It features a truss rod which many people say were invented in the 1920's(which do not tell us anything about the age or anything else of the guitar). 32 on the side as their own model? I don't know.Īll i really know about it is what you know and what you can possibly tell from the guitar itself. The pick guard and the fretboard seam familiar. What I'm guessing is that they should have made those before 1970 when they started to make their Acoustic Hummingbirds.īut you bought yours in the late 70's. Did hey make any guitar before the Model No.1? I think it might be logical that they make the ones whit the model numbers first. So I'll guess it's hard to figure out more about this guitar.īut what i do know is that Tokai was established in 1947 referring to their Facebook-site. And they could not find any documents or other information about it. They forwarded it to Japan where they looked in to it. So then I sent an email across to the UK where Tokai got some of their people, asking if they could tell me more about that one.

Anyway, I picked it up a few years ago, replaced the original strings and figured that it was really good sounding.īut I was curious.

She did only preform on the local radio once, and that was here career. My moter bought one of those Tokai Model No.32 when she were young, somewhere in Norway. I should mention that there is some damage to the front but not too bad and does not in any way reduce the enourmous sound or the playability. I also need to sell the guitar so if anyone is interested I would be happy to send photos. I wondered if anybody can date it? I suspect that it is 83 but am not really sure. It has the mention Original Series and the serial n° is 3030063. The head is not Gibson style but more of a pointed strat style. Specially, the early date serial numbers products, we saw many cases. Tokai and Dyna Gakki took over the production of the Fender Japan models from Fujigen in 1996/1997. Hi, I have a Tokai Explorer in a very pale orange sunburst.

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