{"product_id":"gretsch-chet-atkins-hollow-body-model-6120-arch-top-hollow-body-electric-guitar-1961-11115","title":"Gretsch Chet Atkins Hollow Body Model 6120 Arch Top Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1961)","description":"Gretsch Chet Atkins Hollow Body Model 6120 Model Arch Top Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1961), made in Brooklyn, NY, serial # 43179, Western Orange lacquer finish, laminated maple body, maple neck with ebony fingerboard, original western styled hard shell case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Model 6120 is considered to be the Gretsch company's single most classic creation in its original-cutaway form. As with many instruments the 6120 underwent almost constant modification and upgrading. This super vibey, well-played orange Gretsch was one of the last of the original single-cutaway Chet Atkins Model 6120 guitars made, dating to late 1961. The serial number is from late in the next-to-last batch of this model, with then-new feature of the standby switch on the lower bout only found on these final examples. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ultimate evolution of the original 6120 is built with a thinner 2.25\" deep body used only in this year with the new-style shorter neck heel introduced at the same time. The finish is a light and slightly translucent medium orange, exactly as seen on the 1962 and later double-cutaway 6120's. Over the years some variation of this orange-red finish is the model's most constant With a stock Bigsby tailpiece, two Filter'Tron pickups and \"trestle\" bracing this guitar has the distinctive version of that \"Great Gretsch Sound\" familiar from Neil Young's Buffalo Springfield and early CSNY\/solo era and Pete Townshend's work on WHO'S NEXT. Both of those guitars coincidentally were without a pickguard, as this one is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 6120 also has it's own particular Mojo, well played and obviously well traveled. At one point it belonged to a lady named Sukey Smith, bearing her name on a piece of masking tape on the case. It is almost certain this was the Nashville based singer\/songwriter\/actress\/comedian of that name who had a long career in music and TV, although we have not found any documentation of her using it. It lives in the only original GREEN Gretsch cowboy (or Cowgirl!) case we have ever seen, possibly re-covered but if so when it was fairly new. It is heavily worn but still functional; there are markings and an old SAS shipment sticker (to Hong Kong!) on it along with the vestigial remains of numerous luggage tags; at any rate it all adds a bit of history to this veteran Gretsch!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOverall length is 42 3\/4 in. (108.6 cm.), 15 3\/4 in. (40 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 2 1\/4 in. (5.7 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 1\/2 in. (622 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11\/16 in. (43 mm.). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a well-played but still very nice 6120, a real player restored with a recent reset and refret resulting in an excellent neck angle and playability. The finish shows some general wear with dings, dents and scrapes, but only fully through the lacquer in a couple of small spots, mostly on the back of the neck. There is a lot of buckle wear on the back but into, not through the lacquer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe top has one small lamination check and a couple of deep scratches behind the bass side bridge foot but no structural issues. The binding is solid, amazingly free of any of the typical Gretsch deterioration problems; there is a small spot patched on the bass side of the fingerboard extension and on the treble side of the neck heel. The heelcap is a replacement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe original hardware is unaltered; the pickguard is long gone all else remains original and intact. There is a lot of wear to the plating, especially on the bridge top and pickup covers and the low E string tuner is bent but fully functional. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe neck heel area shows evidence of ancient reset attempts, with spots of glue staining, stress marks by the screw plug and one filled chip on the treble side of the heel. This has recently been cleaned up and the neck solidly and properly reset at the correct angle. The fingerboard has been neatly planed and refretted with correct spec wire, so this is now an excellent player with the \"Great Gretsch Sound\" 6120s of this period are prized for. The *green* cowboy case is heavily worn, with some repairs missing a couple of latches but still solidly functional; It was very beat up but we had to save it. 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