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At first glance the GRG270 looks very Rock and/or Roll. Then you take a closer look and realise that it really is Rock & Roll, it’s been bread, nurtured and plucked with nothing but versatility, speed and more versatility in mind.

Starting at the top, the headstock is a pretty typical ‘Super Strat’ shape, quite pointy and aggressive. It sports six closed unit machine heads, which are well machined and precise. Not that you really get to use them that often, as the locking nut soaks up any strain on the strings and does an admirable job of keeping the guitar in tune.

The neck is the part of this guitar that is geared entirely for speed. It, being the GRG2 design, is delightfully flat in the areas you’re most likely to do all your legendary twiddling. Even the neck joint is beautifully rounded to allow comfortable access to the top frets.

The ‘SuperStrat’ style body does exactly what it says on the tin and is where the beef lies. The pick-up arrangement is humbucker, single coil, humbucker and the cherry on top is the Floyd Rose ’style pickup’.

Plugged in the guitar is definitely perky. The bridge pick-up generates quite a punch, with all the ‘mid crunch’ the budding metalist would need for a good chugging. The middle single coil provides a welcome respite from the high output humbuckers and generates a very sweet sounding clean sound, great for backing and rhythm. The neck humbucker provides a suprising amount of warmth for a 24 fret guitar (the pickup being lower down the body than a 21 or 22 fret guitar) and doesn’t dissapoint when trying to get those bluesy tones.

As for the tremolo, now certainly there are a lot of Floyd Rose ’syle’ tremelos out there and it is certainly a mine field. An unfortunate amount of them being similar in quality to a Christmas cracker prize. Thankfully this trem is very well machined and has a positive and smooth action, with no creaking and no dropping the entire guitar out of tune when it’s set back to it’s resting place.

All in all this guitar is an absolute must for anyone after a guitar that can produce almost any crunch, squeek and squeel that a modern guitarist might need. I dare you to find a guitar of similar price that can outdo this one on sound, quality and playability.