Recent content by MarcoXMarco

Hi Solderjunkie, Marco So your Les Paul LS150 is a, ¿"Standard"?, because of the "S" in its LS150 model designation? Though origionally selling for 150K ¥, I assume that means in 1980 dollars, a very high-end model? Is your 150 the demonstration that we're mostly seeing old Tokais that...

I'm sorry, I transferred *¥140K, or ¥150K*, around about $1000 U.S. into a Jauce account, of which PayPal charged me about 8% in the transfer rate. I meant to be as much as , *I thought*, I would need to pay for everything, even if the auction price might go at my maximum bid. Jauce suggests...

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/which-japanese-guitar-buying-service-would-you-recommend.2413768/page-2#post-36460149 This is one of the guitar forum threads I studied.

Hi Callings, I am not ignoring your request, but I still don't have all the exact data finally figured out, and it is a bit complicated. Also, I'm still challenged using this forum. One of the costs that had not occured to me, when I jumped into this, or at least how "dear" it would be, was...

Hi, My two cents here. I've just had a Breezysound clear customs at LAX, and I used Jauce, after reading everything I could find on the guitar forums, about importing gear using the Japanese proxy sevices, and Buyee may be cheaper, but won't fill out the customs paperwork, if any controlled...

Hi Sigmania, *All kidding aside*, you've done a fantastic job of organizing all these scans ! Thank you so much, for this and all you do. This *Table Of Contents* has been extremely useful to me recently. And, *just as you predicted*, I've done some "digging about", and there is something, at...

gash on the lower bout. That bent tuner can be straightened, but you would have to heat it, and replace the button. It looks like Stewmac has the repros, and could even do it for you, and match the colour. You could *probably* do it, without affecting the finish on the sheetmetal bits of it ...

Boy you L.P. fanciers sure like your weighty guitars, it was making my back hurt even more, looking at Cliff's shots of these, sitting on the scales, but I, "am not", going to up the flouroscope images I have of my spine, with needles in place, injecting cortisone into my vertibrae. I'm in...

Is "klon" shorthand for a "Korean+clone", meaning Tokai's Korean made imports ?

You can see where he is located from his Reverb ad. Go on Facebook Market place, and enter his locale, then search "Tokai". If he's on marketplace, you can contact him, through F.B., and exchange direct emails, or phone #s. You can do the same thing looking on Craislist for his area. He may...

Hi Everybody, -Marco As I continue my search for a MIJ Tokai T-style, and perhaps other of the usual brand candidates, something of info about neck profile shapes/thickness/ nut width measurements found wiith various model numbers/years, and their catalog "model group discriptions", such as...

Thank you so much Sig. As I said when I had joined, I've never been a forum, and have only spent about five minutes reviewing the forum guidelines, which I will revisit. I had actually thought that I was giving the members a heads up, my relating who I had been dealing with, and what the traps...

Perhaps the "2.88 kg" was BS as well.

Well Sigmania, you seem to have been correct. I have left negative feedback for EDGE_japan, as nowhere on their, or the the other seller's, "Convenience of Japan", listings, is mention of "item is listed on several sites, and may be previously sold". I also was not interested in emailing them...

I *pushed* the ebay "buy button" on this axe. Although the *lower price asker*, "EDGE_japan", of the two brokers hadn't gotten back to me with neck measurements, an offer arrived at ebay from the seller, knocking $30 off. Hopefully the, *seemingly unbelievable*, weight of this guitar, at 2.8 kg...