got a 1987 Greco Super Real today...

[sneakypete]

hollow body. needs to be rewired so I`ll bring it in tomorrow. The local branch of a national pawn shop type chain had it in their junk section because of the wiring I guess. gonna cost me $40.oo to get it fixed, then I`m going to sell it on line over here, and I`m pretty sure I`ll get a lot more than I paid for it. It`s in rermarkable condition for a guitar it`s age, and the Super Reals are very collectable right now. The back of the neck had been scratched with something, maybe `cause it was sticky, not sure, but I taped off some edges and smoothed it over with a Scotch Guard pad...looks good now.
Here she be...

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i198/shot-glass/stuff012.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i198/shot-glass/stuff013.jpg

[shoretyus]

Nice looking guitar.

[laristotle]

...I taped off some edges and smoothed it over with a Scotch Guard pad...looks good now.


How does she feel though?
How much would you want
for it?

[sneakypete]

haven`t even played it yet, repair guy said he`ll be done early next week, then I`ll tell ya. But I`ve done the Scotch Guard thing before and it works really well, much better than steel wool, and not as messy. It dulls the finish at first but the sheen comes back after playing them for a while.

[al3d]

Can i ask how much you paid for?...outa curiosity?

[sneakypete]

I`ve learned it`s a bad idea to divulge info on prices, I used to but I don`t any more.

[NB-SK]

Well, yeah, if you are trying to sell it.

I wish I had your luck. In Korea, people tend to just throw their old stuff away, so pawnshops are a rarity here. Even if there were more pawnshops, old Korean guitars are as collectible as old Korean cars.

[Robert1950]

Well, yeah, if you are trying to sell it.

I wish I had your luck. In Korea, people tend to just throw their old stuff away, so pawnshops are a rarity here. Even if there were more pawnshops, old Korean guitars are as collectible as old Korean cars.


You mean my '85 Hyundai Pony is not worth much!?!?!? Sniff.

[sneakypete]

people used to throw their used stuff away here too...no basements or attics... `til the gov`t introduced a plan where people have to pay to have big items picked up by the city...you call, they give you a price you go to a 24 hour shop and buy a sticker and you put it out on an appointed day...and I think that has led to more folks bringing used goods to pawn type places so they can get something for thier used goods as opposed to paying the city to pick it up, and that may have been the gov`t`s plan all along.

[greco]

Nice to see another Greco brought back to living splendor.

Fantastic looking guitar:food-smiley-004:

Maybe you could help me find out more about mine. The paper sticker inside (semi-hollowbody, 335 copy) remains a mystery...even to folks that I contacted in Japan. Please PM me if you are interested/would consider/have the time to look into this on my behalf. Much appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

[sneakypete]

just post here, it is a Greco thread after all. I can look through the books I have for info on yours. Thing is...seems many Japanese builders didn`t keep great records on their early stuff, so getting info on certain models isn`t always easy. Like this one I sold a couple of weeks ago on line here...I never found another exactly like it, similar but not identical...certain features placed it ballpark but not precisely...star tuners, The Gneco logo which changed to Greco 1974/`75, The Gneco p`up covers and the p`ups themselves...could not find exact ones in any of the books I have. So the best I could come up with early 70s before the logo change. All the communicating was done in Japanese for this one so i asked my wife what kind of feedback the buyer left and she said he wrote he was REALLY happy with the guitar, as he should have been because it was a beaut...I just can`t bring em all back with me.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i198/shot-glass/forsaleIII221.jpg

[Budda]

lookin good!

[NB-SK]

people used to throw their used stuff away here too...no basements or attics... `til the gov`t introduced a plan where people have to pay to have big items picked up by the city...you call, they give you a price you go to a 24 hour shop and buy a sticker and you put it out on an appointed day...and I think that has led to more folks bringing used goods to pawn type places so they can get something for thier used goods as opposed to paying the city to pick it up, and that may have been the gov`t`s plan all along.

Yeah, there's the same system in Korea, but enforcement is practically nil. Many people don't adhere to the rules, especially for smaller items that fit in a garbage bag. So, the few pawnshops in my town have many washing machines and refrigerators, but little else. Unfortunately, a guitar would easily fit in a 50L garbage bag, which costs less than a dollar (probably half price of what it would cost to buy a ticket for a small item like a guitar).

[sneakypete]

and in the outskirts of this city people are just dumping stuff at night so they don`t have complete control here either. I miss those two nights a year when people could put their big items out and the city would pick em up, all the teachers in the places I worked would come in next day to compare notes on the stuff we found, was pretty funny.

[NB-SK]

and in the outskirts of this city people are just dumping stuff at night so they don`t have complete control here either. I miss those two nights a year when people could put their big items out and the city would pick em up, all the teachers in the places I worked would come in next day to compare notes on the stuff we found, was pretty funny.

Now that you mention it, this guy I used to work with had this Yamaha acoustic guitar that he got when he was working in Japan. I asked how much he paid for it. "Nothing, it was just laying there on the corner of the street one day", he said.

I heard it used to be like that in Korea in the early 90s (it was a bit before my time here). Some teachers I knew claimed to have furnished their whole apartments like that.

PS. You're a teacher, right? Don't know if I asked you this before, but you weren't affected by the collapse of Nova, were you? Lots of Korean schools are destined for the same fate thanks to new work visa regulations that have further complicated the job application and visa renewal processes.

[SCREEM]

nice score, I hope the greco's stay on the downlow for a few more years, I'd like to score a couple more. The high end models like the super reals are already out of my reach in les paul form.

if greco fakes ever start showing up on ebay it's all over
:food-smiley-004:

[NB-SK]

nice score, I hope the greco's stay on the downlow for a few more years, I'd like to score a couple more. The high end models like the super reals are already out of my reach in les paul form.

if greco fakes ever start showing up on ebay it's all over
:food-smiley-004:

That's the thing: at which point does it stop being a good deal and starts being a collectible?

[sneakypete]

words been out in Japan on the older Grecos for sometime now, and the Europeans have caught on...they are paying huge prices for theirs which means sellers now think all buyers will. There are folks over here who have set up web sites that will place bids for gear on yahoo Japan for people outside the country, for a fee of course. Plus e-bay announced a tie up with Yahoo japan coming soon and it looks like cross bidding will be permitted...so get em now `cause they`re only gonna get harder to afford. I`ve been lucky and found most of mine before the franzy started...and I`m also in a smaller city where evidently pawn shops have never heard of the internet because I`m still finding old MIJs at a fraction of what they`d sell for in the big cities here.
and...
No...didn`t work for NOVA, they mostly hired outside Japan because teachers here knew they were paying well below the average teachers salary, and teachers they brought over only found out about that once they were here and locked into a contract with NOVA.