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I've read in a couple of places (and, yes, I know you shouldn't believe everything you read...) that the Edwards SGs can suffer from 'neck wobble'. I'm vaguely considering acquiring one of these (not a neck wobble, I hope) so I wondered if any of you who have had experience of SGs and more...

How do Tokai SG necks shape up (excuse the pun, please!) with other versions of this design? I have a Greco which has a much fuller neck profile than the traditional quite shallow SG type and I've read that the SG-85, as I believe it is currently priced/named, has quite a chunky profile...

It occurred to me the other day when I was browsing eBay that a couple of years ago there'd always be an Epiphone Japan 335 on there. I haven't seen one for auction there or on Yahoo Japan, Digimart, etc, for ages. I know that they're being collected but you normally get things surfacing now...

Now that Ishibashi has stopped carrying Tokai, where can one acquire them from Japan as an international customer? Your suggestions would be appreciated (by me, although I can't speak for my missus! :P ).

I'm starting to GAS for a Strat and, as much of a fan as I am of Fender Japan instruments, it occurred to me that I shouldn't disregard Edwards as a possible Strat provider. If I were to go the FJ route, it would probably be a ST62-78TX...

I was doing a deal for a mint used Epiphone Elite '63 Dot which looks like it won't go through now and I'm curious as to why I was/am so drawn towards this instrument. For one thing, the price I was prepared to pay would have got me a new Edwards E-SA-118 LT; okay, no hard case included, but...

Yes, following my enquiries here about these, I 'took one for the team'! Honestly, it was purely selfless...I did it just for you! :P Okay...I bit the bullet when my research took me around a few Japanese guitar websites and I noticed that the discounts were bigger than the usual 20%...

What's the consenus regarding the Grecos currently being produced? I appreciate that they won't have the vintage appeal but how do they rank compared with other contemporary ranges, such as Tokai and Edwards? I was browsing some of the models on various websites and was intrigued by the...

Hi chaps. I can't remember if this has been discussed before (although I'm pretty sure it must have been) and since I've just been reading about the various Korean factories such as Peerless, Unsung and Samick in relation to Gretsch I was wondering how many of them, if any, are responsible...

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I'm sure I know the answer to this but I'm boogied if I can remember! I think the query was sparked by reading a UK Tokai dealer's ad which said that his Tokais didn't come with cases but you could buy a Tokai case separately; isn't it the case (excuse the pun) that in Japan the MIJ Tokais...

Many of you will probably have noticed my posts recently about MIJ SGs. Well, I now have a Greco SG in cherry which I collected on Sunday and so far I'm very impressed. The neck (long tenon, apparently!) is extremely comfortable, pretty chunky unlike your typical SG, which is right up my...

My GAS continues... I'm interested in establishing a bit more info regarding good quality SG clones, ie, MIJ, set-neck, etc. So far the likely candidates line up as: Edwards Tokai Epiphone Elite/Elitist Burny I can't recall having encountered ads or eBay listings for SGs made by...

A local band I know was playing the other night and their new guitarist was using a Gibson LP Custom which was all mahogany, ie, no maple cap. It sounded a little different from your usual LP and I'm wondering how much this can be attributed to the lack of maple. Has anyone played a Tokai...

...which is in 'as new' condition (still with the stickers on the scratchplate and the sellophane, etc), complete with case. No, this isn't an advert!! What I'm wondering about is the price I should aim to get for it. There haven't been many (if any) in recent months on eBay, so I can't use...

I have an extremely nice ES-100 and was a couple of minutes into a little strum session the other day when I broke a string. Annoying but only to be expected on occasions...however, it did make me think that if only I had another 335 type guitar hanging around, I could have just reached over...

I wonder how these compare? (If you click on the link, once on the page choose 'Products' and then the 'Japanese Line' option) http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.gibson.jp/epi/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Depiphone%2Belite%2Bjapan%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG Epiphone have...

I ask because I've just put some Elixir 10s on my ES-100 and it's become a real bugger to get in tune and then to stay there. Even after excessive amounts of stretching, things aren't settling down to an acceptable degree. I'm wondering if I have a rogue set or if for some reason the guitar...

Every now and again I get tempted by an ES-175 type guitar and given that my ES-100 is preferable to any of the other 335 clones out there, getting a Tokai jazzer is quite tempting. The reservation I have is that the FA-70 is Korean rather than Japanese made. Does anyone have any thoughts...

Over the last week I've been looking on E-Bay for Tokais and it struck me how few there are compared with the last time I was checking there. Whilst there are a fair number of them offered by British dealers at the typical UK prices, there was a distinct lack of sellers supplying guitars direct...