But really, you may want to hold a Julian Lage signature Collings electric in your hands. And if you're really interested in spending 7 or 8k on a guitar like my dot neck. But a second generation, 50s style road worn strat is cool too, real nitro and less precious. Several years later, to the present, I'd say that sure, if you can find a deal, there is something about a forty+ year old instrument that's cool. These builders most definitely kicked the US originators in the butt, and even still, it took decades for something anywhere close to my SA-1200 to come out of a Gibson factory, and when it did, that $7k guitar was why I began researching these replicas in the first place. It looks and sounds great, but again, after all those hours played, and how the neck responds to sweat, that finish is still disappointing. That purchase was a bit edgier, and not as much of a bargain, but it quickly became my main guitar. I didn't want to get the Greco from an "established" Japanese guitar broker, but there simply weren't any SE-800s on the internet for about seven months, and I gave in.
The strat I found a few years later, after life led me to sell a vintage strat I'd owned since I was 20 (and the guitar was 17) and a vintage strat could still be had for under a grand. From what I can tell it's now worth three times what I paid.
An amazing instrument, Dry Z pickups etc, despite questions about its finish (since the fingerboard isn't covered in poly it still feels like a real Gibson). It took some convincing to even get them to ship it, but they did-I wired money sight-unseen like a lunatic-and it arrived in NYC, a decades old mint and beautifully set-up guitar. When I mentioned this to a friend, one of the owners of TR Crandall in NYC, his response was that he'd never held a lawsuit-era Japanese guitar that was finished with nitrocellulose lacquer.Īnyway I went searching for the top of the line dot neck before it was as big of a thing as it is now, and found it by Google-translating Japanese blogs, eventually finding it at Nico Nico in Japan, and hoping it didn't sell before the one employee who spoke a bit of English returned from his vacation. It could be a mix, as described earlier in this thread, but then those with expectations based on actual nitro experience, be forewarned that mix is way closer to a polyester vibe than the wearing-away of a real nitro neck finish. I've never done the acetate test and don't need to. However as the '54 Strat, specifically, was sold as "nitro" finish, the fact that after many thousands of hours played and zero lacquer wear, it's disappointing, especially for someone coming from actual vintage Fenders. The Grecos are amazing, and when I first had each of them, we compared them in person to two notable "real" counterparts, and.
(They're surrounding an amazing 50s style, super-lightly aged nitro parts tele made by a kid in Knoxville and purchased very cheap, like $450, from a Tennessee expat architect leaving in Brooklyn, via Craigslist).
#1988 TOKAI SPRINGY SOUND PROFESSIONAL#
Pictured in my avatar, (left) a 1980 SE-800 Greco Super Real Brazen Picker Professional and (right) a 1980 SA-1200 Greco Super Real.
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