villager
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which model no's DON'T have the circuitboard ..I have seen LS 60/80 and 100 with it, Ive seen a 100 without ..but that could be a later mod...
The first owner told me it was one (OK, he lied about the 'SG' pickups, too), I can see a remaining oval '120' from the original sticker on the headstock right beneath the serial number when holding the guitar against the daylight at a certain angle (sorry, no photo of that), and the one-piece body and solid flamed maple top would classify it as a high-price model, too, maybe even the '60 neck profile and lightweight tailpiece, but I don't know enough about these details and how Tokai classified them back then.ian said:how do you identify the model ... I'm not doubting you, but you & I both know it can be tricky to id these models without stamped model codes
You can bet that I had several long and really close looks at that top from different angles and under different light sources, especially the edge and the visible wood graining in the cavity before I deleted the word "probably" from its description... :roll: As you know I also have a LS 60 with a flamed maple veneer, and that one is clearly recognizable, also because the graining beneath the veneer doesn't correspond to the top (being one solid piece for example).ian said:But take a really close look at that top,... we've had a few debates about that, & still not clear if a truly flamed top was actually solid on LS120 ... evidence so far would suggest it's veneer, but can be VERY difficult to spot because (a)veneer is ultra thin, and (b)edge of veneer is smoothed over to blend in at the pup cavities :-?
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