1984 Greco Japan GTZ65RB "Tusk" Rhoads V (Black & Gold)

1984 Greco Japan GTZ65RB "Tusk" Rhoads V (Black & Gold)I genuinely mean this (as the owner of a guitar shop and collector of oddball Japanese guitars), the Greco Tusk models are my favourite series of guitars from the 1980's. Designed around Greco's "Sky Diver" tremolo system, it's essentially a headless Rhoads style Flying V that still has an unnecessarily pointy headstock. Designed to appeal to both New Wave and Metal fans, these wear a blackout finish with gold hardware and mirror gold pickguard and

Alder body with a black maple neck and rosewood fingerboard

Accessories - None

The previous owner removed the headstock logo however the neck stamps are all still in there to help us ID it

The ART-1 was made by Gotoh and used on many of Aria Pro II's Japanese made guitars in the 1980's and 1990's

and feel of the original 808—with stunning accuracy—to the Roland Boutique format

Floyd licensed locking tremolo system and Grover tuners

This one came to us in a very sorry state and was completely rebuilt by our in-house tech Vaughan

Neck is straight and the frets are shiny and smooth with plenty of life left

weighs just under 3kg's

This is the rare earlier "OCTAVER" model

weighing 4

The perfect travel or busking guitar that feels more like a real guitar than a toy