Archive for the ‘ Gretsch ’ Category
Gretsch Electromatic Lap Steel
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Serial Number Varies, this is CYG11030163, Made in China. Pricing $350 CND, without case. Neck 22.5″ (57.15 cm)scale length, nut width is 1.875″ (47.6 mm) Frets No frets on a lap steel, but this instrument uses a plastic marker board with high visibility. Many lap steels, including this one, use shapes to indicate the ‘fret’ [...]
Gretsch G6134 White Penguin
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Serial Number JT11041435 Pricing $2925 CDN Neck Maple neck with gold-sparkle-bound ebony fingerboard, 12″ radius, engraved hump-block pearl markers. 24.6″ scale length and 1.6875″ nut width. Frets 22 frets, medium, over the binding. Body Mahogany back with arched laminated maple top. Bound with gold sparkle and black/white purfling. Finish White gloss urethane finish. It’s a [...]
Gretsch Black Penguin G6134B Model
Monday, December 20th, 2010
If the phrase ” Black Penguin ” conjures an image of a slightly diminutive super hero with baggy black spandex leggings and a cape long enough to trip on … then your Google search has directed you to the wrong page. On the other hand, if you are looking for an EXTREMELY cool Gretsch Jet-Series [...]
Gretsch G6130 Roundup
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Fred Gretsch introduced his first “solidbody” guitar in 1953 with the Duo-Jet and followed this model in 1954 with the G6130 Roundup. When Fred decided he wanted a western motif for this new guitar, he certainly wasn’t bashful about it! This model features the now famous “Gretsch Orange” finish, G-brand impressed into the top, western [...]
Gretsch Electromatic G5810 Bo Diddley
Monday, December 20th, 2010
In a world of copycat designs and guitar look-alikes, why not dare to be different? Finished in blazing red, the Electromatic Bo Diddley features two chrome humbucker pickups, a maple bolt-on neck with rosewood fingerboard, an adjustable bridge, volume and tone controls plus master tone control and a master volume control, a 3 way pickup [...]
Gretsch Electromatic G5120 Guitar
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Well this is a first. Our first three Model G 5120 Gretsches sold so quickly that I didn’t even get a chance to measure one for the “Specifications” section of this page. Two sold the first day they were here and the third was taken straight from my photo shoot to the hands of it’s [...]
Gretsch G6120DC Chet Atkins Nashville
Monday, December 20th, 2010
After stints with WNOX in Knoxville Tennessee, WLW and WPTF in Raleigh North Carolina, Chet went ot Chicago and joined Red Foley’s band, with which he went to Nashville and made his debut at the Grande Ole Opry on April 13 1946. The Foley/Opry gig lasted six months, after which Chet made his first record, [...]
Gretsch G6120-1959LTV Chet Atkins
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Chet Atkins was already well on his way to “legendary” status when Fred Gretsch Sr. approached him in 1954 to design and endorse his own Gretsch guitar. The first result of this collaboration was the Model 6120 Chet Atkins Hollowbody which was immediately embraced by serious players across North America and abroad! This model quickly [...]