The Color Palette Of Vintage Tokais

[Sigmania]

Interesting...

Siamack has one of those. Yep it is a mystery.

 

[Sigmania]

Here is his:

Tokai ST-100 OW | SiaVintageGuitars

 

[Sigmania]

And Fenders are weird. They do the banana thing. I had always heard it was an aging issue of the finish, but maybe not?

I had one of those from the Fullerton/Corona transition period.

1986 AVRI

 

[Omiewise65]

I‘m going to pick it up tomorrow morning.
Original pups are not part of the deal , but hey , those are Lollars Blackface .
Not bad at all , I‘d say ..

 

[Sigmania]

It's beautiful. Hope it all goes smoothly.

 

[Omiewise65]

It's beautiful. Hope it all goes smoothly.

Thank you that’s what I needed . I guess I won’t sleep a lot this night .

 

[Jlee]

I always thought the “BS/brown sunburst” on LS guitars was an odd finish choice. Never seen a real vintage 50s Les Paul with such a finish.

 

[Sigmania]

Yeah, that was one of their first finishes.

I guess a swing at a Tobacco Sunburst?



Old sunburst too.

 

[Jlee]

I figured tobacco burst, but the back on my LS80 is super dark. Like dark chocolate brown.

 

[Sigmania]

Yeah. My 1979 LS80GT is really dark on the back. Really hard to see the wood grain.

 

[Sigmania]

In the beginning...

 

[Sigmania]

Expanding on the notion of what we have been call=ing vintage. It is now 2023, so 1987 seems vintage to me.

LY = Lemon Yellow