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Wow. :mad: It's not like it's not a massive time investment and a lot of effort to put stuff together like this, copying things without attribution is one thing, pretending creation of stuff is pretty much as low as it gets. Probably normal by FB standards.

He nails about every tone one could think of, he's the dream top-40 band guitarist :) He also totally nails the SRV "Pride and Joy" riff and sound with his G&L, both so tough to get right. I'd say both :) Story is in here...

The first innovation guitar players have rejected in modern times was the electric guitar and it needed to slowly change music per se to really catch on the way it did. From there 9 out of 10 attempts at innovating or renovating was rejected and didn't last long. The only dramatic post-1960s...

Ah this is where the text was nicked from, same model, different serial: https://reverb.com/item/52726465-tokai-breezysound-tte-60-mij-quilted-top-second-hand

:ROFLMAO: The headstock pic! That seems to be quite popular boilerplate they copy off each other on Reverb.com.

Just want to say that this is an excellent piece of research on the CBS vs. Tokai topic! Here's a little and (unfortunately) irrelevant tangent on the initial Norlin vs. Elger "lawsuit": I'm occasionally researching obscure Japanese import guitars I remember from my own past (or have owned)...

:ROFLMAO: You're right, the list is long and every item on it is much worse than a mass-produced instrument. Also, it's mostly their loss of course (unless someone is actually paying that kind of money).

Yesterday a FAB-170 popped up on German eBay in my neighborhood, with only 2 pics, an announcement that they'd add more pics and a description today, and a pretty outerworldly price tag of 3,000€. Still, I was slightly GASsing and contemplated the feasibility and benefit of an investment near...

Slightly different and colored version of the "who put the..." ad above (also 1983): Also here's a 1985 review of the TSG-60: http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/it/85/04/1114 SD-50 review, also 1985: http://www.muzines.co.uk/mags/it/85/07/1116 1982 Review of ST-50, FV-1 and the little Tokai...

(1985)

Potential meme material! :)

That's looking spectacular! When you initially posted this I searched the web if I could find out the model and found that everything similar has either block markers, a trapeze tailpiece or the tree-of-life fretboard inlay, so it's not easy to identify. Maybe posting it here could help?

The routing in the Tokai looks too small for that, if that makes anything easier on Gibby 300 series thinlines - I don't know. The access cutout was probably needed to fit this not so little bugger of a choke assembly into the guitar: When I was working on semi-hollow electronics the last...

Checking YT for what's behind the "SEB" stuff I found this video and thought "hey I know the guy on the right side!" :)

That's way cool! I like how it insinuates all sorts of style flavors and looks like it was forgotten in a barn for 50 future years. :)

From this old thread over at MLP: Funny little accident or copycat fail? 🙃

In the right hand corner of the routing you can see what looks like a little notch between the top and whatever is underneath. Alas the picture isn't showing this in sufficient detail. That's the bridge PU cavity at the thickest part of the whole guitar and unless Tokai carved the center block...

The top laminate is typically around 0.2-0.25" thick, what makes that look so extra thick on the images is the spruce layer sitting between the top/bottom and the center block. It's really hard to see if and how Tokai did that and what wood they used, at least I couldn't find a picture showing...

I just spotted your very old post (forum suggested it :) ), you probably found out by now that it's not a neck-through construction. Anyway: Peter Mac referred to the "center block", which was initially massive in that the only wood removed was the pickup routes and the mortise for the tenon...

Yeah that's a quite a looker! :)