Scored another Greco LPC.

[JMP/HBE]

1978 Greco LPC Frampton model with Larry DiMarzio pickups.

 

[Chris Pile]

Freaking awesome.

 

[beaubrummels]

Nice one. Really nice one.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Serious Japanese goodness, nice streaky board on that.

 

[JOLLY]

Time to get your Frampton on.

 

[Mr. 80's]

Nice! Happy NGD!

I've always wanted an LP Custom with 3 HB's ever since the 80's when Tom Keifer and Steve Clark were slinging them.

 

[formula73]

Nice score. I had a white Burny of similar vintage and sold it to my brother. At least I have dibs if he ever lets it go.

Out of curiosity, why do you specify ‘Larry Dimarzio’ pickups? Is there another Dimarzio it could be?

 

[JMP/HBE]

Seymour Duncan / Larry DiMarzio what's the difference ?
Am i going to pass your class Teacher ? lol

 

[GuitarStv]

The grain on the fretboard looks really nice.

 

[Securb]

Beautiful guitar I bet it rips.

 

[JMP/HBE]

 

[d1dsj]

Very cool guitars!

 

[JMP/HBE]

The DiMarzio bridge bucker had to go. Replaced with SD Alnico Pro II i had on hand, the neck will be replaced with a SH-1 59 when i can.
The DiMarzios had a huge bottom end that was just too much.
The DiMarzios were not that original pups. Neck & bridge stock pups are long gone.

 

[Mincer]

What were the original pickups in these guitars like?

 

[Ashurbanipal]

The original pups would've been made by Maxon. Which ones would depend on the guitar model, but a lot were built like PAFs (nickel baseplates, maple spacers, braided wire), though they used a variety of magnets - A5, 8, ceramic.

 

[formula73]

What were the original pickups in these guitars like?

Low output, earliest versions of PAF clones. 7.7kish, alnico-whatever-they-had-laying around lol

I think Grecos had Dry-Zs as their top-tier PAF clone. Burny had VH-1s, and Ibanez had Super 70s, then Super 58s.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

^^ Yes, though I think Dry-Z was a couple of years after the op's guitar, intended for the 'as close as possible' Burst renditions. In the 70s, Greco had the U series humbuckers (U1000-4000), many of which were indeed PAFish and predecessors of the Dry-Z and others.

 

[formula73]

^^ Yes, though I think Dry-Z was a couple of years after the op's guitar, intended for the 'as close as possible' Burst renditions. In the 70s, Greco had the U series humbuckers (U1000-4000), many of which were indeed PAFish and predecessors of the Dry-Z and others.

Yep, and they were all made by Maxxon and overall, really similar aside from magnets.

 

[JMP/HBE]

What were the original pickups in these guitars like?

My 1976 Greco has Japan Maxon pups which are A-8 magnets the same pickups that was in EVH's Ibanez Shark guitar. They are outstanding.

 

[Bogner]

Nice ride!