1970s/2023 Teisco Spectrum 4/Partscaster Rubber Bridge Baritone Guitar

This darling, metallic-blue, well-loved guitar is a hodgepodge -- a recent-memory Squier Strat neck with a deep "vintage amber" finish job mated to an old, early-'70s, Teisco Spectrum 4 (Japanese) electric guitar body. The bridge was moved back a hair to adjust for the longer scale of the Strat neck and it's been "rubber bridged" with a rubber saddle to get that in-fashion, muted, plunky tone.

It's currently wearing baritone-gauged flatwounds (Chromes) as well, so it's pitched BEADF#B at the moment. It would tune-up as a normal-tuning guitar just fine with a restring, though, as the rubber saddles we use around the shop intonate nicely on a straight line no matter what strings you're using.

My guy Ancel did all the work on this and it turned-out really nice -- it's fun to play and chunky and takes you to all sorts of different places. There are a bunch of different tones on hand available for use by switching the pickups to different configurations, too, so that's awfully fun to play around with to dial-in a certain range.

Repairs included: a fret level/dress, new volume+tone pots and jack, rerout pocket for Strat-style neck, tons of cleaning to the body and hardware, rubber bridge mod to bridge, setup, etc.

Weight: 6 lbs 10 oz

Scale length: 25 1/2"

Nut width: 1 11/16"

Neck shape: slim-med C

Board radius: 12"

Body width: 12 1/4"

Body depth: 1 1/2"

Body wood: unknown

Bridge: rubber saddle on original adjustable bridge base

Fretboard: maple

Neck wood: maple

Pickups: 4x original Teisco humbuckers

Action height at 12th fret: 1/16” overall (fast, spot-on)
String gauges: 65w-13 flatwound (Chromes) for BEADF#B tuning

Truss rod: adjustable

Neck relief: straight

Fret style: medium-bigger

Condition notes: the volume, tone, and jack part of the wiring are fresh but the 4 switches for the pickups are original. We've removed the obnoxious "mud switch" from the upper bout and it has a cute little amp jewel in there instead. The whammy is missing its arm and spring so it's effectively a "trapeze" setup as-is. The original bridge was missing most of its saddles so the rubber bridge addition to it was a "step over" rather than "disassembly." The body shows numerous spots of wear and tear and finish chipping here and there and whatnot. When the body arrived it was completely covered in grime and dirt and I'm amazed that it's now so clean, to be honest, and that all of the pickups work well.

It comes with: no case, sorry!