MattThorpe
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Are these genuine Tokai ? Personally I think they are horrible.
Matt
Are these real Tokais ?
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Are these genuine Tokai ? Personally I think they are horrible.
Matt
Real Tokai. No accounting for taste hey 
Left one is LS238 SP AMB for sure http://www.tokai-guitars.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=124&category_id=14&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=31
LS232 SP OAK http://www.tokai-guitars.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=125&category_id=14&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=31
Don't know the last one.
Not my cup of tea, but seen a lot worse I suppose.
Left one is LS238 SP AMB for sure http://www.tokai-guitars.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=124&category_id=14&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=31
LS232 SP OAK http://www.tokai-guitars.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=125&category_id=14&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=31
Don't know the last one.
Not my cup of tea, but seen a lot worse I suppose.
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Diamond said:
Masterpieces? My God Diamond, you ARE loyal to Tokai! :lol:
I'm with Matt on this one.
JonnyFriendly
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Leif said:What exactly is it that people do not like about these? It cannot be the body finish. The head stock? The cutaway? Guess I suffer from poor taste.
Both, tbh. They don't look too great at all - the headstock just looks wrong (why the black trc?), and I cant see a single practical reason for the cutaways being shaped liked that - they look somewhat naff imo.
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Anonymous
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In my case it's the headstocks. And also the fact that the TRC doesn't match the rest of the headstock, just like on some of those really cheap-and-nasty Japanese guitars from the 70s.
jacco
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I kinda like them. I do like the matching headstock color and also the cutaway (reminds me of my PRS Custom24, which anatomically completely logical). Regarding the TRC you have a point!
DaveWW
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They seem all to be SEB as well - not keen :-?
http://www.theguitarshop.jp/e_guitar/ms-special/ms.html
Dave
http://www.theguitarshop.jp/e_guitar/ms-special/ms.html
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MattThorpe
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Well for me I just like the classic Les Paul shape so a Tokai Love Rock has me drooling much the same as a Gibson Les Paul does. The Les Paul has been an icon in my life and played by all my favourite guitarists. When I see and play that classic design it connects all that is important to me about our musical heritage and my life discovering music and players.
These new models are just a mutilation of a classic design.
They probably play great and they are probably collectable (don't get me going on that subject either!) but not for me just like PRS.
I wonder if Tokai with their renowed copying 'cheek' are going to poke these into the US market ? The guitars are very like a PRS Singlecut and a Les Paul but aren't exactly either. Gibson lost their lawsuit on the PRS Singlecut and Tokai might have a good legal precedent to have a go at the US again ! - pure conjecture on my part !
These new models are just a mutilation of a classic design.
They probably play great and they are probably collectable (don't get me going on that subject either!) but not for me just like PRS.
I wonder if Tokai with their renowed copying 'cheek' are going to poke these into the US market ? The guitars are very like a PRS Singlecut and a Les Paul but aren't exactly either. Gibson lost their lawsuit on the PRS Singlecut and Tokai might have a good legal precedent to have a go at the US again ! - pure conjecture on my part !
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katoi said:
Maybe they shouldn't call their Chinese product Tokai at all, but use a name along the lines of "Orville by Gibson" or Squier by Fender"? That would protect the good Tokai name by keeping it for Japanese production.
And it would avoid a couple of the rows these pages have seen in the last couple of weeks.
Are you listening Tokai.....?
singemonkey
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Man, hardly a mutilation. They're a modified Les Paul, and far more attractive than a Les Paul Reccording - which is still called a Les Paul btw.
I don't like the look of these. But it isn't the modifications - I think that's kind of cool although they probably won't find many takers among us in the international Tokai fan club - we're in it for the clones man
But the colours of these examples are a little egregious. I'd like to see one in solid red and white, for example, or black and white. Just straighter, modern colours.
I don't like the look of these. But it isn't the modifications - I think that's kind of cool although they probably won't find many takers among us in the international Tokai fan club - we're in it for the clones man
But the colours of these examples are a little egregious. I'd like to see one in solid red and white, for example, or black and white. Just straighter, modern colours.
MattThorpe
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katoi said:
yeh Gibson have also been guilty of this - they are milking everything they can out of the Les Paul especially all the special runs at highly inflated prices for collectors to put in glass cases and hope that it really was an investement ! - No need for Tokai to do the same surely !
