Hi,
I would love some advice from you guys. I'm quite new to posting on this forum, and have found the info you all share a total godsend about Tokais!
I have a really nice maple board 1980 Springy ST-50 w. Med-Jumbo frets and Fralins that I am just not bonding with, and I think that it's the FB. I had an AST many years ago with maple, and when I went on to my next guitar w. an ebony board after that in the late 1980s, it was love at first touch and sound.
I am thinking of replacing my Springy, possibly with a RW board C-necked Tokai Strat, and would immediately change out the pickups and put in Med-Jumbos. Since the 80's Springys, Golsdstars, SS's, TST and AST seem to share the same bodies and necks (?), should I just find any clean Tokai of any of those early variations as the base for the changes? I have a great 1989 Sadowsky Strat, also w. Fralins, that is my main guitar, but I wanted a nice backup to have a different feel and more vintage vibe.
I was also thinking that another less expensive, but obviously less resalable option might be to get a similar spec’d 80s Fernandes Strat as a base to upgrade. Does the quality match up pretty closely to the similar year Tokais, as I believe they were built by Tokai and Kawai?
Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
I would love some advice from you guys. I'm quite new to posting on this forum, and have found the info you all share a total godsend about Tokais!
I have a really nice maple board 1980 Springy ST-50 w. Med-Jumbo frets and Fralins that I am just not bonding with, and I think that it's the FB. I had an AST many years ago with maple, and when I went on to my next guitar w. an ebony board after that in the late 1980s, it was love at first touch and sound.
I am thinking of replacing my Springy, possibly with a RW board C-necked Tokai Strat, and would immediately change out the pickups and put in Med-Jumbos. Since the 80's Springys, Golsdstars, SS's, TST and AST seem to share the same bodies and necks (?), should I just find any clean Tokai of any of those early variations as the base for the changes? I have a great 1989 Sadowsky Strat, also w. Fralins, that is my main guitar, but I wanted a nice backup to have a different feel and more vintage vibe.
I was also thinking that another less expensive, but obviously less resalable option might be to get a similar spec’d 80s Fernandes Strat as a base to upgrade. Does the quality match up pretty closely to the similar year Tokais, as I believe they were built by Tokai and Kawai?
Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!