My Greco Burst

[the Les Paul]

Hi all!

Here's my 20 years old Greco Burst. I think it's an eg 59-65 from mint collection series. It's pretty light, only 3,8 kg and sounds very sweet. Great resonance too and very tight long tenon neck joint. Only issues are the veneer cracks on the surface, that had been repaired. The fillers look weird closely, but overally not so bad.
I'm thinking of selling this one, but haven't decided it yet.

 

[Koubayashi]

Its a good guitar but you are thinking to sell it
Seen that before on this forum

Anyways, I like those Grecos. I have had so many of them and for 500-600? they are hard to beat.

 

[the Les Paul]

I'm longing for an Edwards Gold Top, this is the reason I happen to sell it.
But it's hard to let this baby go away and hard to decide.
I think at a 450? bargain price it would be a good deal for someone.

 

[marcusnieman]

Magnificent color on that one

 

[the Les Paul]

Yes, I think it's been reliced and maybe refinished to look like a real '59 burst.
Much better looks than stock Greco finishes what I saw. There were some veneer cracks on top what is not unusual on this mint collections and I think the refinishing could be part of the repairment. I bought this way and never cared of a little aesthetic issue.

 

[the Les Paul]

Now, here she's back! No more thinking about sellin her. Did some little aesthetic modifications. And I've just put a Bare Knuckle Black Dog to bridge and a set of DR 11-56 on her and tuned half step down - GOD ****!! That thing screams!!

 

[the Les Paul]

And a little story. At the guitarshop where I usually go to set up my guitars there was my luthier's '95 Gibson LP Standard sunburst. We did a little comparson head by head both plugged in and unplgged. It seemed that my Greco had much stronger acoustic resonance unplugged and overally deeper, livelier tone when we plugged it into a nice old fender tube amp. That's the short story.

 

[LarryC]

doesn't surprise me,,but it sure does surprise some people who haven't figured it out yet :wink: