Black, B&C '82 - Beat, but sweet!

[cmatthes]

Around $510 right now on eBay with a trustworthy seller.

'82 Greco Standard copy

[murkat]

Man, thats beat to hell. Mine aint goin nowhere thou...

I think he is wrong saying its mahogany wood, but it might be.

[The Shark]

I bought this one from the same seller a few weeks ago. Great to deal with and sudden shipping! These guitars are mucho fun.

Mahogany=Mystery Meat

[David B]

Cool guitar. I've been looking for one of those.

[tc2]

I personally LOVE checking, nicks, patina.... nothing like an old Gibson with weather checking. Grecos kick ass.

[murkat]

Attention, attention, will Currypowder please go to the ebay link......

[currypowder]

Thanks, Murkat, I've seen it. I was hoping, you know, since it's my birthday and all, that you were going to succumb to my pressure and just send me yours out to me.

You know, I have a "Greco Explorer" search set up on ebay, and never got any notification that this was up there. I'm glad the HFC is on top of things.

[murkat]

you mean this really clean one? What pressure? this 78' is a keeper and sounds killer with the stock pups after I potted them. Great guitars.

[The Shark]

Potting the pickups is a must! They do sound really good. Very undervalued guitars and I hope they stay that way!

[cmatthes]

Nice snag, Currypowder!

[murkat]

all right! good for you man! get some pics up when you get, if you need some parts, lmk.

jay

[currypowder]

It's on its way to me from Japan as we speak. My experience with shipping from Japan has been that it will arrive quicker than shipping from California. Hopefully it won't get delayed in Customs.

These older black bound and crowned Greco's are pretty hard to find, even though they were a standard model in the late 70's early 80's. Every since murkat got his, I've been looking. As long as this one's solid, I'm not too worried about the cosmetic condition. I'll probably try to buff out most of the scratches on the top. Worst case I'll see about getting the top only refinned.

I'll let you guys know when it gets here. Thanks for the heads up.

[currypowder]

3 days from Japan. Amazing shipping time.

However, I'm surprised it arrived in one piece. No case. It had bubble wrap around the body and headstock, but no other packing, it was just rattling around in the box. The box had a big hole and a couple of significant dents, so I was a bit worried. And, to top it off, my name and address had rubbed off the shipping label, it's there but very faint. Someone had put a small label with "try Greg Curry", and my address on it. Someone at the PO gets a big deposit of karma from me!

At the end of the day, though, it got here safe and sound. It looks as I expected, scratched and beat, but pretty damn cool. I think a good buffing will get rid of half or more of the scratches, so at some point in the near future, I'll probably give it a try. However, all of the electronics work just fine and the neck seems to be pretty straight (maybe a little adjustment needed). So for now, I'm going to remove the 10 year old strings, clean up the fretboard a bit, re-string it, set it up more to my liking, and rock out. I may even take it to my gig tonight.

The neck is a medium thin. The frets are in better shape than I expected based on the auction (which said 65%). Not enough wear to really do anything at this point. The rosewood board looks a little dry, but otherwise is in great shape and the inlay work is top notch.

Although I'm not real happy with the packing, bottom line is it got her OK and it's exactly what I expected. It seems to be alot of guitar for $600!

[Guest pirateflynn]

Whoa. Glad it arrived in one piece. I once had a guitar shipped to me wrapped only in bubblewrap. No box or case or anything else. Crazy. That's a cool guitar!