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That's my guitar in the link thread. I had one back in the eighties and wanted a replacement for years. Picked up quite a battered example last year. Stock Guitar should have fixed bridge, and exposed pole piece pups (H stamped). I would hazard a guess that the Kahler and p/ups are after...

I'm doing a restoration job on one at the moment. It's a bit of a nostalgia trip for me as I had one a long while ago. The information I have manage to put together is: Production appears to run 1982-1984. The early ones have 7okai logo while later ones have Tokai script logo and 38 special...

I remember seeing a few of these new when I bought my ls70 in 2005. They were special order uk, but have no idea what the numbers were, they seemed to crop up in quite a few places so I suspect that numbers may have increased a little. Price was around ?1200 iirc. Sorry can't be more specific...

I am the very proud (and slightly smug) owner of this fine axe. It was local to me so I put in a bid that I completely expected to fail, only much to my surprise I won the auction for a little less than my upper limit. Guitar is 2006 - pretty much mint. it's antique white so is a little more...

I can't add too much - but I had one of these from new back in 1984. Mine was blonde and the grain visible through it. I think in terms of budget I paid about ?150 - which was upper end budget guitar price at the time iirc squires were pitching in at around ?200. Very good guitar as I recall...

I am a massive Springsteen fan and I loved it! (perhaps no suprise in that, given my opening statement). Great stuff.

While hunting around the web I found this review originally in a copy of guitarist (UK mag) http://www.fret-king.com/reviews/fkguitarist_april08.pdf Although it's for Fret-King guitars, page one talks of a tie up between Tokai and Trev Wilkinson to produce "Fret-King by Tokai" guitars. It...

The vaneer is very thin <1mm is the general concensus. It's real wood too, so it's more decorative cheating than material cheating. Beneath the vaneer is a standard maple cap with all the tonal benefits that bestows (the vaneer is tone neutral)

Are they Make in Korea?

Funny thing about these "canadian market" guitars is that they seem to pretty well made. Perhaps if the distributor involved with this situation had of come up with a unique name of his own to put on the headstock he'd actually have given the world a pretty cool line of guitars. Not to...

I'm not an expert by any means, but the guys generally like to see serial, bridge, headstock, TRC and under the pickups. Shot of the whole guitar is useful as well.

Yes Sometimes things are hard to visualise from a description.

I've just seen Loz's post - a nice guitar and likely to be the one I've been looking for these past months. Think I should do my level best to give it good home !! :D

Well maybe not so much questions more clarifications of what I think I know. Block logos - I assume these were transitional between 7okai and tokai - roughly what sort of period was this (I assume it's around 82/83). Was the block logo applied to springys only or do any goldies have it (I know...

Has it got a solid or laminate top? <run's outside, digs hole, builds bunker, stocks it with supplies and hides>

I've avoided nitro for years as I'd been led to believe it was a thin, fragile and brittle finish that would crack like the coating of a toffee apple if subjected to a light breeze :D I've recently just got a guitar finished in lacquer and it feels a lot different to poly (and smells...

Sycamore is a maple - both belong to the genus Acer. As is often the case there are other species that are referred to as sycamore - most notably the american sycamore (genus platanus) - this is not a widespread and not as widely used. :D I can't say that's the most interesting post I've...

1) ALS48 is Korean made and a very competant instrument - quality wise it exceeds epiphone, but falls short of Japanese quality. 2) LS80-85 is a much better guitar. How close it comes to a Gibson is subjective as their are both good and bad LPs. However I have found that my LS70F (85F...

Dunno if someone could clarify something. Laminate and Vaneer seem to being used interchangably on numerous threads. As I understood it Vaneer is a thin slice of of pressed wood applied to the top of another wood for cosmetic reasons. Whereas I understood that laminate was a many strips of...

Agreed - my view is that shims are just another form of adjustment; a way of fine tuning the setup to accomodate for natural variations in wood. Although none of my current crop of guitars have them, I've seen plenty that have.