![]() ![]() The body is genuinely fully hollow, and its sound post bracing provides rich, honking midrange while suppressing unwanted feedback at loud volume levels or high gain. The overall look and design aesthetic isn’t very far removed from Gretsch’s fanciest top-of-the-line “cowboy Cadillac” models.īut even more important to Gretsch fans is how the G5422TG delivers “that great Gretsch sound.” The pickups are a pair of Blacktop Filter’Tron humbuckers, and the control circuit consists of master volume and master tone knobs, individual volume controls for the neck and bridge pickups, and a three-position pickup selector switch (and none of that tone mute switching nonsense-maybe that’s also what Gretsch meant by “no-nonsense”). ![]() It has pearloid “hump-block” fretboard inlays, large genuine f-holes with binding, a gold plexi pickguard with black Gretsch logo, gold plexi pickup surrounds, a walnut stain finish (really more of a burgundy wine red hue), multi-layer body binding, a bound fretboard, and gold-plated hardware that includes a genuine Bigsby B60 vibrato tailpiece, metal “G-Arrow” control knobs, vintage-style open-gear tuners, and a floating Adjusto-Matic bridge with secured rosewood base. Other standard features: chambered mahogany body with laminate maple top, set mahogany neck with bound rosewood fretboard and thumbprint inlays, dual Gretsch humbucking pickups, bridge and neck pickup volume controls, master volume control, three way pickup selector switch, three way tone switch, adjustomatic bridge.If you love Gretsch style, the G5422TG Electromatic delivers what you want in spades. All in all a higher quality very cool looking version of the Pro Jet with some unique features and a very well playing instrument. Unique features include a 25" scale neck instead of the standard 24.7, a tone switch designed by Elliot Easton to be more usable, a B70 Bigsby tremolo instead of the usual surface mount Bigsby found on most Pro Jets, and of course the Cadillac Green finish. This is one of those, same unique features but without his name. After his endorsement deal ended in 2005 the remaining few made were sold with plain truss rod cover and pick guard instead of the ones bearing his signature. Former Cars guitarist Elliot Easton in addition to designing a signature model Duo Jet also designed a signature model Synchromatic which after Fender took over production in 2003 became an Electromatic Jet model - Gretsch G5570. ![]() ![]() Here are the details from Gretsch:Ģ005 Cadillac Green Gretsch Electromatic Jet guitar. ![]()
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