Receiving rave reviews in the USA, Teye guitars are now becoming available in the UK. We listen to the howls of the Super Coyote.
Teye Guitars is named after the brand’s founder, Teije Wijnterp (aka Teye), whose claim to fame as a guitar player is his association with Joe Ely in the 90s. He started building guitars a decade ago and now aims to produce 150 guitars a year in the company’s new Nashville-based facility, where it relocated to, from Austin, early in 2016. The Super Coyote is part of a limited run that begun in 2015 at the company’s previous Austin base and, despite its price, comes from the start-up TMF (Teye Music Factory) level. The Artisan models, with hand-engraved plates, are the next ‘level’ up, topped by the very limited Master guitars, which are handmade and engraved by Teye himself.
Zemaitis style abounds here: a similar headstock with its curved rear tip; the neck joint where the full width neck slots into the body like a bolt-on, but is glued, leaving a noticeable edge in the treble cutaway; the 24-fret single-cut style with its more waisted outline. Then there are those aluminium plates on the headstock, top and treble side which are acid-etched not engraved, the rear cover plate is plain – and the aluminium bridge, like an enlarged tune-o-matic, with big saddles, while the thumb wheels look like small circular saw blades. The string anchor is quite low on the body, with an additional and sharply-pointed etched plate. Even the pickup rings are etched aluminium.
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