My battered but beautiful Greco Tele Custom.
Introducing a guitar that has most certainly paid its dues. This Matsumoku made Greco telecaster custom started life in Japan and was most likely battered and abused in every bar and outhouse in Tokyo before ending up in Rural Thailand and finally Bangkok where I chanced upon it. It now sits on its stand in the Republic of Ireland where it happily puts out blistering Albert Collins licks all day long.
The neck pickup is (and believe me when I say this) the most beautiful clean sound of any pickup I have ever heard. You really owe it to yourself to try it if you get the opportunity. Notes have an almost 3 dimensional woody depth, with individually picked notes tailing behind each other in the most pleasing way. Add reverb and delay and you encounter pure tonal bliss.....
However, for this author at least, the distorted tones are not as pleasing, and, dare I say - disappointing in comparison to the pickups clean prowess. Things are improved no end in the middle position, and with only the bridge single coil engaged you will quickly forget the aforementioned disappointment, as winding up the wick on your amp brings forth a cutting blues tone to die for !
The pickup below is from the neck position. They are actually larger than a normal humbucker pickup made to look like a wide range humbucker. However, the are similar in terms of appearance only- they do not feature the CuNiFe threaded magnets which are associated with wide range type pickups.
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