Tokai made Greco
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Tokai made Greco's don't have a serial only a model type in the pickup cavity. Sometimes it also lacks the model type so it's good to know how to identify a Tokai opposed to Cort:
Tokai: square tab routing, Cort: oval tab routing
Tokai: medium tenon, Cort: long square tenon (often with bolt)
Tokai: diagonal wire routing, Cort: straight wire routing
Tokai: square tab routing, Cort: oval tab routing
Tokai: medium tenon, Cort: long square tenon (often with bolt)
Tokai: diagonal wire routing, Cort: straight wire routing
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jacco wrote:Tokai made Greco's don't have a serial only a model type in the pickup cavity. Sometimes it also lacks the model type so it's good to know how to identify a Tokai opposed to Cort:
Tokai: square tab routing, Cort: oval tab routing
Tokai: medium tenon, Cort: long square tenon (often with bolt)
Tokai: diagonal wire routing, Cort: straight wire routing
Cort made Grecos also have a different kind of plastic in the inlays, the logo and the diamond in case its a Custom. Further, you can see it on the screws which holds the bridge. Also, the Japanese often have nickel and the Korean regular chrome. All of which can be identified easily if the seller provide decent pictures.
He he, this is really tricky territory for a newbie...
Could anyone post a picture or two, of the differences between the Cort and Tokai made Greco LP Custom?
Here is a picture of how it looks. It has the same wire and tenon - but not the "egc 75" stamp.
http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq28 ... 212d-3.jpg
Could anyone post a picture or two, of the differences between the Cort and Tokai made Greco LP Custom?
Here is a picture of how it looks. It has the same wire and tenon - but not the "egc 75" stamp.
http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq28 ... 212d-3.jpg
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Differences between Tokai & Cort made Greco's from this picture:
1. Tokai: square tab routing, Cort: oval tab routing
2. Tokai: diagonal wire routing, Cort: straight wire routing
3. Tokai: medium tenon, Cort: long tenon
4. Tokai: braided pup wire, Cort: coloured plastic pup wire
5. Tokai: fret edge binding, Cort: no fret edge binding
Tokai:

Cort:

1. Tokai: square tab routing, Cort: oval tab routing
2. Tokai: diagonal wire routing, Cort: straight wire routing
3. Tokai: medium tenon, Cort: long tenon
4. Tokai: braided pup wire, Cort: coloured plastic pup wire
5. Tokai: fret edge binding, Cort: no fret edge binding
Tokai:

Cort:

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