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Hiya guys! :) The guitar in pictures above is a '04 LS200. Easily the sweetest Les Paul I have ever touched. It has a very very light one piece body with a stunning top, ebony(like?) fretboard, Seth Lovers, etc. It weighs only 3.8kg/8.4 pounds. It sounds brighter, open and airy compared to my...

Long time has gone but here we go again! :) Not big surprises here. Gibson might have little bit more neck wood in the neck pocket. 2005 Gibson R8:

Well, maybe the objectiveness partly depends how you take that demo. But sure it's there for commercial purposes. However, I personally don't see that demo as a challenge between real burst, Gibson CS or Unicorn. I think it is just a very good example of good, classic Les Paul tones of (very?)...

Sorry off topic but when speaking of Les Paulish and spanish cedar I can't resist mentioning Juha Ruokangas, a Finnish luthier. Most beuatiful guitars I have evers seen: http://www.ruokangas.com/?page_id=7&sub=13 I recommend you also check out the 'media/videos' sheet. For example the 'Unicorn...

Fabers are just great piece of hardware. I used to change lockable bridge, alu tailpiece and tone kit (studs and washers for the tailpiece). Gottfried has always offered very good service to me, despite of all the rumours here. However the sound will change and it is pretty much a matter of...

That is not true, not with my R8 anyway. The neck tenon route is very tight and nicely crafted. However I have heard the same rumour about some era of Gibson USA(?)

LS200, about 5th-7th fret.

According to internet there are thousands of girlfriends, wifes, mothers, etc that can hear infinitesimal differencies but still the number of before and after demo clips is almost zero :D

Very nice guitar but it needs the plate :) +1

I agree with Alan but must say that this is one of the most beautiful fretboard I've ever seen. Just look at that grain and deepness in the inlays. Stunning!

Sweeeeet!!

I have bought 4 Tokai LP in two years. Everyone of them had that inlay 'inconsistency', some more some less, but everyone had it. To me it is not a problem tough, and I would not talk about quality control problem but it sure is typical for Tokais.

Ebay? Just look for 'metric guitar knobs' etc.

Very nice Alan :D It looks like I need one more guitar.. Are those p90s same pickups they use in R6?

Thumb rule is that the resistance of mk2 bridge pickup is about 8ohm when it is made by Gotoh and about 11-12ohm if it is made by Keiyo. And they sure sound very different but I am pretty sure that so does your guitars. However, I would be surprised if a LS-200 had Keiyos(?) Pair of Mk2s goes...

Bad morning maybe? :lol: And well, in that case you should open threads to talk about playing guitars and making music and not to show photos of your guitars?

That pavillion is definitely pure kitsch! :o And it doesn't look cheap because it is not made of veneer :) What I meant by "cheap" was that those 100% bookmatched quilt tops just fail to look expensive. They are trying to look fancy so hard and they still look like sheets of contact plastic...

I don't know what is wrong with me but to me quilted tops look always somehow cheap, especially 100% book matched ones. Just like kitsch to me. I think they are made to give totally opposite image but don't work fo me.

Yep, I have a R8 but I think there shouldn't be anything really interesting in there. It would be more interesting to scan something from Gibson USA, studio or standard for example. However I took those pictures while installing and testing our new CT scanner. Now the scanner is already in...

I am just wondering how could one man control internet so much? Almost Tokai was running on Freeforum server and why would they listen any no-reason and empty complaints or even threats coming from anybody?