BLUE TEISCO K-4L, A.K.A. THE SHARKFIN

This is one of the more sought-after Japanese guitars of the ’60s. Featuring four pickups, it offers plenty of sound combinations, thanks to all those buttons and the rotary switch. Its skinny 22-fret maple neck plays fast, and it’s a good guitar for surf-style music. With distortion, it screams in a microphonic Link Wray kind of way, and it’s light and comfortable to play, thanks to the curvature of the German-style carved top and back.