DrJzT
Well-known member
Hi guys and gals
I've just recently purchased a tokai strat from ebay. I currently own a Tokai ES130 in tobacco sunburst purchased brand new from richtone last year. Well that guitar impressed me soo much, I decided to buy another
I had a strat body for about a year, and toyed with the idea of building my own guitar from scratch. But after costing it out, financially it just didnt make sense. I was very nearly going to buy a Fender highway one. But the cheapest uk price was ?440. So i opted for another Tokai )
I think ive identified the guitar in question from using the fine tools on this forum. I think it may be a AST62 for the US market built around 1985. I did a fair bit of searching on this website to try and find the ebay listing but no joy I just hope i havent bought a dud
The guitar acoustically sounds very resonant, which for me is 90% of the battle. It certainly sounds very straty through my blues deluxe :lol:
My only concern is, the seller certainly seems very genuine, its just the condition of the guitar is very very good for its age. And the pickups and hardware dont seem to have aged at all! Which is my only gripe with it. You know too good to be true etc?
At the end of the day, im happy with it, its certainly cheaper than a US strat. It has a comfortable C profile neck (ive no idea how people can play with V profiles. but hey ho, another mans meat and all that). And its almost the same as my first electric (a lovely jap squier i sold many moons ago, i was into heavy metal at the time and well the guitar wasnt). I just need to set it up with some man strings (11s) and maybe change the pickups. I was just after a second opinion really [/img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/48441708@N08/sets/72157623490315273/
I've just recently purchased a tokai strat from ebay. I currently own a Tokai ES130 in tobacco sunburst purchased brand new from richtone last year. Well that guitar impressed me soo much, I decided to buy another
I had a strat body for about a year, and toyed with the idea of building my own guitar from scratch. But after costing it out, financially it just didnt make sense. I was very nearly going to buy a Fender highway one. But the cheapest uk price was ?440. So i opted for another Tokai )
I think ive identified the guitar in question from using the fine tools on this forum. I think it may be a AST62 for the US market built around 1985. I did a fair bit of searching on this website to try and find the ebay listing but no joy I just hope i havent bought a dud
The guitar acoustically sounds very resonant, which for me is 90% of the battle. It certainly sounds very straty through my blues deluxe :lol:
My only concern is, the seller certainly seems very genuine, its just the condition of the guitar is very very good for its age. And the pickups and hardware dont seem to have aged at all! Which is my only gripe with it. You know too good to be true etc?
At the end of the day, im happy with it, its certainly cheaper than a US strat. It has a comfortable C profile neck (ive no idea how people can play with V profiles. but hey ho, another mans meat and all that). And its almost the same as my first electric (a lovely jap squier i sold many moons ago, i was into heavy metal at the time and well the guitar wasnt). I just need to set it up with some man strings (11s) and maybe change the pickups. I was just after a second opinion really [/img]http://www.flickr.com/photos/48441708@N08/sets/72157623490315273/