Hello! Need help identifying this awesome looking Tokai Bass!

[Bogey Bernardo]

Thanks for adding me to the group!

Thinking of buying the beauty but I can't seem to find any information about it online. Hope someone can help

 

[Sigmania]

Very unusual shape of the headstock and body. Not sure what that is?

 

[Bogey Bernardo]

Very unusual shape of the headstock and body. Not sure what that is?

I know, right? He says it's called a "short horn"?

 

[Sigmania]

I don't think I have seen one before.

 

[Sigmania]

OK.... I see what it is. Shaped like the SEB model. I was thrown because in the side cut you can't see any other woods. Looks solid, so I'm not sure if it is an actual SEB model, but the same shape.



2012 catalog

 

[Bogey Bernardo]

Wow that's right! Thanks for this! Although it seems there's really nothing more out there about this bass aside from photos of this same catalogue. Now i'm even more intrigued about it...

 

[Sigmania]

It is very unusual. Looks like a normal solid alder (?) body made in the shape of that SEB. Body and headstock.

Lines up with the specs of the HPB82SEB without seeming to be an SEB. Alder, silver hardware, but different color finish than the catalog options for the HPB82SEB.

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

The 2010 catalog has non-SEB models of the HPB (-90 and -70), specs don't fully match tho (only RW fretboard offered, only the -90 in VNT).

 

[Sigmania]

Homer J Simpson, you are a genius. Thanks for finding that.