1982 Greco Mint Collection EG59-85, Cherry Red Sunburst
By Greco
£1,395.00
Super Greco EG59-85 from 1982. Made in the legendary FujiGen Factory the guitar features a transition of specs as Greco transitioned from the Super Real Era into the Mint Collection of instruments. Featuring a 2 piece Mahogany body with a long tenon, one piece mahogany neck with a small headstock with small ink stamped serial number # 2 1001 in the 50’s Gibson style. The Headstock face has the Greco Logo with open ‘O’ but still retains the Super Real logo, a trait seen on the transitional guitars. The fingerboard is Indian Rosewood with pearloid trapezoid position markers, medium frets with fret end binding. The guitar has a Maple top with a book-matched and figured maple veneer. Pickups are the original and highly regarded Double Trick humbuckers. Made by Maxon and selling for 18000Y separately they were directly bellow the legendary Dry Z pickups in the range. Hardware is nickel throughout with great attention paid to the accuracy, tuners are single ring Kluson Deluxe style, The truss rod cover is of the two-ply, two screw bell type. The pickguard and pickup rings ape the original creme M-69 and single ply type. Control knobs are the gold bonnet style used from ’55-60.
The guitar is in great condition throughout, the back has some light buckle-rash and worming to the finish but the front is especially clean for a 40 year old guitar. The Nitro clear coat has ambered giving a pleasant warmth to the binding and sunburst. The top has a restrained amount of figuring that looks just right when compared to other examples. The neck is a comfortable profile that approximates a late 50’s profile nicely, measuring 21.95mm at the 1st and 24.42mm at the 12th fret respectively. The nut measures a standard 43.49 wide. The Double Trick pickups measure 6.91K in the Bridge and 7.04 in the neck and have a open, balanced sound. Despite the low output they still have a decent bite thanks to the AlniCo V magnets used. The guitar comes with a Tan and Pink Lifton style case, weighs 9lbs even and plays nicely set up on 10 gauge strings.
The guitar is in great condition throughout, the back has some light buckle-rash and worming to the finish but the front is especially clean for a 40 year old guitar. The Nitro clear coat has ambered giving a pleasant warmth to the binding and sunburst. The top has a restrained amount of figuring that looks just right when compared to other examples. The neck is a comfortable profile that approximates a late 50’s profile nicely, measuring 21.95mm at the 1st and 24.42mm at the 12th fret respectively. The nut measures a standard 43.49 wide. The Double Trick pickups measure 6.91K in the Bridge and 7.04 in the neck and have a open, balanced sound. Despite the low output they still have a decent bite thanks to the AlniCo V magnets used. The guitar comes with a Tan and Pink Lifton style case, weighs 9lbs even and plays nicely set up on 10 gauge strings.