Hello everybody. I own a 1991 Tokai Love Rock, I?ve got registered right now on this site and I?m sure I?ll usually hang around this forums.
I?ll start making a question but I promise I?ll contribute to others knowledge, too :-D. If someone can give some clue to identify an odd, vintage LP copy I?ve bought on eBay. I?d be really thankful!
Well, let?s talk about the guitar. It is a no-named black LP copy, it seems to be a japanese guitar from the seventies (due to its construction, its authentic Gibson-style headstock, and a tailpiece which shows "Japan" on its rear face). It is quite heavier than my Tokai, body seems to be mahogany. I peeled off the neck lacquer and I?ll bet my soul it is mahogany!
Some distinctive things about this guitar:
-Obviously, it hasn?t got any trademark stamped on its headstock... but it shows two parallel, medium-sized triangles made out of real mother-of-pearl. Both of them point to the left side of the headstock. This should be its most significative identity trace!
-Its bolt-on neck is a baseball-bat-type one: same gauge on body and headstock junction (by the way, I slimmed it a little bit while peeling its lacquer finish
-It has got a curious body construction. I?ve never seen anything like that before: body is made of two pieces glued horizontally, just in the middle of its sides width. It is easy to notice this junction as a clear line inside the pickup poaches. You can see it even from the outside in a closer lookup as a thin, slightly depressed line underneath the lacquer. So it is like a kind of mixture of the two most-commonly-used body constructions: glueing some thick blocks together + plywood body
-Its cutaway horn is a bit rounder than original Gibson shape (anyway it seems a bit more vintage-like to me
-It is provided with two humbuckers which seem to be a little more round-squared than the average. Three thin cables come out of the pickup (the two positive poles and a common ground, as usual)
It sounds really nice to me and I guess I?ll keep it for years, maybe for a lifetime... but I?d like to know something about its manufacturer! If you own another axe like this or you know any useful thing about it, please bring some light on my question!!! It seems to be a quite strange LP copy, but I hope someone will recognise it. If you want it, I can send you some pics taken after and before my work on this cool, heavy axe.
Thanks for dedicating a little time on reading this. Enjoy making music!!!
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I?ll start making a question but I promise I?ll contribute to others knowledge, too :-D. If someone can give some clue to identify an odd, vintage LP copy I?ve bought on eBay. I?d be really thankful!
Well, let?s talk about the guitar. It is a no-named black LP copy, it seems to be a japanese guitar from the seventies (due to its construction, its authentic Gibson-style headstock, and a tailpiece which shows "Japan" on its rear face). It is quite heavier than my Tokai, body seems to be mahogany. I peeled off the neck lacquer and I?ll bet my soul it is mahogany!
Some distinctive things about this guitar:
-Obviously, it hasn?t got any trademark stamped on its headstock... but it shows two parallel, medium-sized triangles made out of real mother-of-pearl. Both of them point to the left side of the headstock. This should be its most significative identity trace!
-Its bolt-on neck is a baseball-bat-type one: same gauge on body and headstock junction (by the way, I slimmed it a little bit while peeling its lacquer finish
-It has got a curious body construction. I?ve never seen anything like that before: body is made of two pieces glued horizontally, just in the middle of its sides width. It is easy to notice this junction as a clear line inside the pickup poaches. You can see it even from the outside in a closer lookup as a thin, slightly depressed line underneath the lacquer. So it is like a kind of mixture of the two most-commonly-used body constructions: glueing some thick blocks together + plywood body
-Its cutaway horn is a bit rounder than original Gibson shape (anyway it seems a bit more vintage-like to me
-It is provided with two humbuckers which seem to be a little more round-squared than the average. Three thin cables come out of the pickup (the two positive poles and a common ground, as usual)
It sounds really nice to me and I guess I?ll keep it for years, maybe for a lifetime... but I?d like to know something about its manufacturer! If you own another axe like this or you know any useful thing about it, please bring some light on my question!!! It seems to be a quite strange LP copy, but I hope someone will recognise it. If you want it, I can send you some pics taken after and before my work on this cool, heavy axe.
Thanks for dedicating a little time on reading this. Enjoy making music!!!
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