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The ?59-reshaped top looks AMAZING!! Dig the wonderful ?burst too!! Awesome Job, Ed!

Absolutely awesome KILLER-guitar!!

Extremely nice top! Don?t like the Fretboard without binding. :(

Dowel-tenon of a 1975 GRECO pre-Super Real EG-700 T:

AWESOME guitar! This is exactly what I?m looking for! (need to save some bucks) Great rug, too! (reminds me -> The Black Crowes stage-rugs) :wink: regards, Ralf

Sorry, but I can?t help ya. The tortoise PG on my Orville is original (but aged) and the one on the Tokai was handcrafted by it?s owner BigEd. But that?s the way it goes: Do it yourself! Built it from scratch. GOOD LUCK! (...and we hopefully find some great pics here next week!) :wink:

Hello to the forum & thanx for your compliments! The ORVILLE LP Junior is one of my best guitars! KILLER-resonance and extremely versatile! The TOKAI LP Junior definitely is a superb guitar too. Some candy? -> You?ll have TONS of fun with your new TOKAI! Best regards, Ralf

Congrats! A great guitar! If you?re a live-player the lightweight 3,7 kg will be helpful. I have got 3 MIJ LP?s weighting ca. 3,6 kg with very resonant acoustic tone, but my early?70s Gibson LP Deluxe weighs 4,6 kg(!) and is exactly on the same resonance-level. So I think the weight can, but...

My pleasure! AFAIK udonitron sold his Fresher some weeks ago. ...or tried to...?!

HI mojo! THANX for the compliments! Here you?ll find a pic of the orig. tuners with their sheet metal-covers. http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/other-les-pauls/64213-fresher-leo-line-interesting-guitar.html I mounted a set of aged nickel Crazyparts single-line/single-ring Kuson-replicas on my...

CONGRATS, mojo! The guitar looks great! I was watching the YouTube-clip a lot during the last weeks. The FL-450 S Goldtop sounds awesome! Same woody, honky & dry tone like my Fresher LS-800. I love it! The original tuners mounted by Fresher are really ugly & cheap.

YES! !! - http://www.tokaiguitar.de/1.php - !!

Thanx for your compliments, Mole Man! Please don?t use these techniques on older TOKAI, GRECO, BURNY and on guitars. It?s the (my) way to make a newer poly-gloss-finish look 'older' or 'vintage'. If I can help, please ask. Regards, Ralf

@ Max The Dog: THANX!! @ cosmitron 2: Use the finest you can find, use it soft & wet with vortexes/circling action. Inspect within the process. GOOD LUCK! Please show some pics of the result! Regards, Ralf

You?re posting some newer facts in THIS forum. So I?d guess the PU?s are PU-1 types. Post a pic of the lettering on the PU-groundplate.

Hey mojo, this are pics of my 1991 TOKAI LC-60, same routings: Limetree/Basswood-body, maple-cap, rosewood-fretboard.

THANX, jacco! I?m a true fan of DAVID BARFUSS pickups! The 'Greeny-Blues'-Set is my favorite PAF-type set. They?re perfect for my 32 year old FRESHER Les Paul. Bridge & neck-PU have all the attributes a good PAF should deliver. The 'out-of-phase'-option is the i-dot of this awesome set. Each PU...

Thanx-a-lot! Next steps: Some greening on the top, fine checking on the headstock-faceplate, sides & back. I?ll also apply some checking on the body-back &-sides, the 'non-glossy' neck will stay as perfect as it is. Regards, Ralf

First of all I studied hundreds of pics of original ?50s Les Pauls as well as the images of Historic Makeover and RS-Guitarworks. To realize the checking I used the 'Tom Murphy'-checking-techniqes with a scalpel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGaLB2I2GFE (Video-block of 7 clips!)

'MARILYN' Poly-Finish-Makeover, step II: Weather-checking on the top