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I thought it was a spray on thing at first, but it's crocodile skin texture so it must be actual tolex. How the hell do they wrap it around a Strat? Is it stretchy?

I'm full of questions today!

You need a spray adhesive that will work for Wood to Tolex.

If you notice these types of guitars always have binding, usually in the middle, because you can't use one piece on the whole thing and make it look right. The binding hides the seam.

How come it doesn't crease when it goes around the curves though? I've never seen tolex so I'm not sure what it's like.

Same reason it doesn't crease going around the curves of your amplifiers. Tolex is a brand name, Italia could be using any vinyl covering, and plastic coatings like that can easily be heat shrunk as far as I know.

TheBurbz wrote:How come it doesn't crease when it goes around the curves though? I've never seen tolex so I'm not sure what it's like.

If you're talking about tolex style covering it doesn't crease because it's applied correctly. It won't crease cause the angles of that style guitar are pretty smooth and the adhesive holds well. You'll see on some of the older vinyl covered guitars that over time they come undone.


If you're talking about the plastic shell and sparkly finishes those are applied with heated pressure, like on a drum. And even then if the whole guitar is pearl shell 2 pieces are used for the body and you'll see the binding.