Recent content by BlueThird

I'm not convinced that someone's distress at another human being having bought a new guitar (an unambiguous act of love, quite obviously) can possibly compare to mine at hearing echoes of Knopfler!

Thought that different guitars sounded better with different segments, and could happily live with K1, K3 or K4. I'm guessing that K1 and K3 are the same. To my ear K2 was clearly the worst of the bunch ? too murky in the lower registers. But that was only until just after the two and a half...

Haven't done anything like the same number of tests, but I noticed the same thing when I did it to my ST-80 from 1980 and my LS-50/60/80 from 1983. Nothing happened with the ST, despite the fact that they're always said to have a nitro finish; the finish on the LS melted immediately.

You can't get the images to work because you're posting the wrong page location. The one you wrapped in the Nice looking guitar. Mind you, having cut my teeth on Martin copies, I always find the upside-down, Gibson-style bridge fairly unsettling.

Very odd indeed. Custom build? Factory second?

Are you in a covers hand, glennon?

Had the pleasure of playing a friend's VB-48 recently, and though it took a fair bit of work to get it set up reasonably, it's a great little bass. The saddle compensation on the bridge is too much for the scale length (I'm guessing Tokai bought a bridge in rather than designing and making it...

:o :roll: :o :roll: :o :roll: Please, please, Mr Space. Could you possibly lead the way, and show us how it's done? We'd be very grateful, sir. All you'd need to do is to stop posting.

The inlay looks similar to the one they use on some of the Cat's Eyes acoustics, and which is clearly meant to be suggestive of the old Martin logo, but I'm not convinced that it's identical. Can't find anything to compare it to, unfortunately.

If only that were the case, Space. You're also spitting out absolute drivel on a regular basis. As Paladin2019 said, if you can't understand the difference between copying and fraud, you shouldn't be arguing about it. But that's an incidental. I'll state this as simply as possible, in the hope...

If you take a close look at the Tokai website, it seems that you don't just get the same construction with the LS92 (left) as the LS160, you get the exact same grain pattern! Still, the amber cell inlays on the LS160 do give it a certain pizzazz.

Bought one of the Gator Cali Girl cases for a Love Rock a little while back, and that doesn't accommodate the neck/headstock angle either. Rests on the headstock, too. Currently using a spare wheatbag on top of the accessories compartment to give full support to the neck and move the headstock...

Had to do that too. Assuming that it's the same bridge design (not necessarily the case given that mine's from '83) it should just be a matter of removing the retaining wire and lifting them out.

So what's the quality like on the one that you bought, Iain? Did they mention where they get them from? Good luck with the nitro!

From the dealers I've spoken to, it seems that Tokai Australia pulled out of their old networks a few years back and went direct. Their website won't help you all that much, but they do still have a strong link to River Music.