Latest Purchase :D (With Pics)

Kenny_D

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Been gassing for a strat for ages now. Its a 1983 Tokai Silver Star. Ash body and maple neck

Also getting one of these



Went for the Engl Screamer in the end with the Z5 footswitch. Got it a bit cheaper than on thomann. Was a lot closer to the price of the thunder on thomann so just paid a little bit more than the thunder and got the screamer and a z5. Cant wait to get my hands on this

Next on the list is a gt6 and I'll leave it at that for a while. Should have it all in a week or two hopefully

david

You bastard! That strat looks really nice

Kenny_D

Yeah you can see its in great nick for its age. I'm getting it from the same guy that I got my 78 Les Paul Reborn from (which was excellent btw). I was considering a Lite Ash strat tbh until I saw that for less than the price of the lite ash (granted I'm getting it a bit cheaper. hehe). It has same body/neck but better fit/finish/pickups I imagine since its japanese not korean and also from the standard tokai were putting their guitars out at that time. Also I think I slightly prefer the colour. Metallic blue.... tasty

Patricide

Yea man that strat does look bootifull, happy playing.

Ancient1

:eek:

david

That ENGL will sing, I love the colour of the strat in the pic

Kenny_D

Yup The 4th channel is a high gain "heavy lead" aka metal channel. Going by the reviews on HC, a few people seem to prefer them to mesa boogies. I'll stick up sound samples when I get it

Karl Hungus

Sweet!

Kenny_D

I'd say your J Custom would sound ****in amazing through that fourth channel Karl. I'll need to pick up some kind of humbucker equipped guitar for the heavier stuff. Bound to be a bit of squeal cranking up the volume with single coils

fish-head

You lucky duck.

Johnny Storm

Lovely! Play it in good health!

Creamy Goodness

love the strat colour, making me want to get my strat even sooner...

Karl Hungus

GStormcrow wrote:

I'd say your J Custom would sound ****in amazing through that fourth channel Karl. I'll need to pick up some kind of humbucker equipped guitar for the heavier stuff. Bound to be a bit of squeal cranking up the volume with single coils

The J Custom I don't even have yet?

Seriously though, definetly get a guitar with humbuckers, I really find there's nothing better.

Kenny_D

Thought you got a black j custom no? Ok then your stealth would sound great through the 4th channel. lol. Might pick up a s/h cheapish esp or ibanez after the summer. I'm smashed now after that. lol

The_g-man

That is a sweet strat, I think someone's been drooling on the headstock.......

Doctor J

Beautiful. Just like the one on the cover of Texas Flood

John

I'm not much of a strat man (sorry Ancient!) but that's beautiful. I was mucho surprised to read it's as old as me, it's in better nick than I am!

Kenny_D

Maybe you know already J but SRV played tokai strats for a while back in the day. He appeared on the cover of a tokai catalogue or promo

Doctor J

Isn't that what I said?

Kenny_D

I'm not familiar with texas flood or SRV even tbh. Is he playing a tokai on that particular cover??

Edit:

Several well known guitarists have played these Tokai replica Strats, the most famous being the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie appears on the cover of Tokai's 1985-1986 Edition of their Electric Guitars catalog. Also, an interesting piece of trivia concerns Stevie's Texas Flood (Epic 1983) album cover photo. It was taken while Stevie was playing a Tokai replica Strat. On the cover, the Tokai logo was removed, however, many music shops sell a poster of that album cover and "Tokai Springy Sound" is clearly visible on the headstock.

Thats interesting about the decal being removed. Theres another famous guitarist who uses tokais but puts a sticker of the word tokai. lol

Doctor J

Yeah, it's a Tokai, though the name is obscured in the painting




You do realise that Ancient1 is going to cry once he learns you don't know your SRV? Seriously.

Ancient1

Ancient1 does not want to read this thread.

Kenny_D

Yup I know. lol. The gas for a strat came from pink floyd and also with gilmour releasing a new album. Throw in my love of clapton and hendrix for good measure. So what do you recommend for an essential SRV album to check out first?

Ancient1

All of them dude - and all the live albums and all the live bootlegs, coz that's what SRV was about. You'll never hear the same stuff twice.

Doctor J

Dammit you just wind him up and off he goes...

Ancient1

And if you push me, GStormcrow, Doc and I will fire up his Docmobile and we'll pay you a visit. Doc will be donning his long coat, of course.

carpothepunk

Pardon me asking mate,but how much did you pay for it?Ive been looking at the Tokai Strats for quite a while now.Love the colour on this one:D

Doctor J

And on a slightly more sane tangent, I'd say the Live At Montreaux double CD set is a great place to be introduced into the world of SRV

Ancient1

Or pick up one of his gigs on DVD. You'll wish you never have.

Doctor J

There's a fantastic aged hue off that maple, I must say. Very nice, very nice indeed.

Kenny_D

Well the guitar itself was bought on ebay with a final price of €484 + €15 shipping by someone else (have the link here somewhere). They decided then they didnt want it (thank god) so my friend offered it to me.

Total for the Engl Screamer, Strat, z5 pedal board and delivery was €1539

On thomann the screamer is €1035 before delivery and the z5 is €166 before delivery. I paid €1379 for both the screamer and the strat. Got the z5 for an extra €140 and then €20 delivery for the lot.

david

GStormcrow wrote:

Well the guitar itself was bought on ebay with a final price of €484 + €15 shipping by someone else (have the link here somewhere). They decided then they didnt want it (thank god) so my friend offered it to me.

Total for the Engl Screamer, Strat, z5 pedal board and delivery was €1539

On thomann the screamer is €1035 before delivery and the z5 is €166 before delivery. I paid €1379 for both the screamer and the strat. Got the z5 for an extra €140 and then €20 delivery for the lot.

From where?!

Kenny_D

My friend is the main tokai dealer for europe. Getting it from him

The Freeman

that sure is a beauty mate,was thinking of picking one of those tokai strats or a lite-ash fender stratocaster pretty soon,i've fallen in love with tokai since i got my ls80 les paul not so long ago there,
nice colour too by the way,enjoy;)