Gretsch G6122T-59 Vintage Select Edition '59 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman Hollow Body with Bigsby - Walnut Stain Lacquer
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.
Specifications - Gretsch G6122T-59 Vintage Select Edition '59 Chet Atkins Country Gentleman Hollow Body with Bigsby - Walnut Stain Lacquer
General- Series: Professional Collection
- Model Number: 2401234892
- Platform: Country Gentleman
- Family: Country Gentleman
- Colour: Walnut Stain Lacquer
- Number of Strings: 6
- 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
- Bridge: Rocking Bar
- Hardware Finish: Gold
- Tailpiece: Bigsby B6GWVT with Wire Handle
- Tuning Machines: Grover Imperial with Butter-Bean Buttons
- Pickguard: Gold Plexi with Black Gretsch Logo
- Control Knobs: G-Arrow
- Bridge Pickup: TV Jones SuperTron Classic Plus
- Neck Pickup: TV Jones Super'Tron
- Controls: Volume 1. (Bridge Pickup), 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
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.011-.049 Gauges)
- Strap Buttons: Gretsch Knurled Strap Retainer Knobs
- Case/Gig Bag: Included G6242L Gretsch 17" Deluxe Hollow Body Hardshell (p/n 099-6413-000)
