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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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

Greco wrote:ORDER MADE.

That's a beauty - well done.

outstanding find

Wow! looks cool next to Gabriel's guitar.

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

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.

Or the three bolt neckplate. Phew.

MatthewK wrote:Or the three bolt neckplate. Phew.

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

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.

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

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