blind pork chitlin slim
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I held my Gold top in the sun and could see that it had a flametop under the Gold nitro paint....I got into the pickup cavity and shaved of the paint where the bookend maple joins and carved down ...There was absolutely no thin veneer ..because I shaved all the way to the top of the gold paint ..the paint with the clear coat was a pretty thick layer but there was no thin veneer and the bookend maple that was stripped could easily show the maple flame grains bending down and the mable was about an inch thick....Iam saying this because I have read other posts about the veneer..but that may be the case in some tokai's but it is not in my 1981 LS-80...maybe it's just a mistake...the rose wood is very dark and could be brazillian..it was common in the early eighties...it may be a good quality indian rosewoon(some luthiers claim they actually have good resonance properties because af the large amount of mica in the wood) the neck slant is 18 degrees..there is fret binding -aluminum stop tail...abr bridge...I also shaved inside the pickup cavity to see if it had a long neck tenon..The body definately is routed to accept a long neck tenon ...but is does have it it I could not tell because It was to difficult to tell if the neck wood was going further in the body..I will say that the routing only supported about 3/4 inches of a tenon..and I doubt very seriously that this has all that much to do with better sustain...the light weight quality choice mahogany..maple top and good rosewood neck give this guitar all the sustain it needs ...tenon or not
