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I'm selling a 2003 MIJ Burny LP JR DC - same guitar as featured in this (ancient) thread: http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=21277 I've since tracked down a model number in the Fernandes catalogues - RTV-70. The serial number is Tokai-style and dates it to 2003, and the RTV-70 appears...

I hope you good folks can help me identify and date this Burny LP jr. I have read loads of forums about dating Burnys and couldn't find an answer. The guy who sold it to me was sure it was Japanese and thought it was 80s. I think it looks a bit younger than that and I'm not 100% sure it's...

I'm selling my modded Boss DS-1. Great pedal but seldom used since I got into rangemaster clones, and now has to go to make way for a BYOC tremolo. Offers considered. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Boss-DS-1-Distortion-pedal-Tube-Driver-mod-/220621324665

Anyone here tried any of the Billm mods on their Blues Junior? I'm tempted to fiddle, but slightly put off by the warnings about the PCB being delicate and having to use a decent soldering iron with a temperature control. I've modded and built pedals with my cheapo soldering iron and not...

Every time I see the advert for Gibson's "Dusk Tiger" ( :roll: ) on this forum I just can't believe they managed to come up with a name so awful it would be shunned even by supermarket's-own-brand deodorants. Are there any other unfortunately named guitar models out there?

:oops: Redundant thread. Didn't spot main thread in General Discussion!

Yesterday I swapped the vintage alnicos in my Tokai ST-50 for the lace sensors from my '87 US strat. Combined with EMG SPC they sound awesome for rock tones but... my 5th fret natural harmonic has disappeared, but only with the neck PU selected. It was there on all three PUs when I had the...

http://www.gumtree.com/london/22/38365122.html I'm advertising this for ?450. I'd sell to a forum member for ?425 - but only face-to-face for cash. No postage I'm afraid. I'm also contemplating selling an Ibanez SZ520QM and an original 1997 Parker Fly deluxe - let me know if you're...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vintage-Grant-Guitar-Lawsuit-era-70s-80s-Japan-Rare_W0QQitemZ130300504118QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item130300504118&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 I've never heard of grant before but I own a couple of...

After years of plugging away in my own basic style of blues, I thought I might benefit from actually learning a few riffs and licks - just to make a change from endlessly noodling up and down the pentatonic minor and major! Can anyone suggest any decent books or DVDs for expanding your blues...

I've had this for a while and hardly played it. It's a beautiful guitar but I soon realised that maple necks weren't for me and promptly acquired a RWB Goldstar. I'm not in a hurry to get rid of this, but thought it was worth seeing if I got any good offers here before thinking about ebay...

I have a 1980 fifties-style Springy and an 80s sixties-style Goldie, both in black. The bodies seem slightly different to me - the edges on the Springy seem less rounded than those on the Goldie. This makes the Goldie seem a little chunkier overall. It is quite subtle but obvious when you look...

Just a little post to say that I modded my DS-1 recently and it sounds awesome. My usual setup is Goldstar going into TS-9 going into Blues Junior with the BJ set so it is breaking up and the TS-9 pushing it over the edge. The modded DS-1 (when distortion level is set low) can be used exactly...

Hi All I've done a search on this to avoid repetition, but couldn't find an answer. I think the trems on Goldstars are fantastic - mine works better than any other trem I've used and holds tuning too, so I have no desire to replace it, but... The saddles are riddled with grooves (mistreatment...

Anyone seen this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tokai-stratocaster-vintage_W0QQitemZ300284897673QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item300284897673&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 Looks like a genuine Springy to me (or a t least some genuine...

I'm currently working on a song that requires the use of a 24th fret on the high E string; not having any 24-fret guitars to hand, I thought there must be a way of improvising a 24th fret on my Goldie. The way I figured out of doing it is so simple that even though I came up with it myself, I'd...

I have recently been listening to Kingston Wall's album 'II' a hell of a lot, and loving it. I hadn't heard of them until recently and I think their guitarist Petri Walli (RIP) was awsome - great chops without being horribly pretentious and showy, great tone and sensitive Gilmouresque playing in...

I know it's always a case of a guitar being worth as much as someone is prepared to pay for it and all that, but what do forum members think is the ball-park going rate for different Tokai strat models in the UK (vintage ones, that is)? I'm particularly curious about ST50s, 60s and 80s, but...

...well you can argue anything I suppose. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1979-Strat-Stratocaster-Grey-Bobbin-Tokai-JV-Neck-Pup_W0QQitemZ250296389847QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250296389847&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 Grey bobbin, but no stamp and no stagger...

Hi all I've got a Springy with Us and a Goldie with VIIs. Both sound amazing clean (esp. the Goldie), great with mild breakup, pretty good with light distortion, but mushy and thin with any significant level of distorion. Using a TS-9 rather than than a high gain setting on the amp itself...