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11-11-2010, 03:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | 83 Tokai Hard Puncher
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Any idea what something like this is worth?  |
11-11-2010, 03:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: JaxBch, Fl | | | $150 - $400 depending on where you place it.
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Hi there!
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11-11-2010, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Scotland | | | You are not a supporting member so I wager this question will go unanswered. Nice bass though shame to see it without strings.
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11-11-2010, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois | | | uhhhh he is a supporting member.... or at least i see it...
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11-11-2010, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Western Washington | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Meddle  You are not a supporting member so I wager this question will go unanswered. Nice bass though shame to see it without strings. | It shows Supporting Member right on the upper right-hand corner of his post...
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11-11-2010, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Scotland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bigntasty It shows Supporting Member right on the upper right-hand corner of his post... | Doh  .
I associate supporting member with having an avatar....
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Electra/Westone Club #19, Guild Club #27 (snuck in with a Dearmond).
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11-11-2010, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Windsor, Ontario | | | I saw one of these in a pawn shop near my house last year, i really wanted it lol then it sold, so i bought a RW P.
It sold at a pawn shop, WITH a few chunks out of the fretboard, REALLY aged hardware, and missing knobs for 450$ up here in Canada.
Thats all i know, it was quite nice to play. |
11-11-2010, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | Always wanted one of these things.
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
11-11-2010, 04:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: under the stairs | | | What year did Tokai change their headstock from the Fender style? I think it was after '83... |
11-11-2010, 05:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: under the stairs | | | A quick look up reveals they didn't change until at least 1985 in the USA market |
11-12-2010, 08:41 AM
| | | One sold recently on eBay for about $400, which seems about right for an 80s Tokai with a post-lawsuit headstock.
By the way, check out the incredibly thin finish it had: http://cgi.ebay.com/Tokai-Hard-Punch...item3cb1e4a37b
You can see clearly see the grain of the wood telegraphing through. I had an 80s Tokai strat that was the same way -- paper thin finish. I'm not a fan of poly but the thin Tokai poly is a lot less objectionable than the dipped-in-a-vat-of-plastic finishes you find other makers using (this means you, Fender). |
11-12-2010, 09:05 AM
| | | Tokai thin finish:   |
11-12-2010, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | Anyone know where I can look up the exact date via the serial? |
11-12-2010, 09:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | Just found this from tokairegistry.com-
"By '85/'86 the headstocks on the Fender copies are not exact replicas of a Fender headstock. Seem to have more of an angle to them - close but not exact, this change may have accurred as early as 1982 in the US." |
11-13-2010, 06:58 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cpt8101 Just found this from tokairegistry.com-
"By '85/'86 the headstocks on the Fender copies are not exact replicas of a Fender headstock. Seem to have more of an angle to them - close but not exact, this change may have accurred as early as 1982 in the US." | Personally I don't believe they changed in the US until '85. Apparently they stayed the same for a few more years in Japan but I've not heard any definitive dates as to when they switched.
That bass shouldn't go for more than $400, IMO. |
11-13-2010, 07:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | i would pay 300 bucks anyday for a japanese copy like that |
11-13-2010, 10:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Lubbock, Texas | | | Nice lookin' basses
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Looking to relieve someone of a Wishbass of the Stude, Peanut, Lobe or Fantasy models. Looking to spend $300. Let me know if you're interested.
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