Hi,
I'm looking for a new strat and I want to test the old Tokai strats since my friend got one and his old Tokai is beautiful and sound well!
But I don't know anything about Tokai. I have seen the 1981/1982 catalog and there are selling models from 30 000yen to 100 000yen. So I think there is low cost and high end strat from Tokai!
I will certainly buy a Tokai strat from Ebay, so I couldn't test it, but does it is possible with the photos to identify if it is a low cost model or not?
Could you give me some tips to distinguish the good tokai strats from the bad ones ?
- What was the "best" production years/era ? Around 1980 ?
- What are the differences between silver strat, old st, vintage st ?
- Does like many japanese brand, the luthery was nearle of the same quality on all their models but it was mainly the electronic that was changing?
PS: I know that Tokai is still producing good guitars but since all my guitars are new, I want an old one this time
PS2: Sorry for my bad english!
thank you,
julien
I'm looking for a new strat and I want to test the old Tokai strats since my friend got one and his old Tokai is beautiful and sound well!
But I don't know anything about Tokai. I have seen the 1981/1982 catalog and there are selling models from 30 000yen to 100 000yen. So I think there is low cost and high end strat from Tokai!
I will certainly buy a Tokai strat from Ebay, so I couldn't test it, but does it is possible with the photos to identify if it is a low cost model or not?
Could you give me some tips to distinguish the good tokai strats from the bad ones ?
- What was the "best" production years/era ? Around 1980 ?
- What are the differences between silver strat, old st, vintage st ?
- Does like many japanese brand, the luthery was nearle of the same quality on all their models but it was mainly the electronic that was changing?
PS: I know that Tokai is still producing good guitars but since all my guitars are new, I want an old one this time
PS2: Sorry for my bad english!
thank you,
julien