It looked like they had put the frets on before they applied lacquer to the neck and then after 35 years of playing half of it had worn off. The frets looked pretty bad so I masked the fretboard and polished them with 400 and 800 grit and then wire-wool. The body has quite a few marks on it but the back of the neck is like new and that’s the only thing I really care about. I guess I’m also a bit gay for late 1970’s Greco guitars. I prefer guitars that are older than me and have a couple of battle scars already. The truth is that even though I love my Japan made Fender, I don’t dare to use it since it’s in such a good state. It might seem weird that I put my old “Nancy”, my Fender Telecaster TL52-75, up for sale and then bought a new one the same week. She plays amazingly, even better than my old mistress, my Greco Spacey Sounds TE-500 Thinline copy. The frets looked pretty bad so I polished them, oiled the machine heads, tightened all the screws and restrung her. I didn’t have to do much to her, everything was pretty well set up already. Well I shouldn’t really call it cheap and now the import tax from Japan had increased as well, I had to pay 95€ instead of the normal 75-80€. I got mine fairly cheap since one of the string ferrules on the back was missing. I’m not sure if they produced more Thinline copies in late Seventies than normal Telecasters or if people refuse to sell them, but you rarely see these and when you do they are normally very expensive. These Greco TL-500 are pretty rare, there are about 3-4 Greco TE-500, the Thinline version, for sale on eBay at the moment but I have only seen 2-3 Greco TL-500 for sale in the last two years. I went a bit bananas last week when I saw that my favourite eBay seller Tokyowax was selling a Greco Spacey Sounds TL-500 so I bought it straight away. Yesterday the newest member of my Greco family arrived from Japan. Greco Spacey Sounds TL-500, Made in Japan by FujiGen in August 1979
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