide players still swear by the old Tiesco pups, put on a different guitar of course. If it's as rough as you say, it would cost more than it is worth to repair it (your description sounds like there is some extensive damage.) Your best bet would be to offer her a few bucks for it and salvage the pups, if they are the hot Tiescos they could be worth up to $100 each, if they will clean up. I gave a kid $10 for his dads old guitar a couple of years ago (a Tiesco Del Ray) put the machines off one which I had bought for parts on it, cleaned it up and buffed out most of the scratches, I've turned down $200 for it, it's a killer slide and light as a feather...hmmm... think I'll keep it!
 
Thanks. I'm just curious, because I think I have a problem where I take old shit and like to fix it, ha...

Now I'm not really a guitar player, although I do play. The pickups (I suck in terms of describing this stuff) were big...kinda of like humbuckers, they were a silver colour and one side had all screws and the other had the actual pickups. I whammy bar is always missing I believe, unless they put it elsewhere.

Oh yeah, and my buddy who I play in a cover with said he'd buy it off her...but I don't know, he was kind of drunk so he probably won't remember.
 
Well can anyone give me any idea how you would go about fixing the back of the guitar coming off? With new bindings (or whatever they are called)?
 
RideTheCrash said:
Well can anyone give me any idea how you would go about fixing the back of the guitar coming off? With new bindings (or whatever they are called)?
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You don't, in this instance. The guitar cost $30 new and wouldn't be worth much more than that if it was in good shape, broken it is worth nothing. You would be better off drilling a hole in it and turning it into a clock.
 
I'm not interested in selling it off to anyone for a profit really.
 
RideTheCrash said:
I'm not interested in selling it off to anyone for a profit really.
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What I'm saying is that it isn't worth even looking at again, much less trying to fix.
 
I'll talk to my coworker about it. I know the guitar is an old piece of crap import, but my friend enjoys fixing shit like that. Kind of like my neighbour, when I was really young he used to have this little red car that sat in his driveway for years. He'd pretty much break everything -- then fix...over and over.
 
You certainly keep everyone you know pretty busy fixing stuff, don't you?
 
Yeah, actually it's pretty bad...the guitar is up in the air though. If my coworker wants to work on it, it'd be for himself, not me.

I have my board that still needs a channel fixed, and that amp currently being fixed so I can get my own amp back from my brother.
 
It's only worth something if someone is looking to buy it! :D

My old crappy Delray brought about 400 bucks when I ebayed it off about 6 months ago. I was 100% apart and sanded down, ........it was not certain at the time if it was in "Working condition" either. :)

People are silly!

good luck.
 
Well the only really messed up part is the binding. I'm told it still works, but there wasn't an amp around to try everything out.
 
The headstock said "PAN" and above it was a small picture of a creature with hoofed legs, kind of like a devil or something, and it was playing I'm guessing a pan flute or something.
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Just to clear it up, the "creature" is a satyr/faun named Pan. In Greek mythology Pan was the son of two Greek gods (Penelope and Hermes) who lived in the woods and mountains. He was the representative god of unbridled lust and spent his time drinking with Dionysis and chasing nymphs playing the flute named after him.

Not a huge mystery why they'd put him on a guitar marketed to teenage boys.

He was also the god of unreasonable fears and terror, thus the word "panic"
 
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