dont know what model my tokai is

[king0809]

hiya i own a tokai guitar but i dont know what model it is there is not serial number or any info from where it was made, the closet i can find is the Tokai LC180S-VWH is there any way for me to find out (id put a picture up but i dont no how)
thank you

 

[jacco]

Well, if it doesn't have a serial number, it's not very promissing.
But please post some pics so we can have a look at it. Upload your pics to Photobucket, copy the IMG code and paste them here in your message,

 

[king0809]

thanks man well here are some pictures if you dont mind trying to help me find out what it is cheers

 

[jacco]

Well, first of all, it's not MIJ but MIK or MIC, so not a high end model.
Could you post some pics of the neck pickup cavity and control cavity?

 

[king0809]

i dont really want to take pick ups out as i have no idea how to do it or put them back in sorry

 

[jacco]

No prob! Control cavity only mabe?

 

[king0809]

1st time iv ever done, how can you tell by looking at the cavity anyway if you dont mind me asking

 

[Johny642000]

I would say it's a Korean made LC53 - or whatever the model number was at the time. I'm not sure when Tokai started making the standard series in Korea, possibly mid 90s, but this continued up until the end of 2005 when they moved production to China - since then, MIC Tokai's do have a serial number - six digit s/ns with some starting with FC, designating the company that made that particular guitar, Fine Corporation, I think...

Anyway, yours is MIK and made sometime betwen the mid 90s and 2005...

 

[luis]

A tokai with "volute?????
Just remember Tokai is replicating 50?s period....