Thought it would be interesting and fun to compare these three side by side: 1981 Greco SE 800 Super Real, 1981 Fernandes RST-80 ’54 The Revival and 1980 Tokai ST-80 Springy Sound. I hadn’t really focused on it, but Greco, Fernandes and Tokai were clearly competing with really similar models. Moving away from copying how the big US brands were making them at the time, to follow the growing interest in vintage instruments from late 50’s and 60’s, probably because of the drop in quality by the US guys at that time. At this point they all were going for builds that were hyper accurate to the most desirable vintage years, something Tokai gets the credit for starting a few years earlier. In 1980-81 there were some major battles brewing between the big brands in Japan.
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