Hello
I thought that I should share some pictures and specs of my recently aquired Greco Les Paul EG-900 -'79 (Pre Super Real). It has some wear - especially the bridge and tailpeice - but it's a real good guitar and it plays real nice. I guess that whoever played this guitar had some real acidic sweat, since the bridge it really eaten up.
The guitar is a little on the heavy side but I'm not too bothered by it. The frets are actually in good condition - maybe they have been recrowned at some point in it's lifetime? I wasn't that fond of the colour of the guitar (I guess it's what they call "Clownburst") but it's growing on me.
1979 Greco EG-900
Nitro laquer
DiMarzio PAFs (measuring: bridge - 7.9k, neck - 7.4k, when mounted in the guitar)
Tuners marked "Greco Guitar"
3-piece maple neck, 14 degree headstock angle
nut width 43 mm, thickness at 1th fret - 20 mm, thickness 12th fret - 24 mm (measured front to back of the wood)
fret edge binding
Dowel reinforced neck tenon
Pancake mahogany body (1 piece back layer, 5(!) piece middle layer) *See picture!
2-piece solid maple top
Weight 10 - 10.5 lbs
The picture below shows an approximation of how the middle layer is constructed. It seems there are one big piece and 5 smaller pieces. This is determined by looking at the side of the guitar and finding where the pieces of wood join each other. This is, as I said, the middle layer - the back layer looks as though it's all one piece. Or else they really managed to hide the joint.
I believe the guitar was all original when I got it and I have only replaced the nut (since I wanted a Tremnut) and the pickup screws (since one of them had stripped threads and wouldn't permit me adjusting the pickups to my liking) and the screws for the back plate (since the original screws were missing). I have been thinking of changing the wiring to 50's style but I don't want to mess with it since it's appears all original and works ok. The neck pickup can be a little bassy at times but lowering it reduces that somewhat.
If you can think of anything that I have omitted from this specification - just let me know and I'll try to add it to the thread.
/ Pancake
I thought that I should share some pictures and specs of my recently aquired Greco Les Paul EG-900 -'79 (Pre Super Real). It has some wear - especially the bridge and tailpeice - but it's a real good guitar and it plays real nice. I guess that whoever played this guitar had some real acidic sweat, since the bridge it really eaten up.
The guitar is a little on the heavy side but I'm not too bothered by it. The frets are actually in good condition - maybe they have been recrowned at some point in it's lifetime? I wasn't that fond of the colour of the guitar (I guess it's what they call "Clownburst") but it's growing on me.
1979 Greco EG-900
Nitro laquer
DiMarzio PAFs (measuring: bridge - 7.9k, neck - 7.4k, when mounted in the guitar)
Tuners marked "Greco Guitar"
3-piece maple neck, 14 degree headstock angle
nut width 43 mm, thickness at 1th fret - 20 mm, thickness 12th fret - 24 mm (measured front to back of the wood)
fret edge binding
Dowel reinforced neck tenon
Pancake mahogany body (1 piece back layer, 5(!) piece middle layer) *See picture!
2-piece solid maple top
Weight 10 - 10.5 lbs
The picture below shows an approximation of how the middle layer is constructed. It seems there are one big piece and 5 smaller pieces. This is determined by looking at the side of the guitar and finding where the pieces of wood join each other. This is, as I said, the middle layer - the back layer looks as though it's all one piece. Or else they really managed to hide the joint.
I believe the guitar was all original when I got it and I have only replaced the nut (since I wanted a Tremnut) and the pickup screws (since one of them had stripped threads and wouldn't permit me adjusting the pickups to my liking) and the screws for the back plate (since the original screws were missing). I have been thinking of changing the wiring to 50's style but I don't want to mess with it since it's appears all original and works ok. The neck pickup can be a little bassy at times but lowering it reduces that somewhat.
If you can think of anything that I have omitted from this specification - just let me know and I'll try to add it to the thread.
/ Pancake
