NGD involving me NOT getting fleeced*

Talk about all other types of guitars. Jazzmasters and basses go here!

Moderated By: mods

Post Reply
User avatar
benecol
Best Poster 2010
Posts: 8289
Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:12 pm
Location: Westcountry

NGD involving me NOT getting fleeced*

Post by benecol »

So, at the same time as I was narrowly avoiding scams, I stumbled across a guitar I've been after for donkey's years...

Image

It's a 2003 Tokai TJ60, a copy of a 58 Les Paul Jr. doublecut.

It's brilliant - thick, wide neck, light mahogany body, the bloke who had it before me has replaced the pots and put an orange drop in there (FAO MIEK), the bloke before him has fitted one of those butt-ugly Wilkinson compensated wraparounds and thrown the original away. Bit you can't have it all...

I'm everso, everso pleased with it.



* not only was the bloke I bought it off lovely, he also used to be Roy Harper's shepherd. PUNTASTIC!
Top
User avatar
Freddy V-C
NOD FLANGERS
Posts: 5591
Joined: Sun May 17, 2009 4:55 pm

Post by Freddy V-C »

Didn't you have a custom made Gordon Smith one of these? Or am I imagining things?

Either way, it's lovely.
Top
User avatar
benecol
Best Poster 2010
Posts: 8289
Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:12 pm
Location: Westcountry

Post by benecol »

I had a singlecut Gordon Smith; it felt a bit redundant when I built my tele (they did similar jobs and I love teles above all else), so I bid it a fond farewell and sold it to NickD in order to raise funds for my 335. Then suffered from buyer's remorse for about three months.

I also used to have an Edwards TV yellow Jr DC, but sold it to fund my Jazzmaster.

In 2007.

When you were about fucking six or something ridiculous.
Top
User avatar
Freddy V-C
NOD FLANGERS
Posts: 5591
Joined: Sun May 17, 2009 4:55 pm

Post by Freddy V-C »

I wasn't even born.
Top
User avatar
benecol
Best Poster 2010
Posts: 8289
Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:12 pm
Location: Westcountry

Post by benecol »

Now stuck on internal jukebox:

[youtube][/youtube]
Top
User avatar
sunshiner
.
.
Posts: 8299
Joined: Fri Nov 02, 2012 4:05 pm
Location: Around the corner

Post by sunshiner »

I can't express how much I envy you :shock:
These Tokai's are stunning and your is not an exception, more photos please. Once I tried to buy one for about $600(+shipping$120), but was outbid 10 or 5 seconds before the auction ended. After this I bought myself Junior kit, but it is still laying inside my wardrobe waiting for the better times.

I'm agree with you about Wilkinson bridge, it looks ridiculous. I tried it on my kit and didn't like it. Then I tried Badass style bridge, it requests a steep angle of the neck to the body because it is quite tall, but it fitted my guitar nice. Nontheless I don't like the feeling of it, it is very tall and has sharp edges.
matte30is wrote:Someone man up and get a balloon.
Top
User avatar
sunshiner
.
.
Posts: 8299
Joined: Fri Nov 02, 2012 4:05 pm
Location: Around the corner

Post by sunshiner »

[youtube][/youtube]
matte30is wrote:Someone man up and get a balloon.
Top
User avatar
Hurb
Peanut the Kidnapper
Posts: 7203
Joined: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:47 pm

Post by Hurb »

I really really like it Tim. If we ever meet again I would love a right good old go on that.
Top
User avatar
benecol
Best Poster 2010
Posts: 8289
Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:12 pm
Location: Westcountry

Post by benecol »

We'll meet again, Hurb...

*short pause here while Vera Lynn gets stuck on Fran and NickS's internal jukebox*

Cleaned it up and restrung it this afternoon. Quite a lot of fret wear on the cowboy chord frets (which I take as a good sign - nice to see a guitar's been played), and some manky green gunk around the same frets. Cleaned it with LemOil and a toothbrush, the fretboard's nice and dark anyway. Neck tenon's good, extends almost all the way back to that pickguard screw central to the P90. The pickup is a Gotoh one, sounds good to my ears. Can't quite suss out what he's done to the wiring - one of the earths had come adrift, but resoldering it made precisely no difference (not that there was any problem in the first place - earths confuse me). The volume pot rolls off very quickly (virtually silent by 7) so will probably rewire it soon anyway (flushed with my own success on the Firebird, see).

Was pleasantly surprised that the Wilkinson bridge was aluminium, but:

a) The strings go in at a weird break-angle, so are swines to get back out again when you're changing strings, unless you want to take the whole bridge off, and...
b) It looks like something from Judge Dredd's utility belt, and has Trev Fucking Wilkinson's name on the front of it, which gives me UK guitar shop fear.

... so I'll replace it with a plain aluminium stoptail.

Sounds fucking belting.
Top
User avatar
Fran
The Curmudgeon
Posts: 22219
Joined: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:53 am
Location: Nottingham, Englandshire.

Post by Fran »

"There'll always be an England..."

Awesome Tim. Looks cracking. Good score.
A simple rewire is a small price to pay.

P.S. You will be catching me up on DNA removed from second hand guitars. I could have profiled seven people and an Alsation from the Vantage fretboard.
Top
User avatar
DasBeef
.
.
Posts: 595
Joined: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:34 pm
Location: Castle Beef, Edinburgh

Post by DasBeef »

One of these is very much on my list to own. Nice score man. Enjoy it!
Top
User avatar
NickS
.
.
Posts: 13769
Joined: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:08 am
Location: Down at the end, round by a corner

Post by NickS »

benecol wrote:We'll meet again, Hurb...

short pause here while Vera Lynn gets stuck on Fran and NickS's internal jukebox HMV Model 101*
Fixed



*
► Show Spoiler
Top
User avatar
Thom
lamp
Posts: 6999
Joined: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:23 am
Location: Exeter, UK

Post by Thom »

Looks very tasty indeed.
Top
User avatar
lorez
.
.
Posts: 9689
Joined: Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:58 pm
Location: Hopelessly Wayward

Post by lorez »

The colour is lovely and I bet it's a beast with some nice overdrive
plopswagon wrote:I like teles and strats because they're made out of guitar.
robroe wrote:I dont need a capo. I have the other chords in my tonefingers
Top
User avatar
NickD
.
.
Posts: 6089
Joined: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:41 am
Location: Sheffield, Innit

Post by NickD »

Tim, that is lovely, I have a real soft spot for DC juniors.

Nicks - strangely I have an almost identical record player in my dining room, and some 78s to play on it
Top
User avatar
Dave
TOTALLY MODD
Posts: 10439
Joined: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:35 pm
Location: UK - Southampton

Post by Dave »

Image
iCEByTes wrote:5 Most Jizz face maker Solo�s , classic Rock music i ever listened.
iCEByTes wrote:Blunt a joint , Take the Touch , Listen this.
Top
User avatar
Progrockabuse
.
.
Posts: 4865
Joined: Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:54 am
Location: Derbyshire

Post by Progrockabuse »

i knew you'd end up getting another jr style tokai. very very nice benecol. how they compare to the sg?
just open the case of my/your tokai sg jr to have a quick strum, must remember to wipe it after a sweaty pub gig. blackened strings fail!
Fender Classic Player 60’s Stratocaster>East Coast T1 Tele>
Epiphone Les Paul SL>Ovation 12 String acoustic>Peavey Strat DIY Relic

Marshall Origin 20H>James’s old purple 2x10
Marshall MG10 Combo

1 time host of PROGFEST
Top
User avatar
NickS
.
.
Posts: 13769
Joined: Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:08 am
Location: Down at the end, round by a corner

Post by NickS »

NickD wrote:Nicks - strangely I have an almost identical record player in my dining room, and some 78s to play on it
They're great to take on picnics (and embarrass the kids). I have two but the spring is knackered on one.
Top
User avatar
NickD
.
.
Posts: 6089
Joined: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:41 am
Location: Sheffield, Innit

Post by NickD »

Fran wrote:"There'll always be an England..."

Awesome Tim. Looks cracking. Good score.
A simple rewire is a small price to pay.

P.S. You will be catching me up on DNA removed from second hand guitars. I could have profiled seven people and an Alsation from the Vantage fretboard.
I'd already given it a bit of a clean with the strings still on before you, and used half a bottle of polish on the body (after removing the stupid stickers).

I don't understand how guitars can get that dirty.
Top
User avatar
NickD
.
.
Posts: 6089
Joined: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:41 am
Location: Sheffield, Innit

Post by NickD »

Phone scaling double post fail.
Top
Post Reply