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[quote name='machinehead' post='7328' date='May 26 2007, 09:21 PM']Saw a lovely Tokai Hardpuncher today. Brand new, sticker price £399. Jap built, vintage cream, matching cream/whitish headstock, maple fretboard, gold hardware, (I'm undecided about gold hardware on a P but it has a pimped look) and .......white guard. I am tempted but I think it would look better with a tort guard. Can you get one to fit? Would a Fender one fit? What would be a reasonable price on this bearing in mind they stopped making them in Japan recently? Thanks for any advice. Frank[/quote] haha thats the exact same as mine! My pickguard needed an extra few holes because its a 50's style reissue one. However i reckon a normal replacement should have the correct hole placement no problem. Though i pimped mine out with more gold hardware. I bought mine for £360 brand new. Heres the original post about pimping mine up. Hey guys. As in previous threads, I told the story of getting my beloved P bass back from a freind of mine and wanting to kit it out for 70's 80's Funk. Before picture., So i went about purchasing. A set of EMG's. £30 A gold Anodized scratchplate £15 Gold Pickup and bridge covers (The pickup one had to be gold plated as no one has ever manufactured them) £40 Gold plated thumbrest £12 Optima 24KT strings £32 The Emgs were awkward to get in and i had to rout out the wood to get the battery to fit. Plus i had to replace all the pots that came with it due to the originals being absoloutly terrible. Too bad my camera doesant pick up gold too well but here she is! The Emgs really give the P some treble bite which i love, Though due to the maple FB it gives a clanky bass, even more clank! Usually i would love it because of that but i wanted a Funk bass , I will get it sorted eventually! I do love the sound seriously Just need to fiddle with the action. I'll try and post better pics at somepoint. What do you think ? PS i know the Jack socket is chrome, trying to find a Gold one, But hell this bass is finished practically:P