Hi all and Merry Christmas!
I had been looking for a decent 'Strat'-like copy and won one of these today on ebay for $305.00. ebay item number 320633390808
I had checked the catalogues and found only pictures of one example which showed Humbuckers in the bridge position. I tried to view the jpg upload of the 86 catalogue and it appears that three different pickup configurations were available from the factory, including 3 the same; SDS Drive 1 - the covers say White 1 - DiMarzio or Seymour Duncan?.
The guitar I bought seemed ok, at least the neck seemed original to the body and it is in good shape except a cigarette burn, needing a good clean up I think. Most of the gold plating on the tuners has worn off but it all seems to match - the only question I have about originality is the bridge pickup and therefore the pickguard.
Are there any other owners of these who have experiences to share?
here are a few urls I found as examples:
http://koti.welho.com/pmanns/salu/Instruments.html - bottom of page
http://www.pirk.estranky.cz/clanky/tokai-strat-_55-custom-edition-mij.html
http://www.mijguitar.com/used-tokai-tokai-custom-edition-315811205/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/zrx400e10/e/39c1e75c0bb49580e37a0edb6580bf85
Thanks
I had been looking for a decent 'Strat'-like copy and won one of these today on ebay for $305.00. ebay item number 320633390808
I had checked the catalogues and found only pictures of one example which showed Humbuckers in the bridge position. I tried to view the jpg upload of the 86 catalogue and it appears that three different pickup configurations were available from the factory, including 3 the same; SDS Drive 1 - the covers say White 1 - DiMarzio or Seymour Duncan?.
The guitar I bought seemed ok, at least the neck seemed original to the body and it is in good shape except a cigarette burn, needing a good clean up I think. Most of the gold plating on the tuners has worn off but it all seems to match - the only question I have about originality is the bridge pickup and therefore the pickguard.
Are there any other owners of these who have experiences to share?
here are a few urls I found as examples:
http://koti.welho.com/pmanns/salu/Instruments.html - bottom of page
http://www.pirk.estranky.cz/clanky/tokai-strat-_55-custom-edition-mij.html
http://www.mijguitar.com/used-tokai-tokai-custom-edition-315811205/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/zrx400e10/e/39c1e75c0bb49580e37a0edb6580bf85
Thanks