Screw lotto, you have a great idea. Just have a few pair made and then rent them out for people to satisfy themselves one way or the other.
Bigger the flame wars the more you'll make!
I do it all the time, not to compare different types of wood but to decide what guitars I want to keep vs let go.
Those two Tokai's I ordinarily wouldn't have bothered comparing since they are so similar.
But I had kept that Tokai Custom with Gotoh PAF's after comparing it to a Greco BB...
I'll put on my nomex for this post...
My brain would be oatmeal comparing several hundred guitars, but I do back to back guitars often to understand what I like and don't between different guitars.
I had several customs, one of which has an all mahogany body black beauty. Never gave it any...
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Yes, that Greco has a different finish - it is nitro. Reacts to acetone, which almost all the lacquer finished Greco's don't.
SA 1200 and EGF 1800 are also finished in nitro - they react to acetone.
Just to clarify, the Greco models that are specified as Lacquer are not poly, but...