Has anyone ever refinished their Tokai to be a Gibson?
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Paladin2019
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The Gibson and Tokai logos on Love Rocks are inlays, so it would be a pretty major and pretty pointless job.
Tokai have serious street cred these days, why bother changing it? Unless you want to do something illegal on ebay. :roll: People are actually faking old tokai strats/teles these days, and fake fender owners are rushing to return the tokai logo to their butchered eighties examples.
Anyway, you'd still know it was a tokai under the forgery.
Isn't a great guitar enough on its own?
Tokai have serious street cred these days, why bother changing it? Unless you want to do something illegal on ebay. :roll: People are actually faking old tokai strats/teles these days, and fake fender owners are rushing to return the tokai logo to their butchered eighties examples.
Anyway, you'd still know it was a tokai under the forgery.
Isn't a great guitar enough on its own?
Ian Harvey
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Hi Ochay!
>>I have a buddy in Netherlands that did that and he also refinished in Nitrocellulose...
You wouldn't happen to know how he removed the original (poly presumably) finish?
Thanks,
Ian
>>I have a buddy in Netherlands that did that and he also refinished in Nitrocellulose...
You wouldn't happen to know how he removed the original (poly presumably) finish?
Thanks,
Ian
Ian Harvey
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Thanks anyway, Ochay!
I'm thinking about stripping (and having somebody refinish) my Orville LP sometime in the future. I'm pretty sure it's got a poly finish (it certainly doesn't look like the finish on my Vintage RI Strat). Any tips for determining poly v nitro gratefully received.
I understand that removing a poly finish can be quite difficult... :-?
Ian
I'm thinking about stripping (and having somebody refinish) my Orville LP sometime in the future. I'm pretty sure it's got a poly finish (it certainly doesn't look like the finish on my Vintage RI Strat). Any tips for determining poly v nitro gratefully received.
I understand that removing a poly finish can be quite difficult... :-?
Ian
