Gretsch G5422-12
Summary: No nonsense, Electromatic hollow-body guitars are the perfect real, pure and powerful Gretsch instruments. They’re your next-step Gretsch—bold, dynamic and articulate, and crafted with essential Gretsch sound, style and playability.
Like a ’60s invasion, the G5422G-12 serves up full hollow-body build and the true Filter’Tron voice for that classically lush 12-string chime and jangle. Like all Electromatic guitars, it delivers the fearless and electrifying authenticity that has set Gretsch apart as the quintessential rock ‘n’ roll guitars from the very beginning. It’s the sound of honor itself—play proud.
Premium features include dual Black TopFilter'tron humbucking pickups, versatile oversized bound F-holes and aged multi-ply body binding,, Graph Tech NuBone nut, pearloid Hump Block fingerboard inlays and a chrome Gretsch G-cutout tailpiece.
Body: Laminate maple double cutaway semi-hollowbody with w/b/w binding and gloss Black finish.
Neck: 24.75” scale maple neck with bound 12” radiused rosewood fingerboard, hump-block inlays, medium jumbo frets, 1 ¾” nut width and Nu-Bone nut.
Pickups/Hardware: Dual Black TopFilter'tron humbucking pickups, Graph Tech NuBone nut, Adjusto-matic floating bridge and a Gretsch G-cutout tailpiece.
Cosmetics: This guitar is in excellent shape. It has light surface scratches on the body. The back of the neck is clean, and the frets show minimal wear. The back has light buckle rash. Overall, this guitar plays very well and sounds fantastic.
Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has just inspected, setup and restrung this guitar with a new set of strings. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functioning and the action has been setup low and comfortable. The frets are in great shape with no grooves or divots from use and it plays beautifully up and down the fingerboard with no dead spots or choking out.
Weight: 7 lbs, 5 oz.
Case: This guitar ships without al case, but will be professionally packaged, and fully insured.