JOLLY
Super Simonologist
And it's all Artie's Fault.....lol
I rarely do a new guitar day thread. I don't even remember the last time that I did one, and I've bought plenty of guitars and basses in the past few years that I've never shared.
Anyways, Artie had some Seth Lovers for sale recently that I bought. All of my Les Pauls are loaded with Duncans, and they sound great the way they all are, so I couldn't change those guitars. Even though Edward Van Halen had put a PAF originally in his guitar, something about me putting a set of Seth Lovers in one of my Charvels just didn't feel or seem right. So, what was the only other logical thing to do? Get another Les Paul....lol.
I looked around here and there at Gibson Les Pauls, and even used they are outrageous price wise, and I've already got a Les Paul Premium Plus and a Custom Shop Les Paul. Plus, nothing that I saw really even appealed to me. I also really haven't been a fan of any Gibson Les Pauls in about 20 years. All of the Les Pauls that I've loved and owned are and were from the mid 90s. By chance I was on Facebook Marketplace one day, and some local guy was selling a Tokai Love Rock that was beat all to hell. That got my interest piqued. I'd read a ton of great reviews over the years about Tokai Love Rocks. So I started looking at them, and I found a great deal on one on Ebay. I got screwed over on that deal by the seller because I bought it cheaper than I think they thought it was going to sell for. They cancelled my order after two weeks, and said all of a sudden that the guitar wasn't available. So that took me to reverb, and I found one like the one on Ebay. I'd never bought anything directly from Japan. I was a little leary, but I said the hell with it. I made them an offer on it, and they accepted it. Meanwhile, a few days later I keep looking at the Tokai Love Rocks on Reverb. There's another one that I really liked as well. I said the hell with it and threw an offer at them. They came back with an offer that was like $50 less than what my offer was....lol. So I bought that one too....lol.
It kind of blew me away that the guitars came from Japan and were in The United States within 2-3 days. The only thing that sucked was that they got held up in Customs for about 7-10 days. I thought that I was going to get charged a bunch of taxes or Customs fees, but that never happened. I was pretty surprised, and I'm not complaining.
So here they are. Tokai LS-154Q guitars in Dark Cherry and Oak. I'm used to more of a 60s slim taper neck, but these are a little bigger. They're right in between a 59 neck and a 60s slim taper neck. They play great, and are solid as hell. Nothing against Epiphone Les Pauls, because I own three of them, but they just kind of feel like a toy compared to a Gibson Les Paul and the Tokai Love Rocks. These guitars are solid like the real deal. They stay in tune. They look good. They play good. They sound good, even though I'm not a fan of the pickups sound, but they sound great unplugged. I knew I was going to swap the pickups anyways, which of course I haven't gotten to yet. I just got both of these guitars on different days in the past week or so.
So, I present to you..........
I rarely do a new guitar day thread. I don't even remember the last time that I did one, and I've bought plenty of guitars and basses in the past few years that I've never shared.
Anyways, Artie had some Seth Lovers for sale recently that I bought. All of my Les Pauls are loaded with Duncans, and they sound great the way they all are, so I couldn't change those guitars. Even though Edward Van Halen had put a PAF originally in his guitar, something about me putting a set of Seth Lovers in one of my Charvels just didn't feel or seem right. So, what was the only other logical thing to do? Get another Les Paul....lol.
I looked around here and there at Gibson Les Pauls, and even used they are outrageous price wise, and I've already got a Les Paul Premium Plus and a Custom Shop Les Paul. Plus, nothing that I saw really even appealed to me. I also really haven't been a fan of any Gibson Les Pauls in about 20 years. All of the Les Pauls that I've loved and owned are and were from the mid 90s. By chance I was on Facebook Marketplace one day, and some local guy was selling a Tokai Love Rock that was beat all to hell. That got my interest piqued. I'd read a ton of great reviews over the years about Tokai Love Rocks. So I started looking at them, and I found a great deal on one on Ebay. I got screwed over on that deal by the seller because I bought it cheaper than I think they thought it was going to sell for. They cancelled my order after two weeks, and said all of a sudden that the guitar wasn't available. So that took me to reverb, and I found one like the one on Ebay. I'd never bought anything directly from Japan. I was a little leary, but I said the hell with it. I made them an offer on it, and they accepted it. Meanwhile, a few days later I keep looking at the Tokai Love Rocks on Reverb. There's another one that I really liked as well. I said the hell with it and threw an offer at them. They came back with an offer that was like $50 less than what my offer was....lol. So I bought that one too....lol.
It kind of blew me away that the guitars came from Japan and were in The United States within 2-3 days. The only thing that sucked was that they got held up in Customs for about 7-10 days. I thought that I was going to get charged a bunch of taxes or Customs fees, but that never happened. I was pretty surprised, and I'm not complaining.
So here they are. Tokai LS-154Q guitars in Dark Cherry and Oak. I'm used to more of a 60s slim taper neck, but these are a little bigger. They're right in between a 59 neck and a 60s slim taper neck. They play great, and are solid as hell. Nothing against Epiphone Les Pauls, because I own three of them, but they just kind of feel like a toy compared to a Gibson Les Paul and the Tokai Love Rocks. These guitars are solid like the real deal. They stay in tune. They look good. They play good. They sound good, even though I'm not a fan of the pickups sound, but they sound great unplugged. I knew I was going to swap the pickups anyways, which of course I haven't gotten to yet. I just got both of these guitars on different days in the past week or so.
So, I present to you..........
