Well here's my guitar blog, 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 and my thoughts about music and guitar playing in general . Here's my contribution to the Net, as a resource of information and I hope my postings will be informative. "Paul's Guitar Junk"....why "Junk".. I have a very good friend who often calls "stuff" "Junk" and most if not all of my gear was attained from "Junk" shops..It's the stuff that helps us create but isn't the creator. I love my junk and to me they are my tools to create the music I love, with the friends I love.

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Tuesday, 28 December 2010

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
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  1. Unknown29 November 2016 at 02:47

    I've got one of these but in the white finish. Do you need any spare parts or maybe just a spare 86' Tokai? Its just gathering dust atm.

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