please help me identify this Greco (RR??)

[Project Hayes]

Hey ...Can anyone help me identify this?
I just got it and I believe its a RR model, but the TRC and 5 digit serial # is throwing me off....

Also The pickups have no identifying markings on them although by looking at the soldering and wiring the seem to be original to the guitar...

They sound really close to my Classic 57's that I have in my Epi so I assume they are Alnico but I would like to know how to tell if they are Dry or Screamin.. How do you know if this is a FujiGen or Dyna Gaki?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[mrsuspend]

Hi Mike, could you show us a closeup of the headstock and the neck pickup cavity? It would make it much easier to identify.

/Magnus

 

[Project Hayes]

I hope that is better...Thanks

 

[mrsuspend]

Well, to me it looks like a 1985 Mint Collection with a replaced truss rod cover (very common).
The only catalogue image I can find is tiny but I think it's there:
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~shake/greco/catalogue/1985/index.html
I can't guess what model, sorry....

/Magnus

 

[Udonitron]

Hey mate

Nice to see you over here as well Definitely Dyna made due to the serial # and squared tenon. I think those truss covers were the actual Dyna covers they used as well. Either way she is a beauty!

 

[Project Hayes]

thanks...I am very happy with the guitar
I
wish the pickups still had the sticker on them, maybe this is due to it being a Dyna as well, I read they were sent bulk batches of the pickups from either maxon or FijiGen , or wherever the pickups were made...

These pups definitely sound like PAF clones, I am pretty sure they are not ceramics..

It really is a nice Guitar and I honestly got my moneys worth...plus a lot more

 

[fiftywatt]

Nice score on the RR. Had an '85 very similar with the Dry '82 pickups. Wish I had not sold it off.

 

[greco_burst]

fwiw, all the dry 1982 base plates I have seen don't have a wiring hole that is near the corner, but, Scream'in 1982 does...

To me yours looks like a screamin base plate...? only an observation, thanks!

 

[Project Hayes]

anyone know what size truss rod wrench I need for this?

This Greco has a nut on the end unlike my Epi which I use a Allen wrench