marcusnieman
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See my post in the "Guitars" section
Well I've owned a 1978 Standard in Tobacco Burst that had an extremely rough existence before I got it... it was achingly heavy..original uncovered Burstbuckers...played ok...sounded ok...but never felt a part of me.Dave_Mc said:Ozeshin said:I think that the way this thread is shaping up is that quite a few of us have actually owned Gibsons in the past so we have had the opportunity for comparison.
not me. I'm thankful i found out about tokai and the other japanese brands before i ended up forking out for a gibbo or fender. :lol:
Ozeshin said:Well I've owned a 1978 Standard in Tobacco Burst that had an extremely rough existence before I got it... it was achingly heavy..original uncovered Burstbuckers...played ok...sounded ok...but never felt a part of me.
I've also owned a very rare late sixties prototype model SG...it had no serial but DID have the dated swingtags in the case.
It was a dark walnut with a Bigsby,black mini humbuckers and dot inlays...and aside from the fact that it was a rare Gibson...it played like ^&*(....would NOT stay in tune and the feedback was uncontrollable.
So of the Gibsons that I have owned...NOTHING comes close to the quality or playability of my Tokai.
Si Pie said:I actually thought I'd bought a Gibson. It turned out I needed new glasses.
stratman323 said:Why aren't you bothered that it doesn't say GIBSON?
Because I'm not a snob about guitars?
JohnA makes a good point too - Tokais provoke comments when you gig with them.
Diamond said:We put a set of MK2 in the Studio, now all three guitars sound identical...and I mean really identical.
JohnA said:Diamond said:We put a set of MK2 in the Studio, now all three guitars sound identical...and I mean really identical.
We did a similar experiment put MKII's in a Bacchus LP of mine to see how it compared to DaveWW's Navigator which sounded amazing with MKII's, the Bacchus sounded great, but the Nav definetely sounded better!
JohnA said:Gibson & Fender make some great guitars, but the good Japanese ones, Tokai etc are definetely more consistent and far better value. I actually think the name Tokai get's you a lot of respect with other musos, Joe Public might not be impressed, but having Tokai on your headstock is always a talking point with other guitarists.
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