Tokai LS198S
guitar
About the Tokai LS198S
From owners and sellersThe LS198S is the Premium Series P90 gold top of 2019 to 2023, nitrocellulose lacquer, one-piece body, aluminium bridge and the better Gotoh MK2 P90s, where the poly Vintage Series gold top of the same years (LSS-136, LS132S) has the cheap Goto units. The number is the yen list price, so the same guitar was the LS160S in 2006 and is the LS220S today. Gold top is the finish, with black also seen. Owners date theirs from 2019 to 2023.
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What owners have said elsewhere
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The LS198S is called brilliant, arguably Tokai's best guitar, and excellent by those who own one; a collector with Tokais from every era names a 2019 LS198S gold top a favourite and is amazed every time by how it plays and sounds, and an owner of two says they are quality. One 2023 bought new from a shop in Indonesia arrived with oxidised bridge and tailpiece, marks on the lacquer and headstock and a poorly fitted switch cover; owners put it down to humid storage rather than the factory, whose quality control is called exemplary, and the seller refunded USD 65. The stock Gotoh MK2 P90s are called decent, and one owner says leave everything stock; one owner's swap went two ways, Lollars (standard bridge, underwound neck) with Jescar stainless frets and Faber locking hardware made the guitar come alive at first, but a year on the Lollars were judged far noisier and more brittle than Fralins, Toneriders, Antiquities or the stock Tokais and gave way to MojoTone 56 Quiet Coils; Bare Knuckle Half Notes and Mojo Pickups P90s get votes too.