horax
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Just engaged in a trade with a local musician who used to live and perform in Austin, TX.
He said he received this strat from Tommy Shannon of SRV and double trouble fame.
The story says that he knew him when he lived in Austin, and that this guy worked at a music store that Tommy owned.
When this guy moved to Denver more than 20 years ago, Tommy said he could have his pick of strats from his collection.
he chose this one.
It's obviously well played, but a few things are amiss from the start.
He got rid of the 1957 neck and put on a mighty mite Fender neck which si AWESOME, I might add. Wide and flat, baby! And MAPLE!
Also, you will notice that the pickups are not stock. It has two 30 years old hotrails and an SCN noiseless in the neck. It has a five positoin switch instead of 3. and the scratch plate is obviously all parts.
Now, on to the good stuff...the neck joint looks like a 1960 fender strat.
The surf green is over red or burst or something...it's peeking through the natural relic.
The clear coat is checking and you can see the yellow tint on top of the aweseom surf green!
I'm digging this strat!
The trem block was replaced because the original was rusted out.
The serial number on the neck plate is 49587.
I've done some research and it looks like a Tokai made in October of some year, model 70R??? The thing is there's an intersting stamp on the inside of the trem cavity AND in the neck joint that says something like, "A Martyron Finish."
I'm hoping I can get some help here.
I want to know as much info about it as possible.
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He said he received this strat from Tommy Shannon of SRV and double trouble fame.
The story says that he knew him when he lived in Austin, and that this guy worked at a music store that Tommy owned.
When this guy moved to Denver more than 20 years ago, Tommy said he could have his pick of strats from his collection.
he chose this one.
It's obviously well played, but a few things are amiss from the start.
He got rid of the 1957 neck and put on a mighty mite Fender neck which si AWESOME, I might add. Wide and flat, baby! And MAPLE!
Also, you will notice that the pickups are not stock. It has two 30 years old hotrails and an SCN noiseless in the neck. It has a five positoin switch instead of 3. and the scratch plate is obviously all parts.
Now, on to the good stuff...the neck joint looks like a 1960 fender strat.
The surf green is over red or burst or something...it's peeking through the natural relic.
The clear coat is checking and you can see the yellow tint on top of the aweseom surf green!
I'm digging this strat!
The trem block was replaced because the original was rusted out.
The serial number on the neck plate is 49587.
I've done some research and it looks like a Tokai made in October of some year, model 70R??? The thing is there's an intersting stamp on the inside of the trem cavity AND in the neck joint that says something like, "A Martyron Finish."
I'm hoping I can get some help here.
I want to know as much info about it as possible.