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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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Oct 27, 20232 min read
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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...
JDZ
Dec 9, 20202 min read
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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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Sep 1, 20202 min read
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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,
JDZ
Apr 9, 20182 min read
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