Tokai Silver Star SS-50
guitar
Not enough sold data for a typical price — 5 sales on record all-time.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 3 for sale, from €773.
About the Tokai Silver Star SS-50
The SS-50 is the 50-grade Silver Star, Tokai's early-1980s big-headstock seventies Strat, made with maple or rosewood boards; it shares the better tuners with the SS-48 (the SS-40 got cheaper tuners and bridge) and, unlike the 38 and 48, was offered in the metallic custom colours such as Metallic Red, the 1982 serials starting with a 2. Owners date theirs to 1982.
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 United States
eBay GermanyRecent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2023 | €723$838 as sold | very good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Aug 2021 | €801$929 as sold | excellent |   Poland | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Apr 2020 | €257$298 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Nov 2018 | €623$722 as sold | good |  Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Mar 2015 | €358$404 as sold | very 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026 and October 2026.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.
Cheapest live: Japan €773 · before shipping
5 recorded sales of the Tokai Silver Star SS-50, too few to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €773 before shipping. Figures computed 17 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 5 discussion threads among 7 owners, 2023-2025. No names, nothing quoted.
A 1982 SS-50, all original and still like new, feels more comfortable than any guitar its owner has held, the neck simply perfect, and a rosewood-board owner calls it one of the best necks ever played on a Strat; the guitar is called the epitome of the seventies Strat, a literal silver star.