Tokai AST-56 Goldstar Sound
guitar
Has sold for €580 over 2015–2025, across 17 used sales. Too few in the last two years for a typical price today.
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About the Tokai AST-56 Goldstar Sound
The AST-56 is Tokai's mid-1980s take on a 1956 Stratocaster, a maple-neck model added beside the 54 and 64 patterns along with the rosewood-slab 62, which the earlier Springy Sound range never offered. It began as the TST-56 with the Fender-shaped headstock and the last 7okai-style logo (guitars of 1983 into 1984, one with a switch dated April 1983), and was relaunched in 1985 as the AST-56 with the new headstock and logo; the 56 on the decal separates it from the plain AST40 grade. These carried the grey-bottom E (or U) pickups after the rest of the range had moved to V-stamped units in 1985-86, and the range is spoken of as limited and short-lived. Owners date theirs from 1983 to 1986. Dating and finish go by what is under the pickguard: a three-digit code on the side of the selector switch (year then month, usually a few months before the build), a stamp on the body giving the build month, and a two-letter paint code in the control rout, Tokai never used the name Fiesta Red, so FO for Flamingo Orange is the nearest, and OR is Old Red, the colour usually called Dakota.
For sale right now
The best-priced as cards, a row of them; every other ad as a line, by ask. Each ask is the seller’s own number; the platform’s mark opens the listing. Each one says when we last confirmed it at its source: the price and availability are from that visit, so check the marketplace before you go.
Nothing live right now on the platforms we track.
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 17 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. Too few sales to draw a trend through them without inventing one, so the points speak for themselves. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Dec 2025 | €579$650 as sold | very good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Jun 2025 | €623$699 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Jul 2024 | €561$650 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Mar 2023 | €735$825 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 May 2022 | €891$1,000 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show all 17 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2023 | €850$985 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Aug 2023 | €345$400 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Oct 2019 | €604$700 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Sept 2019 | €802$900 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Jul 2019 | €846$950 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Jun 2019 | €869$975 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Mar 2019 | €237$275 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Oct 2018 | €445$500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Sept 2018 | €260$292 as sold | good |  Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 13 Sept 2017 | €399$450 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Aug 2016 | €356$400 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Nov 2015 | €561$630 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
17 recorded sales of the Tokai AST-56 Goldstar Sound from 2015–2025, all-time around €580. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 13 discussion threads among 14 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
Set next to a Fender American Vintage 56 the Tokai is said to hang with it; one collector who has had many apart names the TST and AST 56 and 62 as favourites, the reviews are described as consistently good for build and playability, and the one consistent thing about 1980s Tokais is said to be that they are fine instruments.