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Sep 1, 2020
2 min

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, 2020
1 min

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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Greco Project Series – custom shop before there was a Custom Shop

JDZ

Nov 6, 2018
3 min

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 w...

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JDZ

Apr 20, 2018
1 min

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 the...

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JDZ

Apr 9, 2018
2 min

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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