Gretsch G5422TG Electromatic Double-Cut with Bigsby, Orange Stain

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Colour: Orange

Key Features

  • Classic 50’s & 60’s inspired Gretsch sound with all-new Hollow body guitar
  • Excellent articulate tone captured by all-new FT-5E Filter’Tron pickups
  • Comfortable playability provided by a classic “C” maple neck
  • Full tonal shaping delivered through a versatile upgraded control layout

Gretsch G5422TG Electromatic Double-Cut with Bigsby, Orange Stain Overview

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The Gretsch G5422TG Electromatic Double-Cut with Bigsby combines premium playability and iconic vintage tones for a guitar that delivers an impeccable playing experience. The classic hollow-body design is reimagined with an all-new trestle block bracing, to reduce unwanted feedback, and increasing the rigidity and contact between the top and back of the body ensures a short sharp attack on every pluck. This coupled with the innovative FT-5E Filter’Tron pickups the voice of this hollow body booms with total definition and clarity.

Product Ref: 216500

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Fantastic Filter’Tron pickups

One of the new innovations featured on the G5422TG electromatic is the all-new set of FT-5E Filter’Tron humbuckers. These pickups offer premium tone and crisp definition, perfectly capturing every slight nuance in your performance and emitting it with a punch of direct power. These pickups are combined with an upgraded control layout, which provides you with a treble bleed circuit, master tone, individual pickup volume controls and three-positions switch, you have complete control of your instruments sound.

Stunning Hollow-body build

Constructed from a laminated maple body, with an arched maple back the hollow-body guitar delivers blissful highs and impeccable natural fundamentals, covering a multitude of frequencies. Featuring f-holes on the front the natural projection of the instrument, allowing the guitar to breathe with an essence of air into the sound. Featuring fantastic trestle block bracing, the body of the instrument works to prevent feedback to ensure crystal clear tones. The increased strength and resilience thanks to this allows for snappier, faster attack that chimes with excellent presence.

Pristine playability

Ensuring premium playability the Gretsch comes constructed with a classic “C” maple neck ensuring a comfortable grasp whilst also allow the utmost freedom to efficiently move to and from the extremes of the fretboard with accuracy and precision. This is supported through a luscious laurel fretboard which ensures an unblemished surface to blaze across, completely unhindered. With a performance this sweet its clear to see how this vintage inspired model allows you to excel in every facet of your playing.

Bigsby Hardware

Gretsch guitars often go hand in hand with Bigsby Hardware, and the G5422TG is no exception. A delightful Bigsby B60 tailpiece delivers perfect vibrato to add a wave into your performance, while also ensuring the utmost stability in your tuning. This stability is also in part owed to an Adjusto-matic bridge and Vintage-style Open-Back tuning machines both provide that final touch of stability to the sound. And of course, they all feature a gold finish making the guitar glisten in the light.

Specifications

  • Colour: Orange Stain
  • Country Of Origin: CN
  • Series: Electromatic®
  • Product Code: 2506217517

Body

  • Body: Laminated Maple
  • Body Back: Arched Laminated Maple
  • Body Binding: White with B/W/B Purfling
  • Body Finish: Gloss
  • Body Material: Laminated Maple
  • Body Shape: Electromatic® Hollow Body
  • Body Style: Gretsch® Hollow Body Guitars
  • Body Top: Arched Laminated Maple
  • Bracing: Trestle Block
  • Cutaway: Double Cutaway
  • Sound Hole: F-Holes, Bound
  • Waist: 9.625" (244.48 mm)

Neck & Fretboard

  • Fingerboard Material: Laurel
  • Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
  • Headstock Binding: White
  • Neck Construction: Set-Neck
  • Neck Finish: Gloss
  • Neck Material: Maple
  • Neck Shape: Classic "C"
  • Number of Frets: 22
  • Nut Material: Graph Tech® NuBone®
  • Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
  • Position Inlays: Pearloid Hump Block
  • Side Dots: Black
  • String Nut: Graph Tech® NuBone®

Hardware & Electronics

  • Bridge: Adjusto-Matic™ with Secured Laurel Base
  • Bridge Cover/Tailpiece: Bigsby® B60
  • Bridge Mounting: Secured
  • Control Knobs: G-Arrow
  • Hardware Finish: Gold
  • Pickguard: Gold Plexi with Black Gretsch® and Electromatic® Logos
  • Pickup Covers: Gold
  • Strap Buttons: Gretsch® Knurled Strap Retainer Knobs
  • Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.011-.049 Gauges)
  • Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Open-Back
  • Bridge Pickup: FT-5E Filter’Tron™
  • Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume with Treble Bleed, Master Tone
  • Neck Pickup: FT-5E Filter’Tron™
  • Pickup Configuration: Filter'Tron™ / Filter'Tron™
  • Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup