Sad as it sounds, I traded up my old 05 LPC for these two. The hs repair on the Gibby made it a more-or-less even trade, and at the end of the day, the LPC's neck profile just made my left hand sore. Off to a better home, and the new owner couldn't be happier. 
77 Electra X410 Jazz Strad. As good or better than my 77 Ibanez 2630 in some ways. The Ibby has real ebony and jumbos and I'm partial to the Ibanez hardware, but this thing's stock pickups are FAR superior (louder, less abrasive, and not microphonic like the Ibby's Super 80s), plus tortoiseshell binding and it's a hair lighter. Very rare, very comfy and I dig!
...and the REAL score, an 82 Greco Hamer Standard copy. Everybody knows that they copied the hell out of Gibsons and Fenders, even Rics, but the toggle ring, binding, traps, even the trc all scream "Hamer." I had to have it. Mahogany body/neck, rosewood, original Double Trick pickups, nickel plated hardware, ABR-1 style bridge (!!!!), and factory jumbo frets with binding nibs! This thing totally rips. The bad stuff...I have no idea what the red stuff is or how the HELL to get rid of it. It looks like somebody tried to rattlecan it red or pink and then later tried to remove it. I figure the scraped up areas are likely where stickers were, before the red abomination. Regardless, were it not for that, I never would have been able to own such a rare guitar. I've never seen or even heard of another. Again, very, very comfy, probably about 8lbs with the classic 70s Japanese neck profile, a nice thin-ish C.
77 Electra X410 Jazz Strad. As good or better than my 77 Ibanez 2630 in some ways. The Ibby has real ebony and jumbos and I'm partial to the Ibanez hardware, but this thing's stock pickups are FAR superior (louder, less abrasive, and not microphonic like the Ibby's Super 80s), plus tortoiseshell binding and it's a hair lighter. Very rare, very comfy and I dig!
...and the REAL score, an 82 Greco Hamer Standard copy. Everybody knows that they copied the hell out of Gibsons and Fenders, even Rics, but the toggle ring, binding, traps, even the trc all scream "Hamer." I had to have it. Mahogany body/neck, rosewood, original Double Trick pickups, nickel plated hardware, ABR-1 style bridge (!!!!), and factory jumbo frets with binding nibs! This thing totally rips. The bad stuff...I have no idea what the red stuff is or how the HELL to get rid of it. It looks like somebody tried to rattlecan it red or pink and then later tried to remove it. I figure the scraped up areas are likely where stickers were, before the red abomination. Regardless, were it not for that, I never would have been able to own such a rare guitar. I've never seen or even heard of another. Again, very, very comfy, probably about 8lbs with the classic 70s Japanese neck profile, a nice thin-ish C.
