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Gotta love the description on some of these Japanese listings: Basic operation: The sound output is unstable. There is also a gurgling sound. Product rank: Junk

Just to put the crazy 1,500,000 Yen asking price into context, this same guitar sold 4 months ago for only 138,800 Yen. The Japanese are now out doing the North Americans in the greedy vintage MIJ guitar flipping game :giggle:

I think that one wins the prize for the highest priced Greco EGF1800 listing ever in Japan. I'm not sure it's justified considering the 2 mismatched sides of the maple top.

Nice.

Does anybody think it might have had a neck break repair? Hard to be certain from the pictures of the upper neck considering the grime.

Why not stick with the natural cashew finish rather than cleaning it up? :giggle: Do you think that the writing on the top has gone through the finish or could it be cleaned off?

The Tokai LS-80 GT already had the worn top when I bought it used. I suspect it's regular wear & tear from being heavily played for the past 43 years. Looks like the Facebook link has been taken down. I recall he was asking $3K EUR for the Greco EG800 GS.

Nice Burny FIrebird. Here's a guy in Finland selling a 1980 Greco EG800 GS for a crazy price: Your search for a vintage MIJ LP gold top with checking & P90s will indeed be a long one. I have a 1980 Tokai LS80 GT with checking and lightweight @ 8.4 lbs.:

I agree that someone probably added the "1" to the label. It doesn't even make sense that a SV-1800 would exist considering the highest SA model in the 1979 Greco catalog is SA-900. That would be quite a jump in model numbers without any visible difference in features from a SV-800.

Crazy prices for these but at least it has the sticker and it's less than 10 lbs :giggle:.

1992 - 1994 AST483 PPB Purple Burst (PPB) SN 015251

1980 Tokai ST100 GSR 0000503 (?) - Reverb $3799 (3 ST100 on Reverb now with this one being the cheapest) https://reverb.com/item/81470576-tokai-springy-sound-st100-1980-gold-hardware-w-2-tone-sunburst

That one sold for a surprisingly high price considering it did not even include the OHSC. There are even some vintage LS80s listed on Reverb that are a better deal. The whole point of buying vintage MIJ guitars directly from Japan is to get a good deal but unfortunately that doesn't always...

Fender had the plastic neck plate on the original "The Strat" models so it seems that Tokai included it on their replicas. Greco, on the other hand, did not include this detail on their version.

Very clean 1978 LS-50 GT 8000170 (?) with OHSC. Earliest LS yet with pictures?

The only plausible explanation is that it's an April Fools posting that is a week early. It's unfortunate that a desirable Greco Mint Collection SA ended up being butchered so ridiculously.

My guess is a 1981-82 ST-70YSR...or not.

The headstock inlay and no serial number for the Greco SS in your original post does seem to indicate it's from the early '90s. Shots of the PU and control cavities would be required to determine whether it was made by Tokai.

It's quite surprising that they would put a Jacaranda fretboard on a mahogany limited-edition SE that appears to have a 3-piece body which is typically found on the low-end models.

Not too many of these have surfaced over the years. Here's mine: