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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...

"*sigh* Whats with the theatrics ? Starting with "sigh" and finishing with "lol" doesn't make for a convincing argument.. That link, whilst it does show an altered body, doesn't show the ugly headstock, and that serial number looks dodgy as well, looks nothing like my 2001 and 2002 Tokai's serial nu...

So because the LesPaul forum says it's legit...it must be legit? No, it's legit because Tokai made those guitars for a number of years around the turn of the millennium for the US market, as stated above. https://web.archive.org/web/20020609005900/http://www.tokai-guitars.com/guitars.html As you ca...