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Given the DeArmond Dynasonic pickups on yours, I'd follow the default modern Gretsch setup and slap on a set of flatwound 11's to start; go down to 10's if it sounds like the tone is "choked" (as I did - counterintuitively, I might add - on my White Falcon), up to 12's if you want more dynamic range and "wood" in your tone, 13's if you're going straight-up jazzzbox - BTW please note (pun intended) that in all cases a wound G is mandatory for proper tonal balance. FWIW I've been most successful with D'Addario Chromes: relatively inexpensive for flats (about 50-70% less than some of the Euro brands), easy to find, clearer/brighter-sounding than the old-school round-core stuff, easy on the fingers with exceptionally long life - and they'll allow you to set your action far lower than with roundwounds (a hack all the '50s jazzers and rockabilly carts knew, in order to get those fleet-fingered licks with 12's and 13's - and occasionally 14's for some of the jazz guys)...
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They're back - and this time starting @ $699:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...vibrato-blonde https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...tar-gold-coast https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...al-malibu-blue https://www.sweetwater.com/store/det...ar-scarlet-red
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They tag their demos as such - these are new w/warranty...
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Right, but even the demos come with a warrantee. “Demo” doesn’t mean it was out in a shop for walk-in customers to try. It means a guitar was boxed up, shipped, unpacked, played by someone for a time, shipped back, and then sold by Sweetwater to someone else as a “new” guitar. I find their MO not completely dishonest, but a bit misleading to the consumer. YMMV.
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Apparently, they are all gone now.
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