A TLS-60 with beautiful figured top handcrafted in 1983.  Real curved top, not dressing board top, very rare in this class.

In general, the structure of Les Pauls top are made by so-called “book-match” procedure, firstly sliced a slab into two pieces at center like opening book, and placed on a back material as cut surface is visible.

If problems on either top pieces, then good piece is withheld until matched piece is found.  And when matched piece is found, if matching element is color, then called “color-match” and if texture, called “texture-match”.  They are called together “flitch-match”.

As you see, it doesn’t have book-match.  Of course, Tokai produced this one as low grade product because it was handcrafted by flitch match.  4.34kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.27)