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- Sunrise Bass By Matsumoku
guitarz.blogspot.com I couldn't find any information about this beautiful Sunrise bass from the 1980s, but I love it! It combines the typical Matsumoku seriousness and natural finish with a sober but original outline and a light german...
- A Pink Paisley Les Paul? Surely Not?...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's one that could well cause you to perform a double take... it's a Les Paul with a Fender-esque pink paisley finish! But of course, it's not a Gibson. It's a Tokai Love Rock, and Tokai of course are known for...
- Samick Greg Bennett E-1
guitarz.blogspot.com I just couldn't manage to find any information about this Samick Greg Bennett E-1 - it's quite different to the ordinary designs of the guitar branch of this giant Korean music instruments company, usually...
- 1968 Vintage Tokai Humming Bird - Cool Japanese-made Rarity
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's quite a glorious Tokai Humming Bird from the late 1960s way before Tokai had gotten into the swing of producing such accurate and well-made replicas of Fender and Gibson guitars that those companies became seriously worried...
- Azumi Nanyo Subtly Pointy Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com Azumi is a very obscure Japanese guitar company, once I've written that they were (most likely) made in the Chushin Gakki factory, I've exhausted all I know about it... But looking at the sober design of this Azumi Nanyo,...
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A 1980s take on the extravagant Tokai Hummingbird
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Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about this Tokai, but you can't deny that it looks to the Tokai Gakki Hummingbird like the Yamaha SC looks to its SGV predecessor: a toned down metal-oriented guitar. Having lost its German carve, contoured pickguard and slanted singlecoil neck pickup, it's a perfect 1980s hair-metal instrument, with violent red finish, one zebra humbucker in bridge position and Floyd Rose trem.
Isn't it a clear denial of the psyche-surf-pop brilliancy of the original Hummingbird? I would have overlooked it if I hadn't kept in mind the subtle finish of the SC-600 I posted about a couple of weeks ago, and how it reveals that even dulled in dull times, these crazy Japanese designs stayed above the lot!
Isn't it a clear denial of the psyche-surf-pop brilliancy of the original Hummingbird? I would have overlooked it if I hadn't kept in mind the subtle finish of the SC-600 I posted about a couple of weeks ago, and how it reveals that even dulled in dull times, these crazy Japanese designs stayed above the lot!
Bertram
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Tokai
- Sunrise Bass By Matsumoku
guitarz.blogspot.com I couldn't find any information about this beautiful Sunrise bass from the 1980s, but I love it! It combines the typical Matsumoku seriousness and natural finish with a sober but original outline and a light german...
- A Pink Paisley Les Paul? Surely Not?...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's one that could well cause you to perform a double take... it's a Les Paul with a Fender-esque pink paisley finish! But of course, it's not a Gibson. It's a Tokai Love Rock, and Tokai of course are known for...
- Samick Greg Bennett E-1
guitarz.blogspot.com I just couldn't manage to find any information about this Samick Greg Bennett E-1 - it's quite different to the ordinary designs of the guitar branch of this giant Korean music instruments company, usually...
- 1968 Vintage Tokai Humming Bird - Cool Japanese-made Rarity
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's quite a glorious Tokai Humming Bird from the late 1960s way before Tokai had gotten into the swing of producing such accurate and well-made replicas of Fender and Gibson guitars that those companies became seriously worried...
- Azumi Nanyo Subtly Pointy Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com Azumi is a very obscure Japanese guitar company, once I've written that they were (most likely) made in the Chushin Gakki factory, I've exhausted all I know about it... But looking at the sober design of this Azumi Nanyo,...