Tokai Super Edition SD-40 1986

  Well to start of with here's the guitar I'm playing the most recently...

  Tokai Super Edition SD-40 1986
 "A Double Fat Strat" ie. 2 humbuckers, 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 3 way switch, Jack positioned like a Les Paul, standard fender type tremolo.

Body: 3 piece Alder
Neck: maple, rosewood fret board, 4 bolt neck plate.
PU's:  Neck: Tokai SDH Hot
          bridge- Dimarzio (not original)
       

My Mods:
New machine heads some Wilkinson EZ locks, 2 Knobs off an old amp, 2 graph-tech string trees and a  re-fret (first time and I planning to redo it)

My feelings:
I love this guitar a lot and was surprised when I first plugged it in, I could get Les Paul type tones but of course with less sustain and I had the nice balance and light weight of a strat, often for me it comes down to the neck and overall feeling of the guitar, this one just felt and sounded great, the neck is smaller and has a slight radius and plays well (I have smaller hands and a lot of the guitars here in Japan have smaller necks so suits me just fine).

I often want that fatter neck hum-bucking sound and had it here too and all that with a tremolo that pretty much stays in tune with the mods I did. I usually go to my gigs by Train here in Japan so having one guitar that let me cover many different styles was really important, at the moment this is doing a fine job and sounding great.

                                            Dimarzio to the left

                                                     Lovin' the red trim on the pick guard

 http://www.tokairegistry.com/images/catalogs/vol12p4.jpg

It's up

Well here's my guitar/Music/Gear page. I've been wanting to get this up for a while and share my feelings on some of the gear I've picked up over the years.
I've been hunting guitars here in Japan for a few years now and slowly gaining as much knowledge as I can about Japanese guitars  and related hardware in general.
There is so much out there that I just can't follow it all and I'm a guitar player so I really gotta spend time playing and practicing and creating as much as possible.
I'm not going to get into any deep reviews etc about the instruments or gear  here, just some thoughts and basic information that should be useful to some of you out there who are collecting or looking to purchase a Vintage Japanese Guitar.