guitarsammy
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I have seen a 1993 Tokai ES-90 I am interested in buying, however I can’t find much information on it online. I also can’t spot it in the catalogues on this site. It seems there are a few early 1980s ES-100s out there, and a lot of early-2000s ES-120s and upwards out there, but virtually no Tokai ES-series guitars from the 1990s.
It looks like a great guitar and has the ‘traditional’ rather than dimple headstock, and also the Gibson-like truss rod cover.
However, I wanted to check the following:
- I know in the early 2000s there was an ES-100 and an ES-120, and the ES-120 was higher-spec. Was there a high and low-spec model like this in 1993? And, if so, was the ES-90 equivalent to the ES-100 or ES-120?
- If Tokai’s model numbering is based on the price in yen, then I assume a 1981 ES-100 was 100,000 yen. If the ES-90 was 90,000 yen 12 years later in 1993, was it a lower-spec guitar? Or am I missing something?
- Does anyone know if the finish on the ES-90 would have been nitro or poly?
- One of the few sources of information I have found is a German article downloadable here: https://www.gitarrebass.de/heftarchiv/1992-08/ - I don't speak German, but I can see that there are neck measurements there that suggest it is thinner at the first and twelfth frets than any of the measurements given for ES-120 and ES-130 here: http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=29197&highlight= - does anyone happen to know if the ES-90 typically had a thinner neck profile than the later ES-series guitars?
Thanks.
It looks like a great guitar and has the ‘traditional’ rather than dimple headstock, and also the Gibson-like truss rod cover.
However, I wanted to check the following:
- I know in the early 2000s there was an ES-100 and an ES-120, and the ES-120 was higher-spec. Was there a high and low-spec model like this in 1993? And, if so, was the ES-90 equivalent to the ES-100 or ES-120?
- If Tokai’s model numbering is based on the price in yen, then I assume a 1981 ES-100 was 100,000 yen. If the ES-90 was 90,000 yen 12 years later in 1993, was it a lower-spec guitar? Or am I missing something?
- Does anyone know if the finish on the ES-90 would have been nitro or poly?
- One of the few sources of information I have found is a German article downloadable here: https://www.gitarrebass.de/heftarchiv/1992-08/ - I don't speak German, but I can see that there are neck measurements there that suggest it is thinner at the first and twelfth frets than any of the measurements given for ES-120 and ES-130 here: http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=29197&highlight= - does anyone happen to know if the ES-90 typically had a thinner neck profile than the later ES-series guitars?
Thanks.