Tokai also made, among a lot of other guitars, Fender copies under the names of “Springy Sound” or "Silver Star" for Strats and “Breezy Sound” for Teles. Some VERY big name players have used Tokai LP's over the years as touring guitars because of their amazingly high quality and accuracy. These eventually turned in to the " Love Rock" by the early eighties. They are probably most famous for their Gibson Les Paul replicas which started out as with a (rather cheeky) name of "Les Paul Reborn" in the late 70's. While well known for their amazing acoustics, by the early seventies they had joined the "copy race" with cloones of well known US brands. The brand is one of the older Japanese music manufacturing brands dating back to the 1940's but didn't start making guitars until the sixties. In the sixties they primarily made weird and wonderful shapes like the Hummingbird series, which I'm a HUGE fan of. It's no secret how much we love vintage Japanese guitars around here and another one of the great Japanese manufacturers is of course Tokai.
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