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8003028 “Plate Stamped small neckplate ,My ST60.

Laminated finger board suggests Tokai manufacture to me ,Other MIJ strats were usually slab boards. The P Up routings should be the proof one way or another.

Tokai every time.

Modified Tele headstock not vintage Tokai.

Rare T stamped pickups on EB ay UK. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256420064514

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155903472754?hash=item244c923472:g:GbQAAOSwxQhlXi4X

FS:1980 Tokai Bound Tele Now SOLD and 90's MIJ Thinline with Lollars SOLD - Guitars £ Discussions on theFretBoard The same guitar on sale awhile ago which is now on E bay UK The EBay ad does not mention the replaced neck unfortunately.

1980 Tokai, Telecaster, Breezysound in Sunburst (with Hard Case) | eBay...

Looks like Sen to me.There is a sort of 3D quality to the grain, a kind of chatoyance whereas alder tends to be flatter and more 2D.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175571150340

https://reverb.com/uk/item/66917219-tokai-vintage-japanese-goldstar-sounds-1984-olympic-white-w-original-leatherette-case

The spec you reference applied to Springys not Goldstars. 84 maple Goldstars had 4 digit plates.V necks and round string trees.When i get a minute I'll post some photos of mine.

This was my local music store when I was young and was incidentally the shop in which Lennon and Mc Cartney learned some jazz chords from a certain Jim Gretty a guitar salesman who was still working there when I was 16 and window shopping there.