2012 AST70 ???

Put in an offer on this guitar and it arrived today. Nary even a scratch on it. Even for Tokai it seems a incredibly well made quality instrument, and i noticed it's body is made up of only 2 pieces of slightly flamed alder. I was wondering could this guitar be a AST100 ?? It has a 1 ply scratchplate with the 8 outside screws. I thought the lower end models were at least 3 pieces ?? Need to get back to playing it !! Any info would be grateful.

Cheers

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2012-Tokai-AST70-Strat-Guitar-in-Sunburst-Goldstar-Sound-Japan-Made-MIJ-/111423252879?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=4E84JThT8xYCb1jIf21NqLikzy0%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Nice catch... great price too. How's the neck profile?

Beautiful strat!
AST100 has nitro finish, that's the main difference to the AST70

Thanks for the replys and the congrats.

I'll admit that i'm not really generally a strat guy, but i do like them as i'm a guitar ***** lol. i don't really know about the different years and their specs and all that stuff. I put in a offer/bid thinking it was an AST70 and they accepted my offer to my surprise. When i recieved the guitar i have to say that i'm a bit blown away, my girlfriend was neeeding sleep so i have yet to even plug it in so i can't comment on the electric sound yet, but i already have a couple of strats, a 78 Greco SE500 and an '81 Greco SE600. They are both nice guitars, but this guitar is worlds apart. I always feel that strats to me have what i can only describe as a "toylike" feel to them. This Goldstar does not feel anything like that.

I looked at a catalog and from what i can see this might not be the AST70 i thought i was throwing an offer on, but you know that you can only trust catalogs to a point so i figured someone might be able to confirm my thoughts. Did Tokai make a two piece body, i ply 8 screw scratchguard Goldstar in 2012 ?? I suppose i can just open her up and see if there's anything under the hood that will give an answer one way or the other but i want to play the guitar more before i bother with tinkering around.

Marcus as to the neck profile, it's not a v-shape for sure. it's a big chunker though that's for sure. Real Beefy. I play all sorts of guitars, acoustics and electrics and i never worry about the neck shape, i just adapt to each guitar, i suppose if i was a better player it would make a difference, but i haven't reached that level yet lucky for me lol.

Also the case this guitar came in is very well made, quite a bonus.

It's hard to tell because in addition to the catalog models Tokai makes custom order guitars with distributor's specifications.

I have a 2013 ATE82 with 2 pieces body.

If you can distinguish a nitro finish it's easy to know if its a AST100.

^ Yeah I have a poly more modern (few years old, I bought it new) breezy with a trans blonde finish and it's a 2-piece centre-jointed body. So having a 2-piece body doesn't necessarily mean it's a 100.

EDIT: nice score, by the way. 22 frets too, that's nice

Yeah, i noticed the 22 frets wasn't spec to that catalog and i know to expect the unexpected with Japanese guitars, i bought it expecting it to be as advertized, but i'm very impressed with the guitar, in the end i really don't care too much what model it is, just curious really. It came strung with a new set of strings, next time i switch them up i'll investigate further.

Thanks

brokentoes said:

Did Tokai make a two piece body, i ply 8 screw scratchguard Goldstar in 2012 ??

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Yes, they still make them.
All the AST70s are two piece bodies, available in ash or alder.