A Greco EG-800GS manufactured in 1977.

Now guitars with soap bar pickups are popular but not in those days, probably because famous rock guitarists hardly played them.  Once they wanted single coil sound, they usually select not Gibson but Fender.  The minorities played Soap bar Les Pauls.

Hisato Takenaka (Char), a famous Japanese guitarist seems to have contributed the sales of P-90 Les Pauls then.  He sometimes played 1968 Gibson gold top Les Paul on television and let us know fat and crispy P-90 sound.  Quite a few guitarists love it now.

Now I try to display my three gold top Les Pauls.  Navigator’s one has copper rust around its tale, seems to have been finished by brass containing paint.  EG-800GS’s finish is very close to that, but no copper rust because of vacuum condition caused by urethane finish.  I confirmed that by the other EG-800GS with copper rust in a dent.

The middle, Fernandes RLG-60 ’56 model is apparently yellowish and different from the others. 4.76kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.24)