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The headstock on my ES100 has clouded. Doesn't bother me. No plans to refinish or try and repair the finish. Stew Mac has a product that can repair the cloudiness on a nitro finish. I would never consider refinishing in poly. I have no opinion on the tonal aspects of a nitro finish, but I love...

I had one of these guitars. It was my first “Tokai”. It was sold to me as a MIJ model, which I discovered was not the case after the fact. Ok guitars. On par with the Korean made Epiphones of the time. Nothing to write home about. Was a good intermediate guitar after a pickup swap. I held...

I had a 2002 LS200 that had lacquer over poly base coat. The base coat was very thin. That was one of the most resonant guitars I've owned.

I don't think Burny made any guitars with a big neck. I've owned a SG, Les Paul and a RSA-100 and they all had very slim necks.

I had an old Navigator SA120 from the '82-84 period. I believe ESP started in house production of the SA guitars during this time. I believe the earlier Kasuga made guitars have the 12 fret dot markers placed more closely together. Nice guitar, but my '81 Tokai ES120 outshined it in every way.

I love a well worn guitar, but that poor guitar has been straight up abused. Like looking at a dog that has been in a number of illegal dog fights.

It’s so hard to capture the checking on a camera! Zoom in on the photos to really see the checking. Here’s a pic of the top bout around the pickup selector. There is more checking around the body. Really hard to capture the rest of the checking. I didn’t even realize how much checking there...

That LS80…yikes! That first Springy is WOW! Maple fretboards don't usually do it for me, but that one is absolutely stunning!

My ‘81 LS120 has a fair amount of checking. I’ll try and capture it with my phone camera. My other guitars don’t have any checking at all. All from 80-81. Greco SS-700, LS80 and ES100J. Seems pretty rare for these finishes to check. I think I’ve only read of less than a handful of owners...

Tokai for sure. Doubt the value will go up though.

Did a little searching and apparently, many 50s Gibson’s came from the factory with a 9.5” radius.

on my 1980 Greco SS-700. I just picked it up from a re-fret. The tech says the fretboard had a 8” radius. He flattened it slightly to a 9” radius to help facilitate bends on the higher frets. When he mentioned it, I looked at the neck heel and sure enough, it was much rounder than a typical...

I’ve only owned 2 Greco’s. A 90s Mint Collection with P90s and my current ‘80 SS700. Both have/had a slim taper neck. I’ve also owned a late 80s Burny SG that also had a slim taper neck. I think the more recent Tokai SGs have a bigger profile.

Seems like there have been a lot of these popping up. I looked for one for a few years and jumped when I had the money.

Most seem to have a ‘59 profile. Mine has a narrower nut width at around 43mm and the neck tapers quite a bit towards the nut. Mine is also an ‘81.

Sweet guitar! Sounds like you found one with a nice sized neck. My ‘81 has a narrow nut width and the profile really tapers off towards the nut. It’s still one of my all time greatest guitars.

I’ve owned this ‘81 ES-100J for 5 years. It’s needed new frets since I got it. Was playable, but barely. I imagine the frets were similar to those on the “Fretless Wonder” Black Beauties. Definitely no more fret life for a level. I waited so long partly due to cost and probably equally because...

Sweet guitar! Never seen one in white! Looks really clean too!

So cool! What a fantastic looking burst!