Six Digit Serial Numbers With 2xxxxx 1986 1987

[Sigmania]

SN 214094

Buy the Tokai 1984 Goldstar Sound TST Stratocaster Sunburst Maple Fingerboard (Pre-Owned) #214094

 

[Sigmania]

SN 219413

TST40 OW

Kytary.ie - TOKAI 1982 Goldstar Sound TST60 Electric Guitar

 

[Sigmania]

TE80A

SN 229339 ?

"Tokai Custom Edition" Guitars

 

[Sigmania]

SN 210059

1980 Tokai AST-62 Candy Apple Red > Guitars Electric Solid Body | Empire Guitars RI


Body: Solid body electric guitar with a Stratocaster body style & a beautiful red finish.

Neck: Maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard, original Tokai logo, block inlays, 25.5” scale length, 1 11/16” nut width, vintage Kluson Deluxe style tuning keys

Pickups/Hardware: 3 single coil pickups, 3-way switch, one volume knob & 2 tone knobs, white 3-ply pickguard, tremolo system with the whammy bar, dot inlays.

 

[Sigmania]

SN 217821

help me date my tokay Jazz bass custom edition

 

[Sigmania]

SN 216821

TX 801

Unknown Custom Edition

 

[Sigmania]

SN 219293

TX 801

Unknown Custom Edition

 

[Sigmania]

SN 217039

TX 801

1987 Tokai Custom Edition TX-801 - Ebony FB, Alder Body - Made in Japan | Reverb

 

[Sigmania]

Pot date code looks like 71 or January 1987.

February production code

SN 217437

TST50N

NGD Early 80's Tokai Goldstar ST50

 

[Sigmania]

SN 217527

Tokai Goldstar Sound - help with dating needed!

 

[Sigmania]

SN 227239 "Betsy"

Looking for info on a goldstar sound strat....

 

[Sigmania]

TST55 SRR

SN 221662

St-? lefty

Red Sparkle Goldstar TST55 R SR

NGD: Sparkle Purple Tokai TST-60

1987/88 catalog colors

 

[Sigmania]

TST40BB

SN 223346

Production date of May, (5).

Is this Tokai ST40 1984, a genuine one?

 

[ATO]

I've got one of these. TST40 OW. 228757
It originally had trap tuners and ceramic pups which i have swapped out for better quality. I love this guitar, gigged with it for years. Always wondered what year it was, looks like July 87. I'll see if I can dig out the old pots.

 

[Sigmania]

Awesome!!!

 

[ATO]

Found them. They appear to be the same as ST pots. No code.

 

[Sigmania]

Interesting. Those are earlier pots. The switch is cheaper plastic too.

Wonder if someone used an old harness? Or maybe it was switched? Do the solder joints look clean?

What have seen is that they were phased out in 1986.

Here is a 1987 TST40 from the previous page with the pots I see from this period as well as the switch.



And here is the progression I have seen in pots.

Dates are rough.

1977-1986

1987-1991

1990s-mid 2000s

~2009-?

 

[Sigmania]

SN 200618

1986 Tokai AST-62 (Goldstar sound) AST 62 | #424205493

 

[ATO]

Interesting. Those are earlier pots. The switch is cheaper plastic too.

Wonder if someone used an old harness? Or maybe it was switched? Do the solder joints look clean?

What have seen is that they were phased out in 1986.

Here is a 1987 TST40 from the previous page with the pots I see from this period as well as the switch.

The solder joints do look clean. The plastic switch is a VLX53 which google tells me is made by Gotoh. Fujigen used them in Ibanez/Squier/Fender guitars. Must be a replacement at some point. The wires were not clipped together either so I'd say someone's been in there and replaced the pots and switch. Nice to have a set of spare ST pots, didn't realise I had them.

 

[Sigmania]

TST50 LB?

SN 222734 ?

C shaped neck

1982 Tokai ST60 Goldstar Sound Ice Blue 1957 Stratocaster Replica