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Oct 27, 20232 min read
Documenting Tokai’s 1966 Strat Model – 1982 Silver Star SS-60
Tokai’s catalog Silver Star (SS) models were introduced to compete with contemporary Fender Strat’s, basically a very high quality copy...
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JDZ
Dec 9, 20202 min read
New Tokai Model Discovered - Ritchie Blackmore Model
When I saw this 1982 Silver Star, at first I thought someone had scalloped the fretboard of a Silver Star, but it also had the tell tale...
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JDZ
Sep 1, 20202 min read
1954 Strats From Greco, Fernandes and Tokai
By 1980-81 there were some major battles between the big brands in Japan - They all were going for hyper accurate builds of vintage guitars
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JDZ
Apr 9, 20182 min read
Identifying a Tokai Made Greco
How can you tell if your vintage Greco SA was made by Tokai? Most vintage Greco’s were contracted out for manufacture by Fujigen. However,
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