Tokai Stratocaster SS-40
guitar
Has sold for €520 over 2018–2026, across 15 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. 2 for sale, from €556.
About the Tokai Stratocaster SS-40
The SS-40 is the 1982-83 Silver Star, Tokai's big-headstock seventies Strat, later the TSS40, one grade up from the SS-38 by way of its metallic custom colours, Metallic Red (MR, Tokai's candy apple red) chief among them, with a rosewood board on the MRR version; it keeps the cheaper trapezoid tuners and bridge of the low grades (the SS-48 and SS-50 got the better tuners), black-bottom flat-pole SS Hot pickups, a 21-fret neck about 40-41 mm at the nut, a 1982 serial beginning with 2, and a grade sticker at the base of the neck that is usually gone. Owners date theirs to 1982 and 1983.
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.
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Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Aug 2026 | €438$492 as sold | good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Apr 2026 | €465$538 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Jul 2025 | €416$482 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Jun 2025 | €517$598 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Jun 2025 | €534$618 as sold | very good | Japan | 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026.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 15 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 2025 | €534$618 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Jan 2025 | €629$728 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Feb 2024 | €426$493 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Jan 2024 | €534$618 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Nov 2022 | €311$360 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Nov 2021 | €949$1,099 as sold | very good |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Feb 2021 | €949$1,099 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Oct 2019 | €201$232 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Sept 2019 | €225$261 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Sept 2018 | €581$672 as sold | excellent |  Australia | 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 €556 · before shipping
15 recorded sales of the Tokai Stratocaster SS-40 from 2018–2026, all-time around €520. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €556 before shipping. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 4 discussion threads among 14 owners, 2023-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
A metallic-red 1982 is called a truly amazing guitar by an owner who also has a 1960 Fender and finds the Tokai sounds great for less money; Tokai's red is said to be a deeper finish than any other red Strat, and one player still wishes the identical first proper guitar had never been sold, though the Silver Star necks are too narrow for some, and the line is said to flood the second-hand market.