StanleyDenmark
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Do you have any closer pictures of that code under the pickguard?
The 2 = is blurry in the one I can see.
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I'm not sure why you are saying that? Do you believe that Tokai stopped making veneer fretboards before 1987?The laminated fingerboard tends to suggest earlier than 1987, in my opinion.
ST40 from 84, 85 could be bang on.
Voidoid56 knows how to read the date codes on these pots. Yours look a lot like the one he dated to March 1987 (73)
Yours looks like one of yours may be "74"? Hard to see.
I am wondering if it is April 1987?
Wiring looks unchanged.
Hopefully he will chime in.
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My apologies to you Hodge69. I just got my hands on a 1984 catalog (1984 Vol. 2) that I had never seen, and saw that the AST80 apparently had a slab board in that catalog.The laminated fingerboard tends to suggest earlier than 1987, in my opinion.
ST40 from 84, 85 could be bang on.
So does this effect what we believe about the age of my guitar?My apologies to you Hodge69. I just got my hands on a 1984 catalog (1984 Vol. 2) that I had never seen, and saw that the AST80 apparently had a slab board in that catalog.
That said, Tokai continued to use the radiused laminate rosewood board design into the 90s. And the slab rosewood board was offered on some higher end models before that. I have one of the first they made, a 1981 ST70R.
At any rate, I wanted to clear that up and say that I see where you might have been coming from now that I have seen that model. I had no idea they were making a Goldstar with a slab board in 1984.
Here's a pic from the 1984 catalog.
Thank you VintAxe.
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