I posted a few years ago hoping to identify a guitar I had picked up along the way. The guitar itself I believe is a White 1984 Tokai MAT-451 with 3 single coil pickups. The body seems to be plastic/fiberglass while the neck is most definitely some type of wood. This could also mean it is a 1986 451? Unsure, Mike tried to help me out in 2004.
There are scratches everywhere on the back and the top of the neck (not on the actual frets at all) and pickguard, so I was hoping for some advice. The top of the neck or head of the guitar is scratched with what looks like sandpaper - the logo is completely gone - would it be difficult to find someone to manufacture such a logo - or a neck for this particular guitar?
Should I look into a different neck possibly carbon fiber? If not, can I paint it myself? Also how hard would it be to find a less scratched pickguard... The guitar sounds great and I always plan to keep it, I like it a lot, so I'm ok with the visual defects but I would like to eventually restore it, or at least make it less of an eye sore.
Anyway enjoy the pictures. Hopefully I have correctly identified the guitar...
Any advice for restoring such a guitar is very welcome. Thanks for reading my post.
There are scratches everywhere on the back and the top of the neck (not on the actual frets at all) and pickguard, so I was hoping for some advice. The top of the neck or head of the guitar is scratched with what looks like sandpaper - the logo is completely gone - would it be difficult to find someone to manufacture such a logo - or a neck for this particular guitar?
Should I look into a different neck possibly carbon fiber? If not, can I paint it myself? Also how hard would it be to find a less scratched pickguard... The guitar sounds great and I always plan to keep it, I like it a lot, so I'm ok with the visual defects but I would like to eventually restore it, or at least make it less of an eye sore.
Anyway enjoy the pictures. Hopefully I have correctly identified the guitar...
Any advice for restoring such a guitar is very welcome. Thanks for reading my post.