As someone told before there is no Tokai custom shop,but custom order guitars made for shops or particulars under request.Tokai is a small factory with less employess than USA big boys you know to own a custom shop.There is some Masters Luthiers working for Tokai,this is true and I was lucky having seen one making a Tokai 335 by hand and it was amazing,great quality guitar.Tokai also owns a lot of great quality woods so they can make excellent guitars.I was told Tokai made a short run of 5 goldtop guitars for Universe,one of them you can see it hanging on the Universe guitarshop walls and another was bought by Rod Stewart guitarist.Besides this,wich will be Gibson Custom Shop and Tokai LS-320 differences besides price and value?