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JDZ
Mar 10, 20211 min read
EGF 1800 Prototype!
This is a really special guitar, Greco used it in one of their advertisements and was made as a prototype for the Super Real's top model,...
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JDZ
Sep 1, 20202 min read
1954 Strats From Greco, Fernandes and Tokai
By 1980-81 there were some major battles between the big brands in Japan - They all were going for hyper accurate builds of vintage guitars
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JDZ
Apr 22, 20201 min read
New Greco EGF Custom Model Discovered
I came across an unusual Greco Custom that reminded me of an ad I had seen in a magazine from 1981. The ad described a special Greco model
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JDZ
Nov 6, 20183 min read
Greco Project Series – custom shop before there was a Custom Shop
In late 1976 Greco announced the creation of a custom shop line of guitars that it called Project Series. This was a decade before there...
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JDZ
Apr 20, 20181 min read
Greco EGF-1200 Translated Catalog
I've been having some of the vintage Japanese guitar catalogs translated into English. Every one of these seems to reveal more about...
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JDZ
Apr 9, 20182 min read
Identifying a Tokai Made Greco
How can you tell if your vintage Greco SA was made by Tokai? Most vintage Greco’s were contracted out for manufacture by Fujigen. However,
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