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Monson

Monson

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Tokai FA268 Vintage Natural

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Crafted to the highest standards of excellence, the Tokai Premium series guitars are among the finest instruments produced in the world today. Manufactured by a small team of skilled luthiers in Tokai’s Hamamatsu facility, no detail is over looked in the creation of these high-end, incredibly limited master-pieces – providing guitarists with instruments that are as much works of art, as they are precision tools.

Tokai’s FA268 is an uncompromising tribute to one of the most influential jazz guitar models of all time. Constructed using traditional techniques and only the finest materials available, the FA268 features a Canadian maple arched top, back and sides, mahogany set-neck, Indian rosewood fingerboard, Gotoh Kluson style tuners, brass saddles, CTS and Switchcraft electronics with Orange Drop capacitors, PAF-Vintage MK2 pickups and exquisite nitrocellulose lacquer finish; making the FA268 a true heirloom instrument.

SPECIFICATIONS

BRAND: Tokai
MODEL: FA-268-VNT
SERIES: Premium
INSTRUMENT: Electric Guitar
COLOUR: Vintage Natural
DEXTERITY: Right
STRINGS: 6
STRING TYPE: Steel

BODY: Canadian Maple Arched-Top, Back & Sides
NECK: One Piece African Mahogany Set-Neck
NECK STYLE: Asymmetry U
FINGERBOARD: Indian Rosewood
FINISH: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
MACHINE HEADS: Gotoh Kluson Style
BRIDGE: HLS-VB(Brass Saddle) Bridge, FA-VT Tailpiece
PICKUPS: PAF-Vintage MK2 x 2 (Made In Japan)
ELECTRONICS: CTS and Switchcraft
WIRING: Modern Style
SCALE LENGTH: 24.75″
NUT: Bone 43mm
FRETS: 22
COUNTRY: Made in Japan
WARRANTY: 5 Years

LENGTH: 1035mm
DEPTH: 145mm
UPPER BOUT: 300mm
WAIST: 240mm
LOWER BOUT: 410mm
WEIGHT: 3kg Approximately

https://www.woodstockguitars.dk/en/product/tokai-fa268-vintage-natural/?wmc-currency=USD
 
It’s nice, but…

If I was looking for an archtop, I’d be looking for one with no fingerboard inlays. And certainly no humbuckers.
 
It’s pricey for an ES-175 knockoff, although I’m sure the quality is very good w/ it being a Tokai. I’d rather have a used Gibson for not much more $$ in sunburst a la’ Steve Howe, Gibson should put the 175’s back in production, very cool and iconic guitars.
 
Yes! Not a big fan fan of natural finish guitars but if someone gifted it to me I would gladly accept it.

P.S.- What’s up with the folks saying “I have no use for it”? How can guitar players have no use for it? Run that thing into a “dirty clean” amp with a touch of slap back delay and a smidge of amp verb and it would be endless fun!
 
Dew Knot Humps said:
Yes! Not a big fan fan of natural finish guitars but if someone gifted it to me I would gladly accept it.

P.S.- What’s up with the folks saying “I have no use for it”? How can guitar players have no use for it? Run that thing into a “dirty clean” amp with a touch of slap back delay and a smidge of amp verb and it would be endless fun!
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yea....i'm not getting that either.
and while i'm no fan of the nuge anymore, he did have a few good tunes in the 70's and using one kinda similar to the OP

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Dew Knot Humps said:
P.S.- What’s up with the folks saying “I have no use for it”? How can guitar players have no use for it? Run that thing into a “dirty clean” amp with a touch of slap back delay and a smidge of amp verb and it would be endless fun!
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I do have a use for it, and it is exactly what you described (plus loads of tremolo). I'd have a hell of a lot of fun doing big, swampy, hollow twang on it.
 
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