Sold: 1981 Tokai Strat REDUCED (Sound Samples added)

danishbacon

Two  One great instrument that must be sold to cover cost of recent purchase.

Tokai Springy Sound 1981 ST-50/55 in Metallic Red. Discussed at length in NGD thread and a guitar I thought I would keep long term, but I can't get on with the vintage frets/rosewood. £795 £695 for quick sale

Priced to sell - £675

Clean

https://clyp.it/3cdqb1ri

Dirty

https://clyp.it/txvh1db5

Solo

https://clyp.it/4s3ocqdc

https://s30.postimg.org/vadzmsxrl/IMG_6169.jpg

Sold- Second is a 1990s DeArmond M75-T with the acclaimed 2K USA pickups. Smooth bigsby, nice
setup, in champagne sparkle. £350 or £375 with hard case Sold

https://s26.postimg.org/l17h7pb7t/IMG_6618.jpg

In South Wales, can travel within reason with upfront payment or post at cost. 

beed84

I can't decide if the DeArmond pic is a stroke of genius or pretentious nonsense...Anyway, that Tokai is stunning so have a wow. GLWTS

danishbacon

beed84 said:

I can't decide if the DeArmond pic is a stroke of genius or pretentious nonsense...Anyway, that Tokai is stunning so have a wow. GLWTS

Went to the living room to snap a quick one and toddler toys all over, so why the hell not?

benecol

beed84 said:

I can't decide if the DeArmond pic is a stroke of genius or pretentious nonsense...Anyway, that Tokai is stunning so have a wow. GLWTS

Agreed (on the stroke of genius) - great photo.

hoveguitarguy

great tokai at a good price too

lovestrat74

Hi, when you say "lower frets" do you mean vintage frets?  Also, what is the neck profile like - slim C, rounded C, V etc?
Cheers!

danishbacon

lovestrat74 said:

Hi, when you say "lower frets" do you mean vintage frets?  Also, what is the neck profile like - slim C, rounded C, V etc?
Cheers!

They are thin and low, have been recently crowned and polished so nice and smooth, but they are lower than I'm used to. Whether it's that they've been worn down over the years or if it's a vintage fret wire I can't say. The neck is very fast, but I put a lot of force into my bends so my fingers rub too much on the rosewood fretboard for my playing style.

The neck profile would match the c shape in this diagram.

http://mycoolguitars.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images/guitar-neck-contours.jpg

lovestrat74

Okay thanks for that

danishbacon

Bump

danishbacon

To the strat os phere

danishbacon

Bump with price reduction.

danishbacon

Would now consider a Tele trade

danishbacon

Still for sale

danishbacon

bump

danishbacon

Also, trade option for other cool guitars - re: the frets/fretboard, I got some gorgomyte, turns out fretboard was quite dry which is why my fingers were catching (I'm used to maple) so it's a lot smoother now. 

danishbacon

On advice of @Strangefan I've measured the frets. I got approx .076-.078" x 0.32-0.35" so it would seem they are definitely vintage spec with about a quarter of a millimiter of wear. Hope that clarifies. It's got a long way to go before needing a re-fret.

According to fender, this is the vintage spec:

• 6230: The smallest fret wire found on older Fender necks .078″ x .043″

Strangefan

Def sounds like it doesn't need a refret  

danishbacon

Weekend bump

danishbacon

And some new photos

https://s26.postimg.org/btygpgirt/0_B1_C11_F8-3779-4_EF4-_BF2_F-_FD95_F73052_D0.jpg

https://s26.postimg.org/638abqart/581_C3_A46-2_F1_F-4_CE1-_AF97-9_C0_E3_C51_BF21.jpg

Dominic

had one ,great guitar and yes,they are vintage spec frets

danishbacon

Cheers @Dominic. ;

I've just recorded a few clips so you can hear what it sounds like, if you're still thinking about this. It's a seriously good guitar - but I don't need two seriously good strats and my heavily invested jap squier is staying grab this before somebody else does, they're not easy to find in this shape. A beat up one of the goldstar variety just sold for £600 last week...

Going from neck to bridge via the 5 positions on all, plus a solo type thing:

Clean

https://clyp.it/3cdqb1ri

Dirty

https://clyp.it/txvh1db5

Solo

https://clyp.it/4s3ocqdc