http://www.ebay.com/itm/111281798120?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
The "guitar" pickup locations look so correct... unlike Gibson's LP basses. Short scale, I presume? Does anyone here know what they sound like and if they are neck-heavy?
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAwMFgxMDc2/z/yiAAAOxy0bRTAh3W/$_57.JPG)
Looks similar to this (http://www.fernandes.co.jp/products/burny_bass/lpb-custom.html).
Don't know about the sound. Bridge looks solid and very functional.
That's really pretty. Amazing how much it looks like the Gretsch Thunderjet....I'm thinking Gretsch must have had Les Paul dreams when that bass was designed.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/Gretsch%20G6128B%20Thunderjet/20130703_180926_zps031d2a7b.jpg)
That Greco is certainly yummy.
I used to own a short scale Greco LP, it was great, but at the time I didn't realise how good it was because it was at the period of my life before I really had much time playing short scale basses. From memory it was body heavy, not neck heavy ....
(http://deayton.com/guitars/grecolp.jpg)
(http://deayton.com/guitars/grecolpback.jpg)
Wow, sweet lemon burst! It's like a Paul Kossoff LPB :thumbsup:
Those Burnys are sexy! I recently noticed that Steve Hackett plays a Burny Les Paul.
One of the best basses I own. Hardware and pickups have been changed on mine. I hate gold. I might need the black one to go with my white.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c267/marcnorth/DSC03558.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/marcnorth/media/DSC03558.jpg.html)
DANg, that is pretty! I think I like the Greco LP shape better than the Gretsch - especially the top bouts.
Marcnorth - is your white Greco short scale or medium?
And are these arched/carved top or flat? The light on the black one makes me think arched, but the white one (very nicce BTW) is ambiguous, and I've never seen a Fender style bridge like those work well on an archtop (though they could have made a nice flat spot or route even).
Dang that is pretty!
Looks like you routed a shallow rectangle for the bridge?
I believe it's short scale, arched/carved top, the body is already routed flat in that spot for that Greco labeled bridge like the one on ebay. That's just a mahogany shim I put under the Schaller to raise it up a little. The Greco labeled bridge is really a gotoh (I forget which model) as are the tuners. The gold on mine when I got it was not as nasty looking as the one on ebay but was still pretty bad.
Here's a shot of the headstock. If the one on ebay doesn't go crazy in price I'll have it too.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c267/marcnorth/DSC03554.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/marcnorth/media/DSC03554.jpg.html)
Good luck!
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.
$412... did you win it, Marc?
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.
Wise move.
Quote from: marcnorth on February 25, 2014, 06:52:38 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.
Quote from: FrankieTbird on February 27, 2014, 12:32:59 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.
Quote from: dadagoboi on February 27, 2014, 04:13:14 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.