The MIJ Guitar Thread - Let’s See Them!

[SillyOctpuss]

It was something unique like California blue, definitely not sonic blue, but closer to daphne.

Yeah definitely too dark to be sonic blue. It's a lovely colour. Good score

 

[EOengineer]

It was something unique like California blue

California Blue is right.

 

[-BOOGIEMAN-]

Beautiful guitars guys!!! Man, I’d love to go to Japan and experience that…

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I'm posting here for me to reference around Christmas time this year.

Heard pretty great things about the Greco copy of the HH tele thinline of the mid-70s on a YouTube channel I appreciate , in particularly noting that the pickups in the Greco have a little more meat to them than the Fenders, which sounds right up my alley.

Longwinded YouTube vid about the thin lines:

Here's an example:

Greco Greco TE500 1976 - Natural | Reverb

Greco TE500 SPACEY SOUNDS 1976 Telecaster Thinline by MATUMOKU/ MAXON PICKUP Everyone knows Fujigen, but does Matumoku know? I affirm, without Matumoku, there would be no Fujigen now, and neither Greco nor Fender Japan. Matumoku was a subcontractor that made wooden cabinets from the early 1...

reverb.com

 

[itchyfingers]

I'd never even heard of Zac Childs until about a week ago. Now I swear to god he's on 15 different YT'er channels.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I'd never even heard of Zac Childs until about a week ago. Now I swear to god he's on 15 different YT'er channels.

He's been hustling for a good long while. TrueTone's channel is where I first stumbled into him. Like most YouTubers I have a love/hate relationship with him, but he at least focuses on tones, gear, and players that are more in my wheel house than Ola or Pete Thorn.

 

[itchyfingers]

Can't argue with that, BG. I dig his affinity for Telecasters, and general nerdness that mirrors my own.

 

[EOengineer]

Not sure what it is about teles. We cross 40 and a care package shows up with bourbon, World War documentaries, and a telecaster addiction.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Not sure what it is about teles. We cross 40 and a care package shows up with bourbon, World War documentaries, and a telecaster addiction.

Well I'm 40 and apart from teles you can keep your bourbon and world war documentaries.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Rambo series and a sixer of Bud Light Lime please and thank you