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Condition: Used, Excellent
SP Luthier Notes: Our luthier completed an inspection of this instrument once it landed with us, and the guitar was deemed to all ready be in otherwise ideal playing and cosmetic condition, and no work was required.
From Other (Miscellanous Used/Vintage/Consign)
Inspired by the original CGP (Certified Guitar Player), Chet Atkins, this Country Gentleman is more than able to keep up with the most fleet-fingered guitarist. Packed with the sound, style and features that made the original a legend, the '59 Gent provides highly responsive, amazingly articulate sound.
A pair of TV Jones® pickups - a Super'Tron Classic Plus bridge pickup and Super'Tron neck pickup - responds to every stroke with defined, eloquent tone. The modified control layout features an individual bridge pickup volume, and master volume and tone controls, allowing you to create countless tonal variations. Add the new Gretsch "Squeezebox" capacitors and you get incredibly silky vintage high end. The standard "U"-shaped maple neck with 1.75" nut bears a 12"-radius ebony fingerboard with 22 vintage-style small frets and is a picker's dream. A pinned rocking bar bridge works with the Bigsby® B6GWVT vibrato tailpiece for stable tuning while the vintage-style genuine bone nut lets the strings slide freely without binding in the slots.
All of the '59 Gent's classic features are here - laminated 5-ply figured maple top with painted F-holes, "wire" vibrato arm, gold G-arrow control knobs, aged white binding with black purfling, gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, aged pearloid thumbnail inlays, gold vintage thick plexi pickguard with Gretsch logo and gold Grover® Imperial™ tuning machines with 'butterbean' buttons. A truly classic instrument with refined style and sound, the G6122T-59 Vintage Select Edition '59 Chet Atkins® Country Gentleman® Hollow Body with Bigsby® is a fine addition to any guitarist's collection.
- Build
- Hollow Body
- Cutaway
- Single Cutaway
- Body Finish
- Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Body Shape
- Country Gentleman®
- Body Material
- Laminated Figured Maple
- Bracing
- Parallel Bracing
- Body Binding
- Aged White with B/I/B Purfling
- Body Back
- Laminated Maple
- Body Top
- 5-Ply Laminated Figured Maple
- Body Depth
- 2.25" (57 mm)
- Neck Material
- Maple
- Neck Finish
- Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Neck Shape
- Standard "U"
- Neck Binding
- Aged White
- Scale Length
- 25.5" (64.77 cm)
- Fingerboard Radius
- 12" (305 mm)
- Fingerboard Material
- Ebony
- Number of Frets
- 22
- Fret Size
- Vintage Small
- Nut Material
- Bone
- Nut Width
- 1.75" (44.45 mm)
- Position Inlays
- Pearloid Neo-Classic™ Thumbnail
- Headstock
- Late '50s Gretsch
- Neck Plate
- N/A
- Bridge Pickup
- TV Jones® Super’Tron™ Classic Plus
- Neck Pickup
- TV Jones® Super'Tron™
- Controls
- Bridge Pickup Volume, Master Volume, Master Tone
- Pickup Switching
- 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Pickup Configuration
- Filter'Tron™ / Filter'Tron™
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
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