Gretsch country gentleman 1964 true vintage selections

chet atkins country gentleman 1964
true vintage selections

thinline double cutaway with rounded horns. this top dog of the chet atkins models weighs just 8.70 lbs. and and has a very fat nut width of just under 1 3/4 inches, a really comfortable medium-to-thick neck profile, and a scale length of 24 1/2 inches (like all of the chet atkins models). laminated maple body, three-piece rock maple neck, and ebony fretboard with 22 medium frets plus zero fret and neo-classic inlaid pearl thumbprint (half-moon) position markers. with four-ply binding on the top and the back of the guitar and single binding on the headstock and the fretboard. headstock with inlaid pearl gretsch t-roof logo and the chet atkins country gentleman 68154 nameplate. individual grover tuners with kidney-shaped metal buttons. one super'tron ii (neck) pickup with an output of 4.08k and one filter'tron (bridge) pickup with an output of 3.93k. gold lucite pickguard with gretsch t-roof logo engraved in black from underneath. painted f-holes. two volume controls (one for each pickup) plus a stand-by switch on the lower treble bout, one master volume control on the upper treble bout, plus two pickup and tone selector switches on upper bass bout. gretsch arrow-through-g knobs with cross-hatch pattern on sides. double string damper, complete with sponge dampers, and two string damper controls with red felt pads. gold-plated bar bridge on the original ebony base and gold-plated v-cutout b-6 bigsby (gretsch by bigsby) vibrato tailpiece. all hardware gold-plated. this guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition, with virtually no playing wear whatsoever. there are no issues with the binding, no surface issues on the back of the guitar behind the pad, and only the tiniest amount of surface finish checking on the body. this is by far the finest example that we have ever seen, and it also has some really nice figuring on the first five frets of the ebony fretboard. a real collectors gem. housed in the original gretsch two-tone gray five-latch hardshell with maroon plush lining (8.75).

three years ago we had another country gentleman (serial number 68135) which had two filtertrons and the grover imperial stairstep tuners. that guitar had the exact george harrison specifications - and it was only 19 guitars ahead in production of this example - probably the previous week!!!