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OK, after a lot of screwing up by eBay, I won the Metallic Pink Goldie that was "guaranteed to make me play like Gary Moore" on a second chance offer.
I'll pause a minute to allow you to finish laughing. :lol:
Anyway, I collected it yesterday, but there are a few points that are puzzling me, so please let me know what you think.
So, here it is.
The advert stated that everything was original except the pickups, which are Fender Tex-Mex. Does anyone know what Tex-Mex pickups look like? I don't.
Either the whole bridge or maybe just the saddles have been replaced, I assume, as the saddles are unstamped.
But here's the bit that really puzzles me. I looked at the scratchplate - no brass plate under the controls. OK, I thought, the scratchplate has been replaced - not the end of the world. Then I noticed that the screw spacing was in the 1962 position - not the 1964 position that Tokai always seem to use on Goldies.
Here's the usual '64 spacing - see the screw by the middle pickup.
OK, well that figures if it's a replaced scratchplate. So I should find an extra screw hole in the body from the original SP?
Nope..... Now I'm puzzled!
Well maybe it's all a fake? Well it's a good one if it is - the body code is exactly what you would expect from Tokai.
And the neck code matches the numbers in the body. Surely nobody would fake that?
The decal looks right
But the tuners seem too tall & they are stamped KLUSON DELUXE
So what is it that I have here? Can anyone explain any of the various anomalies? I'm baffled by this one.
:-?
Mike
I'll pause a minute to allow you to finish laughing. :lol:
Anyway, I collected it yesterday, but there are a few points that are puzzling me, so please let me know what you think.
So, here it is.
The advert stated that everything was original except the pickups, which are Fender Tex-Mex. Does anyone know what Tex-Mex pickups look like? I don't.
Either the whole bridge or maybe just the saddles have been replaced, I assume, as the saddles are unstamped.
But here's the bit that really puzzles me. I looked at the scratchplate - no brass plate under the controls. OK, I thought, the scratchplate has been replaced - not the end of the world. Then I noticed that the screw spacing was in the 1962 position - not the 1964 position that Tokai always seem to use on Goldies.
Here's the usual '64 spacing - see the screw by the middle pickup.
OK, well that figures if it's a replaced scratchplate. So I should find an extra screw hole in the body from the original SP?
Nope..... Now I'm puzzled!
Well maybe it's all a fake? Well it's a good one if it is - the body code is exactly what you would expect from Tokai.
And the neck code matches the numbers in the body. Surely nobody would fake that?
The decal looks right
But the tuners seem too tall & they are stamped KLUSON DELUXE
So what is it that I have here? Can anyone explain any of the various anomalies? I'm baffled by this one.
:-?
Mike