Recent content by tele_player

I recently sold a beautiful Gibson Custom Shop ES355, which I’d owned for about ten years. No VariTone, no stereo, no Bigsby,but guitar weighed about 9.25 lbs., and we never really bonded. Too pretty,big,heavy,expensive. Sounded good, but seldom left the house. Last week, a friend received a...

I recently bought two Tokais through Reverb. One from Guitar Hiro in Spain (LS198S), one from G-CLUB in Japan (KLS165LW). Both went smoothly. The Spain shipment took two weeks, the FedEx from Japan took two days from order to me, in California. I won't generalize further, but I wouldn't...

I'm not an expert on Tokai, but from the specs, the LS198S (I have a brand new 2022 LS198S goldtop) has a one-piece back. Yours has a visible seam in the photo.