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Actually, new guitar order day. I bought one of the guitars that Kurosawa Gakki had made, KLS-170F-LW. It has a few differences from the regular Tokai's, like a slightly different neck angle, period correct body carve, slightly repositioned bridge pickup, hide glue, hand carved neck (based on a...

I wonder if anyone here has any information on this. At the end of last year I bought an LS196 with a "Tokai Lacquer Finish" sticker on it, which I assume would mean that it's finished with lacquer, rather than poly. However, when I put the guitar on a stand that is notorious for eating lacquer...

I looked everywhere for this guitar and actually gave up looking on Saturday, then Monday morning I was browsing around looking for something else and I found this guitar at an online store here in Japan, and for about $200 less than the regular store price. So I ordered it and it just arrived...

I don't know where else to put this, but I'm wondering if any of you guys have ever been able to find pickup covers for the old "Goto" pickups (from '79 in my case). Standard pickup spacing seems to be 49.2mm, but I'm measuring 47.8 on my pickups. Does this mean that it's just not possible to...

Howdie folks. I just checked my profile and found that the last time I posted on this forum was 2007. Where did those 14 years go?!?! Back then I was the happy owner of 3 new Tokai 335's. Two of them are now with friends in the UK and US. The third one, natural finish and best sounding IMHO...

I have a mint sunburst ES130, completely rewired (Gibson wire, Switchcraft switch and jack, RS Guitarworks Super Pots, Vitamin-Q caps, Duncan Antiquity pickups), that I will be selling probably on consignment here in Tokyo. But I thought I'd see if anyone here was interested. I don't want to get...

I have added one more guitar to my Tokai collection, another CS130. This one was a gift from my lovely wife (it's supposed to be an early Christmas present, but I definitely wasn't gonna let it sit for 6 months before I opened the case). The guitars in the picture are a CS130 on the left, the...

First of all, this is not intended to slam Tokai. I have 2 Tokai ES guitars myself, a 120 and a 130, and I love them both. However, it seems only fair to point out a few issues that have popped up with those guitars. I have personal experience with 4 ES type guitars (so far), my 120 and 130, a...

I got a set of Duncan Antiquities for my ES120 and replaced them over the weekend. They made a definite improvement in the tone of the guitar. The original pickups are rather cold and sterile sounding, without much harmonic content at all. The Antiquities are full of harmonic richness and...

I love my ES130 so much, that when I was out checking out the Golden Week sales here in Tokyo a couple days ago, I stumbled across a pair of ES120's (one cherry and one sunburst) and ended up going home with the cherry one. Except for the color, position markers and pickguard, they seem to be...

Thanks to the comments and info I picked up here, I took the plunge yesterday and bought a sunburst ES130 at Musicland Key here in Tokyo. When I get a chance, I'll upload some pics of it. I've had it less than a day at this point, so except for saying that I'll be changing out the neck pickup, I...

There's a Tokai Renegade Les Paul on ebay with a current bid of $1. Anybody know anything about this guitar? http://cgi.ebay.com/Tokai-Renegade-1959-Sunburst-CLASSIC-LP-Guitar-New_W0QQitemZ7408694132QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Bill

You guys have me GASing real bad for a Tokai ES guitar. I have been looking around here in Tokyo without much luck, and I have a question maybe someone here can answer. I originally wanted the ES-120 because it seems to be the closest to a '59 335 (light, long pickguard, dot neck, chunky neck...