Tokai ES-178
guitar
About the Tokai ES-178
From owners and sellersThe ES-178 is Tokai's Premium-grade Japanese ES-335 of the mid-to-late 2010s, the ES135 of 2010 under a later price number, a sunburst, block-inlay 335 with vintage appointments, selected timbers, Switchcraft, CTS and Orange Drop electronics and a certificate of authenticity; the neck is fairly fat in depth but quite narrow at the nut. Some 2015 examples from the Hamamatsu plant carry a blank orange label, and the UES-180 in Pelham blue is the UK-headstock sister. Owners date theirs to 2015 and 2018.
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What owners have said elsewhere
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The ES-178 is called a 335-basher and an awesome guitar; one owner, having sold every Custom Shop guitar for Tokais, bought an ES-178 to replace a 1990 Gibson ES-335 whose neck was too unstable to gig, and an ES135 owner says the stock pickups make all the right 335 sounds and have never been touched, though another ES-178 owner found them not quite the thing and moved to Seth Lovers, then found those too Gretsch-like.