Product Overview
Live and loud, Electromatic Center Block Jr. guitars are designed for that pure and powerful Gretsch sound at high volume.
The G5655TQM Electromatic Center Block Jr. Single-Cut with Bigsby features a smaller-sized body with stunning quilted maple top, back, and sides and a chambered spruce center block for dynamic resonance, high gain power and lightweight comfort. A lower set maple neck offers effortless access and performance, while the 12"-radius laurel fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and Neo-Classic thumbnail inlays offers excellent playability.
Its dual Black Top Broad'Tron humbucking pickups deliver bold, dynamic, and articulate tone with enhanced sonic punch. The combination of individual pickup volume controls, master tone and master volume with treble bleed circuit allows you to flexibly harness this instrument's sonic power.
FEATURES:
- Slightly smaller 14" single-cutaway quilted maple body with chambered spruce center block
- 12"-radius laurel fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and pearloid Neo-Classic thumbnail inlays
- Dual Black Top Broad'Tron humbucking pickups
- Master volume with treble bleed circuit, master tone and individual pickup volume controls
- Bigsby B70 vibrato tailpiece
- Graph Tech NuBone nut
- Nickel hardware
- Available in Speyside, Sweet Tea, Mariana, and Hudson Sky with gold pickguard
- Body: Laminated Maple
- Body Finish: Gloss
- Body Top: Arched Laminated Maple
- Body Binding: Aged White with B/AW/B Purfling
- Body Shape: Center Block Jr.
- Body Back: Arched Laminated Maple
- Control Knobs: G-Arrow
- Fingerboard: Laurel
- Hardware Finish: Nickel
- Pickguard: Gold Plexi with Black Gretsch and Electromatic Logos
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Neo-Classic Thumbnail
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Neck Construction: Set-Neck
- Neck Shape: Thin "U"
- Neck Pickup: Black Top Broad'Tron
- Side Dots: Black
- Headstock Binding: Aged White
- Waist: 8.625" (219.08 mm)
- Bridge Cover/Tailpiece: Bigsby-Licensed B70
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Configuration: Broad'Tron / Broad'Tron
- Bracing: Center Block
- Upper Bout: 10.5" (267 mm)
- Lower Bout: 13.5" (343 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: Black Top Broad’Tron
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume, Master Tone
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Pickup Configuration: Broad'Tron / Broad'Tron
- Bridge: Anchored Adjusto-Matic
- Tuning Machines: Die-Cast
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
- Case/Gig Bag: Optional: Gig Bag 0996460000 / Hardshell Case 0996412000
- Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
- Refinement Fingerboard Radius: Modern
- Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Material: Maple
- Refinement Neck Shape: U Shape
- Nut Material: Graph Tech NuBone
