Tokai ST-80
guitar
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Why this number?
The typical used price is the median of 14 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 | €1,400 | median sold, rounded |
| Most sold between | €1,100–€1,550 | 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 | 14 used sales | thin data, treat as a rough guide |
| Time to sell | — | only counted from listings we watch start to finish; not enough yet |
| Sell-through | 0% | 13 watched listings resolved, 6 months |
| Didn’t sell here | €2,000 | median ask of 13 listings that ended without a sale, 6 months, 43% above typical used; all from Japan; 13 withdrawn by the seller |
| Live asks | €1,882 | typical ask across 17 listings, 34% above typical used |
| Outliers | dropped | beyond 10× the product’s own median: bundles, parts, typos |
| All-time | €1,300 | 63 used sales, 2016–2026; not used for deals |
| Sales on record | 63 | 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-80
The ST-80 is where the Springy Sound range, Tokai's late-1970s Stratocaster replica, reaches its full specification: nitrocellulose lacquer where the ST-60 and below are polyurethane, a soft V neck with a 7.25-inch radius, and the E-stamped grey-bottom single coils, the hand-wound type-A set that pairs with an A-stamped pickguard. Bodies are two-piece sen (Japanese ash) or alder, with the occasional one-piece; necks are one-piece maple in the 1954 style or rosewood-veneered in the 1964 style. Tokai's own three-stage five-position switch feels like a three-way, and the pots are 250k. Until 1980 the grade was stamped into the fingerboard behind the last fret, then moved to a sticker on the back of the neck. Stevie Ray Vaughan wanted one, and Tokai used his image in its advertising until he became a Fender artist.
Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1982. The Springy Sound name ended with the 1982 Fender lawsuit: the black-block-logo guitars sold in 1983 are the last Springys re-decaled from 1981-82 stock, and the Goldstar Sound TST-80 followed in 1984, the first 80-grade to get DiMarzio VS-1 pickups, which the Springy ST-80 never had. Factory colours ran from the two-tone Golden Sunburst and three-tone Yellow Sunburst to Olympic White, Blonde, Black and Natural, with metallic red and blue as a 5,000-yen option that technically made an ST-85. Two tells of a fake are a slab rosewood board and pearl dot markers: a Springy rosewood board is always a veneer and its dots plain white.
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.
Reverb
eBay United States
eBay Germany
11 more live · €1,610–€2,605 · typical ask €1,882 · 11 Japan
- €1,61015% over typicalgood ·
Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago - €1,86533% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,88234% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,96040% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,97141% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,97741% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,97841% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago
- €2,03045% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €2,17255% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €2,58785% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €2,60586% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 2 days agocheck this is the same guitar
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 63 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
14 used sales · last 24 months · middle half €1,100–€1,550 · thin
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | €1,578$1,772 as sold | good |   Netherlands | Reverb | Details |
| 24 May 2026 | €1,523$1,765 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Mar 2026 | €665$771 as sold | good |  Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Mar 2026 | €1,828$2,119 as sold | very good |  Spain | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Mar 2026 | €1,725$2,000 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.
Show the last 50 of 63 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2026 | €1,114$1,250 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Oct 2025 | €1,078$1,250 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Sept 2025 | €1,337$1,550 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Jul 2025 | €1,510$1,750 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jul 2025 | €1,121$1,299 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Apr 2025 | €428$481 as sold | fair |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Mar 2025 | €2,194$2,543 as sold | very good | Netherlands | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Dec 2024 | €1,466$1,699 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Nov 2024 | €1,379$1,599 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Oct 2024 | €1,960$2,200 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Jun 2024 | €1,552$1,799 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 May 2024 | €1,380$1,600 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Mar 2024 | €1,294$1,500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Feb 2024 | €1,655$1,850 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Jan 2024 | €1,510$1,750 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jan 2024 | €1,862$2,091 as sold | excellent |  France | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Dec 2023 | €1,510$1,750 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Nov 2023 | €1,593$1,847 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Nov 2023 | €863$1,000 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Aug 2023 | €1,466$1,699 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 13 May 2023 | €977$1,097 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Mar 2023 | €1,622$1,880 as sold | very good |  Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Mar 2023 | €1,659$1,923 as sold | very good | Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Feb 2023 | €516$577 as sold | excellent | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Jan 2023 | €1,233$1,429 as sold | very good | Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Jan 2023 | €705$817 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Nov 2022 | €624$700 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Jul 2022 | €810$939 as sold | good | Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Apr 2022 | €1,623$1,882 as sold | very good | Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Feb 2022 | €1,571$1,821 as sold | very good |  Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Jan 2022 | €1,026$1,147 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Nov 2021 | €1,293$1,499 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Oct 2021 | €647$750 as sold | fair | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Aug 2021 | €1,121$1,299 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Jul 2021 | €1,335$1,548 as sold | very good | Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Jul 2021 | €1,121$1,300 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Apr 2021 | €1,571$1,821 as sold | excellent | France | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Apr 2021 | €1,308$1,516 as sold | good | Croatia | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Apr 2021 | €1,047$1,214 as sold | good |  Norway | Reverb | Details |
| 27 Jan 2021 | €1,308$1,516 as sold | good | Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Dec 2020 | €1,014$1,175 as sold | very good |  Thailand | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Oct 2020 | €1,597$1,851 as sold | excellent | Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Aug 2020 | €1,421$1,595 as sold | good | Spain | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Mar 2020 | €1,293$1,499 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Mar 2020 | €1,676$1,942 as sold | very good |  Belgium | 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: United States €1,333 · Japan €1,502 · 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 €1,882 for the Tokai ST-80 today, 34% over the €1,400 it actually sells for (14 recorded sales, last 24 months; most sold between €1,100 and €1,550). There are 17 listings live right now across Reverb, eBay United States, eBay Germany, from €1,333 asking. Figures computed 18 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 97 discussion threads among 36 owners, 2021-2025. No names, nothing quoted.
Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1982, and few models in the archive get warmer words: the holy grail, one of the best Strat-style guitars made, a neck that is a joy to hold, sustain that outlasts a JV Squier's; several name it their favourite Strat and say it is the last guitar they would let go, two owners withdrew theirs from sale while photographing it, and those who sold regret it. It is light: a one-piece example weighed 7 lb (3.2 kg), and one owner finds his lighter than his JV. The dissent is about price rather than the guitar: several point out that the ST-80 shares its woods and neck with the ST-60 and the Goldstar TST-80 and is paid for its decal, and one owner of both prefers the feel and chime of his JV 115. Originality divides the room, some call the stock pots and caps mediocre and swap them, refret to taller 6105 wire or fit another bridge, while others keep every screw original and say the guitar lost its character with humbuckers in. The Japanese nitro of the period is a thin, harder mix that wears through rather than checking, so a worn-through back is playing wear.