One last score - 1975 Greco Tele Deluxe

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:07 pm

Well, it's no shorty, but this one was the "I'm done unless I find ..." a Greco Tele Deluxe copy. I think this is 1975, pre serial numers, special order Fujigen with natural finish and no belly cut. Haven't been able to plug it in because my amps are in storage, but the neck has that full chunky profile I like and it seems to be good looking.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:20 pm

So nice, I love how the wide range pickups have Greco stamped on them. Do you know if they're modeled after the originals unlike the Fender reissues?

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:24 pm

It's cool indeed - of course these guys ended up being Fender Japan so there's a pretty solid quality level.
The pickups look like Maxon type 2 - I had them in a Greco Thinline one time, not a true WRHB because the polepieces are metal, just a standard humbucker arrangement but they sound great. Not that I can play it until I retrieve an amp from storage, bought a Pathfinder 15 the other week which is ridiculously good for a SS practice amp.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:41 pm

Congrats, I like those big ass cavities. How heavy is it?

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:43 pm

No scale here, but it's Jazzmaster hefty ...

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:05 pm

Well hefty means more toanz

I played two swamp strats and one of them was heavy as a couple of bricks while the other was light as a feather

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:43 pm

I forgot you were in Hobart. I was there a year ago.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:38 pm

Greco wrote:ORDER MADE.

That's a beauty - well done.

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:45 pm

outstanding find

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:21 pm

Wow! looks cool next to Gabriel's guitar.

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:23 pm

wait do you think mine might be a copy?!?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:53 am

MatthewK wrote:wait do you think mine might be a copy?!?

Lol,no. The Greco doesn't have the bullet truss rod nut like yours.

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:54 am

Or the three bolt neckplate. Phew.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:56 am

MatthewK wrote:Or the three bolt neckplate. Phew.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:20 pm

Nick wrote:So nice, I love how the wide range pickups have Greco stamped on them.

Yeah, makes 'em look like REAL Gibsons.

Incidentally, I suspect the Greco WRHBs are pretty close to the Japanese reissues... like, where Fender Japan looked to when it was time for a reissue. That was certainly the case with MIJ Mustang hardware, which had previously appeared on faithful Mustang copies branded Greco (and many other brands, including Fernandes)

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35746

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:27 pm

I'm 99.9% sure they are standard humbucker construction, but they do have a brassy brightness which sounds pretty great. Or at least they did on my 76 Spacey Sounds thinline, now departed. I can't hear this one yet because my amps are in storage from moving house, aargh.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 10:28 pm

I can't believe Fender so comprehensively ripped this guitar off in the other thread.

MattK · Post by **MattK** » Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:19 am

Lawsuit to come, now that Shortscale has uncovered the TRUTH.

One last score - 1975 Greco Tele Deluxe

One last score - 1975 Greco Tele Deluxe

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