Recent content by michaeld

Ozeshin, Have to say the obvious first: I'm glad you're a "dysfunctional family," as otherwise you would have chased a guy like me off right quick. Whenever skilled people are willing to patiently help/assist/explain things to novices, you're a good bunch. If people like you didn't want to...

I'll go ahead and order one, then. From the way they were described, it sounded pretty good. And "pennies" is obviously good, too. And I actually CAN sing rather well, I've often been told. In fact, it's frankly the fact that I sing well that makes me want to take advantage of a natural...

I thought I'd better make this separate, so it didn't get lost with the other stuff I wrote. I am thinking about buying one of those electronic gizmos that plug into your guitar and tell you when you're too high/low, and when your string is "tuned." I would ultimately like to get to Ozeshin's...

Ozeshin, Thanks for that bit of advice from personal experience. I think everyone probably learns differently. Some learn best the way you did; others need a teacher. I'll have to figure out what I need. I'm just going to start somewhere (and that somewhere is practicing chords and doing...

There was once a musical instrument that I totally mastered: the great and glorious kazoo. http://www.kazoos.com/pub/index.htm Oh, you should have heard me play (I was like six, but I RULED the kazoo). Sadly, the guitar is a far, far more difficult lady to please. And of course, she only...

After giving it a good look, it does appear to have a seam, like Beerslinger thought. But even in sunlight, it's STILL pretty hard to detect. Frankly, it doesn't look very different from other grain patterns, and if it wasn't located in the center (where you'd expect a one piece join to be)...

It's an amazing seal job, if it's a 2 piece (I'll look more carefully in the sunlight). I didn't even notice until Beerslinger said he thought he saw the seam in one of the pics. I looked at the pics and couldn't tell, so I looked at the guitar - and STILL couldn't tell. In some angles you...

That leads to another interesting discussion (at least for me). I noted that the 60 model has a headstock angle of 14, and the 80 and higher models are 18 degree. Using the pic I supplied of the neck and headstock, I traced a pair of lines from the bottom of the headstock and the bottom of the...

Btw, A couple folk said it my guitar is an LS-80. What is it that IDs it for you as an LS80 versus all the OTHER "LS" guitars? Just curious. It's frankly kind of amazing to me that Tokai made guitars that are so visually similar to one another in so many different 'iterations.'

I'm in the Palm Springs area (in California, USA). I actually live in a smaller town about 7 miles north called Desert Hot Springs, but no one's heard of it (even though it has some of the best tasting water in the world). I clicked on the pic and saw that beauty of a finger, Alan. Looks like...

At this point in my guitar-handling life, it's nothing but PWKWTHTD (that's 'People Who Know What The Hell They're Doing). I imagine that restringing a guitar is probably easy for PWKWTHTD. But for me it's like rocket science - and I'd let PWKWTHTD launch my rockets for me, too. When I get it...

Ozeshin, Being a guitar god (and btw, at this point anybody who can pick up a guitar and play ANYTHING is a guitar god to me - and I genuflect accordingly) tell me what you like about the LS80 (can I assume it's official, and I have an LS80?). This guitar has seen VERY little combat, having...

Okay, I made them bigger. Unfortunately, that's as big as I can make them without retaking them (and to think I thought I was SMART for reducing the image size)... Go to the same link: http://menofissachar.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/tokai-love-rock-model/ and thanks for looking and for...

GAAAH! I can redo the pics if they're too small for ID purposes by re-inserting them this time as "large" rather than the "medium" I chose the first time. I actually took them in 10mp, but used an editor to "shrink" them down. An LS 80, huh? I'll have to find out what that means! The funny...

Guys, I'm back and I have pictures - just couldn't post them here (I've got to "fix" my uploader). I figured it was quicker to just post the pics to something that worked. I posted 10 pics of areas that were recommended. Hope I got the right angles and whatnot. Just click the link -...