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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...
JDZ
Oct 27, 20232 min read


EGF 1800 Prototype!
This is a really special guitar, Greco used it in one of their advertisements and was made as a prototype for the Super Real's top model,...
JDZ
Mar 9, 20211 min read


1981 Tokai ES-150 in all Finishes
I have 1981 Tokai ES-150 in each color they came in, so figured it would be a good idea to get some pictures of them together. If you'd...
JDZ
Feb 17, 20211 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...
JDZ
Dec 9, 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
JDZ
Aug 31, 20202 min read
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