1984 Tokai Strat - '70s replica.

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My friend has Tokai tele made in japan early eighties, I see these things going for crazy money often more than what they copy. I don't see his tele as being that great at all, I have a Squire 50's classic vibe tele and it blows the tokai away, the only thing I changed was the input jack as it began to fail. I personaly would go for a CV strat or tele, I know there will be a lot of raised eyebrows but my experience of the CV's has been very very good, they do what they say on they tin and without doubt they are the future collectors guitars. I've had just about every guitar you can name as back in the day they went for peanuts, I never really worried about selling one as it was easy to replace but I would have to think really hard before selling the CV tele.
 
Isn't the price around $300 in American dollars?
I would get an used American made strat....I see the hwy 1's go for 300 used.
A used tokai strat...$150 tops is all I would offer.
They are well built guitars but they were made in Japan copies. A poor mans fender strat.
I'm not really on board with the so called collectibility of the tokai, Electra, and ibanez jap copies.
They are kind of cool if you can get one very cheap
 
jimistone said:
Isn't the price around $300 in American dollars?
I would get an used American made strat....I see the hwy 1's go for 300 used.
A used tokai strat...$150 tops is all I would offer.
They are well built guitars but they were made in Japan copies. A poor mans fender strat.
I'm not really on board with the so called collectibility of the tokai, Electra, and ibanez jap copies.
They are kind of cool if you can get one very cheap
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The Tokais are definitely "bigged up" if the example I saw was genuine. I've played many American Strats of various vintages and none were better, some considerably worse, than my Jap Squier. I wouldn't pay more than £1000 for ANY guitar ($1500?) - in fact the most I've ever paid is £600 for my Jag, which is Jap as well. I've owned two Fender Teles and although they were well-made guitars I found nothing about them that set them above any of the Japanese instruments I own. Except, perhaps the fact that Japanese pickups are sometimes not wax-potted or otherwise stabilised, which makes them prone to squealy feedback. Twenty pounds spent at the guitar tech's bench cures that, though - and then the pickups sound as good as any I've heard.
 
Bubba po said:
The Tokais are definitely "bigged up" if the example I saw was genuine. I've played many American Strats of various vintages and none were better, some considerably worse, than my Jap Squier. I wouldn't pay more than £1000 for ANY guitar ($1500?) - in fact the most I've ever paid is £600 for my Jag, which is Jap as well. I've owned two Fender Teles and although they were well-made guitars I found nothing about them that set them above any of the Japanese instruments I own. Except, perhaps the fact that Japanese pickups are sometimes not wax-potted or otherwise stabilised, which makes them prone to squealy feedback. Twenty pounds spent at the guitar tech's bench cureOs that, though - and then the pickups sound as good as any I've heard.
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Maybe its a little different here than there. Here american and Japan Fender strats are easier to get $300 or $400 for than a copy of an american fender strat...regardless of quality. I always think in terms of resale because may want to move it on down the line and get my money back out of it at some point. Tokais are good guitars I've heard though.
 
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