Tokai - Es 335 copy

[Blaze]

Tokai guitars are among the most famous for the accuracy of their copies,on these vids we can see & hear 2 Cherry Es_335 copy,
they sound realy good and they look like the Gibson as twins for half the price.


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Blazes

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1/2 the price, but where do you get them? I found their Tele copy and a lot of pointy stuff, but no 335.

[tot_Ou_tard]

1/2 the price, but where do you get them? I found their Tele copy and a lot of pointy stuff, but no 335.
Go visit syo or suhnton.

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Go visit syo or suhnton.

Better yet, have them visit me and bring a 335. I'm a meat and potato kind of guy, I would starve over there. Never been one to try new or different food. By means, no offense to syo or suhnton.

[Spudman]

Something interesting for you. Apparently if you e-mail Ishibashi who used to carry Tokai you'll get this response (found on another forum):

Firstly, please note our situation. We do not have any Tokai guitar in
stock. We handle it only in case a customer place an order.
Secondly, a craftsmanship of Tokai is not superb. We have often seen a
dent or a scratch or a defective finish work on their guitar although it
just comes from the manufacturer. We do not accept returning for those
reasons.

The craftsmanship of Tokai used to be good. The current products are not.
We have repeatedly advised Tokai to improve the quality but there has
been no improvement.
Tokai does not make their guitars in a large quantity. Also, we obtain
a Tokai item through a supplier. We cannot choose a good one from a few
units. To sell a Tokai item bothers us.
Those are reasons why we do not sell a Tokai item at our stores.

so a major worldwide respected dealer drops tokai and advises customers to basically stay away until tokai sorts their stuff out. tokai did not listen to the many calls by them and kept on sending them guitars with defects. tokai sent the guitars back and had to tell the customers to wait longer. then finally they get a guitar with no issues which they send to the customers. but now ishibashi is fed up and drops them.

whats going on?

[just strum]

Spud, interesting - nice "heads up"

Doing the Google search it was obvious they were searching for distributors and now it's obvious why they don't have any or only a couple.

[Blaze]

http://cgi.cafr.ebay.ca/Tokai-ES-110-Natural-Made-in-Japan-New_W0QQitemZ200292513218QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar ?hash=item200292513218&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A13 18


http://shop.cafr.ebay.ca/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=tokai&_sacat=619



http://cgi.cafr.ebay.ca/TOKAI-ES150-TB-Nitro-MIJ-with-OHC-NEW_W0QQitemZ280302349349QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar ?hash=item280302349349&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1215|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A13 18

[Blaze]

Want to know more about Tokai guitar , have a visit in there:

http://www.tokaiforum.com/index.php

[Suhnton]

Go visit syo or suhnton.

Haha, I live in a shoebox, but you're welcome anytime :)


Better yet, have them visit me and bring a 335. I'm a meat and potato kind of guy, I would starve over there. Never been one to try new or different food. By means, no offense to syo or suhnton.

No offense taken. BTW, congrats on your new job, hope it goes well.

[Suhnton]

Here's one right here:

http://page15.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/t97537159