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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2014, 07:02:29 PM »
Sure is pretty!
A couple of years ago a Greco LP popped up on eBay but it had THREE of their Thunderbird pickups in it.
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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2014, 01:06:25 AM »
$412... did you win it, Marc?
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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #17 on: February 25, 2014, 06:52:38 PM »
Sniped by someone. I was watching the auction and was high bid right up till the end, thought I was going to snag it for a little less than $400 which was my max bid, then a couple of bids hit at the last few seconds and I was done.

I was a little concerned about the neck or I would have went higher to begin with. It's probably fine and can be adjusted but in one of the pics it looked to be about a 1/2" above the last frets. He said the "neck looks straight after tuning" and his pic measured at the 12th fret looked to be about 1/4th of an inch. The one of the neck at the nut it looks like the strings are almost touching the frets.

Another will come along somewhere down the road.

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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2014, 07:30:48 AM »
Wise move.
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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2014, 12:32:59 PM »
...and his pic measured at the 12th fret looked to be about 1/4th of an inch.


I'm pretty sure that's a metric scale.  Looks like about 2-1/2 mm.

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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2014, 04:13:14 PM »

I'm pretty sure that's a metric scale.  Looks like about 2-1/2 mm.
2.5 mm is around 3/32 inches.

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Re: Beautiful Greco LP on eBay
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2014, 06:41:49 PM »
2.5 mm is around 3/32 inches.

Yeah, I didn't do the conversion so I overstated the gap a little too much. The one pic looks like I could stick my finger between the string and the fret board at the neck pickup. I had to lower the pickups on my white one to the level of the rings to keep the strings from hitting the pickups. Like I said before it's probably not anything that couldn't be adjusted but it did keep me from going higher on my bid.