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Originally Posted by jseth
A venerable, iconic electric guitar! Sweet...
Doesn't surprise me that Gretsch's are great for fingerpicking... Chet did a whole lot of that on a Gretsch! I owned an early 60's model for 6 or 7 years, but it wasn't like this one; mine actually had painted-on F holes (to reduce feedback?)... I wasn't much of an electric player back then; sort of wish I had dug a bit further into what that guitar could do; unfortunately, it met a tragic fate after taking a "header" off a stage and snapping the neck, just below the headstock...
I've seen "real" '55's before, and yours looks very close. One thing I don't see on yours is the little button (opposite the G brand) that sounds an A440 tuning fork! Always thought that was pretty cool, although a bit redundant with today's proliferation of various tuners...
Enjoy that beautiful beast!
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Thank you very much! One thing though, 1955 6120Ts (or any 50's 6120s) didn't have a tuner button, maybe you where playing a later 60's variant (the tuning fork bridge was cool, but it wasn't a button), as the 55's were very simple electronics wise...
Master volume, master tone, neck volume, bridge volume, 3 way pickup switch, is all they had on the tops.
Here's some references to show what I mean...
https://www.garysguitars.com/catalog/1955-gretsch-6120
http://www.6120freak.com/1955.html
http://gretschpages.com/guitars/models/examples/4470/