shyroseca Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject: What kind of Tokai Guitar is this?
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I have had this Tokai Guitar for at least 35 years. The Model # is 7646 and Serial # 71050329
Welcome to the Tokai Registry and Forum shyroseca
You could try some detective work along these lines
Use a website language translator like
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
and paste this link in to the website translator section and in the boxes below set it to translate Japanese to english
http://members7.tsukaeru.net/levante40/
This is the Japanese based website registry for Tokai's Acoustic Guitar made under the name "Cat's Eye's"
There is a sub section of the site which assists you to verify the age of the guitar. There are also lots of old product catalouges which have been scanned in.
hans-j?rgen Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:
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Any pictures?
Hans-jurgen is spot on, as always. 8)
A photo would be very helpful, also a desciption of the woods use for the soundboard, neck, fingerboard, sides and back.
Alternatively you could email, including a photo
Kazuhiro Yoshida on
[email protected]
Kazuhiro is the person who runs this Cat's Eyes website and he has a contact within Tokai Gakki. This is very very rare. Many of us in this registry have tried to contact Tokai with no response.
However, I recevied an email from him the other day regarding a similar made for export guitar:-
Hello Chris
There was an answer from the manufacturer about the matter
of the question the other day.
TCD-286 is manufactured for the United States in 1999.
The main specification is as follows.
Top:Solid Spruce
Back&Sides:Rosewood
Neck:Mahogany
Fingerboard:Rosewood
Finish
olyester
Bracing:Scaropped
PG:Tortoise shell tipe
Head Inray:Flower Pot
Bridge:Long Saddle
Posision Mark:non
Binding:Tortoise shell tipe
Top Color:Old Color Finish
Thank you!
Kazuhiro Yoshida
Let us know how you get on with your research
Regards
Chris