Price is a bit optimistic - would this be a 55?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-...Edition-/185340409789?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-...Edition-/185340409789?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276
Vintage Tokai Goldstar Stratocaster 1982 Sonic Blue
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Oh man... That is beautiful! I am going to grab these pics for the block logo thread.
http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=26253&p=197366#p197366
http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=26253&p=197366#p197366
And I don't know which model it would be called...
It has U pickups, so that puts it at the ST50 level, but the "SO" paint job was a 5,000 yen up charge, and the matching head stock was another 5,000 yen.
Maybe ST50+5+5 R.... 8)
It's rare. I would not doubt that it sells at that price.
Here are the colors listed on the Faber site for Springys/Goldstars.
It has U pickups, so that puts it at the ST50 level, but the "SO" paint job was a 5,000 yen up charge, and the matching head stock was another 5,000 yen.
Maybe ST50+5+5 R.... 8)
It's rare. I would not doubt that it sells at that price.
Here are the colors listed on the Faber site for Springys/Goldstars.
My scan & translation from that catalog.
1. 1958/1960/1964 MODEL. ° The 1960s was an era when various colors existed. Tokai is also a special color series. From the left, 3 models of '58 / CR, '60 / GM, and '64 / SO.
1. 1958/1960/1964 MODEL. ° The 1960s was an era when various colors existed. Tokai is also a special color series. From the left, 3 models of '58 / CR, '60 / GM, and '64 / SO.
Makes me wonder what the difference was between the '60 and '64 model in the Tokai line? String tree? V neck? Was the '60 a slab board??? I didn't think so, but why would they call it that? If so, that may be a gold metallic ST75?
mdvineng
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Late 82 Goldstar, then early 83 Goldstar sound.
Hmmmm. That’s news to me. I thought Springys went into 1983 when it’s thought the block logo appeared. Partway through that year the model name changed to Goldstar Sound. This guitar seems to say Goldstar Sound. Had no idea there was a guitar in there called simply Goldstar. Was that a block logo as well? Or script logo for outside the UK?
Are you going by the model changing in September theory?
The block logo seems like a rushed change to me, as evidenced by the change again within a year to the script logo.
They seemed to use an old logo that had been used in 1978/79 in the Reborn Old line for advertising.
The block logo seems like a rushed change to me, as evidenced by the change again within a year to the script logo.
They seemed to use an old logo that had been used in 1978/79 in the Reborn Old line for advertising.
mdvineng
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Yes, 82 last year of Springs with European block logo and late 82 brought in the very first Goldies.
