A Tokai LS-80 made in 1980.

Generally in good condition but a vestige of Bigsby tremolo unit.

I guess that most of guitar guys are particular about whether guitars are modified or not.  I personally don’t care much about that.  Only guitars played for long times and remained vestige of usage can attract me.  So I am rather tolerant of modification, but of course it depends on degrees.

I think that there are two type of modification, legitimate or illegitimate.  I regard the installation of Bigsby as legitimate modification.

The reason I think so, is in "Beauty of the 'Burst: Gibson Sunburst Les Pauls from '58 to '60 by Yasuhiko Iwanade”.  11 among 87(11%) of ‘Bursts have Bigsby unit or its vestige.  So high ratio we regard Bigsby installation as legitimate modification.  4.07kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.26)