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Good Times |
Or is is "Good Tunes"?
This Les Paul "Love Rock" looks like it would have been a custom order or something made in-house at Tokai. It has typical Tokai construction with a multi-piece back and 2-piece maple top. I guess it would have been equivalent to an LS-60. I can't recall if it had a serial number or not. My guess is from around 1990 from the codes on the potentiometers.
Tokai seems to have done a lot of custom orders and shop runs over the years with models for Mizuno, Pacifix, Hibiki, Kurosawa and Real Standard in recent years.
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Typical Tokai routing and tenon |
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3-piece back |
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1989 pot codes? |
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Gold colour backplates |
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Decent maple top |
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Rosewood board with some decent grain |
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