Go find another one...

[Steve DeRosa]

If you're in the market for a dead-mint, never-used/never-sold hollowbody from the Golden Age of electric guitar design but don't want to sell Grandma to get it, at $6500 this '59 PAF Gretsch 6124 should do the trick:



https://reverb.com/item/68553041-gre...1959-archtop-w

Makes a great plugged-in gigging jazzbox, in the mold of some 16" Sadowsky and Benedetto models, with a sweet acoustic archtop tone (thanks to the lightweight body woods) good for home practice or recording - even more so if you replace the Space Control roller unit with a traditional wooden bridge - and that original factory SSC (complete with never-used case candy) just oozes '50s cool...

[hesson11]

How much will you give me for Grandma? (PS: Beautiful guitar)

[Black Squirrel]

You should post it in the classified section

[Jdogblues]

Just dug my old man’s out the other day. Didn’t realize the pickup was special.

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[redir]

Wow! That is really something there. I'd love to be the first one in 60 years to plug that puppy in. And it comes with it's own pitch pipe too!

[mr. beaumont]

Beautiful...

The controls, what do they do?

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

...The controls, what do they do?

Master volume on the cutaway, 3-way tone switch (two different caps in the up/down positions - TMK the values varied depending on when the guitar was produced and which pickup was used - and wide open in the center) on the upper bout, with nothing to impede the critical vibrating area of the top - loud enough to function as a recording or practice/jamming instrument with period-correct 12's or 13's (probably sound even better with a wooden bridge), and IMO all single built-in pickup jazzboxes should be made this way. FYI I could've had one just like it (except with the silver-grey Gretsch HSC) as NOS for $125 when I bought my Double Annie at Silver & Horland in 1964, but I wanted the two-pickup version which they only had in the infamous two-tone puke green ($150 NOS w/HSC) - ugly then, ugly now , might've learned to live with the color had I realized it was in all other respects a '59 6120...

[KevWind]

Except the reverb ad from your link says $12,800.


Did they just almost double it ???????

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by KevWind

Except the reverb ad from your link says $12,800.

Did they just almost double it ???????

Um, yeah - it was originally $12,800, and when I posted they had in fact dropped it to $6500, a far more realistic price IMO...

Been sitting on reverb for 6 months with no takers and no offers: be patient, hang in there until they drop the price to $5000 in desperation, and jump on it when they do - unless of course either Randy Bachman or Fred Gretsch himself beats you to it...