Tokai LS150 Flame top possibly for sale

thejonester · Mar 27, 2010

Hi all

I may have to sell my recently aquired Uk edition flame top ls150

it's mint, pickup covers removed (but can be put back on), rewired 50's style, gold/silver refector knobs and peter green modification done to neck pick up to give the out of phase sound in the middle position.

oh and all the wiring has been replaced with sheilded cloth Gibson style type.

All the mods can be returned to stock if required before sale.

A westfield hard case would also be included.

All usual ls150 specs

Beatuful top! better in person fully 3d and changes with every move of the guitar... last of all it sounds awesome!

Any Ideas how much I'd get secondhand?

heres a couple of pics before the mods

If people are interested I can post newer pics

Thanks

:x

marcusnieman · Mar 27, 2010

why are you selling it?

thejonester · Mar 27, 2010

just need the $$$!

got a few things to pay off!

twinfan · Mar 28, 2010

By UK edition, I take it you mean it has the UK "dimple" headstock?

If so, that and the mods will bring the price down a bit (even if the mods are an improvement). I would say in the current market something around ?850?

It's a good looking guitar - some more pics would be great if you can post some!

thejonester · Mar 28, 2010

here goes,

The covers are back on, you can see then neck pickup is the wrong way round, this is cosmetic, the pickup is magnetically out of phase with the bridge too like the Green/Moore les paul. I can change this before the sale if needs be. New knobs and pickguard fitted

Enjoy!

I may be willing to take a cheaper guitar in part ex... no rubbish though!

twinfan · Mar 28, 2010

What's the weight like??

marcusnieman · Mar 28, 2010

Nice looking guitar.... those radio knobs look great on it!

JVsearch · Mar 28, 2010

marcusnieman said:
Nice looking guitar.... those radio knobs look great on it!

They're not radio knobs! They are Gibson style "reflector" knobs as used on the 1960 'Bursts.

They do look good.

marcusnieman · Mar 28, 2010

JVsearch said:
marcusnieman said:

Nice looking guitar.... those radio knobs look great on it!

Click to expand...

They're not radio knobs! They are Gibson style "reflector" knobs as used on the 1960 'Bursts.

They do look good.

I know :wink:

Easy Crossing · Mar 28, 2010

Looking at the control cavity I notice you have the tone caps connected to the outside wiper on the volume pots, is this intentional, as 50's style wiring has the tone caps connected to the center wiper on the volume control? Nice guitar though and should be a quick seller!

Like this:

MIJvintage · Mar 28, 2010

twinfan said:
What's the weight like??

wow, (bright light bulb smiley) someone just read my mind

what he said

.............................

MIJvintage · Mar 28, 2010

thejonester said:

very unusual top on this one; not the 'normal' & 'typical' Tokai rift sawn/quarter sawn :evil: looking top, which IMO are boring ............

This top has some very nice flat sawn/plain sawn features 8) ....... visually, one of the most appealing Tokai flame tops I have seen :wink:

thejonester · Mar 28, 2010

Hi

just to confirm the wiring is 50's as in the digram above... not like my cavity picture. Thanks for pointing that out I used a wrong (older) photo. The 50's wiring is an inprovement as the volume knobs work as they should.

To answer a few pm's and posts the weight is around the 8lb mark but my scales are not vert accurate so I can't give you the exact weight sorry... it feels about right for a les paul when a/b 'ed with 2 historics my friend has.

I'm looking for ?950 as the guitar is in excellent condition and sounds and plays fantastic.... plus it looks amazing!!!

The hard case was extra (?50)

I may be willing to ship overseas (as a few of you have asked in pm's).

I really don't want to sell this guitar so I'm not bothered if it doesn't sell and consequently I'm not going to let it go for nothing. I've seen 2 ls1000's sell for ?950 and ?1050 so I know im in the right ball park plus you never see ls150's up for sale really

Thanks again everyone for the nice comments and pm's

thejonester · Mar 28, 2010

Easy Crossing said:
Looking at the control cavity I notice you have the tone caps connected to the outside wiper on the volume pots, is this intentional, as 50's style wiring has the tone caps connected to the center wiper on the volume control? Nice guitar though and should be a quick seller!

Thanks for pointing that out, i'd not noticed i'd used the wrong pic.

Out of interest how does your Ls150 compare to you Gibson classic? I sold my classic before buying this Tokai and never got the chance to a/b them

Thanks

JVsearch · Mar 28, 2010

marcusnieman said:
JVsearch said:

marcusnieman said:

Nice looking guitar.... those radio knobs look great on it!

Click to expand...

They're not radio knobs! They are Gibson style "reflector" knobs as used on the 1960 'Bursts.

They do look good.

Click to expand...

I know :wink:

Oh...

marcusnieman · Mar 29, 2010

JVsearch said:
marcusnieman said:

JVsearch said:

marcusnieman said:

Nice looking guitar.... those radio knobs look great on it!

Click to expand...

They're not radio knobs! They are Gibson style "reflector" knobs as used on the 1960 'Bursts.

They do look good.

Click to expand...

I know :wink:

Click to expand...

Oh...

LOL..... I've always called those radio knobs instead of reflectors - my bad. They look kind of like the knobs on old transistor radios from the same era:

http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_430xN.97849423.jpg

Diamond · Apr 2, 2010

MIJvintage said:
thejonester said:

Click to expand...

very unusual top on this one; not the 'normal' & 'typical' Tokai rift sawn/quarter sawn :evil: looking top, which IMO are boring ............

This top has some very nice flat sawn/plain sawn features 8) ....... visually, one of the most appealing Tokai flame tops I have seen :wink:

And it's only a AAA.

Diamond · Apr 2, 2010

What a beautiful looking guitar...and what a great new model by Tokai.

So now we have an LS160 R8 plaintop...and an LS160 R9 Flametop.

G-d help the competition.

JohnA · Apr 2, 2010

Diamond said:
G-d help the competition.

What competition!! :wink:

thejonester · Apr 2, 2010

It is a beautiful looking guitar! It actually plays better than it looks!

No offers yet! :-?

If you can't sell a guitar like this on a tokai forum where can you sell it?

(ebay) :evil: I hear you cry!

To be honest, if it doesn't sell on here in the next couple of days I'm just going to keep it...

I'm open to swaps trades I'm after a US jazzmaster :wink: or a tele :wink:

Thanks fellas

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