Description
This is the newly redesigned G5422TG Electromatic hollow body from Gretsch! Since its introduction, the Electromatic series has embodied the essential Gretsch design and tone elements at an affordable price. With a few new tweaks, Gretsch has taken this outstanding line of electrics to a new level of professionalism and value.
The new Electromatic models have modifications and improvements both cosmetic and functional. For the new G5422TG they’ve added gold hardware and the body is now quadruple bound and finished with an aged white binding giving the guitar more luxurious yet vintage style. They’ve added a Graphtech Nubone nut for increased sustain and reduced string friction, which helps keep the guitar in tune with even the most rigorous Bigsby tremolo modulations. Gretsch has also modified the electronics, adding a treble bleed circuit to the volume pot, so your tone stays clean and crisp as you swell the volume.
The G5422TG is a full hollow body arch top with parallel tone bar bracing and a sound post. The sound post adds stability to the structure and increases sustain while allowing the guitar to retain the essential hollow body sound. This model features a thinner 2.25” double cutaway body that recalls the Chet Atkins Nashville and Country Gentleman models of the 1960’s. This design improves overall ergonomics and with a neck that joins the body at 17th fret this guitar offers much easier access to the upper frets. The neck angle is just right allowing the guitar to be set up with perfect action all along its 22 frets. The playability of the G5422TG is fantastic with nice low action and excellent fretwork. The neck is a "C" style shape with a low profile but not too thin. The new "Black Top" Filter’Tron pickups are excellent with full bodied tone and a warm vintage character. The bridge pickup is bright and snappy and has just the right amount of "twang". It has a well defined mid range and responds very well with as much overdrive as you like. The neck pickup is mellow and springy with a more "scooped" tonal character and sounds jazzy and mellow when played clean or smooth when overdriven. When combined, the pickup set creates the classic and lush, full bodied and articulate tone you’d expect from a Gretsch. Wheather it's rock & roll, jazz, blues, rockabilly, fingerstyle or punk rock and beyond, the G5422TG is right at home delivering the quintessential Gretsch sound. The G5422TG is a wonderfully versatile guitar that looks as good as it sounds, and that’s saying something!
We are a long standing fully authorized independent Gretsch guitar dealer. This is a brand new guitar and comes with the full Gretsch Limited lifetime factory warranty. Please give us a call if you have any questions about this guitar!
About the Guitar (from gretschguitars.com):
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. Profoundly stylish, the G5422TG Limited Edition Electromatic Double-Cut offers full hollow-body build and true Filter’Tron™ voice in the classic Cadillac Green Metallic with gold hardware aesthetic. 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 Top Filter’Tron™ humbucking pickups, versatile upgraded controls including master volume treble-bleed circuit, oversized bound F holes, aged multi-ply body binding, smaller late-’50s G6120 bound headstock, Graph Tech® NuBone™ nut, pearloid Neo-Classic™ thumbnail fingerboard inlays and a gold Bigsby® B60 vibrato tailpiece.
Specs:
-Model Name: G5422TG Limited Edition Electromatic® Double-Cut Hollow Body with Bigsby® and Gold Hardware, Cadillac Green Metallic
-Model Number: 2504912556
-MSRP: $1,349.00
-Series: Limited Edition
-Color: Cadillac Green Metallic
-Body: 5-Ply Maple
-Body Shape: Electromatic® Hollow Body
-Bracing: Sound Post
-Body Binding: Aged White with B/W/B Purfling
-Body Depth: 2.25" (57 mm)
-Neck Material: Maple
-Neck Finish: Gloss
-Neck Shape: Standard "U"
-Neck Binding: Aged White
-Scale Length: 24.6" (625 mm)
-Fingerboard: Rosewood
-Fingerboard Radius: 12.6" (320 mm)
-Number of Frets: 22
-Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
-Nut: Graph Tech® NuBone™
-Nut Width: 1 11/16" (43 mm)
-Position Inlays: Neo-Classic™ "Thumbnail"
-Neck Plate: NA
-Bridge Pickup: Blacktop Filter'Tron™
-Neck Pickup: Blacktop Filter'Tron™
-Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Tone
-Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
-Pickup Configuration: FT/FT
-Bridge: Secured Adjusto-Matic
-Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Open-Back
-Pickguard: Gold Plexi w/ Black Gretsch Logo
-Control Knobs: G-Arrow
-Orientation: Right-Hand
-Strings: Nickel Plated Steel .011-.049
