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Posted by Bart Harleman (from: ) on December 05, 2003 at 11:37:41:

In Reply to: OLD Japanese guitar. posted by Mark McColl on July 27, 2001 at 06:27:58:

I am the proud owner of a very cool pitch black Sakai Les Paul, with silverplated humbuckers and a Tune-O-Matic bridge. When I bought it (very cheap) I had to replace the original tuning mechanisms due to the fact they were made of plastic and they had started to break down. I replaced them with black Gotoh machineheads. I also replaced the volume knobs for some cool transparent Gibson-like knobs, very cool...
Then I had to replace the bridge (which actually had 'bridge' spelled B-R-I-G-E stamped on the bottom) because the plastic parts broke off.
Which I like most about this guitar is the fact that is was very cheap, but sounds incredibly good. It als has the Gibson 'H' inlay on the head, which you never see on imitation LP's.
I once asked the owner of our local music store what he knew about Sakai. All he could tell me, that they were very popular in the 70's, but went bankrupt in 1984. Therefore every Sakai you meet, is at least 20 years old!
A friend of mine bought a Sakai Telecaster with humbucker and single coil elements. But his is still a piece of crap whereas mine keeps on playing...

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: I am the proud owner of a very cool pitch black Sakai Les Paul, with silverplated humbuckers and a Tune-O-Matic bridge. When I bought it (very cheap) I had to replace the original tuning mechanisms due to the fact they were made of plastic and they had started to break down. I replaced them with black Gotoh machineheads. I also replaced the volume knobs for some cool transparent Gibson-like knobs, very cool... : Then I had to replace the bridge (which actually had 'bridge' spelled B-R-I-G-E stamped on the bottom) because the plastic parts broke off. : Which I like most about this guitar is the fact that is was very cheap, but sounds incredibly good. It als has the Gibson 'H' inlay on the head, which you never see on imitation LP's. : I once asked the owner of our local music store what he knew about Sakai. All he could tell me, that they were very popular in the 70's, but went bankrupt in 1984. Therefore every Sakai you meet, is at least 20 years old! : A friend of mine bought a Sakai Telecaster with humbucker and single coil elements. But his is still a piece of crap whereas mine keeps on playing...

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