I know its not an Epiphone, but...

[face]

and i already have an sg, but theres a greco sg on the local craigslist for 350. no pics but i called the guy and he says its an 80's model. i'm not great on guitar history but is this a lawsuit era copy of a gibson? i looked them up and some of them go for a pretty penny. should i investigate further?

[Parabar]

Worth further investigation. 70's Greco SG's were plywood crapola with bolt-on necks, but some of the 80's and 90's ones were extremely accurate and comparable to the Elitists.

[JefferySmith]

Some serial number information from Wiki:

 

Greco guitars have been made by Matsumoku, Fuji-Gen Gakki [4], Dyna Gakki [5] and others as well.

Greco Gibson replicas started using serial numbers around 1975 and pre 1975 models had a Greco logo that looked like "Gneco".

From the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s Greco models have mostly used 2 serial number formats for non Acoustic models.

The first format is MYYPPPP.

M = production month (A=January B=February ... K=November L=December).

YY = year (79=1979).

PPPP = production number.

The second format is YPPPP.

Y = year (9=1979 0=1980 or 1990).

PPPP = production number.

Sometimes a month letter is used in a MYPPPP format.

Since the mid 1990s Greco models have used other serial number formats as well.

Most of the Greco open book headstock Gibson replicas were made by FujiGen Gakki. Some Greco open book headstock Gibson replicas starting from around 1988 had no serial numbers. The lower priced no serial number Greco Les Paul and SG models were made by Cor-Tek (Cort) and usually have Cor-Tek (Cort) potentiometers. The Cor-Tek made Greco guitars have square shaped, brick like nuts with no slope and also often have shielding paint in the pickup and control cavities. Other higher priced no serial Greco Les Paul and SG models were made by Tokai and the Les Paul models have a EG-75 or EGC-75 model number stamped in the pickup cavity and sometimes have fret edge binding. The no serial Greco guitars made by Tokai have square shaped routing holes at the bottom of the pickup cavities whereas the no serial Greco guitars made by Cor-Tek (Cort) have thinner rectangle shaped routing holes at the bottom of the pickup cavities. Kanda Shokai stopped using the open book headstock design on Greco Gibson replica models around the early 1990s and then concentrated on their other model lines and Fender Japan. Atlansia have supplied body and neck parts for Greco models as well. Tokai currently make the Kanda Shokai Zemaitis and Talbo models.

[face]

still worth it? it has a neck through but its not an sg like he said

 

[duane v]

still worth it? it has a neck through but its not an sg like he said

 

 

That reminds me of this old Vantage guitar I once had

[brianh]

It kind of looks like an Alembic Skylark, especially the non-symetrical cutaway:

 

http://www.alembic.com/prod/skylark.html

 

It looks like a nice guitar, but I don't think there's much of a market for Grecos, so $350 is probably a bit high. I'd try to talk him down.

[face]

i was only interested bc there was little details in the ad and i looked up greco and some go for up to a thousand. so i thought it might be a good deal if someone didn't know what he had. but its not one of those. and my wife is not that crazy about a huge guitar collection so i have to pick my battles and right now its a new amp, not a new guitar....