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TokaiJoe asked in another thread why a Texas would start this forum so here goes.
I grew up in Houston and hung out at Rockin' Robin (music store) which had Tokai make their guitars for the first few years before moving production to Houston. The store always had Tokai's, this was late 80's/early 90's and we all new they were great players.
Skip to 2000 and I felt the need to for a Les Paul. Already having owned a Gibby and new they were over priced POS's my thoughts quickly turned to Tokai as I had remembered how great and consistent players they were. Tokai had just started exporting into Canada but I wanted a late 70's early 80's guitar. Date must be in the serial number like other guitars right, but no one new how to decode. Email conversations with Tokai revealed that there was a manufactured date in the serial number but they didn't know how to decode and that it had changed over time.
Since I build databases to track marketing activing for a day gig I quickly built a online database at TGR to track information which lead me to cracking the serial number date code. Had help from friends in AU as well. The forum was just an extension of the site so we could all exchange ideas.
And there you have it.
I grew up in Houston and hung out at Rockin' Robin (music store) which had Tokai make their guitars for the first few years before moving production to Houston. The store always had Tokai's, this was late 80's/early 90's and we all new they were great players.
Skip to 2000 and I felt the need to for a Les Paul. Already having owned a Gibby and new they were over priced POS's my thoughts quickly turned to Tokai as I had remembered how great and consistent players they were. Tokai had just started exporting into Canada but I wanted a late 70's early 80's guitar. Date must be in the serial number like other guitars right, but no one new how to decode. Email conversations with Tokai revealed that there was a manufactured date in the serial number but they didn't know how to decode and that it had changed over time.
Since I build databases to track marketing activing for a day gig I quickly built a online database at TGR to track information which lead me to cracking the serial number date code. Had help from friends in AU as well. The forum was just an extension of the site so we could all exchange ideas.
And there you have it.