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Hi Guys, My nearest guess to the 'OF' saga is Old Finish - kinda like a Honeyburst. The whole VSB is kinda hard to follow as they only ran for a Year or two and I do own a 1981 VS-60 that was GR ( a Greenburst) with a Rosewood neck. All the VSG series had a flame maple veneer on an Alder body...

Hi guys, If I am to assume the electronics are original, I would be shooting for an LS-60, somewhere between 1981 and 1984. The 2 piece solid plain top was used on LS-60 Love Rocks of this era, later Years had a flame veneer. LS-50s tended to have 3 piece tops. Double cream, 12 screw Gotoh...

Hola mi amigo, I am wondering about the weight of this beauty. I have a 1982 LC-60 BB but could be persuaded to let it go and buy this one. The LC-60 is 4.2kg, has Gibson Burstbucker pups, VIP Centralab pots and Emerson PIO Bumblebee caps...and the 'Hearts & Diamond' headstock inlay. Hasta...

Hi guys, To me the finish looks closer to YS than GS albiet the red is quite faint. The neck is from 1980 and most likely ST-80 [ hex truss rod, no skunk stripe, black side position markers, 'A' on neck code, soft V profile ] The body is most likely Tokai due to the specific routing of the...

Hi Geoff, It is interesting to note your comment about the Fujigen contract from Fender. From what I have read, Mac Seshimoto (who was the go-to guy at Tokai )has stated that Tokai turned down the Fender contract first. This would have been in 1980 I would imagine as in 1981 all the Springys...

Hi guys, In 1982 I started working for Tokai Music Australia who imported and distributed Tokai pianos and Elka organs and had just started importing the Tokai guitars. My role was as a "Guitar Specialist" - I had to inspect, set-up and adjust all the new guitars to feel like used ones - lower...

Hi guys, so this appears to be a TST-56 Tokai neck placed onto some generic body. For a start, TST & AST 56/62 were never offered in Cherry Sunburst. Colour options were BB, BL, CAR, FO, GM, GS, LPB, MR, OF, OR, OW, SW and YSO. No CS amongst that lot. Also the tuners have been replaced from...

Hi guys, From my files it would seem the Nagano connection only lasted for 3 Years - 1980, 1981 and 1982. It was only used for the entry level models during that time of LS and SS and a one-off LC-60M Serial numbers all have a '1' as the second digit so 1980=010xxxx ; 1981=110xxxx ...

Hi guys, Just to upgrade the post these are the specs for the ST-70 guitars I have actual photos and dates listed - not to be confused with ST-70S ( an entirely different Model) 1024145 12=3 OW X ST-70 1024205 12=9 YSO X ST-70R 1024238 12=3 FO X ST-70 There are a couple more but with no...

Hi guys, You don't mention whether the fingerboard is Rosewood or Maple? At any rate, if your Body code reads " 10=4 YS Y" it is not an ST-80 Truss rod adjuster should be Philips Head. Serial number should be 7 digit starting between 1012000 and 1024000. The 2 piece body, 'A' electronics and...

Hi guys, Firstly - scratchplate is not original and neither is the bridge. Saddles are Tokai SS, and the body stamp and Ash body are certainly a surprise. Would like to see the base of the neck as to whether it has been converted from a 4 hole to a 3 hole. There will not be a neck stamp due to...

Hi Guys that is one beautiful guitar but the serial number or neck is wrong. They are mismatched. For arguments sake lets call the neck a '79 in that all 1979 rosewood necks had the teardrop/ skunkstripe feature and stamped fingerboard. The '79 neck was used in the early part of 1980 up to...

Hi Guys, That particular colour FO was Tokais take on Fiesta Red which has an orange/pink base as opposed to Dakota Red which has a blue base [ as per the PMS colour chart] Tokai did not do a Dakota Red finish. Mostly they were put onto regular ST-50 and ST-70, remembering that the ST-70 was...

Hi Guys, In Australia, "Custom" has a slightly varied meaning but for these purposes it equates to something slightly different from regular production. With Tokai, it kinda varied also. Tracing Springy colours back to 1978 there are 5 Standard colours that remained unchanged - GS, YS, BB, OW...

Hi guys, Yeah, I saw a lot of these in my time with Tokai Aust - we even had a wooden display panel with it engraved in.[wish I had have kept that] I agree in this was a slogan used to promote the fact that the Tokai models were replicas of the old Fender and Gibson guitars and they used aged...

Hola Luis, Did you end up selling this guitar? regards Peter

Hi guys, From what I can tell all Springy, SilverStar and Goldstar up to 1985 had this brass plate. Its official Tokai Part Number is S-155 and cost 500yen It came in 2 versions. The first didnt have the "shoulder" cut out and was used mainly on the 1977-1978 Springys. In 1978 the more common...

Hi guys, I would venture an opinion with this guitar and say I would consider it original TTE-50 BL from 1986. All stamps and logos are correct - including the 6 digit number- but the body neck codes indicate a post-85 build . . not 1984. 1984 would have 7=12 and the body code would be in the...

Hi Guys, I would like to add some extra info to this thread... Throughout the 1980 Model Year run [ October 1979 - September 1980 ] there were 2 distinct styles of guitar made in regards to features. The first style are essentially SN 00001xx until 0009960. These all had stamped fingerboards...