They don't have threaded CuNiFe threaded magnets as Seth Lover originally designed. They do have a unique and "exotic" tone that is hard to capture in other pickups and being that the originals are so hard, and excessively expensive, to get now, for most people re-issues are the only option. While P-90's and Mosrite pickups are my favourite pickups closely followed by mini humbuckers, I do have (and have had) many guitars fitted with original WRHBs. Let me start by saying I'm a big fan of the original Wide Range Humbuckers. Early versions had had a Gibson 24.75" scale but by this stage they were making actual copies, not "close enough copies" The neck is thin and very comfortable and this longer "proper" scale also bought in the Fender style slotted nut rather than the end of fretboard nut like earlier versions.
#GREG GRECO SPACEY SOUNDS TELECASTER SPECS FULL#
The neck is Maple on maple and is, by about '74 a full 25.5" scale just like a real Fender. The body shape and size is of course pure Tele and the Deluxe features a belly cut contour in the back, just like the real one. This features a typical centre laminated solid timber body that many Japanese manufacturers used including Matsumoku which allowed solid timber bodies to be made using thinner pieces of timber. All these factories were making superb products by the seventies and this TD would have been a good seller, along with the other Tele lines at the price and quality there were being sold at. The Greco (and IbanezĀ 2352 dx) was mainly made in the Fujigen factory although it appears Matsumoku (and maybe Fernandes?) took up the slack when Fujigen couldn't keep up with demand but this factory supplied most of the Greco (and Ibanez) guitars throughout the seventies. I've owned several vintage Fender Tele Deluxes and only really bonded with one, a mid seventies sunburst that was one of the lightest seventies Fenders I've ever owned. I've had a few of these TD's through over the years and I'm always impressed with them, which won't be a surprise to any of you knowing how much I love these vintage Japanese copies.
#GREG GRECO SPACEY SOUNDS TELECASTER SPECS SERIAL#
This one sits between the early, short scale (non serial number) TDs and the later (serial numbered) Spacey Sound ones so probably around '74. The standard was called the TL500 and the Thinline and Custom were the TE and TC respectively.
The Greco TD500 was introduced in the early seventies along with most other Teles available at the time. Here's another Greco Tele for you to enjoy.