

I don't have all the details on this guitar yet but I'm pretty sure that it was made by a Japanese company called Greco back in the 1970s or late 60's (if you have any more info or recognize this guitar as from another manufacturer please contact me), not sure of the exact year, probably early 70s. I'm figuring Greco based on numbers found on the back of the potentiometers and analysis of the routed cavity for those components, as well as the braided wire used for the signal routing.

One interesting feature are trim pieces around the mini humbucker pickups. The story goes that as a result of Gibson purchasing Epiphone (or after moving Epiphone production to Japan, depending on which story you go with) they had a surplus of mini humbuckers and used them in the Deluxe model bodies, which were routed for larger P90 pickups. They used adapter rings made from P90 pickup covers to span the gap.
The only thing drastically different about this guitar and other replicas is the headstock. It does not match the Greco headstock or any others I've seen. The neck has also been broken and repaired at the headstock. I've since learned that this was fairly common with some of the earlier genuine Les Pauls. Greco made the replica so good that they even matched the flaws of the original. Those are Grover machines by the way.