Tokai ST-50
guitar
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Why this number?
The typical used price is the median of 13 used sales observed in the last 24 months, with outliers removed and the figure rounded. An observed sale is often the last asking price rather than a confirmed hammer price.
| Typical used price | €750 | median sold, rounded |
| Most sold between | €610–€890 | 25th to 75th percentile, same window |
| Window | last 24 months | the tightest of 90 days, 6 months and 24 months with 8 used sales |
| Sample | 13 used sales | thin data, treat as a rough guide |
| Time to sell | — | only counted from listings we watch start to finish; not enough yet |
| Live asks | €1,095 | typical ask across 19 listings, 46% above typical used |
| Outliers | dropped | beyond 10× the product’s own median: bundles, parts, typos |
| All-time | €650 | 88 used sales, 2015–2026; not used for deals |
| Sales on record | 89 | all-time, all platforms |
Typical prices are rounded (to 5 / 10 / 50 / 100 by size, in whichever currency you read); asks and the chart are exact. As of 18 October 2026. Full method, including what each badge means
About the Tokai ST-50
The ST-50 is the everyday grade of Tokai's Springy Sound Stratocaster replica: the U-stamped grey-bottom single coils (the production ST-B set, with a B-stamped pickguard) where the ST-60 gets the hand-wound E set, a slim U neck with a 7.25-inch radius, a polyester or polyurethane gloss finish, Deluxe-stripe vintage tuners and the soldering plate that the ST-42 and ST-45 below it lack. From the ST-50 up the build is otherwise the same guitar, an alder body in two or more pieces (ash on some late-70s examples), the wide vintage bridge and a bone nut, with only finish, neck profile and electrics stepping up by grade; nitro and the V neck arrive at the ST-80. Before 1982 it came two ways, a 1958-style maple neck or a 1964-style rosewood-veneer board; the 57 and 62-slab models only arrived with the Goldstar. Stevie Ray Vaughan played a Springy Sound and appears with one on the cover of Texas Flood.
Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1987, with the model running on into the 1990s. The black-block-logo guitars are the transition: built in 1982, mostly shipped to the UK and sold there in 1983 after the Fender dispute, they are Springy Sounds with a different decal, and the Goldstar Sound TST-50 that followed in 1983-84 is the same guitar under a new name, later exported with an altered headstock as the AST. Custom colours, metallic green, metallic blue, flamingo orange, sonic blue, were a 5,000-yen option that made an ST-55; they are brushed polyurethane under a gloss coat, and the brush strokes show in the light. The grade sat on an oval sticker on the back of the neck that is usually gone: the pickup stamps decide it (U for the 50, E for the 60 and up), the ST-42 and 45 lack the soldering plate, and the body, neck and switch carry date codes that place a guitar to the month.
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 Germany
13 more live · €861–€1,926 · typical ask €1,095 · 13 Japan
- €86115% over typicalgood ·
Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 5 days ago - €88218% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €88818% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 41 h ago
- €1,09546% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,09546% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,09947% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,16155% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,22063% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,27069% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,34980% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,35280% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €1,48197% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €1,926157% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 89 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. The line follows the middle of the sales around each point, with the middle half behind it, and breaks wherever nothing sold nearby. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
13 used sales · last 24 months · middle half €610–€890 · thin
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2026 | €749 | good |   Germany | eBay Germany | Details |
| 13 Aug 2026 | €1,257$1,457 as sold | very good |  Netherlands | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Jul 2026 | €1,052$1,181 as sold | very good | Netherlands | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Jul 2026 | €610$685 as sold | good |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 28 May 2026 | €1,055$1,184 as sold | new |  France | 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 the last 50 of 89 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2026 | €749 | good | Germany | eBay Germany | Details |
| 19 Nov 2025 | €1,165$1,350 as sold | very good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Oct 2025 | €621$720 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Sept 2025 | €888$1,029 as sold | excellent | Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Mar 2025 | €440$510 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Jan 2025 | €384$431 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Dec 2024 | €820$950 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Nov 2024 | €733$850 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Oct 2024 | €603$699 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Sept 2024 | €628$728 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 13 Sept 2024 | €654$758 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Aug 2024 | €604$700 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Jun 2024 | €793$919 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Jun 2024 | €1,235$1,431 as sold | very good |  Czechia | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Apr 2024 | €1,078$1,250 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Apr 2024 | €733$850 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Jan 2024 | €601$697 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Sept 2023 | €576$667 as sold | good |  Italy | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Aug 2023 | €712$825 as sold | fair | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Aug 2023 | €431$500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Aug 2023 | €470$545 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Jun 2023 | €453$525 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 30 May 2023 | €689$799 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 May 2023 | €474$549 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 May 2023 | €560$649 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Apr 2023 | €814$944 as sold | very good |  Poland | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Apr 2023 | €768$890 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Mar 2023 | €603$699 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Mar 2023 | €785$910 as sold | good |  Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Jan 2023 | €1,036$1,201 as sold | very good | Italy | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Dec 2022 | €516$598 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Nov 2022 | €776$899 as sold | good | Poland | Reverb | Details |
| 30 Sept 2022 | €1,251$1,450 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Sept 2022 | €1,294$1,500 as sold | very good |  Singapore | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Aug 2022 | €776$899 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Aug 2022 | €1,078$1,250 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Aug 2022 | €603$699 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Jun 2022 | €776$899 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 May 2022 | €1,078$1,250 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 May 2022 | €977$1,132 as sold | good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Apr 2022 | €841$975 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Aug 2021 | €498$577 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Aug 2021 | €943$1,093 as sold | very good | Italy | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Jul 2021 | €942$1,091 as sold | very good | Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Jul 2021 | €453$525 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 €741 · before shipping
In one paragraph
The page's figures as one paragraph, assembled for quoting; not written by hand.
Sellers are asking a median of €1,095 for the Tokai ST-50 today, 46% over the €750 it actually sells for (13 recorded sales, last 24 months; most sold between €610 and €890). There are 19 listings live right now across eBay United States, eBay Germany, from €741 asking. Figures computed 18 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 55 discussion threads among 49 owners, 2019-2025. No names, nothing quoted.
Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1987, and the praise is out of proportion to the grade: more than one calls it the best Strat they have played, high-end Fenders included, several say they would not trade theirs for anything and that it goes with them to the end, and the early-80s Tokais are called well-made gigging guitars. The reservations are small, the U neck is a bit skinny next to an ST-80's V, and one custom-colour 1982 is the heaviest of its owner's Tokai Strats. Owners split on modification: some fitted hotter pickups or stripped a finish decades ago and still play them daily, one regrets losing the original pickups, others keep everything original, and a relic job on a poly ST-50 was called unconvincing and value-destroying.