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Re: Epiphone or Gibson

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Posted by Lee (from: ) on October 22, 2004 at 18:04:56:

In Reply to: Epiphone or Gibson posted by Felix Gale on October 22, 2004 at 11:11:04:

how about a Japanese Tokai? they do some fantastic copies, i have 2, a 1979 les paul 'reborn' which i paid Ł400 for last year, thats a jap and a fantastic copy, i also have a fairly new Korean les paul copy a 2 pickup custom, very nice too, i paid Ł395 new for that one. the korean one has a maple set neck and a 3 peice mahogany body, and the reborn has a mahogany set neck and mahogany body, i have a gibson les paul standard too and they come pretty close to the gibson sound, if i changed the pickups on the reborn i would have a hard job seperating it from the real thing, the stock pickups on the reborn sound a little thin, but i would say the guitars are better than Epi's but not quite up to gibson standards. But older Tokai's are becoming very collectable, if you bought a mid 80's one it would go up in value, and check out the shape of the guitar, it looks exactly like the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson took Tokai (or threatened to) to court to force them to change the shape of the guitar, and these 80's models became known as the 'lawsuit' models, and they are the collectable ones.
if i were you, i'd go down the Tokai road, as Oscar Wilde once said 'never mind about the width, feel the quality'.

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: how about a Japanese Tokai? they do some fantastic copies, i have 2, a 1979 les paul 'reborn' which i paid Ł400 for last year, thats a jap and a fantastic copy, i also have a fairly new Korean les paul copy a 2 pickup custom, very nice too, i paid Ł395 new for that one. the korean one has a maple set neck and a 3 peice mahogany body, and the reborn has a mahogany set neck and mahogany body, i have a gibson les paul standard too and they come pretty close to the gibson sound, if i changed the pickups on the reborn i would have a hard job seperating it from the real thing, the stock pickups on the reborn sound a little thin, but i would say the guitars are better than Epi's but not quite up to gibson standards. But older Tokai's are becoming very collectable, if you bought a mid 80's one it would go up in value, and check out the shape of the guitar, it looks exactly like the Gibson Les Paul, Gibson took Tokai (or threatened to) to court to force them to change the shape of the guitar, and these 80's models became known as the 'lawsuit' models, and they are the collectable ones. : if i were you, i'd go down the Tokai road, as Oscar Wilde once said 'never mind about the width, feel the quality'.

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