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It is not out of the realm of possibility that Tokai supplied Kurosawa a Maple topped guitar instead of a Mahogany topped guitar, when Kurosawa was expecting a Mahogany topped guitar, just as the buyer was expecting a Mahogany topped guitar. That is a real possibility. Is that what actually happene...

guitar hiro wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:23 am

I wouldn't purchase any newer Tokai; why? Someone, somewhere wasn't being honest with that buyer; could have been the shop, could have been Tokai, who knows?
That sullies the entire reputation of the Tokai brand IMO.
It's pretty F***ed when one persons' bad experience can turn a Tokai fan away from Tokai. And I prolly aint the only one.

Really ? This would have to be one of the silliest things I've ever read here {or anywhere for that matter}, bordering on stupid, no really. Someone buys a guitar, without looking at it, from a guitar shop in a country that doesn't speak English, the specs are misrepresented, and I highly doubt on purpose, and somehow how this is Tokai's fault ? I have played that many completely ^&*( Gibson's and in comparison, a lot of wonderful Tokai's, I find your assertion simply ridiculous....

Here we are in July. I have found this excerpt from good old Wikipedia: There were also some transitional Greco models from 1981/1982 that have a mixture of "Super Real Series" and "Mint Collection Series" features such as a "Super Real" model with an open O letter in the Greco logo instead of a cl...

70s tokai goldtop loverock

Love rock Tokai's come out in the 1980's as far as I know, they were called/labelled Les paul reborn and reborn old in the late 70's....

Are you sure its not wine red ? I used to own a wine red OBG custom, very nice guitar... https://www.google.com/search?q=wine+red+Orville+By+Gibson+gcustom&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjW25ywouTpAhVS8TgGHco7DQMQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=wine+red+Orville+By+Gibson+gcustom&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DemAJY6JkDYIWcA2gAcAB4AIAB4AGI...

I'm trying to get motorcycle parts shipped from Japan at the moment, the businesses I'm dealing with are NOT shipping internationally, I know a guy who's business buys all their motorcycle parts from Japan and he's had to shut down until the Japanese companies start shipping again, maybe its only ci...

I searched Tokai FSD guitar and came up with plenty of hits... https://www.google.com/search?q=Tokai+FSD+guitar&rlz=1C1GCEA_enAU831AU831&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5rZre1_DoAhXFgeYKHavmBrYQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1366&bih=625 And here's the original series logo.. https://reverb.com/au/item/100...

Its a Tokai FSD model guitar {FS is for "Five star"} , 1983, I don't know too much about them but they came in both Rosewood and plain maple necks/fret boards.... Here's a maple board neck on Yahoo Japan, this is the earlier model {1982}...

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j631286359

The front pickup cavity should have a model number, all mine have had except my custom shop goldtop...

Well, all of this is a huge bummer. Despite the guitar playing good. It doesn't sit right with me that I got hosed. Wait for the reply from Tokai, it may well be a model made for import, its just that so many fakes were made for the Canadian market, it blurs the lines a bit, Most I've seen were mad...

LS180 Honduran Mahogany https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49645180298_4fb6d2c4d9_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49645709796_697b61bf81_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49645993652_ddb4fedd9c_z.jpg ST70 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49645709766_2fb1b5a90a_o.jpg https://liv...

Not sure how to post pics here , my pics are on photobucket and its now crap, I can't even log into it any more....

Your first link gives you the answer, It was "ACTIVE MUSICAL PRODUCTS LTD", that commissioned the fake Tokai's. Then I admitted my mistake and posted the correct one. I will do so again. Click the link to "New love rocks". https://web.archive.org/web/20030720053953/http://www.tokaiguitars.com/ As t...

the best person who absolutely knows so much about the old tokai situations was mr.kunishi furuhashi of the guitar shop "neo" in nagoya. he worked at tokai in the 80s and laters he helped to make LS320 & LS150F. He also made some of the the early LS180's , prototype guitars and custom shop orders, ...

There's a wealth of info on the Canadian fakes on this very forum. Use the search term "fakai". IIRC they were made for a place called Mike's Music in or around 2005. Made in Korea but in a different factory without Tokai knowing. The semi hollows had an altered Tokai logo and the LP copies had a d...