On the 11th of July 1999, I bought a used Greco EG-720L left-handed Les Paui copy from the Shinsaibashi branch of Ishibashi Music Store in Osaka. I didn't know this until five minutes ago when I looked at the receipt. I paid Y32800. This was pretty exciting for me as left-handed guitars are extremely boring. You can always count on getting a Strat clone in black with a traditional whammy and three single coils. All my previous guitars had been variations on that theme, that I'd frankensteined, or right-handed guitars that I'd frankensteined. This was a very nice LP copy at a price that I could afford. Yeah I really wanted an Explorer or a Flying V, but shit anything that was not a Strat clone was like getting new front teeth for Christmas.
It looks a little bit like this. The Zebra JB pickup is my later addition.
And it also looks a little bit like this.
There's a tiny bit of flame in places. It's got pretty good reproduction top hat knobs. The top is two pieces of maple, not bookmatched. The body and neck are mahogany, three pieces for the body. The fingerboard is possibly rosewood.
Front and back of the headstock, showing the copy of the scroll outline and lettering. Reproduction Kluson tuners too, with all the stamped metal looseness and slop that that implies. YAY!
Seymour Duncan JB, Zebra naturally, in bridge position. The neck pickup sounds wonderful but I didn't like the original bridge pickup, althought it's exactly the same as the neck, it just doesn't work in that position for me. The bridge copies the early style with the piece of bent wire holding the saddle pieces in. I bought a traditional humbucker spacing pickup, but looking at this, I should have got F-spacing.
The stock pickups are pretty well made. Wax-potted, braided sheath. This may find a home in the neck position of another guitar someday. Who knows?
All the wiring in the cavity was pretty traditional style, although the capacitors don't look quite period, and the Duncan pickup cable stands out like a sore thumb.
And that's a guitar. Wow, great, terrific, kinder surprise.