However, in the early 1960s Teisco products became increasingly unique. Teisco guitars became notable for unusual body shapes, such as the "May Queen" design resembling an artist's palette, or other unusual features such as having four pickups (most guitars have two or three). The vast amount of controls; typically an individual switch for each pickup, plus a tone or phase inversion switch, along with as many as five tone and volume knobs gave a wide variety of sounds yet were easily switched while playing.