As long as you don't get one that's missing a tuner and has cigarettes in the pick-guard, they really aren't as bad. Plus mine is a Hofner, below the quality of Teiscos. It just sounded like absolute crap, so I destroyed it by picking parts and refinishing it.

The refinish was just a cheap project and the original finish was bottom line horrible, so it wasn't a lost. But getting these for free is good because they are worth virtually nothing.

They really are utter crap, to a point where they are at an unexplainable sense of lousiness. Heres an old Hofner I have, has been refinished because I felt the old paint job was hazardous to my health. very similar to teisco, same tremlo and pick-ups (I still have all the hardware but It's very dep...