![]() You do suggest 1981/82 but then so could have I, but, 1981 specifications really were the end of the older types of stamped saddles and tuners. ![]() Weighing 7lbs 13oz, this Tokai has a clear, defined acoustic voice that translates well through a trio of original staggered pole single coils. That's a pretty straightforward and as far as I can tell, agrees with what else I have read in books and articles. Here are several 1981 serial numbered Springy Sound, with tokai stamped saddles and tuners, exactly what i was suggesting, two are TF members past and present. Produced from 1978-83, this Springy Sound has a 1960s aesthetic with a small Pre-CBS style headstock shape, rosewood fretboard, gray bobbin pickups, and gloss Fiesta Red finish. billeder 001.jpg īut the lawsuit was over the "open book" headstock design, not naming their guitars Les Pauls. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Tokai Springy Sound Stratocaster. Ive had it re fretted with huge Dunlop 6100 fret wire too and. Most other companies used similar type-faces on names that at a distance could be blurred into looking like Les Paul, For instance Tokai called theirs the Love Rock, which really does look like Les Paul at a distance in a smokey bar, or Burny used a gibson-ish logo. I bought my 1980 Tokai ST80 Springy Sound brand new - the best of six that. The closest they came was Yamaha's SG-# series. As far as I have seen, no Japanese guitar company ever put Les Paul logos or anything of that sort on their headstocks, as that would be crazy illegal and would have brought on lawsuits quicker. I'm afraid our information is a bit in conflict.Īs I said, Aria started it, though Ibanez was ultimately more successful with American buyers and were able to attract such players as Steve miller and a few others.
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