NGD: Tokai Springy Sound 1982

[alvinstraight]

I had a left handed Tokai Silver Sound converted to be played right handed that I sold on only because I never jived with the Hendrix configuration. Someone on this forum got it, I think MechaBulletBill? That was probably one of Tokai's lower middle-end strats but everything about it was just so damn nice. Great neck, great sounding pickups, beautiful sunburst over two very well matched pieces of resonant wood. So much love must have gone into building those guitars. Happy NGD!

Thx! After doing some further investigation, I think this is an ST50, so also a moderately priced model. But there is really not a single thing about this guitar that would make me think it was once a cheap offering. Even things like pots and knobs feel great.

@Ceylon, couldn't help but notice your location "in the middle of the Baltic Sea." What island would that be?

[Ceylon]

couldn't help but notice your location "in the middle of the Baltic Sea." What island would that be?

I'm on the main island of the Åland island group, or Ahvenanmaa in Finnish

[alvinstraight]

couldn't help but notice your location "in the middle of the Baltic Sea." What island would that be?

I'm on the main island of the Åland island group, or Ahvenanmaa in Finnish

Nice! I grew up on Gotland, which also falls into that same category!

[Maggieo]

I have a '79 ST-80 that I've frankensteined a bit.

Original neck, and I have all the original parts (somewhere), but it now has a Callaham bridge, Don Mare pickups, and a swamp ash body.

What a great neck.

Until I got an actual 1958 Stratocaster, this Springy Sound was the best strat-like-object I could get my hands on for a reasonable price. It's not quite as good as the '58, but it holds its own impressively

Now there's a Grandpa's Axe!!!

[Telliot]

Now there's a Grandpa's Axe!!!

You made a similar comment about my Tele, and I can't figure out the reference. I feel dumb for asking, but can you please explain?

[CaptainCrunch]

Now there's a Grandpa's Axe!!!

You made a similar comment about my Tele, and I can't figure out the reference. I feel dumb for asking, but can you please explain?

You know, "Best axe I ever owned! On the third handle and the second head, and chops as well as the day it was new!"

aka Thesus' Ship

[Telliot]

Gotcha, thanks! I think I kind of understood that contextually, but wasn't totally sure I was getting the reference.

[Maggieo]

The Philosopher's Axe
Another idea/problem of which everyone should be aware.

The problem is simple: a philosopher has an axe (bear with me here). He uses it for a while, until the blade wears out and has to be replaced. He uses it for a bit longer, until the handle breaks. The head's still OK, so he puts it on a new handle.

Is the axe he has now the same axe as the one he started with?

Wikipedia calls this the Ship of Theseus paradox, and gives examples from fields as diverse as rock music and automobile registration fraud, some with serious consequences. It's a problem that often comes up in discussions of the feasibility of Star Trek-style matter transference. Like so many important philosophical problems, the answer depends on what your definition of "is" is, and these are seriously deep waters. As a mathematician, it depends on what context you're operating in: sometimes two things can be the same for one purpose but different for another. Two groups can have the same elements, and thus be the same for the purposes of set theory, but have quite different algebraic structure. Or vice versa - two groups might happen to have different names for their elements, but exactly the same structure, in which case we'd call them the same group. Topologists will frequently say that two objects are "the same" when they're homotopic, which is a very weak condition - for instance, Euclidean n-dimensional space is homotopic to a single point for all n. This can all be made precise using category theory: each category will have a different notion of isomorphism, and you say that two things are "the same" when they're isomorphic in the appropriate category. But then you get into higher categories, and it all goes wrong: in a 2-category, the moral notion of "the same" isn't isomorphism but rather equivalence...

By the way, I once mentioned the Philosopher's Axe to an ice climber. He said that ice-axe heads wear out all the time, and that when you replace the handle then you've got a new axe, regardless of whether you then put an old head on it :-)

[Telliot]

[Ceylon]

couldn't help but notice your location "in the middle of the Baltic Sea." What island would that be?

I'm on the main island of the Åland island group, or Ahvenanmaa in Finnish

Nice! I grew up on Gotland, which also falls into that same category!

Ah, trevligt att träffa en annan öbo!

[alvinstraight]

I'm on the main island of the Åland island group, or Ahvenanmaa in Finnish

Nice! I grew up on Gotland, which also falls into that same category!

Ah, trevligt att träffa en annan öbo!

Hyggligt att råkas! Har aldrig kommit längre än till hamnen på Eckerö ( ), men en dag skall jag få till en cykelsemester på Åland.