Product Overview
Get classic '50s & '60s -inspired Gretsch sound and style with the all-new Electromatic Classic Hollow Body guitars. Crafted with essential Gretsch hollow-body sound, style and playability, these no-nonsense guitars are your next-step Gretsch.
The G5420T Electromatic Classic Hollow Body Single-Cut with Bigsby features a laminated maple body with vintage-inspired perimeters and refined arches, as well as all-new trestle block bracing to help reduce unwanted feedback. By increasing rigidity and contact between the top and back of the body, the new trestle block design also results in the sound having a faster attack with more focus, snap, and increased sustain. Coupled with all-new FT-5E Filter'Tron pickups, this hollow build's voice explodes with huge full-bodied punch, classic chime and enhanced presence, clarity and note definition.
An all-new Classic "C"-shaped maple neck offers a more comfortable playing feel for improved playability and performance, and is topped with a 12"-radius laurel fingerboard.
Alive and resonant, the G5420T also features a versatile upgraded control layout including master volume with treble bleed circuit, master tone, individual pickup volume controls and three-position pickup toggle switch, oversized bound F-holes, multi-ply body binding, smaller late-'50s G6120 bound headstock, vintage-style open-back tuning machines, Graph Tech NuBone nut, pearloid Neo-Classic thumbnail inlays, secured Adjusto-Matic bridge and a Bigsby B60 vibrato tailpiece.
This resplendent instrument comes in standout Airline Silver with black pickguard or in Azure Metallic, Orange Stain and Walnut Stain with silver pickguard. All models feature nickel hardware.
It's the sound of honor itself - play proud.
The G5420T Electromatic Classic Hollow Body Single-Cut with Bigsby features a laminated maple body with vintage-inspired perimeters and refined arches, as well as all-new trestle block bracing to help reduce unwanted feedback. By increasing rigidity and contact between the top and back of the body, the new trestle block design also results in the sound having a faster attack with more focus, snap, and increased sustain. Coupled with all-new FT-5E Filter'Tron pickups, this hollow build's voice explodes with huge full-bodied punch, classic chime and enhanced presence, clarity and note definition.
An all-new Classic "C"-shaped maple neck offers a more comfortable playing feel for improved playability and performance, and is topped with a 12"-radius laurel fingerboard.
Alive and resonant, the G5420T also features a versatile upgraded control layout including master volume with treble bleed circuit, master tone, individual pickup volume controls and three-position pickup toggle switch, oversized bound F-holes, multi-ply body binding, smaller late-'50s G6120 bound headstock, vintage-style open-back tuning machines, Graph Tech NuBone nut, pearloid Neo-Classic thumbnail inlays, secured Adjusto-Matic bridge and a Bigsby B60 vibrato tailpiece.
This resplendent instrument comes in standout Airline Silver with black pickguard or in Azure Metallic, Orange Stain and Walnut Stain with silver pickguard. All models feature nickel hardware.
It's the sound of honor itself - play proud.
- Body: Laminated Maple
- Body Finish: Gloss
- Body Top: Arched Laminated Maple
- Body Binding: White with B/W/B Purfling
- Body Shape: Electromatic Hollow Body
- Body Back: Arched Laminated Maple
- Control Knobs: G-Arrow
- Fingerboard: Laurel
- Hardware Finish: Nickel
- Pickguard: Black Plexi w/ Silver Gretsch & Electromatic Logos
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Neo-Classic Thumbnail
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Neck Construction: Set-Neck
- Neck Shape: Classic "C"
- Neck Pickup: FT-5E Filter’Tron
- Side Dots: Black
- Headstock Binding: White
- Waist: 9.625" (244.48 mm)
- Bridge Cover/Tailpiece: Bigsby B60
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Configuration: Filter'Tron / Filter'Tron
- Refinement Pickups: Filter'Tron / Filter'Tron
- Bracing: Trestle Block
- Upper Bout: 11.625" (295 mm)
- Lower Bout: 16" (406 mm)
- Scale Length: 24.6" (625 mm)
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
- String Nut: Graph Tech NuBone
- Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
- Bridge Pickup: FT-5E Filter’Tron
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume with Treble Bleed, Master Tone
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Pickup Configuration: Filter'Tron / Filter'Tron
- Bridge: Adjusto-Matic with Secured Laurel Base
- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style Open-Back
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.011-.049 Gauges)
- Case/Gig Bag: Optional Gig Bag G2162 (p/n 099-6458-000); G6241FT Hardshell Case (p/n 099-6475-000)
- Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
- Refinement Fingerboard Radius: Modern
- Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Shape: C Shape
- Nut Material: Graph Tech NuBone
