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I'm in the lucky position to have owned a 2008 Custom Shop Gibson 59 reissue Les Paul for a good few years and have just picked up a 2004 Tokai LS 150F so hopefully I can provide some insight here.... In pretty much every area the Tokai matches my R9 pound for pound, especially build quality...

That's interesting, could well be...It's not an absolute show stopper top at first glance like my Gibson R9 pictured on the left. It really is very dependent on light and angle with this one, looks pretty plain from some angles but then the figuring just pops at others....definitely a very...

Noted and entirely justified...

Cool! Yeah, see pic 3. The part that has VF written on is the tenon and is painted the same as the rest of the rout.

They're coming out and going on fleebay the minute the replacements get here. I have some Tokai PAF MKII's on the way pulled straight out of an LS 160, they look to be the more premium Gotoh ones as they have 2 conductor braided wire and the bridge reads 8.4k (I'd expect the Keiyo MKII bridge to...

My kinda moron! The guy really didn't seem too switched on guitar wise, he said the switch was wired upside down but it wasn't....I wanna know what moron put active pickups in wood this nice! Yeah I'd say brass saddles. Factory pots are in the case with orange drops still attached. Haven't...

Hello all, You guys will probably hate me for this.....but I just bought this off of ebay on a hunch for ?350, it was advertised as 'possibly Japanese but doesn't say anywhere' and it has SD Blackout active pickups which are REALLY not my thing but worth some money. I thought it was probably an...

So I checked it out this morning... First impressions were that this thing was HEAVY! Weighed more than my Les Paul, must have been north of 10 pounds. Next was the shape, proportions looked a little strange, curves didn't flow nicely. Lacquer was a real thick poly. General construction, neck...

The Tokai headstock pictured in the ad with the 3 screw TRC is a different guitar just featured to prove somehow that it's a genuine Tokai. Ironically, I think that's a fake Tokai headstock too! I'm going to look at it tomorrow morning so I'll let you all know how it fairs! Safe to say I'll...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gibson-es335-1964-by-Tokai-with-seymour-duncan-pickups-and-varitone-coil-tap-/200931403893?nma=true&si=jjwyq9ic83VvM7ErSu%252FlUdc%252FdiQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Found the old ebay ad, looks pretty darn shady.... Also says there was one...

Cool thanks, that's good to know. If anyone finds the thread, please post it on here. Would be curious to hear if anyone saw it in person and what they thought. It looks so suspect that I bet most wouldn't want to drive far to check it out, if it wasn't less than 5 miles away from me I sure...

Oh, and it's on gumtree right now. No idea if it has been on ebay in the past.

Interesting, thanks for the info! Still a long way off conclusive, as plenty of chinese 335 copies have bound f holes too but who knows...the headstock is similar to those you posted but definitely different, the top tip is more pointed and narrower.

Interesting, thanks.

My dark sunburst Tokai in the first pic or the cherry one in the other pics I'm looking at? I'm pretty sure the MIJ one I own was advertised around here.

Yes I agree, that does seem to be the most likely explanation here. Thanks for your 2 cents anyway! He's asking ?400 (maybe $600, tad more) for it, which it isn't worth. On the off chance it turns out to be a decent guitar and taking into account all the aftermarket hardware and electronics on...

Hi all, New member here and the extremely lucky owner of an incredible 2009 MIJ Tokai ES 1PX. The PX series was the limited run of high end guitars Tokai did for Pacifix a few years back, here's a pic... Anyway, I'm actually here to ask a question about another guitar that is being...