1981 Greco SA-700 (w/ Hardcase)
Up for sale, a 1981 Greco SA-700 in excellent, 100% original condition and in perfect working order. Produced at the pinnacle of Fujigen factory production in Japan, this SA-700 is an expertly crafted instrument and a perfect example of Japanese "lawsuit" instruments exceeding the quality of their USA-made counterparts.
A fascinating amalgam of 1950s and 1970s Gibson features, the Greco SA-700 has a '50s ES body shape with maple semi-hollowbody construction and distinctive rounded "Mickey Mouse" ear body horns, paired with a three-piece maple neck. The all-nickel hardware has a distinctive vintage appeal, with '50s esque Kluson-style "waffle back" tuners, as well as a faithful ABR-1 bridge design. The pickups are some of the very last Maxon-made PAF-style humbuckers offered in Greco instruments (before pickup production was brought in-house at Fujigen), and they're extremely articulate, sweet-sounding, and harmonically complex pickups. And in a nod to '70s era Gibson, the guitar features a two-way coil tap switch on the treble side body horn.
The maple neck has a fairly slender and comfortable C shaped profile, with moderate shoulder and little discernible increase in profile depth as you travel up the fretboard. The profile measures .838" deep at the 1st fret, filling out to .952" at the 12th. The bound rosewood fretboard features pearl small block inlay and original frets which retain their full factory height. The fret show notable wear beneath the plain strings on 1-6, with lighter wear until fret 10. The guitar plays well in all registers, and the neck is arrow straight with an ideally adjusted truss rod. The nut measures 1 11/16" in width, and the scale is 24 3/4". On the headstock, the guitar boasts the distinctive "open book" shape, with the Greco logo inlaid in pearl and a crown inlay central to the headstock face. The waffle back tuners are a true rarity on any Greco (or Gibson for that matter), and these ultra-hip tuners turn smoothly and hold pitch well.
All of the electronics work as intended, with individual Volume and Tone knobs for each pickup, capped with witch hat knobs. The three-way pickup selector switch works as they conventionally do, and the two-way coil tap switch on the treble side body cutaway offers thinned out single coil jangle not often available on an ES instrument. The guitar is remarkably clean cosmetically, with a faint speckling of birdseye in the maple on the top, and tight quilt figuring on the back, highlighted by the Tobacco Sunburst gloss finish. There's some inconsistent ambering of the body binding (some spots are darker than others) and light, uniform patina on the nickel hardware, yet overall this is a remarkably clean guitar exhibiting only light scuffing in the pick path and only a few faint finish scratches and inconsequential nicks on the guitar as a whole. The neck profile is flawless.
This Greco SA-700 is a particularly rare model from a celebrated era of Fujigen factory production, crafted in the spirit of Gibson's best ES models, and exceeding the quality of many of its USA-made counterparts.
New Epiphone hardshell case is included.
*Please note, we do not offer returns.
Free Shipping to the US, International customers please email us for shipping quote before ordering.
Free Tone Junkie Everything Pack (Any Platform) with this purchase.
Up for sale, a 1981 Greco SA-700 in excellent, 100% original condition and in perfect working order. Produced at the pinnacle of Fujigen factory production in Japan, this SA-700 is an expertly crafted instrument and a perfect example of Japanese "lawsuit" instruments exceeding the quality of their USA-made counterparts.
A fascinating amalgam of 1950s and 1970s Gibson features, the Greco SA-700 has a '50s ES body shape with maple semi-hollowbody construction and distinctive rounded "Mickey Mouse" ear body horns, paired with a three-piece maple neck. The all-nickel hardware has a distinctive vintage appeal, with '50s esque Kluson-style "waffle back" tuners, as well as a faithful ABR-1 bridge design. The pickups are some of the very last Maxon-made PAF-style humbuckers offered in Greco instruments (before pickup production was brought in-house at Fujigen), and they're extremely articulate, sweet-sounding, and harmonically complex pickups. And in a nod to '70s era Gibson, the guitar features a two-way coil tap switch on the treble side body horn.
The maple neck has a fairly slender and comfortable C shaped profile, with moderate shoulder and little discernible increase in profile depth as you travel up the fretboard. The profile measures .838" deep at the 1st fret, filling out to .952" at the 12th. The bound rosewood fretboard features pearl small block inlay and original frets which retain their full factory height. The fret show notable wear beneath the plain strings on 1-6, with lighter wear until fret 10. The guitar plays well in all registers, and the neck is arrow straight with an ideally adjusted truss rod. The nut measures 1 11/16" in width, and the scale is 24 3/4". On the headstock, the guitar boasts the distinctive "open book" shape, with the Greco logo inlaid in pearl and a crown inlay central to the headstock face. The waffle back tuners are a true rarity on any Greco (or Gibson for that matter), and these ultra-hip tuners turn smoothly and hold pitch well.
All of the electronics work as intended, with individual Volume and Tone knobs for each pickup, capped with witch hat knobs. The three-way pickup selector switch works as they conventionally do, and the two-way coil tap switch on the treble side body cutaway offers thinned out single coil jangle not often available on an ES instrument. The guitar is remarkably clean cosmetically, with a faint speckling of birdseye in the maple on the top, and tight quilt figuring on the back, highlighted by the Tobacco Sunburst gloss finish. There's some inconsistent ambering of the body binding (some spots are darker than others) and light, uniform patina on the nickel hardware, yet overall this is a remarkably clean guitar exhibiting only light scuffing in the pick path and only a few faint finish scratches and inconsequential nicks on the guitar as a whole. The neck profile is flawless.
This Greco SA-700 is a particularly rare model from a celebrated era of Fujigen factory production, crafted in the spirit of Gibson's best ES models, and exceeding the quality of many of its USA-made counterparts.
New Epiphone hardshell case is included.
*Please note, we do not offer returns.
Free Shipping to the US, International customers please email us for shipping quote before ordering.
Free Tone Junkie Everything Pack (Any Platform) with this purchase.
Up for sale, a 1981 Greco SA-700 in excellent, 100% original condition and in perfect working order. Produced at the pinnacle of Fujigen factory production in Japan, this SA-700 is an expertly crafted instrument and a perfect example of Japanese "lawsuit" instruments exceeding the quality of their USA-made counterparts.
A fascinating amalgam of 1950s and 1970s Gibson features, the Greco SA-700 has a '50s ES body shape with maple semi-hollowbody construction and distinctive rounded "Mickey Mouse" ear body horns, paired with a three-piece maple neck. The all-nickel hardware has a distinctive vintage appeal, with '50s esque Kluson-style "waffle back" tuners, as well as a faithful ABR-1 bridge design. The pickups are some of the very last Maxon-made PAF-style humbuckers offered in Greco instruments (before pickup production was brought in-house at Fujigen), and they're extremely articulate, sweet-sounding, and harmonically complex pickups. And in a nod to '70s era Gibson, the guitar features a two-way coil tap switch on the treble side body horn.
The maple neck has a fairly slender and comfortable C shaped profile, with moderate shoulder and little discernible increase in profile depth as you travel up the fretboard. The profile measures .838" deep at the 1st fret, filling out to .952" at the 12th. The bound rosewood fretboard features pearl small block inlay and original frets which retain their full factory height. The fret show notable wear beneath the plain strings on 1-6, with lighter wear until fret 10. The guitar plays well in all registers, and the neck is arrow straight with an ideally adjusted truss rod. The nut measures 1 11/16" in width, and the scale is 24 3/4". On the headstock, the guitar boasts the distinctive "open book" shape, with the Greco logo inlaid in pearl and a crown inlay central to the headstock face. The waffle back tuners are a true rarity on any Greco (or Gibson for that matter), and these ultra-hip tuners turn smoothly and hold pitch well.
All of the electronics work as intended, with individual Volume and Tone knobs for each pickup, capped with witch hat knobs. The three-way pickup selector switch works as they conventionally do, and the two-way coil tap switch on the treble side body cutaway offers thinned out single coil jangle not often available on an ES instrument. The guitar is remarkably clean cosmetically, with a faint speckling of birdseye in the maple on the top, and tight quilt figuring on the back, highlighted by the Tobacco Sunburst gloss finish. There's some inconsistent ambering of the body binding (some spots are darker than others) and light, uniform patina on the nickel hardware, yet overall this is a remarkably clean guitar exhibiting only light scuffing in the pick path and only a few faint finish scratches and inconsequential nicks on the guitar as a whole. The neck profile is flawless.
This Greco SA-700 is a particularly rare model from a celebrated era of Fujigen factory production, crafted in the spirit of Gibson's best ES models, and exceeding the quality of many of its USA-made counterparts.
New Epiphone hardshell case is included.
*Please note, we do not offer returns.
Free Shipping to the US, International customers please email us for shipping quote before ordering.
Free Tone Junkie Everything Pack (Any Platform) with this purchase.