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This is a beautiful looking Tokai Silver Star with great grain showing through the 3-tone sunburst. Tokai Silver Star SS-36, Made in Japan 1979, 750€ SOLD The neck and frets are in great shape but there are some chips and marks around the body. This is an all original Greco TL-500, built in August 1979. Greco is well known for their build quality and the sound of their Maxon pickups.
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#Greco spacey sounds telecaster series
This is as close to a vintage Japan made Fender Telecaster you can get, built in the same FujiGen factory just before Fender gave the contract to build the first JV, Japan Vintage, series there. Greco Spacey Sounds TL-500, Made in Japan 1979, 800€ SOLD You can read more about the guitar here and here and watch this Youtube clip. The back of the neck is in great shape just like the original jumbo frets and fretboard. It’s in really good state for its age with just a few marks to the body, the grain is amazing and it looks like it’s a one piece ash body. All hardware is original but the volume pot and 5-way switch has been changed and the middle pickup is a bit of a mystery, neck and bridge are original Fender and stamped 1979. The neck is stamped with 1978 but body, pickguard and pickups says 1979, very common on late 1970’s Fender.
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I’ve decided to thin out my electric guitar collection as well so if you see anything you like, just get in touch Stratocaster, Made in USA, Fullerton plant 1979, 1650€ SOLDĪ late 1970’s hardtail Fender Stratocaster in a classic 3-tone sunburst. I’m not 100% sure that the DiMarzio is for me, it seems a bit too hot for my liking but I will try it with the band first and see how it works in a louder setting. The Greco TL-800 has, beside the V-neck, Nitro lacquer and a Maxon neck pickup and the legendary DiMarzio Pre B-1 in the bridge. The only part I don’t like is the Wilkinson bridge, it’s actually what I use on the Claescasters but on this guitar I would have preferred something older, more worn and perhaps Japanese. Everything from the chipped fretboard to the cigarette burn on the back of the neck, I’m not sure how someone managed with that. I really don’t mind how worn this Greco TL-800 is, it’s so beautiful in my eyes. He has had a few other Greco TL-800 in his life and they apparently stopped with the V-shaped necks in 1982.
#Greco spacey sounds telecaster serial
This Greco TL-800 lost it’s original bridge at some point, with the serial number, but according the Lennart it must be from 1981. Something that I have had confirmed from early 80’s Tokai’s, both Strats and Teles I’ve seen for sale on eBay. In his expertise the V-profile appeared on the high-end Tokai, Greco and Fernades models around 1980-82. The previous owner of the Greco TE-800, a really nice German man called Lennart, and I have had quite long mail conversations regarding this mythical creature, the unicorn of necks, the V-neck on Japan made Telecasters. I blame all the slick fast playing guitarists in the 80’s that wanted super thin necks, the ruined everything for the rest of us. The USA made Fender American Vintage ’52 Telecaster didn’t have it’s fat U-shaped neck until 1998 either, so this seems more like an 1980-90’s problem than purely a Japanese problem. I’ve seen a few Crafted in Japan Fender ’52 re-issues from the mid 2000’s that has nice V-necks but nothing before that. It’s not the thickest neck I’ve seen or anything, it’s actually quite shy in thickness even though it’s a V-profile, but it’s far better that all the other Japan made Telecaster necks I’ve tried from the 1970-80’s. The solution turned out to be a an early 1980’s Greco TE-800 since they came with a pretty decent V-neck. I don’t have large hands or anything, it’s just that since I mainly play old Levin acoustics from the 1960’s I’m kind of used to thicker necks than what’s standard on Japanese electrics. So since 2013 I’ve been trying to find a nice Japan made ’52 re-issue with a thicker neck but without any luck. Then I found myself a 1979 Greco Spacey Sounds TL-500, equally great sounding but not in a mint state like the Fender, same problem there the neck was way too thin. I used to have an amazing sounding and looking late 1980’s Japan made Fender Telecaster TL52-75, a great ’52 re-issue that I could never get used to the thin neck on. I finally found my “ Nancy“, this has taken forever or at least four years. Greco TE-800, Made in Japan by FujiGen 1981