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Bad news guys ..my wife has our digital camera and is on vacation..I'm meeting up with her and won't be able to get any pics up for about 3 weeks ....sorry..

Sorry dudes I am still busy with some gigs this week (learning new tunes)..I have to take the guitar apart to take the pictures ....probably around Friday ..hang tight they'll be up soon.

[You can't always go by the catalog + Later Tokai's and early Tokais have different specs...the best thing to do is ask the seller to examine the guitar to see if it has ..nitro paint..real maple top ..18 neck slant etc. but in the long run playing the guitar is the better option to hear and...

My 81 Ls 80 has the routing to accept the tenon but they probably only slapped the tenon necks on the higher model guitars..It ain't a "FAKE TENON" it just has a body that accepts a Tenon and it looks as if there is none on the neck...the real" Fake" is calling a 3/4 inch piece of stub...

my 1981 LS 80 has nitro paint..I did the acetone test and the paint came off...I also shaved the maple inside the pup cavity and there was a real flamed maple top ...not veneer...I went to the very top but could never fing any veneer just an inch or so of bookended flame maple with the grains...

I held my Gold top in the sun and could see that it had a flametop under the Gold nitro paint....I got into the pickup cavity and shaved of the paint where the bookend maple joins and carved down ...There was absolutely no thin veneer ..because I shaved all the way to the top of the gold paint...