Frets99 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Got this in a yard sale recently. Was in bad shape but a fret dressing and setup later.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted July 21, 2014 Members Share Posted July 21, 2014 Sounds like you found another diamond in the rough there Fretsy. Really sounds superb with the reverb you have dialed in. I imagine that those are ceramic pickups but they are not harsh at all with a nice sounding quack in the notch positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Preacher Posted July 21, 2014 Members Share Posted July 21, 2014 Nice demo, Frets, sounds great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members papaschtroumpf Posted July 21, 2014 Members Share Posted July 21, 2014 very nice indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted July 21, 2014 Members Share Posted July 21, 2014 Thanks a lot, now you're making me want a guitar with a trem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cBc Posted July 22, 2014 Members Share Posted July 22, 2014 Dang, nice cop. Those pups sound sweet as honey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted July 22, 2014 Members Share Posted July 22, 2014 Hallelujah! Frets lives! Seriously, Congratulations and Happy New Guitar Day. Nice demo' date=' Frets, sounds great![/quote'] Erm, demo? What demo? I tried three different browsers and there's no demo, no pic, no nothin'. Edit: Never mind. I tried again after a few minutes and it works now. Great demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 22, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! TST eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marko Posted July 22, 2014 Members Share Posted July 22, 2014 Hallelujah! Frets lives! Seriously, Congratulations and Happy New Guitar Day. Erm, demo? What demo? I tried three different browsers and there's no demo, no pic, no nothin'. Edit: Never mind. I tried again after a few minutes and it works now. Great demo. ~~Same thing happened to me when I opened the thread a few hours ago—there was nothing there. Same with a video in another OP. Now, they’re there, haha. And yeah, yet another great demo from Frets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!! TST eh? A lot like this one.... http://www.themusiczoo.com/product/14594/Tokai-TST-56-Vintage-Series-Electric-Guitar-2-Tone-Sunburst---Used-/ http://www.themusiczoo.com/images/3-15-12/14594_Tokai_56_2-Tone_Sunburst_Strat_16509_1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wein Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Thats pretty rad. I love my 1979 Tokai Springy Sound. 20 by Mark Wein on MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com They are really great guitars for the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knotty Posted July 22, 2014 Members Share Posted July 22, 2014 Nice one Frets.Since I got my 94 MIJ strat I have been playing with the trem a lot. Never bothered before on 4 previous trem fitted guitars. Spooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GilmourD Posted July 22, 2014 Members Share Posted July 22, 2014 I need to go shopping with you, Al. I can satisfy my GAS and my wife won't commit spousicide. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted July 23, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thats pretty rad. I love my 1979 Tokai Springy Sound. 20 by Mark Wein on MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com They are really great guitars for the money. Mark, the Springy Sound is the original Strat knock off, and cost mucho bucko, in the same region as Greco's Super Reals. The Springy Sound was the guitar that Tokai made to sell to Fender, before Fender changed it's mind and went with Fuji-gen, and the Greco Super Real was re-decal'd with the fender decal and the JV was born Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thats pretty rad. I love my 1979 Tokai Springy Sound. 20 by Mark Wein on MarkWeinGuitarLessons.com They are really great guitars for the money. Truf. The bridge pickup is just a joy. The selector is pretty cool too. It acts like a three way but it has soft stops for the quack positions. Dean took pictures of it because it was so unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Radar-Love Posted July 24, 2014 Members Share Posted July 24, 2014 For what it's worth, I've owned a somewhat strange and mysterious Tokai MAT M602 (MAT = Most Advanced Technology) for close to 30 years. It is made out of a special fiberglass-like material that's quite hard and not at all heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ancient Mariner Posted July 24, 2014 Members Share Posted July 24, 2014 Nice catch Fretsie, a great strat is hard to beat, whoever made it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 I just noticed that the neck appears to be compound radius. As it heads to the neck pocket, the soft V flattens out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 I need to go shopping with you' date=' Al. I can satisfy my GAS and my wife won't commit spousicide. LOL[/quote'] Anytime! I've been lucky for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Virgman Posted July 25, 2014 Members Share Posted July 25, 2014 Sweet, Frets, very sweet. Dang, you found it at a garage sale? Incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted July 25, 2014 Members Share Posted July 25, 2014 I just noticed that the neck appears to be compound radius. As it heads to the neck pocket' date=' the soft V flattens out![/quote'] Erm, doesn't "compound radius" refer to the fretboard? I'm not sure what the term would be for neck profile but I have an Epi acoustic that I originally bought for our daughter that also starts out as a V neck and becomes more round toward the heel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wein Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Mark, the Springy Sound is the original Strat knock off, and cost mucho bucko, in the same region as Greco's Super Reals. The Springy Sound was the guitar that Tokai made to sell to Fender, before Fender changed it's mind and went with Fuji-gen, and the Greco Super Real was re-decal'd with the fender decal and the JV was born Mine is one of the actual guitars that Fender had in its possession when they moved to Corona from FUllerton. The story I had heard was that they had a trio of these Tokai guitars that had in fact been used as samples in their trademark infringement case in the early 1980's against Tokai. The decals on the back of the headstock (still there to this day) seemed to bear this out: I bought it from Sightsinger music in 1986 or so. They had a ton of B-stock and leftover Fender stuff that had been blown out to the local music stores when they made the move to the new factory. It is a '79 but it had been in a case for 7-8 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RGfretter Posted July 26, 2014 Members Share Posted July 26, 2014 I just noticed that the neck appears to be compound radius. As it heads to the neck pocket' date=' the soft V flattens out![/quote'] Ya you got a great guitar. And I won't ask for how much. I'll just say you can't get much better, at any price...but it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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