Tokai Goldstar Sound TST-50
guitar
Has sold for €710 over 2018–2026, across 18 used sales. Too few in the last two years for a typical price today.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 9 for sale, from €533.
About the Tokai Goldstar Sound TST-50
The TST-50 is the Goldstar Sound Stratocaster, the name Tokai gave its Springy Sound copies when the dispute with Fender ended in 1983, the first Goldstars are the same guitar with a new decal, a thicker headstock, Final Prospec-stamped saddles and Deluxe-stamped tuners on the 60 grade and up. The 1984 catalogue lists it at 50,000 yen as a 1958 model: a two-piece body in golden sunburst (Tokai's two-tone; yellow sunburst is the three-tone), a one-piece maple U neck, 21 thin vintage frets on a 7.25 in radius, the truss rod adjusted at the heel, and ST Vintage MKII pickups; it also came as a 54 with the button string tree, a 57 in Fender's custom colours, a 62 with a slab rosewood board and a 64 with a veneer board, the R suffix marking rosewood from 1984. The finish is poly. Early Goldstars carry grey-bottomed pickups stamped U (wound to about 6.2k, midrangey) or E (enamel wire, brighter); during 1985-86 these gave way to V, VI and VII stamps for Vintage Mk II, wound a little lower, one reads 5.45k. The brass plate under the pots went in 1985, the 50 grade has plain split-post tuners where the 60 and up carry the Deluxe ones, and by 1986 the 50-grade guitars left the factory with an unstamped neck plate and a gold made-in-Japan sticker. Owners date theirs from 1982 to 1987.
The name came back in the 2010s on reissues ordered by importers and absent from Tokai's own catalogues: the vintage headstock, 7.25 in radius, vintage frets, 21 frets and a heel-adjusted (hex) truss rod, on the same bodies as the AST-95 and AST-104, which carry the modified headstock, a 9.5 in radius and medium-jumbo frets. Owners date these 2016 and 2017. Dating the old ones: five-digit serials are 1983-85, six digits beginning 2 are late 1980s and 01 early 1990s, and the widely copied registry chart is out of date, check the decal, the body stamp (month and batch, sometimes painted over), the stamp on the neck end (an equals sign to 1986, a dash after) and the three-digit code on the switch, whose first digits give year and month. Colour codes: GS is golden sunburst; LB light blue and the ice-blue metallics age towards sage green, with the true colour under the pickguard; MB is Lake Placid Blue.
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.
eBay Germany
eBay United States
3 more live · €981–€1,193 · typical ask €916 · 3 Japan
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Mar 2026 | €643$747 as sold | very good |  Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Feb 2026 | €950$1,100 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 30 Jul 2025 | €691$800 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 31 May 2025 | €776$898 as sold | mint |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Jul 2023 | €942$1,092 as sold | good |   Ireland | 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 August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show all 19 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2024 | €734$850 as sold | excellent | Ireland | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Aug 2024 | €648$750 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Apr 2024 | €1,123$1,300 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Jan 2023 | €1,011$1,170 as sold | excellent |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Jan 2023 | €525$607 as sold | excellent |  Sweden | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Dec 2022 | €624$723 as sold | excellent | Sweden | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Nov 2022 | €684$768 as sold | very good |  Estonia | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Nov 2022 | €687$799 as sold | good |  Poland | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Jun 2021 | €776$899 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 May 2021 | €1,101$1,275 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 6 May 2020 | €543$629 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Nov 2019 | €299$347 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Oct 2018 | €729$844 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Sept 2016 | €862$967 as sold | new | United Kingdom | 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 August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: Japan €533 · before shipping
18 recorded sales of the Tokai Goldstar Sound TST-50 from 2018–2026, all-time around €710. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €533 before shipping. Figures computed 19 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 32 discussion threads among 37 owners, 2019-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
The Goldstar TST-50 is spoken of as Fender-equal or better: one owner thinks it might be better than Fenders and a friend cannot tell it from the Fender Japan version; another who has owned many Fenders since 1984 says the Goldstar is easily as good; a third sold one for a real Fender, realised the Tokai was the better guitar and traded two guitars to get it back 32 years later; regret at having sold one is the recurring note. The sticking point is the vintage 7.25 in radius and thin frets: one buyer walked away for that reason, others refret to 6105 wire and would spec it again; the 50-grade U neck feels skinny to big hands next to the ST-80's V, and one owner found the pickups too vintage and thin.