SOLD Tokai LS-100, vintage MIJ Les Paul goodness

monoamine

My poor car decided to pack it in today and it looks like I'll be needing a new set of wheels. As such, my pride and joy is up for sale

This is a beautiful 1979 Tokai LS-100 Les Paul (it even says so on the headstock!).

Nitro finished, a few dings but not bad for 30+ years old

18 degree headstock angle

Original kluson style tuners

New mammoth tusk nut (yes, wooly mammoth!)

Frets in excellent condition - 90% left

Perfect '59 non-shouldered neck profile

Original plastics

Upgraded electronics and 50's wiring

1-piece back

Solid 2pc flamed maple top (very rare)

Oil City Blitz Spirits PAF clones in, braided wire, zebra

Comes with original Tokai hard-shell case

Weighs in around 9.4lbs

Asking for SOLD collected from Kent or Bristol, but will drive for petrol money.

Adam_MD

Holy shit I want this sucks you have to sell it dude.

eventhelosers

Beautiful looking guitar.

markslade07

Oh. My.

Evildurka

Mate that is lush

Rox

Not bad.  But I bet you can't put a Rowntree's Fruit Pastille in your mouth without chewing it.

monoamine

Sale pending

monoamine

Sale fell through. Bump!

monoamine

bumple. listed on ebay too

monoamine

bump

Voxman

Tokai's are great and its a lovely looking guitar & I'm sure it's a superb player too. My only thought was the price & I just wondered if £1650 was achievable only because it's well into genuine Gibson Les Paul territory many of which (standards) are going for £1300-£1700?  

Parker

TBH, i'm not an oracle on specific Tokai models, but I do know many of the early ones are now going for more than a Gibson LP Standard of modern design. I would not be at all surprised if this lovely was up there in that bracket.

Lewligan

Wouldn't a MIJ Tokai of this quality piss all over a genuine Gibson from the same year..?

I'm no expert, but I rarely hear good things about Norlin era Les Pauls and hear nothing good things about the MIJ stuff.

Adam_MD

Voxman;757279" said:

Tokai's are great and its a lovely looking guitar & I'm sure it's a superb player too. My only thought was the price & I just wondered if £1650 was achievable only because it's well into genuine Gibson Les Paul territory many of which (standards) are going for £1300-£1700?  

Don't confuse this with a regular modern Tokai. That's not a flame maple veneer.

monoamine

It's obviously hard for me to weigh in with an objective opinion... but I think this is actually pretty good value for money. The Gibson vs MIJ thing is almost moot at this point - just look at their unjustified price hikes and have a think about how important that name on the headstock really is.

Fifty9

Essentially these need to be compared to gibson historics not standards.

jimmyguitar

I take it this is sale only due to car? Amp trades?

jimmyguitar

Absolutely beautiful guitar, worth every penny

monoamine

sale only thanks

monoamine

on hold and sale pending

xJonnysixstring

Thank god for that, I keep looking and I shouldn't!