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This one has been around the block a few times! 😃. I think those blocks are holding the body together rather than filling active cavities. Vintage 1980s Tokai Super Edition SD50 Twin HB MIJ Japan Stratocaster *The Turd* I would like to call this - The Turd. I found this in a local auction...

Recent new arrival from Japan - 8001655 Codes don't match! Body 12=8 GS and marked PB80 in the pickup route. It looks like it could be PB60 but I think it's definitely a faded 8. Definitely nitro. Neck 1=6 stamped 80 on fretboard but no A stamp. Definitely nitro. So looks like body is Dec...

May 1983 ST neck 5=12 Repro decal, should be block https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186356387988?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=qX9LjwIzQeO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Q6dyJ3hoSoe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Only of interest as I don't think I've seen an L serial with trap tuners before. Must be early 86. Hard to make out the serial L3435*, must be one of the last. Seller is claiming it's a TST60 which it clearly is not...

Spotted on eBay UK: Up for sale is my White Tokai LC-60 from 1985. The guitar has had a bit of a life. Some of the parts that aren't original are the set of locking Grovers, the pickguard, knobs and I think the pickups have been replaced. I'm not sure if they have but there are no markings on...

1984 TST50 FO? SN 23124 Has a kill switch fitted so maybe other things have been messed with. Still a good price in the UK. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176196266437?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ynBU0WDeTF-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Q6dyJ3hoSoe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

White 1983 LC60 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204602649116?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=QMCJObuORdC&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Q6dyJ3hoSoe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

1983 ST60 MB Block logo L11444 No codes but going by my codes list I would put money on them being 5=12. He's going to have a look tomorrow:) Very nice guitar...

TST50 L16402 Approx mid/late 1983 Check out the original cardboard shipping box...

Modded TTE70, prob early/mid 84 SN 22069 Edit: seller says code is 5.15 so maybe 1985. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305325439171?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=-_ycSfYqRd2&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Q6dyJ3hoSoe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I've started compiling a list of guitars by month of manufacture where I can find them, to try and make sense of the codes & serial oddities. Really this list needs to have many more guitars so I'll keep my eye out for more codes/serials but they are not so easy to come by. Sigmania's lists are...

Seller in Australia has come into a lot of NOS 80s tokai parts - not cheap! You'll need to scroll past the guitars. Our friends at Tokai recently invited us to come over to Japan and dig through their NOS warehouse to handpick a mountain of parts to offer to the public, giving ya'll the...

ST with 1983 fanatics decal but 1981 serial. Very rough, refretted, seems like nitro checking on the back of the headstock but it might be 'relic'd' poly. No pics of pickups...

Spotted on FB. No pics of pots. Maple cap board. Nice looking guitar! TTE70? Hi Tokai enthusiasts! Could you help me identify which model and year is this guitar? It is a Blue Flower Tokai, Breezysound, from serial number it appears that it was made in 1982 but I doubt it. Serial number is...

I'm reasonably confident this is LPB! A left hooker as we say in the UK. Serial is hard to make out but looks like L14****. This will be a 50 + 5 LPB + 5 LH...

An interesting ST50 L04352 from Nov 82 with very late Spag logo, assuming it's not had a replacement decal. If sold new in the UK this would have had a block logo at the time. Has pots dated June 82 (unless they are 92, but they look factory). I have a Nov stamped 1982 block logo guitar serial...

ST50 with fanatics decal, odd though as it has an 81 serial. Must be a partscaster, though the seller states it has matching codes. Maybe it is just the plate that has been swapped. I'd deffo want to see those codes...

83 TST with fanatics logo. Nice looking neck. Serial is 14635. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204500402381?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=0B3HXkW6SaC&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Q6dyJ3hoSoe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Looks like a minter, owned from new and never played. V neck? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276094299802?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Ta-EQfm8Q3W&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Q6dyJ3hoSoe&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Spotted for sale in the UK. Can't be many of these about. Here we have for sale a very rare special edition model from the golden era of Japanese guitars. Part of the Tokai 1982 Special Limited Products catalog, the SS70 (Special strat) model is based on the rare and highly collectible Fender...