Hi all,
This is my first post here. I recently purchased a Tokai 335 copy off of Ebay in Canada. The weird thing is I bid on and thought I won a "Dillion" 335 copy. The pics in the listing didn't show the headstock clearly but it was listed as a Dillion. I didn't know till I opened the package that it was in fact a Tokai. I was a bit upset at first but after playing the guitar for a short time got over it. This guitar feels great and has a range of sound better than I could have hoped for. Since I found myself the owner of my first Tokai instrument I figured I'd get online and see what I could learn about it. Much like the guitar itself which has NO identifiable marks other than the name on the headstock, I could find little about Tokai guitars until finding this fine site. Here's where I hope you can help. From what I've been able to gather from reading some of the posts here my best guess is that I have a ES 60 or ES 80 model made in Korea but possibly China.
I'd attach a picture of it but there doesn't seem to be an option to do that here. It's translucent blue w/white binding, has Grover tuners and a Bigsby style vibrato. I noticed the ones on the UK Tokai site appeared to have Klusons and I saw none with vibratos. So if anybody could tell me what model, where it's manufactured, what it should be worth (retail) and why it would have no serial number or model number anywhere on it I'd appreciate it.
Thanks if you can help.
... Dan
p.s. I've noticed some people have posted pics if you could tell me how that is done I'd be happy to show mine off. The guitar that is...
This is my first post here. I recently purchased a Tokai 335 copy off of Ebay in Canada. The weird thing is I bid on and thought I won a "Dillion" 335 copy. The pics in the listing didn't show the headstock clearly but it was listed as a Dillion. I didn't know till I opened the package that it was in fact a Tokai. I was a bit upset at first but after playing the guitar for a short time got over it. This guitar feels great and has a range of sound better than I could have hoped for. Since I found myself the owner of my first Tokai instrument I figured I'd get online and see what I could learn about it. Much like the guitar itself which has NO identifiable marks other than the name on the headstock, I could find little about Tokai guitars until finding this fine site. Here's where I hope you can help. From what I've been able to gather from reading some of the posts here my best guess is that I have a ES 60 or ES 80 model made in Korea but possibly China.
I'd attach a picture of it but there doesn't seem to be an option to do that here. It's translucent blue w/white binding, has Grover tuners and a Bigsby style vibrato. I noticed the ones on the UK Tokai site appeared to have Klusons and I saw none with vibratos. So if anybody could tell me what model, where it's manufactured, what it should be worth (retail) and why it would have no serial number or model number anywhere on it I'd appreciate it.
Thanks if you can help.
... Dan
p.s. I've noticed some people have posted pics if you could tell me how that is done I'd be happy to show mine off. The guitar that is...