Atlas Guitars

A blog about Atlas guitars; pictures, model numbers, and construction.

Monday, April 23, 2018

Altas F-611 Athena front


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Altas F-611 Athena back


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Altas F-611 Athena label


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Atlas F-611 Athena headstock


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F-611 Athena headstock back


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Monday, July 10, 2017

Atlas electric model ? front


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Atlas electric model ? front


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Atlas Guitars

Not much is known about this brand of guitar - although they are distributed from Hicksville, NY, but made in Japan.
But by which manufacturer?
A well-made guitar, excellent attention to detail in the set-up of the frets and action. Laminated tops typical but solid sides and maybe backs?? A large guitar retailer in Hicksville called "Sam Ash" doesn't respond to 2 e-mails, so they are probably not the distributor. Does anyone know anything else about the history of this company/distributor?

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Atlas a Kaiwa-Teisco brand?

Kawai Teisco

Thanks to Marc Seligman who found this info - may be correct??

"Kawai Teisco was founded by Atswo Kaneko and Doryu Matsuda. The company also produced the popular Ibanez badge in the 1960s. Kawai Teisco made their own house brands Kawai, Teisco, Del Rey and Teisco Del Rey. Badged guitars produced by the Kawai Teisco factories include Apollo, Aquarius, Arbiter, Atlas, Audition, Avar, Ayar, Barth, Beltone, Black Jack, Cameo, Cipher, Concert, Cougar, Crown, Daimaru, Decca, Diasonic, Domino, Duke, Emperador, Heit Deluxe, Holiday, Imperial, Inter-Mark Cipher, Jedson, Kay, Kent, Kimberly, Kingsley, Kingston, Keefy, Lindell, Marquis, May Queen, Minister, Noble, Prestige, Randall, Recco, Regina, Rexina, Sakai, Satellite, Schaffer, Sekova, Silvertone, Sorrento, Sterling, Swinger, Tele Star, Top Twenty, Victoria, and Winston. Possible badged guitars made by the company include: Astrotone, Demian, G-Holiday, Lafayette, Master, Orange, Tamaki and Trump..."

What is the connection?...

I have heard a few different stories, one older one being that Atlas was made by the Matsumoku factory, same as Teisco. But no definite facts yet...Matsumoku was a factory that produced some very nice guitars...this from wikipedia..."Matsumoku produced guitars, or parts of guitars, for Vox, Guyatone, FujiGen Gakki, Kanda Shokai (Greco), Hoshino Gakki (Ibanez), Nippon Gakki (Yamaha), Aria and Norlin (parent company of Gibson.) American owned Unicord contracted Matsumoku to build most of its Univox and Westbury guitars. St. Louis Music Company imported Matsumoku built Electra_Guitars. J. C. Penney sold Matsumoku built Skylark guitars through its catalog division. Matsumoku built many early Greco guitars as well as Memphis, Vantage, Westbury, Westminster, Cutler, Lyle and Fell. Washburn Guitars contracted Matusmoku to build most of its electric guitars from 1979 through 1985. Though the names above reflect Matsumoku's involvement, many of the names were later sold to other companies which made completely different guitars in quality and sound..."

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