Tokai UES-60 (ES-335 copy)?

imalrightjack

Anybody played one? Got my eye on a Korean one.

John_A

Not bad, but at that end of the price range the Chinese Burny’s are much better IMO. 

imalrightjack

@John_A What price range is that?

gilby

http://www.hotroxuk.com/fernandes-burny-rsa-65-vintage-burst.html?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=organic&gclid=CjwKCAjwzdLrBRBiEiwAEHrAYs41ZrXz5iUPmDDRkTGN3kLWe3aVuVlsSYox155Vn_FJ9RrzNvKsKxoCp3UQAvD_BwE

imalrightjack

So if I can get one for half that price...?

longjaw

I've got a 2008 Korean one, it's very  good - quality is comparable with MIK Epiphones (unsurprisingly). Neck is thinnish but not too thin. I've changed the pick-ups for Seymour Duncan 59s and it sounds great.

Photo here with it's semi acoustic brethren:

John_A

imalrightjack said:

So if I can get one for half that price...?

For half that price, the Tokai would be a very good buy IMO

crunchman

I had a Korean Tokai 335 copy for a while.  It was a great sounding guitar, but I did have a problem with the truss rod slackening off and rattling.  That's probably rare though.

It did sound very good.  I actually preferred it to a Gibson 335 in the same shop when I bought it.

The one I had wasn't the "correct" woods.  The neck was maple, and the centre block looked like spruce, or some other member of the pine family rather maple.  Whatever the woods were, it sounded very good.