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Not sure if this is LPB...

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e103429541
 
Yeah that's definitely Lake placid Blue.....cheers for the heads up on that guitar but not sure he would want to ship to UK.
 
You could get an account through Rinkya, and bid through them. It's really pretty simple.

www.rinkya.com

Cheers.
 
I've got a Mettalic Blue goldie and a Lake Placid Blue goldie. From the photo I would say that is Metallic Blue. I'm away from home at the moment but should be able to post example pics at the weekend.

Dave
 
Thanks Dave, judging by the pics you kindly sent me earlier, this is what I had assumed. What Tokai called Lake Placid Blue bears little resemblance to what Cadillac & (later) Fender called Lake Placid Blue.
 
imosdad said:
I've got a Mettalic Blue goldie and a Lake Placid Blue goldie. From the photo I would say that is Metallic Blue. I'm away from home at the moment but should be able to post example pics at the weekend.

Dave

I've only ever heard of 1984 Tokai's using LPB paint jobs as opposed to Metallic blue. Plus I owned one in the 80's with matching headstock which had a metallic look to the finish.

has anyone else seen a MB colour code?

This is the thing with Tokais there are so many grey areas ;-)
 
fwiw, here's a new one:

http://www.rinkya.com/twview.pl?URL=http://page21.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j60503744

color looks off on this one too.
 
Whenever I see that headstock shape I think it looks like it would be easy to radius the extra bit off by linishing with a belt sander. If you did I wonder how close it would be to the correct shape then.
 
RyanC said:
fwiw, here's a new one:

http://www.rinkya.com/twview.pl?URL=http://page21.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j60503744

color looks off on this one too.

Ehhhh, a bit off topic, but.............
How does this thing look if you took the guard off? I mean, does it have the "bathtub routing"? With 22 frets, that should be the case.
Would be interesting to know.
Thanks
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wanorak said:
I've only ever heard of 1984 Tokai's using LPB paint jobs as opposed to Metallic blue. Plus I owned one in the 80's with matching headstock which had a metallic look to the finish.

has anyone else seen a MB colour code?

This is the thing with Tokais there are so many grey areas ;-)

I don't understand the first sentence.

It's not a matter of grey areas, it's simply that what Tokai called LPB ain't LPB. MB is closer. And MB is as common as LPB.
 
DaveWW said:
Whenever I see that headstock shape I think it looks like it would be easy to radius the extra bit off by linishing with a belt sander. If you did I wonder how close it would be to the correct shape then.

Some way off. It would be too thin & pointy.
 
stratman323 said:
wanorak said:
I've only ever heard of 1984 Tokai's using LPB paint jobs as opposed to Metallic blue. Plus I owned one in the 80's with matching headstock which had a metallic look to the finish.

has anyone else seen a MB colour code?

This is the thing with Tokais there are so many grey areas ;-)

I don't understand the first sentence.

It's not a matter of grey areas, it's simply that what Tokai called LPB ain't LPB. MB is closer. And MB is as common as LPB.

so you are saying that Tokai used two different colour codes that looked the same???

by my first sentence I meant that I owned a LPB and I know what it looks like.....and that is the colour I'm after....not metallic blue.
 
wanorak said:
so you are saying that Tokai used two different colour codes that looked the same???

by my first sentence I meant that I owned a LPB and I know what it looks like.....and that is the colour I'm after....not metallic blue.

No, I'm saying that what Tokai called LPB is far too light for LPB. What Tokai called MB is far closer to the real LPB.

You owned a Tokai with an LPB stamp in the body? Or a real Fender LPB?
 
How about a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz in LPB?

1957CadillacEldoradoBiarritzLakePla.jpg


Let's be thankful that Strats weren't designed by Cadillac! :eek:

Is the building behind Sea Foam Green or Surf Green?
 

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