Regarding Tokai,just a remind Tokai Gakki is a factory with an own brand(Tokai) BUT they can build for other brands and they do(contracts).I feel Tokai factory as a "big Custom Shop" it´s not a big factory as other makers.And Tokai had a close relationship with Martin in the past and built Sigma brand and maybe electric "Martins". Jimmy the ptice you got for the Tokai is bargain,congrats!Ĭhris is right about the number is the price in japanese money(yen). You can e-mail me more pics to help for dating if you want. I guess these early Fernandes replicas were on a heavy weight side and some are laminated not all solid wood.They were improving the replicas with th time reaching a high quality with The Reival Series and late 7´s/early 80´s FST series.Some were laquer finish made. Thre reason it was written Burny at the headstock was marketing.fernandes was releasing his Burny sub-brand for Gibson replicas and as far as Fernandes was a sucessful brand in Japan they wanted to say: Burny is a related Fernandes brand. I guess not a Tokai,not sure the manufacterer as you know Fernandes is a brand not a factory.There Fernandes were the first sucessfull atemp to achieve a good quality Fender replica. Your guitar is a Fernandes FST CBS style model,depending on year made could be a FST-80.Please let me know which number is sculped at the end of maple neck.
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