Harley Davidson Custom 101-JB1 Re-styled Tokai 1980’s Jazz Bass Electric Guitar
Here is my second custom re-styled guitar – this a time a bass – inspired by a $20,000 Fender Stratocaster I saw in a similar style. This is a bass guitar which I’ve used many times for recording and playing generally.
It plays great but I was very bored with the standard gloss-black finish (I always thought bass guitars were a little on the ugly side but that’s out of necessity with their large headstocks and giant tuners) so decided to do something different with it and see if I could guitar re-style it into something pleasing to the eye!
It has a satin finish and various pots I could find that gives the whole thing a used look yet looks like an expensive pice of ‘furniture’. I love it and it sits proudly in my living room amongst my other stringed creations. Unlike in it’s previous state – now all I want to do is pick this thing up and play it!
About Tōkai Guitars
Tokai began in 1947, as a harmonica and piano manufacturer. It developed its first melodica, the Pianica, in 1961. Tokai began making banjos and harpsichords in 1973 and the electric piano in 1975.
Tokai started making classical guitars in 1965. It made its first electric guitar in 1968 with the Humming Bird, a guitar loosely based on the Mosrite Mark I and II. This was followed in 1970 with the Humming Bird Custom acoustic guitar (not to be confused with the Hummingbird guitar model produced by Gibson).
From 1970 to 1973, Tokai produced the Conn line of acoustic guitars under contract with C.G. Conn[2][3] In 1972, Tokai entered into a joint-venture with C. F. Martin & Company to supply acoustic guitar parts and also to build Martin’s Sigma electric guitars. In 1975, it launched its own Cat’s Eyes line of acoustic guitars, which were replicas of C.F. Martin guitars.
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