Les Paul TV color layers

I~ll try and offer some help...here is my 55 TV JR.
With some white underneath.

Tarcisioo said:

So you're sugesting that there is no yellow pigment in the process? That's interesting

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No, not at all. I think there was a white base coat, then grain filler then, as J.D. says, and an aniline yellow coat and final clear...

OR..

A white base coat, then a tan pore filler/dye and then a clear coat.

However, I did strip a '57 TV Special that had been refinished in poly Silver. When I stripped it, I found a strip of the original yellow in the cutaway. So I very carefully thinned this back and found a pinkish colour underneath. Now, either this is where the Mahogany has leached into the white and turned it pinkish OR the filler was more pink than tan...i'm not sure!

In these pictures, you can just see the pink colour at the edges of the yellow:

madformac said:

Stunning guitar Neil.

Absolute beauty mate. :salude

I wouldn't mind having a closer look next time we have a get together :dude:

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Thanks Justin! And you'd be MOST welcome, my good man! :salude

Great thread Lads...I'm learning a lot here.

The pictures you're all posting are fantastic. Thanks.

:salude

buyusfear said:

Here are some other pics I recently came across of a beyond clean '56 TV in a great article where Clive Brown is cited on a few kew points regarding TV's.
Were they really that yellow, and then just faded, and the clear compensated by yellowing itself? The color under the tuner plate is probably the truest representation of the stock factory yellow color.

Article and more pics here:
http://www.guitar-bass.net/features/vintage-bench-test-1956-les-paul-tv-model/

So much going on, so cool.

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Seriously cool. I am dying over here.

Love the TV finish, in all its variations. Have dreamed about a "banana" yellow 1959 TV Jr after playing one that Gregg at HiTest (a known Juniorholic) had at his place when I bought my 1957 GT. Was featherweight, fat and straight necked, nicely worn around the edges to show layering of shades or TV mounted with a P90 from the gods. Why did I not buy it? It was Gregg's personal instrument. Called a couple of months later because it haunted me and he had sold it...hate when that happens.

Here are my 1957 Jrs, no layering exposed on the TV, yet:



BTW, the 1956 above must be late 1956, the P90 has some space between it and the bridge...or was that move made after 1955?