Recent content by zbillster

Were your stock pots long or short shaft? I may end up playing musical pickups with my new blue one.

I popped them open during a string change. Looks like (dark) wax potted, and you can see the neck tenon. I noticed the pickups were off-center in the pickup rings, and on both you can see the metal base with the brackets are off to one side (note more black margin on the right vs. the left)...

Methinks the sunbursts fly off the shelves faster than the blue ones ... mine's a 2020 run, so the clear film had time to hang out in the shop for a while and form a committed relationship with the parts. I haven't gotten around to taking it off the back plates yet ... saving for a day when I...

So far, the pots in mine are better than most of my collection. I have so many Asian guitars with varying degrees of pots quality, I just keep everything at 10 and use a volume pedal. :wink: Did you have fun taking off the protective clear film? It is REALLY sandwiched on there and hard to...

(Putting it side by side next to my 2006 Tokai Love Rock MI?) Yep, looks like it! I compared to my other LP-style humbucking guitars, and it kinda varies depending on the dish curve, ring height, etc. Know Your Gear did a (much too kind) review of a Gibson Custom Shop R0, which looks like it...

Cool! Which color did you get? I noticed those models weren't lasting long on their listings page. Pretty sure I walked into their shop when I was in Tokyo 8 years ago.

I have SO many black and wine red guitars, I'm trying to expand my color palette. :wink: In that spirit, I also added a Cadillac Green Gretsch (MIJ) and White Eastwood 12-string (MIC) to my harem last year. Kurosawa also had some of the new '60s necks in sunburst, but unless it's a tobacco...

The dangers of this forum ... browse around, get the itch for another, find one on Reverb, click the button ... It's the one on the right. :D Bought via Reverb from Kurosawa Music Ochanomizu, whom I can recommend, and shipped to the USA (it spent two weeks in customs jail, but made it out...

Trogly did a video of the show with the photo dump I sent him. Of course, he got the show name wrong and some other details, which I mentioned in the comments. :oops: https://youtu.be/2wE0ClJufp8

Any experiences with Kurosawa Music Ochanomizu on Reverb? They have a few 2020 and 2021 Tokai models that I'm interested in. Buyer feedback looks excellent. I may have wandered into their brick & mortar store in Tokyo years ago. https://reverb.com/shop/kurosawa-music-ochanomizu

I was watching a YouTube video of Gruhn talking about vintage guitars, with one rarity on his lap. He kept rapping his heavy-*** finger rings on it. STOP! I was hauling a guitar around last weekend's show (Pelham Blue Les Paul) and a couple of vendors gave me the "it's a nice player" line =...

I do believe those guitars were Fuji-gen made? I was half-expecting to see Robert Fripp behind it in a skinny-tie suit, sitting on a stool. I may be thinking of the earlier gen ones: https://youtu.be/ceXOSSlf6XY

So "FC" = Fine Corp? I will conclude that my guitar was made "somewhere in Asia but not Japan." :D The electronics and pot markings are similar if not identical to my other Korean guitars of the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, which were hit or miss in quality. I had one setup performed on it...

I'm tempted to do a road trip to Nashville and hit ALL the cool vintage shops!