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1978Datsun

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I bought this guitar a couple months back for 20 dollars US at a pawn shop, I knew nothing about Tokais or that they had a following, just liked the guitar and obviously it was worth 20 dollars.
When I went to look into it I found out that they are very well made and have a big community behind them and was shocked!

Anyways, I have been searching for awhile and can’t find anything online about my specific model, I’ve found a few similar ones but not the exact one with the maple neck and skunk stripe down the back of the neck. I’ve looked through google, eBay, reverb, as well as all of the tokai catalogues and found nothing.

The bridge says made in Japan on the back
The headstock reads “tokai electric guitar original series, the quality musical instruments of the world”
And the serial number is 3031353.

Could you guys help me date and identify this guitar?

Here a link to a picture, I’m not sure how to post one on the forum
https://m.imgur.com/a/4ZjW2z1
 
mdvineng said:
https://www.vintagejapanguitars.com.br/en/tokai-1984-1985-original-series-catalogue/

That isn’t the same model, mine has a maple neck as well as a strat style tremolo
 
Its a Tokai FSD model guitar {FS is for "Five star"} , 1983, I don't know too much about them but they came in both Rosewood and plain maple necks/fret boards.... Here's a maple board neck on Yahoo Japan, this is the earlier model {1982}...

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j631286359
 
Custom Goldtop said:
Its a Tokai FSD model guitar {FS is for "Five star"} , 1983, I don't know too much about them but they came in both Rosewood and plain maple necks/fret boards.... Here's a maple board neck on Yahoo Japan, this is the earlier model {1982}...

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j631286359

Perfect
 
Custom Goldtop said:
Its a Tokai FSD model guitar {FS is for "Five star"} , 1983, I don't know too much about them but they came in both Rosewood and plain maple necks/fret boards.... Here's a maple board neck on Yahoo Japan, this is the earlier model {1982}...

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j631286359

That is the right shape for the headstock except mine just says “original series” and I’ve been unable to find another star shape anywhere that has the same headstock writing as mine...

On a side note, would anybody happen to know the general value of my guitar?
 
I searched Tokai FSD guitar and came up with plenty of hits...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tokai+FSD+guitar&rlz=1C1GCEA_enAU831AU831&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5rZre1_DoAhXFgeYKHavmBrYQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1366&bih=625

And here's the original series logo..

https://reverb.com/au/item/1007093-tokai-fsd-five-star-guitar?locale=en-AU
 

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