rather commonplace on guitars today, but they were less so in the 1960s, seen mostly on some models from Danelectro, Gretsch and EKO. To that group we can add Tele-Star, which offered guitars in a range of sparkly finishes, from gold to teal. Whatever the overall color scheme, their sparkles were always multicolored, and as! While Tele-Star was an independent Japanese manufacturer in the mid ’60s, later models were made by the highly respected Japanese guitar maker Kawai and played better as a result. The 1967-to-1970 sparkle-finished 5000 series guitars, like the two-pickup model shown here, are the ones the collectors chase.
