In 1982 Kanda Shokai and Yamano Gakki become part of Fender Japan and Kanda Shokai stopped producing its own Greco Fender replica models. In 1982 the Greco "Mint Collection" was introduced which continued the high standard of the "Super Real Series". Starting in late 1979 the Greco "Super Real Series" were introduced which were high standard replicas of Gibson and Fender models. Some other Greco Gibson like models from the 1970s had a different headstock design (more like a Guild headstock design) that had a Greco logo with equally sized letters. By the mid/late 1970s most Greco Gibson like models were being made with set necks and open book Gibson headstock designs. In the early 1970s Kanda Shokai made Greco Gibson like models with bolt on necks which were very similar to the Ibanez Gibson like models at that time and most of these models had a Greco logo that looked more like "Gneco". These "Boomerang" shaped pickups predate the Gibson Flying V2 "Boomerang" shaped pickups by over 10 years. The "Shrike" model was unusual in that it had a pair of weird boomerang "L" shaped pickups. Greco also produced a few original designs in the late 60s including the Greco Semi-hollow "Shrike" guitars which were imported and marketed first by Goya and later by Kustom. Also in the mid/late 1960s, Kanda Shokai produced some Greco branded guitars based on Hagström and EKO designs for Avnet/Goya in the USA and these guitars were made by the Matsumoku and FujiGen (and possibly Teisco) guitar factories and were very similar to the late 1960s Ibanez guitars based on Hagström and EKO designs. Kanda Shokai at first used the Greco brand name for the solid body models and used the Canda brand name for their Acoustic models which was based on the company name Kanda (Canda).
It was not until 1966/1967 that electric guitar production was begun in earnest with the introduction of Greco Telecaster like models. Kanda Shokai was established in 1948 and the Greco brand name was started in 1960 by Kanda Shokai.
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