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If you are looking for a Love Rock Custom the best choice are the LC230S with maple cap and the L-235 all mahogany. They are also reasonably priced.

Just to clarify, I removed the pickups to check if they were branded Gotoh or if they something else, I was curious. It was interesting as they are described as Tokai products therefore I wonder if they are made in house...for the record they are very good, I planned to...

Actually the two shop clerks I exchanged mails had a good command of English, they were very polite and seemed professional. This is also another reason why I am disappointed...and the fact they changed the listing of the other KLC345BB the day after I wrote them makes me think they understood...

Hello Hammatsu san, I wouldn´t be bothered if the body were in two pieces of mahogany (that means it there is a mahogany cap) but since they didn´t reply to my specific question (if the top was maple) BUT since they updated the description stating there is a maple...

I don´t have that guitar but if it´s wired like a vintage SG Custom the controls are the same as in a vintage LP Custom, namely bridge and neck positions are "normal" (that means bridge and pickups only) while in the middle position bridge and middle pickups are in parallel. Middle and bridge...

If you read the thread you´ll find out it´s not a shameful copy, unfortunately. :( At this point I should have saved for a Gibson R7 reissue, at least you know you get a one piece mahogany body.

Yesterday I wrote them to ask clarifications, they didn´t answer, but the description of the sister guitar has changed: https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/kurosawa-shop/item/10150202/ Today it became this: However I took a screenshot of my auction, that stated otherwise: Very...

Kurosawa is still selling the sister guitar, serial number #555, and these are its specs. https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/kurosawa-shop/item/10150202/

Ok how do you interpreter this statement? And these specs:

Thank you, I will write them. Today I changed the strings and found other "interesting" things. The pickups are not branded Gotoh but "produced of Tokai". Moreover, it is clear there is a cap on another type of wood with a whitish base paint: Even less happy as the guitar was sold a 1...

Do you have an email contact from Tokai? I wrote to Kurosawa about the issue but they decided to ignore my complaint...I am a little disappointed, the Japanese are not what they used to be.

I am quite surprised as this is the top of the range Tokai (345.000 yen), they clearly spent a lot of time sourcing a Bibsgy, cutting a bone nut, finishing with nitro, getting ebony (I think this is one of the rare Custom copies with an ebony fingerboard) and then they make such a sloppy error.

Interesting, for what I know they made Sigmas for Martin, I have never seen any made in Japan Martin guitar.

I asked a quote for a 1960 Les Paul Custom reissue (the don´t make that model off the shelves) and the answer was $7000, taxes not included, so they are not cheap. The 57 model is about the same price...