Greco serial number checker plus#

The pickups are not that bad, they have a nice dark tone. The small scale and narrow fretboard make it very fast and a pleasure to play. I played it for about 3 hours last night and it sounds great. A fret job would really make it a nice player. I'm struggling a bit with the idea of a re-fret and dumping the tune-a-matic for an ebony bridge.

The mid frets have been worked more than once and have lost their crown, but it is playable. Wow you got lucky mostly everything works- great!Are you goint to keep everything org.-thats a great project guitar fo sure.Even if you got everything working perfect and restored back to org.im not sure its worth all that much.Im curious about the fret work? It doesnt look all that great in the pic. Except for polishing the finish scratches out, which I think I'll forgo to keep everything as original as possible, it cleaned up really nice. I blew out the pots, lubed the switch and cleaned up the connection on the jack. I took the guitar apart and cleaned everything. I found a great site for the 2355 which is what this guitar essentially is. I'm putting it in the '70 to '72 range but am open to suggestions if anyone has anything to offer. I found a '78 catalogue that shows it being a model N60, but I can't find a catalogue from earlier vintage showing the guitar. That fact doesn't help with dating the guitar because they used the star tuners for many years prior to stamped serial numbers. Some reports say that these pups were only used between '70 and '72 because they weren't so good. Since the factory didn't dump Maxon pickups till 1974, I suspect the guitar is pre '74. The fact that no serial number is stamped on the headstock means (at least through my research) that the guitar was built before mid 1975 when the factory started stamping. The Greco brand being the Japanese distribution of the factory that made Ibanez makes this guitar essentially a 2355M.

Greco serial number checker plus#

Before I bought the guitar I read the 197 posts on this site that contained the keywork Greco plus spent several hours with the results of an extensive web search using 'the google' on several of the internets. Gee thanks, I never would have though of that. You can do a ICW word search- and maybe you can find more info. I did a word search on greco you might find some of this interesting and maybe helpful? I'm thinking it's a 74 or earlier but looks like a '78 N60. I'll deliver it to my luthier tomorrow so he can put the love back in it. Frets are corroded from non-play and the thing is a bit dirty. The bridge pickup is not functioning, but pots are dirty and the jack plug in is iffy. The finish is in good shape except for the chipping on the extreme tips of the headstock, pretty normal. A quick negotiation and the price was very right. When I looked at it, I could tell it was not as advertised, but the defects were minor considering the age. The auction ended with me being the winner, and they delivered it this evening. It was ignored on ebay, but was close by so I took a shot.