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Post by billyguitar on Nov 3, 2007 14:36:10 GMT -7
I was out puttin' around today and went to our Musician's Friend scratch and dent store. They happened to have one of these new Gretsches, G100CE. It's a cutaway archtop with a single pickup mounted on the end of the neck, volume and tone pots on the pickguard. It's a medium C shaped 25-1/2" scale guitar with really nice fret work and great big pearloid block inlays, strung with flatwounds. They come in flat black (yuck) and blonde which I'm assuming is also satin finished. They only had the black. It played and sounded just like this kind of guitar should sound. For $ 665.00 I was super impressed. I've been thinking about getting one of these for stage use, providing the band starts getting some gigs again. I've got Gibsons and old Epi's for this sound but not crazy about taking them out to use. Actually my L5 is ratty enough it doesn't matter, I'll probably just use it. I had it refretted with taller jumbos when I was gigging it and it is really a special sounding and playing guitar, just ugly and beat. Oh well, if anybody needs a guitar like this you can't go wrong. This Gretsch plays well, sounds good and definitely has the look.
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Post by pappy on Nov 3, 2007 20:36:13 GMT -7
Yup. Both the natural and the black are satin. Pretty great guitar for the price, especially considering that jazz acoustics (with option of plugging in) are usually a lot pricier to get into.
But if you want to go balls out, check out the G400JV. Best jazz acoustic I've ever played.
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Post by billyguitar on Nov 3, 2007 21:18:58 GMT -7
I'll give it a look. I'm a sucker for archtops. I just bought a 1953 blonde Epiphone Zephyr Regent in great shape with original case! Zephyr means electric and Regent means cutaway. www.archtop.com has one that looks just like mine. These are laminate topped guitars with nice rectangle inlays. Laminate tops theoretically feed back less. I know it does feed back less than my 1939 Gibson ES150, commonly called the Charlie Christian model. My 1948 blonde Epiphone Deluxe Zephyr is also laminate topped. I'll look at the G400JV now.
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Post by billyguitar on Nov 3, 2007 21:27:10 GMT -7
I looked at the G400JV. Quite nice and not bad priced at $2,975 retail. I'd want to hang a mini hum at the neck and have a volume for the piezo, volume for the mini hum and an overall tone control mounted on the pickguard. My favorite sounding acoustic archtops are the early to mid 20s preadvanced L5's like Maybelle Carter used.
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Post by jvdunne on Nov 6, 2007 7:31:02 GMT -7
At least look at the G5120 model that's being promoted everywhere - about $600 - plays great, sounds great, and in orange anyway, looks great.
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