Tokai ES-166
guitar
About the Tokai ES-166
From owners and sellersThe ES-166 is Tokai's Japanese-built ES-335 of the mid-to-late 2010s, the same guitar as the ES158 in red, with a nitrocellulose finish, Orange Drop caps and MK2 pickups; CTS pots drop in without enlarging the holes, and Faber's metric-kit bridge and tailpiece fit the 4 mm posts. Owners date theirs to 2015 and 2018.
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What owners have said elsewhere
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An ES166 is called a very good guitar equal to many Gibson ES models, and an ES158 owner says the MK2 pickups sound more like an old 335 than some actual Gibson 335s; a 2010 Tokai 335 is rated an easy match for a Gibson Custom Shop, while one player who has owned many Japanese Tokais has not found one to beat a 2015 Gibson 63 reissue, though a Tokai is the likelier route to a good one.