Hello, I bought a Tokai Love Rock 1980 guitar, which I thought was an LS-80 BB, since it had fret edge binding. Correct?
If you look in the 1980 catalog, you can see that the only other guitar that had the BB finish was an LS-50, but the LS-50 never had the fret edge binding, at least I didn't see one ... Is it correct?
https://brochures.yokochou.com/guitar-and-amp/tokai/1980/en_10.html
Also, (I know Ibanez and Greco vintage much better, but for some time I have started to take a closer interest in Tokai ...) Can I ask the Tokai experts: how many exceptions Tokai have made in the vintage years? Is it fairly common, or rare? Ibanez has done a lot stuff out of catalogs and such.
It seems that Tokai was already making guitars on order. But is it possible that in a regular series there are exceptions, like: all mahogany instead of maple top ... fret edge binding in the LS-50 and LS-60 series (I think LC- 60 had it ...) And if there is, is it rather rare, or do we see them regularly?
If you look in the 1980 catalog, you can see that the only other guitar that had the BB finish was an LS-50, but the LS-50 never had the fret edge binding, at least I didn't see one ... Is it correct?
https://brochures.yokochou.com/guitar-and-amp/tokai/1980/en_10.html
Also, (I know Ibanez and Greco vintage much better, but for some time I have started to take a closer interest in Tokai ...) Can I ask the Tokai experts: how many exceptions Tokai have made in the vintage years? Is it fairly common, or rare? Ibanez has done a lot stuff out of catalogs and such.
It seems that Tokai was already making guitars on order. But is it possible that in a regular series there are exceptions, like: all mahogany instead of maple top ... fret edge binding in the LS-50 and LS-60 series (I think LC- 60 had it ...) And if there is, is it rather rare, or do we see them regularly?
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