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First off, having seen a bunch of Jazz Sounds, I'm almost certain that it is an authentic Tokai. Yours predates when they started printing the serials onto the headstock, so I'm guessing late 90's or 2000's TJB-45. Is there a serial on the neck plate? The older ones had a little sticker at...

I don't know about 'best' per-se, but Fernandes made a neck-through P that was pretty cool. For what it's worth, I hated my Tokai P-J bass until I took it apart and realized that someone had messed up the wiring. I have a Greco Ric, and a Greco T-bird, and I've never been disappointed, but...

Hi there, sorry for the late response. If you look here: http://www.tokairegistry.com/images/catalogs/tokai86_5.jpg It's the '84 catalog, and shows two fretless 70's, the TJB-70J, and the TJB-70F. They're basically the same, except for one (the TJB-70J) is lined with a dot inlay, and the...

It's real. Very, very similar to my JB-55 in layout, with the same pickup routing, etc., though with the -exact- same gold-tone hardware as my PJB-55 (I got it wrong last time, mine is a PJB-55, not 48 or whatever I said, completely forgot about the '55' sticker at the heel of the neck). Hard...

Yep, it's a strap button. During the early 80's, Tokai was making their Jazz Sounds to be near-exact copies of '64 Fenders. As part of that, a lot of them have strap buttons on the headstock, rather than the horn, just like Leo Fender originally designed the Jazz Bass to. Weird getting used...

Just a guess, but I'd say it's a TJB-45 from around 87-88. I'm basing that on the headstock, the logo, and the fact that the decal is solid black, not an outline. None of that can really help, except to say that it's mid 80's and at least a TJB-45. Without the oval sticker on the heel, or any...

So, it arrived yesterday evening, and I immediately went to work seeing what all needed to be fixed or was busted. The Good: 1. The truss rod moves! In fact, it was barely even tightened. It was a bit tough to turn, for reasons I'll explain later, but a few quarter turns put it straight. 2...

First, let me second what Sneaky's said already; go on the right day, and the "recycle stores" like Hard-Off and 2nd Street can have incredible deals (still kicking myself for not picking up an 80's Greco Thunderbird that I didn't pick up for ~$180 because it was missing tuners). That said, the...

Oh, and I say "ugly", but hopefully that's only for now; once I get some knobs for it, scrape/acetone off that horrible heart-clover, and buff out the body, it'll be sex-ay! Also, guessing that this thing has active pups, but why does it have two compartments? One to access the electronics...

Hi there! I took a chance on a Japanese auction site, and plunked down $150 on a well-worn Custom Edition bass. So much seems so... weird about it, I guess, that I was a bit worried about whether or not it might be a copy, as the tuners, bridge, jack, inlay, and nut didn't look like any...