Greco Jeff Beck LP on Reverb - thoughts?

roberty

Anyone tried these? I am into wraparound bridges and black Les Pauls. Any thoughts on value? How about merchant music? Ta

Greco Single Cutaway 1978 Jeff Beck Style (Gibson Pickups)
https://reverb.com/item/31782470-greco-single-cutaway-1978-jeff-beck-style-gibson-pickups?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=31782470

Funkfingers

View in person.

The wording in the listing is suitably vague, giving the seller plenty of wiggle room for slithering out of distance selling return claims.

roberty

Funkfingers said:

View in person.

The wording in the listing is suitably vague, giving the seller plenty of wiggle room for slithering out of distance selling return claims.

Yeh I wouldn't want to buy blind esp with something that old and obviously modded

Philly_Q

You might want to check the colour too.  Although it looks black in the pictures, the description says dark green - and I've seen dark green ones on eBay before.

Cool guitar, if it's a good one.

roberty

Philly_Q said:

You might want to check the colour too.  Although it looks black in the pictures, the description says dark green - and I've seen dark green ones on eBay before.

Cool guitar, if it's a good one.

Yeah from my googling the oxblood seems to have morphed into a dark green over the decades

guitars4you

Funkfingers said:

View in person.

The wording in the listing is suitably vague, giving the seller plenty of wiggle room for slithering out of distance selling return claims.

You mean it might not be the TRUTH

you mentioned view in person - But if I went THERE and BACK and did not like it, it would be a waste of time

WHO ELSE knows it is for sale

skikdi53

What is Beck in this guitar? 

Philly_Q

I had an Edwards LP in this style - it was purple, not oxblood or dark green.  Wish I hadn't sold it.

roberty

skikdi53 said:

What is Beck in this guitar? 

It's a copy of a 54 conversion, so wraparound with humbuckers

skikdi53

roberty said:

skikdi53 said:

What is Beck in this guitar? 

It's a copy of a 54 conversion, so wraparound with humbuckers

It isn't easy to do that with any les paul? 

Ddigger

There's a JB joke going on here...

I get the 'Truth' but not the other references. 

Only thing I can think that I know by JB this d heigh ho silver lining.

Philly_Q

skikdi53 said:

roberty said:

skikdi53 said:

What is Beck in this guitar? 

It's a copy of a 54 conversion, so wraparound with humbuckers

It isn't easy to do that with any les paul? 

Yeah, if you're prepared to do the surgery to fit the wraparound bridge.  Or carve up your '54-style to replace the P-90s with humbuckers.

roberty

skikdi53 said:

roberty said:

skikdi53 said:

What is Beck in this guitar? 

It's a copy of a 54 conversion, so wraparound with humbuckers

It isn't easy to do that with any les paul? 

You'd need to dowel up the existing bridge and tailpiece holes and then re-drill for the tailpiece studs where the bridge is. There'd be some finish repairing too if you wanted it done seamlessly. Not brain surgery but not exactly trivial either

roberty

For more context, Gibson did a small number of these, they seem to be listed at optimistic prices on the off-chance that someone is desperate

https://reverb.com/uk/item/30756157-2014-gibson-custom-shop-54-les-paul-oxblood

clarkefan

roberty said:

For more context, Gibson did a small number of these, they seem to be listed at optimistic prices on the off-chance that someone is desperate

https://reverb.com/uk/item/30756157-2014-gibson-custom-shop-54-les-paul-oxblood

That's interesting, I'm pretty sure they've previously been a lot more, funny how things change.

prowla

Ddigger said:

There's a JB joke going on here...

I get the 'Truth' but not the other references. 

Only thing I can think that I know by JB this d heigh ho silver lining.

I saw him (and met the band) on the There & Back tour.

prowla

The "Jeff Beck" connection seems a bit random, as he never played a Greco and there were loads of black Les Pauls.

roberty

prowla said:

The "Jeff Beck" connection seems a bit random, as he never played a Greco and there were loads of black Les Pauls.

54 goldtop refinished in oxblood with humbuckers added

roberty

Les Paul didn't play Greco either but that's what it is

soma1975

Are Greco's any good? 

I saw saw a nice looking 1975 Greco Strat for not much. And a 335 type too. 

Danielsguitars

I've had 2 Greco Les Pauls, a super real and mint collection, both fantastic and easily as good as any Gibson, only problem was I made my own and they got sold