Hi all, i have 2 Tokai Silver Stars (Fender Stratocaster 72' copies) guitar to let go very cheap! First come first serve! I sold 2 beautifully clean Tokais SS a few months back that was instantly snapped up at SGD$650 each. Truly great prices that i am offering.
1. First guitar is a Japan vintage Tokai SS 40 to let go at just SGD $530 (FIRM). It is in SunBurst colour and in 7.5-8/10 condition. The guitar has great condition fingerboard/neck and the fret life is plenty from its vintage fret. The condition i set is due to the nitro finish blemishes on the guitar (please see the photos). Neck is straight. This guitar was made in between 1979-1982. It is a copy of the 1972 Fender Strat. Go google and you will find experts say these guitar built and play better than the CBS era Fender Strat that it copied from. SS series are the Large Headstock and Bullet Truss-rod type. This guitar comes with a non-original vintage hardcase.
Guitar Specs:
Body - 3 or 4 piece Alder
PU - Alnico (sometimes “H” stamp), flat pole pieces
Tuners - CBS type, Chrome
Fingerboard - Maple
Just an info. SRV played Tokai Guitar too. His 2nd main guitar was said to be a Tokai. Go and google for this info. I can assure all potential buyers that this guitar plays as well or better than most original fender.
Photos will be uploaded asap.
2. Second guitar a Japan vintage Tokai SS 40 to let go at SGD $600 (FIRM). It is black colour and in 9/10 condition. Looks exceptional for a 30 years old vintage guitar. This guitar was made from 1979-1982. It is a copy of the 1972 Fender Strat. Neck is straight and fretboard is clean. Fret has plenty of its vintage fret life left. All original except for the volume and tone pots. Go google and you will find experts say these guitar built and play better than the CBS era Fender Strat that it copied from. SS series are the Large Headstock and Bullet Truss-rod type. This guitar comes with an original Tokai Vintage hardcase.
Guitar Specs:
Body - 3 or 4 piece Alder
PU - Alnico (sometimes “H” stamp), flat pole pieces
Tuners - CBS type, Chrome
Fingerboard - Maple
Just an info. SRV played Tokai Guitar too. His 2nd main guitar was said to be a Tokai. Go and google for this info. I can assure all potential buyers that this guitar plays as well or better than most original fender.
Photos will be uploaded asap.
Info on SRV Tokai Guitar :-
Tokai 'Springy Sound'- The Original Strat-Clone
SRV Texas Flood Cover Guitar
(photo:www.tokairegistry.com)
Back in the '70's- early 80's, Japan's Tokai company was making some of the most blatant replicas of popular Gibson and Fender guitars.
Lawsuits eventually forced Tokai to dial back the look-alike knob, but those old "Springy Sound" models have become somewhat of a cult collector's guitar.
Think about how wild this is. This Tokai model was NOT a copy of the Fender Strats of its time-- it was an attempt at replicating earlier "vintage" Strats. You see, back when guitar players were first talking up the Pre-CBS era instruments, someone in Japan was listening. Tokai weren't the only ones, but they best represent good quality in that niche. So in effect, they helped kick off the re-issue industry, as well as Gibson and Fender outsourcing "more affordable" models.
The really wild part is that now, "vintage" Tokai clones of vintage Fender Strats are becoming collectible and gaining cult status on their own. This only leads one to assume that other folks must be making counterfeits of Tokai Springy-Sound models.
Anyone remember the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton?
But wait! It gets even crazier! An article by Larry Meiners at www.tokairegistry.com states that Stevie Ray Vaughan was featured on the 1985-1986 Tokai Guitar Catalog cover. But wait-- there's more! He also states that SRV's guitar, pictured on 1983's Texas Flood album cover art, is a Tokai Springy Sound, and that the Tokai headstock labeling was removed before the covers were printed-- however, the giant pre-release music store posters plainly displayed the headstock labeling shown in the above photo!
This makes for compelling trivia, but it also provokes the following 3 questions:
1) Were Tokai Springy Sound's better than CBS Strats? Pre-CBS?
2) Why doesn't Tokai create an SRV model?
3) Did Peter Fonda ride a Harley or a Harley clone?
Interested parties please contact me here thru PM or if Inbox full, just leave me a thinker here or in my visitor's message page. Transaction venue will be around Admiralty MRT Station Macdonalds. I will bring a portable amp during transaction for testing. I will also be listing a few more guitars to sell as i have way too many. Just hit me with questions yeah....i am ok with answering them
I am not looking for trade at this point of time.
* I am a guitar collector who is very interested in collectable guitars from Japan Golden Age (1977-1985). These really collectable guitars have seen a raise in value, consistently for the last 5 years or more.
1. First guitar is a Japan vintage Tokai SS 40 to let go at just SGD $530 (FIRM). It is in SunBurst colour and in 7.5-8/10 condition. The guitar has great condition fingerboard/neck and the fret life is plenty from its vintage fret. The condition i set is due to the nitro finish blemishes on the guitar (please see the photos). Neck is straight. This guitar was made in between 1979-1982. It is a copy of the 1972 Fender Strat. Go google and you will find experts say these guitar built and play better than the CBS era Fender Strat that it copied from. SS series are the Large Headstock and Bullet Truss-rod type. This guitar comes with a non-original vintage hardcase.
Guitar Specs:
Body - 3 or 4 piece Alder
PU - Alnico (sometimes “H” stamp), flat pole pieces
Tuners - CBS type, Chrome
Fingerboard - Maple
Just an info. SRV played Tokai Guitar too. His 2nd main guitar was said to be a Tokai. Go and google for this info. I can assure all potential buyers that this guitar plays as well or better than most original fender.
Photos will be uploaded asap.
2. Second guitar a Japan vintage Tokai SS 40 to let go at SGD $600 (FIRM). It is black colour and in 9/10 condition. Looks exceptional for a 30 years old vintage guitar. This guitar was made from 1979-1982. It is a copy of the 1972 Fender Strat. Neck is straight and fretboard is clean. Fret has plenty of its vintage fret life left. All original except for the volume and tone pots. Go google and you will find experts say these guitar built and play better than the CBS era Fender Strat that it copied from. SS series are the Large Headstock and Bullet Truss-rod type. This guitar comes with an original Tokai Vintage hardcase.
Guitar Specs:
Body - 3 or 4 piece Alder
PU - Alnico (sometimes “H” stamp), flat pole pieces
Tuners - CBS type, Chrome
Fingerboard - Maple
Just an info. SRV played Tokai Guitar too. His 2nd main guitar was said to be a Tokai. Go and google for this info. I can assure all potential buyers that this guitar plays as well or better than most original fender.
Photos will be uploaded asap.
Info on SRV Tokai Guitar :-
Tokai 'Springy Sound'- The Original Strat-Clone
SRV Texas Flood Cover Guitar
(photo:www.tokairegistry.com)
Back in the '70's- early 80's, Japan's Tokai company was making some of the most blatant replicas of popular Gibson and Fender guitars.
Lawsuits eventually forced Tokai to dial back the look-alike knob, but those old "Springy Sound" models have become somewhat of a cult collector's guitar.
Think about how wild this is. This Tokai model was NOT a copy of the Fender Strats of its time-- it was an attempt at replicating earlier "vintage" Strats. You see, back when guitar players were first talking up the Pre-CBS era instruments, someone in Japan was listening. Tokai weren't the only ones, but they best represent good quality in that niche. So in effect, they helped kick off the re-issue industry, as well as Gibson and Fender outsourcing "more affordable" models.
The really wild part is that now, "vintage" Tokai clones of vintage Fender Strats are becoming collectible and gaining cult status on their own. This only leads one to assume that other folks must be making counterfeits of Tokai Springy-Sound models.
Anyone remember the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton?
But wait! It gets even crazier! An article by Larry Meiners at www.tokairegistry.com states that Stevie Ray Vaughan was featured on the 1985-1986 Tokai Guitar Catalog cover. But wait-- there's more! He also states that SRV's guitar, pictured on 1983's Texas Flood album cover art, is a Tokai Springy Sound, and that the Tokai headstock labeling was removed before the covers were printed-- however, the giant pre-release music store posters plainly displayed the headstock labeling shown in the above photo!
This makes for compelling trivia, but it also provokes the following 3 questions:
1) Were Tokai Springy Sound's better than CBS Strats? Pre-CBS?
2) Why doesn't Tokai create an SRV model?
3) Did Peter Fonda ride a Harley or a Harley clone?
Interested parties please contact me here thru PM or if Inbox full, just leave me a thinker here or in my visitor's message page. Transaction venue will be around Admiralty MRT Station Macdonalds. I will bring a portable amp during transaction for testing. I will also be listing a few more guitars to sell as i have way too many. Just hit me with questions yeah....i am ok with answering them
I am not looking for trade at this point of time.
* I am a guitar collector who is very interested in collectable guitars from Japan Golden Age (1977-1985). These really collectable guitars have seen a raise in value, consistently for the last 5 years or more.
