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Impressive work and great write-up, Homer! Thanks very much!

"A model that doesn't exist" is always a difficult statement to make about Grecos, given that they ran a custom shop-like operation starting in 1972. There are countless weirdos, oddballs and unicorns out there (I know, I have a few of them), built for distributors, retail chains and end...

Another odd detail: afaik 22-fret Strat necks usually retains the curve of the 21-fret fretboard end, this one ends in a straight line, like on a Tele.

Hm. I thought there was something slightly odd about it... it's got a 22-fret neck. Seems mismatched with the otherwise vintage appointments?

I don't think they're really geared towards an amount of purchases in particular at all, tbh. I'm pretty sure their main business is in general Japanese popular culture items, anything from manga/anime stuff to fashion, so I guess they ship a lot of small stuff in bulk. I really don't know, but...

Zenmarket here, for abt eight years and approaching 200 instruments. I used Jauce before that but left since they didn't offer package consolidation at that point (I think they do now, though?), I was otherwise quite happy with their service. Zenmarkets "visible" fees are ridiculously low -...

I can't for the life of me recall ever seeing a stock Greco SE with anything else but 250ks. That's not to say there never were any, they ran sort of a proto-custom shop from 1972 and were prepared to deck the guitars out as the customers (often retail chains, sometimes individuals) wanted, so...

Yeah, pretty much. Good to keep in mind, it does create some wtf moments.

Well no, not eaxctly. It was manufactured AND released to market in late 1975, but as part of the new 1976 range launched at that time. As far as I know the whole industry followed that convention, as does the auto industry, for instance. New stuff on offer in time for Xmas? Anyways, this...

K75 is Nov 1975, which means it's almost certainly an early 1976 model. Next years range was launched late in the autumn, with production already up and running. A common cause of confusion when trying to ID guitars and the specs don't fit the serial year. Probably little if any difference...

Japanese industry has always been solidly metric, and vintage Japanese Strat bridges take 5mm (M5) thread arms, with no exceptions I've ever heard of. A 10-32 arm might fit in the hole and be possible to wind down, but since metric and imperial thread pitch isn't the same, the steel arm will...

Yeah, I'm not surprised it's been further modded, if they have been externally, there's usually something going on inside as well. But otherwise: Greco SE's (I've had a couple of dozen through the years) very often still have the original Maxon Excel pickups installed, they're actually really...

Hi and welcome! There's no great mystery to it really, vintage MIJ guitars are simply that good. Especially the ones made for the domestic Japanese market. Like your Greco, they didn't export their stuff at all back in the day. Like @Sigmania said, there's forum section for Greco on here, go...

Shaky Iphone 2ish video of one of the hooked Fernandes LE's owned and played by Robert Quine (yeah, the guy in my profile pic :cool: ), one of several sold at the estate auction after he passed in 2002. Note the exotic John Suhr electronics. Quine had a number of earlier Revivals as well, one...

These seem to be US-export versions of contemporary Revivals, only with another headstock. A lot of the ones sold by Rudy's Music in NYC to various rockstars at the time have these appoinments. I guess the changed headstock shape disqualified them from the The Revival label. Fernandes were...

These vintage-style Limited Editions (as opposed to various superstratoids with same moniker) are kind of a breed of their own, out-of-catalog, found only in occasional store ads as ST-38, -40 and -45, and too far removed from the vintage originals to qualify for the The Revival moniker...

I don't know, you can't really accuse Greco of being consistent and/or logical when it comes to Strat body pieces. I've had two standard 1979 SE-800s with 5-6 piece pancake alder bodies and 600s with one-piece sen bodies from about the same time keep turning up. It seems like they became more...

Dayum! Finally some documentation on those beasts! Thanks, great work. A model number (or at least a price), some specs, number produced and point of origin. Ok, so now the chase is on for the Schecter-pickup version... "The era of Fender Strats ended in the '70s. From now on, it's the era of...

And as chance would have it, I bought (and sold on) that one. I happened to save the seller's pics, so no doubt. So, some more pics, incl full serial and internal stamps:

Yeah, I was looking at that as well. Always hard to tell from pics, but looks like a pretty dramatic V-neck on it? This one has a fairly substantial U shape, kind of classic Tele.