We have few opportunity to meet Tokai LS-200 produced around 1980, once a few years on auctions.

This one was a shop item in April,2008.  More marvelous than I expected.  Please take a look its top, I have never seen such a figured Les Paul like this among domestic products.  A pattern of many small or a little larger circle like air bubbles drifting in water.

This pattern is called “blister”, which means air bubble as it is.  And I also become noticed that guitars topped with blister maple are extremely rare.  Even the representative of expensive guitar, Paul Reed Smith etc., seldom use it.  The price is easily over 500,000JPY.  According to “The Beauty Of The ’Burst”, the only one ’Burst mounted blister maple.

When I got this, the tuners are already exchanged to Grover’s.  I exchanged them to old Tokai original pegs in May,2008.  The light pegs a little reduced sustain, but increased warmness.  Pickups are DiMarzio PAF originally. 3.97kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.26)