{"id":6319,"date":"2014-09-24T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T17:21:06","slug":"bass-of-the-week-tokai-hard-puncher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-tokai-hard-puncher.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] Tokai Hard Puncher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our BotW this week is a Japan-made 1980’s Tokai Hard Puncher. This particular bass is now a collectible, and you’ll find them on eBay ranging from $800 to $1,200 USD. Worth it? Well, if you can’t afford a real-deal vintage Fender Bass, the Tokai Hard Puncher is the next best thing. “Very Fendery” all around and has great looks and great tone. One could arguably say that the Hard Puncher is “affordable Fender vintage,” even though it’s not made by Fender.<\/p>\n

Oh, and one other thing for you “love the vintage look” players out there. Many Hard Puncher models are “thin-skinned” but barely played<\/strong>, allowing you the player to get your own finish checking from normal play wear. It’s a great guitar, and you might be able to find one for a steal from someone selling one that doesn’t know what they have.<\/p>\n

Owner Nick Dawson sent us photos of his Hard Puncher, and he writes:<\/p>\n

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MIJ 1984. Had this bass for nearly twenty years.Many other basses including Fenders have come and gone but this one has stayed. Nice light alder body at just under 9lb. Neck is a dream to play, being a 70’s style ‘B’ width somewhere between a jazz and a P, and depth is a ‘U’ profile being not too slim, but not a baseball bat either. I’ve swapped out the pots for decent CTS ones and wired in a PIO tone cap. Stock pickup has been changed for a late 70’s DiMarzio ‘Model P’ which gives it that lovely old school P-Bass tone – a nice mix of growly mids & a bit of thump! The tortoiseshell pickguard is not stock, but I sometimes swap back & forth between it and the original black three-ply one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A great looker, Nick! We’re sure it sounds great, too.<\/p>\n

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Our BotW this week is a Japan-made 1980’s Tokai Hard Puncher. This particular bass is now a collectible, and you’ll find them on eBay ranging from $800 to $1,200 USD. Worth it? Well, if you can’t afford a real-deal vintage Fender Bass, the Tokai Hard Puncher is the next best thing. “Very Fendery” all around … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}