Tokai Love Rock No Serial Number

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Jun 22, 2016 - Just trying to date my Tokai love rock gold top with p90s. The serial number at the back of the head stock is C 083563 Any help is appreciated.

You guys are all a bunch of jokers, arn't ya? Jeff O, I think I'd rather be blissful and ignorant than do that! Thanks for the link to the Tokai Registry. Skimming through I found how to date it by the serial number. First digit or two will tell me the year it was made, so here's hoping it starts with an 8!

Other than that I think I'm going to have to skim through the catologues to find the exact model once I get it. Unless we have a Tokai wizz aboard who can I'd from photos? Oh, in case you wanted to see, here is a look alike from the net. Would you call that a flame cherry burst or honey burst? Tartan, yea, that Tokai Registry is a great site! And it looks like this guitar could be worth up to 5 times what I'm paying for it. But more likely its worth around $800-$1200.

One of these from the early 80's got put up on the local craigslist for $1150, and apparently is getting alot of curiosity. The more I look at pictures of these though, the more I think this will be a keeper. My only problem is determining which model it is specifically, which would help me figure out its worth.

I would have thought that would be in the serial number information, but its not. I'll have to sign up at TokaiRegistry and pick their forum over. Even though I don't think I'll sell it, I like to know what I have. When I do things, I tend to overdo things. Well I went to try out the guitar today. It is a very sweet guitar, and I'm hoping to pick it up Monday after he switches out pcikups for the originals. One issue though, I found out it is a Korean model, which means it is not worth the $400 he is asking.

More like $300. However I just found this out now, after I went to go try out thre guitar. So, he thinks it is a Japanese model, when I know for sure it is Korean made. So I have to tell him its not worth what he is asking, or pass on the guitar. I'll keep you guys updated.

It is a really nice guitar, much better than any EPiphone I've tried and better than alot of Gibsons I'd say. A very nice top on it as well.

I bought this Tokai Love Rock GT recently from someone I jammed with at a party. I didn't know about Tokai guitars and the only reason I bought this is because it played and sounded so much better (sounds thicker and warmer) than the Epiphone LP I owned (no disrepect to Epiphone owners, the Epiphone I had was one of the cheaper ones). Since I bought this, I've read so many good things about Tokai guitars and I realized that I should've checked the serial number before I bought this.

Here's the link to the photos: I know I have to take pictures again because these photos don't do justice to its beauty up close. As you can see, there's no serial number on the back of the headstock. I checked the pickup cavities and in the back as well, but there's still no serial number.

I read in another forum that some MIK don't have serial numbers. But this one has a 2 screw truss rod cover which means it's MIJ, right? The tuning machines are pale green in color and looks vintage old.

You can really tell the guitars is a bit old by just looking at the screws in the pickguard. The guitar has had some fews upgrades: - Pickups have been replaced with Gibson 57+ and 57 classice ones. I check the pickups and the seller gave me the 2 pickup cases. - The nut has been replaced by a newer bone nut (but still looks old though). - The stop tailpiece has been replaced with a Gotoh. I tried registering to the Tokai forums but they're not accepting my Email address.

I can't contact the seller either. Derek, there is a forum that deals almost exclusively with Tokai. I suggest you google the following two words, 'Tokai' and 'forum.' Maybe you might get answers from quite a few tokaiheads there. Its pretty easy to put a 2 screw TRC on after taking off the 3 screw TRC. You need to pull the the control cover in the back and take a pic of that stuff. Then pull at least the neck pickup and take several pics of that cavity from at least 4 different angles, getting good shots of the neck joint area and routs and wire channels and holes.