Got Old Guitar Back Day

hoops

1979 Greco Goldtop - Converted beautifully from stoptail & ABR to '54 style wraptail by Neil Ivison at Ivison Guitars. Thank you Neil, great job. It's playing and sounding really good now set up properly. Refinished and aged by Jon Crawford at Rexter Guitars. Now the guitar is put back together I am loving it more and more. Beautiful colour, subtle checking and nitro finish which will continue to age as I use it. Thank you Jon, fantastic job.

Difficult to get pics that do the guitar justice but here are a few.

Lastly huge thanks to my friend Glen Taylor aka Wishbones, unfortunately no longer with us, who incredibly kindly gave me the guitar. Hope you approve of the guitar as it is now Glen,I'm sure you do!

breakstuff

Stunning, absolutely love it. 

Congrats. 

Adam_MD

Man that's cool

stonevibe

That is fantastic. I reckon Glen would approve.

breadfan

That is stunning - congrats!

What are your thoughts on the ABR vs wraptail? Does the guitar sound / feel significantly different?

brooom

As always Grecos has a really nice top dish... enjoy, looks super nice.

Iamnobody

Lovely!

IvisonGuitars

It’s a wow from me! A real pleasure to have helped with this one, especially now knowing the back story, Glen was a lovely chap.

Great to see it completed @hoops, enjoy in the finest of health

Kittyfrisk

Tis a thing of great clean loveliness.
Who knew that D'Addario's could look so 'brash'? 

JezWynd

Beautiful guitar. Wraparound bridges are so efficient, that’s a brilliant conversion.

hoops

Kittyfrisk said:

Tis a thing of great clean loveliness.
Who knew that D'Addario's could look so 'brash'? 

Know exactly what you mean re D'Addario's. It was strung that way in the guitar shop with the strings going thro' extra ball ends to stop the winding coming over the top of the bridge. The strings will be changed tomorrow and the extra ball ends removed. I just couldn't wait to take some pics and get them posted. Sorry they offended you. They offend me too. Ha!

sawyer

Fantastic job!

Kittyfrisk

hoops said:

Kittyfrisk said:

Tis a thing of great clean loveliness.
Who knew that D'Addario's could look so 'brash'? 

Know exactly what you mean re D'Addario's. It was strung that way in the guitar shop with the strings going thro' extra ball ends to stop the winding coming over the top of the bridge. The strings will be changed tomorrow and the extra ball ends removed. I just couldn't wait to take some pics and get them posted. Sorry they offended you. They offend me too. Ha!

Not offended at all   I like & use D'Addario's, it was just the (to me) splash of not needed colour against such a lovely backdrop.
Enjoy   

hoops

breadfan said:

That is stunning - congrats!

What are your thoughts on the ABR vs wraptail? Does the guitar sound / feel significantly different?

Thank you. Initially I like the pure simplicity of the design and prefer the feel under my hand. I think a wraptail works best with P90's and produces more mids in the overall sound. These are my thoughts and I'm sure others will think differently. I'm really glad I had the conversion and will now gig the guitar as it feels good to me.

Henrytwang

Nice looking guitar! I’m a big fan of wraparound bridge/tailpieces with P90s, love the tone.

rexter

Thanks for posting this @hoops and your kind words.
It looks beautiful, wish I could hear/play it! That's often my major frustration after finishing guitars for people and sending them back - I rarely get to see the finished product in person.
Proud to have worked on this with two great blokes, yourself and @IvisonGuitars. Neil, thanks for your great work, hope we will do plenty more together in the future. Mainly I'm just so pleased to hear how happy you are with it Clive and think it's great that it will continue to bring joy and be a great tribute to you friend Glen.

Also @SteveRobinson - thanks again for the Crescent Bronze powders that I used. 

Lodious

That's sone of the nicest relicing I've ever seen. Totally stunning!!!!