Tokai TST-62
guitar
Has sold for €590 over 2016–2026, across 21 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 €892.
About the Tokai TST-62
The TST-62 is Tokai's Goldstar Sound copy of a 1962 Stratocaster, the slab rosewood board being what makes it a 62. It arrived with the 1983 Traditional Series alongside the maple-necked TST-56, the first Tokai Strats with a slab board, the Springy Sound having come only as a 64 with a veneer board or a 54 in maple. Early examples carry the 7okai script logo, and many the modified headstock, which is why the Tokyo Strat versus American Strat story for TST and AST is disputed: both were sold in the United States, and the AST name took over when the logo changed in 1985-86. The 50 grade has a poly finish, E-stamped hand-wound (or U-stamped machine-wound) grey-bottom pickups, Final Prospec saddles, a brass shield plate, Alpha pots and a pickguard with more screws than the 56 that no Fender guard will fit; the 55 grade adds a special colour for 5,000 yen; and a 40 grade with ceramic pickups and Fender-sourced tuners followed in 1986. Colour codes stamped in the control cavity: OR old red is Dakota red, a custom colour and hard to find; FO flamingo orange is fiesta red; R is Torino red; MR metallic red is candy apple; BB black; LB light blue and MB Lake Placid Blue. A one-day promotional run for UK and Irish shops in June 1985 produced the red and purple sparkle TST62-55, TST64-55 and TST54-60, five or six found to date, all stamped 6-5. Owners date theirs from 1983 to 1986.
Dating: five-digit serials mark the 62 copies, 15000-26000 being 1984 and 14xxx December 1983; six digits beginning 2 are late 1986 to 1988 and 01xxxx early 1990s; the three-digit code on the selector switch gives year and month and runs a few months ahead of the build, and the stamp on the body under the pickguard gives 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
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026 | €600$695 as sold | very good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Mar 2026 | €532$595 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Oct 2024 | €848$950 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Sept 2024 | €518$600 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Dec 2021 | €935$1,050 as sold | excellent | 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 all 21 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Feb 2025 | €614$689 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Dec 2023 | €646$725 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Feb 2023 | €465$522 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Jan 2023 | €604$700 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Oct 2021 | €733$850 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Jul 2021 | €431$500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Feb 2021 | €624$700 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Jul 2020 | €362$420 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Apr 2020 | €619$695 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Feb 2020 | €624$699 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Jan 2020 | €587$659 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Dec 2019 | €539$625 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Nov 2018 | €313$350 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Aug 2018 | €530$595 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 30 Jun 2016 | €401$449 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 May 2016 | €430$499 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: United States €892 · before shipping
21 recorded sales of the Tokai TST-62 from 2016–2026, all-time around €590. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €892 before shipping. Figures computed 17 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 26 discussion threads among 17 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
The TST-62 and its maple twin the TST-56 are called the best necks Tokai ever made and its most underrated Strats; a collector who has owned Silver Stars, Springy Sounds and Goldstars finds the craftsmanship best on the TSTs and would sell every other Tokai Strat before the TST-62; a 1983 is its owner's favourite, another plays like a dream and sounds wonderful stock, and one owner says a 1981 Springy Sound simply cannot be compared with the slab-board TST-62. Prices favour the Springy Sound logo, but owners insist the Goldstar-era TST is the same guitar, a more accurate Fender replica and in no way inferior; the 40 grade is the one to watch for, with ceramic pickups and Fender-sourced tuners; modders fit Lollar or Manlius pickups and Fender Highway One bridges, which drop straight on.