tokai jazz sound

[ebenezer]

hi folks, have just got a tokai jazz sound bass and wondering about its vintage....the serial number is L 09177 ...it has normal fender shaped headstock....three piece body....thin laminate rosewood finger board....vintage style bridge with knurled saddles would appreciate any info........cheers me dears

[discreet]

Can you post a pic of the headstock/logo?

[ebenezer]

sorry cant at the moment,but it is the later logo where the T in tokai does not look like an F (haha)....paid £250 squid...was I ripped?

[LukeFRC]

nah that's not a bad price, hows it play?

[ebenezer]

needs a bit of tweeking.....maybe better pickups

[Freddy Le Cragg]

I used to have a Tokai Breezy Sound, It was equal to (if not better than) a Fender of the same vintage. I think it was late seventies. I know that some peeps rate them VERY highly.

[el borracho]

Probably made about 1984.

[Qlank]

I had one with the blocky logo on the headstock. '84 sounds right. Candy Apple Red, put a chrome scratchplate on it. Would buy one again for sure. If yours plays like mine did you have a fine bass at a good price I reckon.

[Spike Vincent]

How many screws hold the machine heads on, 3 or 4?

[discreet]

Tokai added an 'L' to the start of serial numbers in 1981.
You may be able to glean some more information from the Tokai forum:

[url="http://www.tokaiforum.com/"]http://www.tokaiforum.com/[/url]

Or possibly the Tokai Registry:

[url="http://www.tokairegistry.com/index.html"]http://www.tokairegistry.com/index.html[/url]

Edited September 3, 2013 by discreet