Thursday Burst. Aged headstock (PICS)

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Looks sweet, but I'd never have the balls to take a needle to any of my axes!!
 
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Man, that thing just keeps getting better looking. Normally all my guitar gas is devoted to SG's and Teles, but your tokai always changes that.
 
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I am really liking it, it's making me want to dull my agile's finish a little
 
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I love that kind of finish on a Les Paul. It's like, matte almost, and the colours are really nice also.
 
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Thanks guys! Very cool that you all appreciate my work that much :D


big_black, At first I didn't have the balls for the "needle work" ;) So I just did the trussrod cover cutting. But when I looked at the pics of real burst headstock I thought, I'm so gonna do the weather checking as well. I started under the trussrod cover so that in case it would have looked bad no one would see it, when I was happy with the result I scratched more. After the scratching I still wasn't satisfied because it was matte black. But carpolishing compund works wonders, really awsome for making the surface shiney but still not too shiney.

metal, I don't have the balls to age the body ;) And I don't really know if I want too either. The finish is very thin on this guitar and it will age and wear down faster than a glossy finish. In fact it has already got some pick wear on the body above the pickups. Some forearm wear would be really cool but I don't think I'm gonna do that, at least not at this point. Oh, and the dings on the headstock are "real" dings not done on purpose.

RushOfBlood and Robbiedbee, the finish that I've got on it now after polishing it (both body and headstock) is kinda semi gloss. Like I wrote above, it's very thin and also less shiney than a regular glossy finish. So it looks a little like a old guitar with a thin nitro finish and fingerprints almost never show on the semigloss finish. Awsome! :D The color in these pictures doesn't really do justice, it's not as red in reallife more brownish in the red areas. You can also see the woodgrain that goes vertical against the flame pattern but I can't get that to show on pictures, but it looks really beautiful.

I've read that using real fine steel wool will matte down a highgloss finish without leaving any scratches. You could try that, also could polish that back up with car polising compound to give it a semigloss look.

Monty-Jay, it plays really well and was very well setup when I got it. Nice fretboard, great intonation, but pickups needed to be height adjusted. Felt kind of modern though with the shiney stuff, tokai wiring, heavyweight tailpiece etc. After I changed those things it feels and sounds alot more vintage. It's my alltime favorite guitar, I won't sell it... ever (at least I say that now) no but really. It's my main player and a true keeper :)
 
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Has anyone got any good ideas on how to tint the Tokai Logo Yellower? :smokin:
 
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I was suprised no one had asked that before, neither here, on the Tokai Forum or on the LP Forum ;)

It was a Thursday that I sat thinking about what name the project should have and what the heading on the webpage should be.

Apart from that I also thought it fitted quite well since a real 59 Les Paul is called a Burst. It was a Thursday and it's a Tokai, I could have named it T-Burst. But that sounds like Tea Burst and since that's the name of a Les Paul color I wanted something else.

So Thursday Burst, it was a Thursday and the beginning T also stands for the Tokai part :D
 
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I don't know how to age the logo yellow, but if you want to do some more finish checking, you can always put your guitar in it's case and put it outside in the cold weather (I wouldn't go below freezing, but 35-40 degrees or so should do). Leave it overnight in the trunk of your car or something. Then bring it inside into the warm house and open up the case right away. The lacquer should check almost right away, due to the extreme change in temperature.

I've read several accounts of people using this techinque, or having this happen on accident with the same result. I imagine this is what happened to a lot of the original bursts over their lives....cold trunk on long drives between crappy bar gigs, out of the trunk and into the smokey bar....bam. Back into the case and into the trunk....rinse and repeat.

Might be something to think about. I want to have an aged LP as well...thinking about having my 03' Standard done. I don't care what it does to the value...and the color is exactly what I like now.
 
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Jeff_H said:
if you want to do some more finish checking, you can always put your guitar in it's case and put it outside in the cold weather...
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Will this work with Poly?

Has anyone tried?


Looks great regardless Bro. As said, it looks better all the time!

Mine is kind of gibson-ized...historic truss rod cover..Historic spec rings, and I've got the RS kit with hovland caps, etc. I think where you'd never be able to fool the casual Les Paul fan is with the inlays. The Tokai inlays are soooo different. They look very weird. Very white to the point of being almost purplish blue..if that makes sense..but in a fake way. At least on mine. Edwards inlays were a bit nicer, and believe it or not the Epis I've seen have more Gibson-like inlays than any of the MIJs.
 
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About yellowing the logo... I thought of a trick that i used to do when i wanted to make papers look old. I left them out in the sun!

Put the guitar under a table or something, to block the sunlight on other parts.Sunlight must hit only the headstock. I don't know if it will get really hot really fast. If it gets hot, there might be some damage, so you have to check and see (you can always abord!!). I don't actually believe this will work but, if you notice the slightest results within 3 minutes (ie before the headstock gets really hot), you can always do the same thing every day for 3 minutes...

I don't know how stupid this is... Just my idea, that almost surely will not work...
 
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I'm glad you like it guys! :banana:

I was thinking the same as JeffB, does it work with poly finishes? As I wrote on the project site I think poly finishes are "resistant" to fast temperature changes. But I'm not sure as I haven't tried.

You mind posting a pic of yours JeffB?

And you're right about the inlays. The are very white indeed... though, not shifting to purple on mine.

fingerace. The sun trick won't work for yellowing the logo... haven't noticed any changes yet. I actually have it out in direct sunlight a couple of hours now and then to fade the finish. All the old Bursts started their life in Cherry Sunburst with quite alot of red tones in. Now after 50 years the red has faded away on most of them and the are more amberish colored. The older colors faded more quickly than new ones, so it will take quite some time for it to fade. But it fades, slowly.

I estimate that it has seen about 24-30 hours sunlight by now. It actually isn't that dangerous to expose a guitar to sunlight, even if it get a lil warm. There are alot of threads regarding this matter over at the LP Forum for those who are interested. t's a pity though that it doesn't yellow the inlays and the logo.
 
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