Recent content by guitar hiro

a broken head stock with a repair may not be a better spec; could be but then? it wouldn't be for me .......

Nuthin wrong with lacquer over poly IMO It won't age like vintage but the old skool Bacchus finishes are typically quite thin and it's hard to beat the quality of Deviser builds like the BLS line circa 1998 - 2005 Only problem is try locating any of those now days ....... I sold about a half...

Here, another History 335 type from the same era; this one in natural finish ...

Any guitar, just as any other item, is worth what any one person is willing to pay for it; period. Back in the 1980s I frequented the annual GSWGS in Dallas, Texas for several years. I saw many vintage Fender, Gibson, Gretsch and Martin guitars trade hands for what then seemed like crazy over...

Considering the OP I can say that I have owned and played non inkies tokais and inkies too, and in a range of lower grade to higher grade. It has been my experience that all examples in my hands, no matter the finish chemistry, the finishes have all been quite thin. I can't say that for the...

I decided to withdraw this example based on recent news from my source at Deviser. Info is production of set neck examples at the Aska facility is at a crawl and may not improve for years. They seem to be putting out tons of bolt on neck stuff ........

that's a nice one

I have owned and played Tokai LS examples from 'vintage' to more modern and at pretty much across every grade; have yet to see a single example demonstrate lacquer checking. Not a single one .........

That looks like one from the MJ Yamauchi collection and I see his web page is no longer accessible :unsure:

that had been listed @ the 880,000 yen ($5,867 USD) start price for several days and ended with one solitary bid price on this example was a lot lower than some I have seen sell for previously

BUMPAROO .......

at least FOUR of these currently offered which to me doesn't seem 'rare' ....... and none of them are 'moving' ........ https://reverb.com/item/75805259-1981-tokai-ls-75-ag-all-gold https://reverb.com/item/80700912-tokai-love-rock-ls-70-1981-gold...

I'm not really impressed by the seller. Their lack of knowledge and specifically their use of the term, "Made during the MIJ lawsuit era" are pretty much vomit inducing. This example is most likely a Terada made 335, circa 1996...

So, as I was saying in my previous post I'm not aware of any 1980s era History guitars. I did a simple Google search on the interwebzesz (thanks Al Gore) and I came up with this. https://history.gt/electric/about/index.html Translated of course, here via deepl ....... the first sentence of...

below, my two Lefty examples; two fantastic Explorers :D Korina body & neck: with the exception of the 2 piece body this example is a replica of a 1963 Explorer Honduran hog body & neck: Explorer Jr. with a split head stock