Hi all,
I am the seller. I am sorry for my lack of participation here. Actually, I received several disturbing (to me) responses to my description. I have been in a quandary as to what to do.
I will tell you all my complete history with this guitar.
First, I searched for my records of who and when I bought this guitar from, and as of now I am unable to find them. I do know this, I bought this guitar from either Hisashi, Bluesyguitars, japanoldguitars, or possibly MIJguitars, as I have bought several from those sellers, and the only Tokais that I have bought from other sellers have been single purchases, and I remember those. I really believe it was Hisashi. It was sold to me as a model 100. Koizumi wrote to my auction an told me it is not a 100. And now I see the experts here agree.
About the circa 1983. You did write to tell me this. But I stand by this fact even though the registry says it is 1984. There is documentation of this Logo being bought new in 1983. I am not saying it is 1983, that is why I used the term circa. Never the less, that part is no big deal, and I would have changed it immediately, but there were already bids, and it is not possible to change the description at that point.
I was also told from the person I bought it from that it was all original. I know this because it is a question I always ask, and it is important to me. The metal scratch plate was a cool feature to me as I have had some original Fender guitars with the exact same thing. Also, I know that you could have bought this exact configuration from Fender in 1959. This was the first year that fender offered the 3 tone burst and it was near the end of the metal plate being available. The only thing that bothered me when I got the guitar was the neck plate serial was only 4 digits, which would not be period correct. Four digits would be earlier. Everything else would be right on.
I had no idea there would arise so much controversy about this guitar when I listed it. I suppose I will pull it and just keep it. I really do like it. Actually when I first got it, my son in law saw it and freaked over it. So I gave it to him, but he plays humbuckers and never could fall in love with the single coil sound. Then I found a 1958 style Tokai Flying Vee with the humbuckers he loves and he gave me back this for the Vee. Well, then when I was detailing this guitar for this auction, I realized what a really sweet guitar this is and just about had myself talked in to not selling it anyway. Truth is, I have to sell something, I have almost 70 guitars and over 30 amps.
I just want everyone to know that I am not trying to mislead anyone, and I put the link to this forum on my auction so that interested folks could ask questions of the experts here. If anyone of you has any advice as to what course of action I should take in regards to this auction please feel free to voice your opinion.
With a humble desire to be a respected member of this community, Kind regards,
Richard