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Tokai guitar serial numbers1/13/2024 ![]() Mine is a left handed ST-50 or ST-55 (I’m not sure if 3 tone burst is a special color) 50s style, all maple neck, 7,25” radius, ground soldered to shielding plate, round string tree, 8-screw single ply scratch plate, open slotted tuners, greyback V1 (Vintage mk. ![]() However I am interested in finding a way to date these old Tokai’s across the board (at the source if you will), so it can be applied to both American, Asian and European Tokais – they all came out of the same factory so there must be a system. The pickup-theory (E,U, VI, VII) and routing-theory applies better. I live in Denmark and the whole headstock-theory doesn’t really apply in Europe. ![]() I have been trying to date the guitar since. The guy or some guy before him has entered this guitar into the Tokai registry as an 1982 (I find the Tokai registry to be mostly useless) and this is all wrong but there is no way to change it. ![]() Anyway the price was okay and being left handed these guitars are rare ( any cool old guitar is rare when you shop left handed) so I bought it right away. The guy selling it claimed it was an 1982 – I knew this to be all wrong and guessed the guitar was built later. ![]()
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