how many gretsches are in the group?

[TheodorJ]

Uummmm...should I even respond to that?  :-\

Seems so...

Let's see... My username is from one of their songs, and I have posted links and pics of them several times.  That should answer your question.

I'm not trying to get in to a slap fight here, but that just didn't seem like a relevant question.

I'm sorry if you found it off-topic and stupid (or in any way offensive) It was just supposed to be a lighthearted comment pointing out your obvious love of the band, as you mentioned you do feed us with them regularely. Don't get me wrong, I like SCOTS myself and your posts from this very forum got me into them. Maybe I should have put in a smiley. Or maybe I just make extremely bad jokes. I think it's the last.

[RumorsOFsurF]

No harm done.   Must have been low blood sugar or something.  Hahahaha

[aquietdisaster]

yay!  a gretsch thread!  if there is one guitar i love as much as my jazzmaster, it's my 6120.  i've got a 6120 sslvo, the brian setzer sig with the nitro finish, and a 5129 with the faux dearmonds.  the 6120 has been my main guitar for the past couple of years (not a big setzer fan, but boy he knows how to design a guitar) until i recently got my jm.  came close to buying a power jet a while back but just couldn't get the cash together in time.  love me some t.v. jones too!


-brian-

[Mighty Tom]

I really wanted an Anniversary for a long time, and I thought the 6120 with all its western motifs was rather stupid looking. Then I grew to love both the 6120 and the music that made it famous. I settled for a 6130 Roundup (below left) a few years ago. As soon as I started playing it at home, I realized that it sounded just like my Les Paul. There was no point in keeping it, and I needed money at the time, so I sold it on eBay for a profit of a few hundred bucks. Then a couple months ago, on GBase.com (I don't know if you fellas have heard of that site, but it's great; I highly recommend it), I found a 2006 6120DSW (below right) that was going for about half its usual street price at GuitarsAndEffects.com. I put it on hold ASAFP and paid the rest on layaway. I couldn't be happier. I finally have the big rockabilly archtop that I can't say I've always wanted. The moral of the story is: don't settle; save your nickels and dimes and get what you really want.

[Setzer]

I have a handful:
'49 Synchromatic

Vintage Ukes

1957 6128 Duo Jet &  late 50's Electromatic Twin amp

1958 6187 Clipper(Fat body style)

1961 6124 Anniversary(modified)


Hey Sonic Y, I saw you posted you had a Silver Jet, those are cool new guitars! They don't have Filtertons thou. Those are a basic kind of new Gretsch double coil pickup, TV Jones did sme design work for the Japan factory but I think it was just for the cover. I'm not sure what they are called, but they are not Trons.

[RumorsOFsurF]

Those are beautiful!! 

This one makes me 

[dain]

yea!  what's the story on this baby?  who did all the mods?

here's my girl's old gretsch...she's a sweetheart.

[glimmertwin]

...funny this thread should pop up.  I'm a few weeks away from pulling a trigger on one of the newer Green Annies. 

[dain]

...funny this thread should pop up.  I'm a few weeks away from pulling a trigger on one of the newer Green Annies. 

you should at least try a vintage one...they aren't that crazy expensive yet and as the blues guys say "if it ain't spent time in a pawnshop it can't play the blues!"

[glimmertwin]

...funny this thread should pop up.  I'm a few weeks away from pulling a trigger on one of the newer Green Annies. 

you should at least try a vintage one...they aren't that crazy expensive yet and as the blues guys say "if it ain't spent time in a pawnshop it can't play the blues!"

I would like to but I have yet to find one that wasn't coming apart.  They have a single pickup vintage green one at my local vintage guitar store but it has a bit of a hump in the fretboard...I don't even want to invite the headache.  Actually, those old Streamliners seem like decent deals too but alas it's finding a good one.  I don't trust vintage Gretsch's enough to try ebay unless there is a good return policy already in place. 

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I'm in love!!

More pictures please.

Those yukes are cute too. Matching chairs!! Like it.

I almost went mad & bid for one of these a couple of months ago. The longer I leave it, the less likely it'll happen.

After the ES-125 I've just bought this is top of my list. Fuck you 335's!!!!

[Setzer]

dain, the '57 6128 DJ, I traded some gear for it locally years ago. I think the eagles on the fretboard, headstock and gold top paint where done years ago. The previous owner had Les Pauled it with Gibson knobs, Bill Lawrence chrome covered pickups with creme rings, LP jack plate and a funky thick 1/4" clear thick plexi pickguard mounted directly to the body like a Baldwin era Gretsch has. It had a RI G cut out chrome tailpiece and Kluson type tuner and regular style strap knobs.
I put it back close to stock as I could with vintage parts. 500k pots, correct period Melita. Truss rod cover and waverly open back tuners. Modded 60's Falcon pickguard, vintage tailpiece(ran a B6 bigsby with a fixed arm on it awhile) vintage black back cover plates and updated the wiring with Belden and a vintage jack cup and strap knobs. I even located a late 50's case for it. The color was originally black, maybe it was one of the nitron drum tops(black color) but I'm not 100% sure. I have a set of vintage DynaSonics on it too. Almost for got about the most inportant parts! LOL

It is truly a players greade guitar. Not for a collector and that is the way I like it!

Here are some more photos(link):
http://s99.photobucket.com/albums/l303/ ... ?start=all

[dain]

thanks for the links, that thing is amazing!
love the falcon pikgrd!

[djetz]

If I hadn't just bought a Hagstrom Viking, I think I'd be buying a G5122. I might just buy one anyway, if things go well. The word seems to be that the 51xx range are very decent quality, and the double-cut 5122 in walnut makes my heart beat a little faster.

[Vinkie]

I love Gretsches! This is my main guitar, a '04 G6120-60 RI with TV Jones Classic pickups:

My next one is a G6196 Country Club in caddy green I hope to get it within a few weeks.