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- Sat Aug 08, 2020 5:55 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Announcement : Recent Black beauty Premium model spottet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1062
Re: Announcement : Recent Black beauty Premium model spottet
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...
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Announcement : Recent Black beauty Premium model spottet
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1062
Re: Announcement : Recent Black beauty Premium model spottet
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....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.
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:01 am
- Forum: Greco
- Topic: Greco SA1200 no serial # no label inside F hole
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3265
Re: Greco SA1200 no serial # no label inside F hole
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...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:52 am
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Goldstar serial number
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1103
Re: Goldstar serial number
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....70s tokai goldtop loverock
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: Orville
- Topic: Orville by Gibson LP Custom in Candy Apple Red
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1548
Re: Orville by Gibson LP Custom in Candy Apple Red
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...
- Thu May 28, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: Tokai Sightings & eBay Alerts
- Topic: Holy Crap - History Top Shelf with Braz 'board & Honduran on Yahoo Japan
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5511
Re: Holy Crap - History Top Shelf with Braz 'board & Honduran on Yahoo Japan
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...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 6:14 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Help ID this tokai star shape
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1030
Re: Help ID this tokai star shape
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...
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:09 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Help ID this tokai star shape
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1030
Re: Help ID this tokai star shape
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
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j631286359
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:50 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Please help me !
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4709
Re: Please help me !
The front pickup cavity should have a model number, all mine have had except my custom shop goldtop...
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:43 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Please help me !
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4709
Re: Please help me !
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...
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: " 2021 TOKAI FORUM COOL GUITAR CONTEST! "
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8713
Re: " 2020 TOKAI FORUM COOL GUITAR CONTEST! "
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...
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Gear Reviews
- Topic: what "TOKAI" means?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4969
Re: what "TOKAI" means?
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....
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:17 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Please help me !
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4709
Re: Please help me !
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...
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:19 pm
- Forum: Gear Reviews
- Topic: what "TOKAI" means?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4969
Re: what "TOKAI" means?
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, ...
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:04 pm
- Forum: Tokai Guitars
- Topic: Please help me !
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4709
Re: Please help me !
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...