Help needed to identify Goldstar Sound Strat.

[greengriff]

I will post photos ASAP. I am in the UK and bought this guitar second hand in as new condition. It is a Candy Apple Red Strat with a one piece maple neck that has 21 vintage size fretsand a vintage-style trussrod. Body and neck have a thin poly finish. The headstock is an altered Fender shape and not an exact Fender shape. It has a single-ply white pickguard. There is no serial number anywhere on the guitar, nor a country of origin. It appears very well constructed.

Stripping the guitar reveals the neck end is inked with the numbers 11-11 and inside the neck pickup cavity a rectangular piece of finish has been removed and 'B11-11B' inked in. The body is basswood, the trem is a 6 screw vintage trem with a steel block and the electrics are three single coils with rod magnets and cheap looking pots and switch.

The guy in the shop said the guitar was Japanese, but I am wondering if it is Chinese or Korean. Can anybody identify it from my description? I would say that is is either no more than a couple of years old or is older but has hardly ever been played. I'm wondering if I've been stitched up?

 

[greengriff]

Here's the links to the photos on photobucket:

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff282/greengriffmark/DSCN1248.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff282/greengriffmark/DSCN1249.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff282/greengriffmark/DSCN1251.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff282/greengriffmark/DSCN1254.jpg

All help much appreciated!

 

[Anonymous]

It's hard to tell anything from those pics. It would have helped if you hadn't cut the end of the headstock off in the pic! The code in the pickup cavity doesn't look typical Tokai to me.

Mike