Recent content by Kappie

Everything I see on the pictures looks legit to me, nothing suspicious at all.

The neck has fret edge binding, so it must be a very high end model.

Right now there's a winter sale of probably the largest chain of music stores in The Netherlands (Feedback) where they sell a Wine Red Gibson Les Paul Studio for ? 799,-. Personally I wouldn't trade any of my Japanese Tokai's for a Gibson Les Paul Studio. At similar price levels however, most...

I also have one, great guitar, see this link: http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=11907&highlight=anniversary

Hi Avis, I actually had one of it?s sisters on trial about two years ago. That guitar looked quite similar, although it was darker blue and had a tiger stripe. Indeed it was gorgeous and the workmanship was fantastic, but in the end I did not buy it. The playability was good but the guitar just...

Strange, Over time I bought 3 guitars from him and I always have received the best service and follow-up you can imagine. Gottfried, hope all is okay? Cheers, Herbert

I agree, looking at the grain of the side I am 100% convinced that it is a one piece back.

I think it is probably a cost issue. The amount of wood needed for the neck (at least if you make it from one piece) is determined by the distance measured from the bottom of the fingerboard (=top of the mahogany neck) to the heel of the neck joint or the back of the headstock, whichever is the...

I use a Brunetti Maranello. It is only 20 W, full tube and it goes up to something like 105 dB. Very versatile and very easy in getting exactly the sound you want. This is how it sounds like: Relatively undistorted: http://www.youtube.com/user/Rockaboveclouds#p/u/2/RgJ-9hGXPDE Relatively...

Congratulations Marcus, I know you have too many guitars, but you won't regret this one. :D Please tell us your opinion when it arrives! And now I'm off to my gig with my band tonight 8)

To be honest I don't know, apart from the binding mine is totally black. I think you'll have to ask Gottfried. Yeah you should really be embarrassed for paying so little money, shame on you :D

Indeed, it is only cosmetic. It is a beautiful plain top and the guitar sure looks great. I also noted a very nice fretboard with a good mixture between black, dark brown and lighter brown. Usually these fretboards sound very good with notes that jump out like glass. The one piece back also...

To be honest I think 553 Euros is ridiculously cheap for a guitar offering this kind of quality. I paid way more for my Anniversary (almost double) but I can't care less because the guitar is worth every penny of what I paid for it, and I have not regretted it a single moment. I think ? 1300,-...

I have been told the pickups ar Keiyo and I must say they are very good. Very powerful with a lot of grit and very good definition. I am not sure about the Tokai way of classifying pick-uos. It seems one time a MK I is a Gotoh make and the other time it is Keiyo. Beats me, but as long as it...

Yeah I actually still am. These guitars are top of the bill. I noted that there are some of them still out on eBay, possibly at give away prices if you are lucky 8) Here is the link I noted: http://shop.ebay.de/gpsoo/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340