Description
Alive and loud, Electromatic® Center Block Jr. guitars are designed for that pure and powerful Gretsch® sound at high volume. Painstakingly crafted with essential Gretsch sound, style and playability, these all-new models deliver the fearless and electrifying authenticity that has set Gretsch apart for decades. It’s the sound of honour itself—play proud.
The G5655TG Electromatic® Center Block Jr. Single-Cut with Bigsby and Gold Hardware features a smaller-sized body with a chambered spruce center block for dynamic resonance, high gain power and lightweight comfort.
Offering excellent playability, the 12”-radius laurel fingerboard hosts 22 medium jumbo frets and Neo-Classic thumbnail inlays. Its dual Black Top Broad’Tron humbucking pickups deliver bold, dynamic and articulate tone with enhanced sonic punch.
This guitar boasts stage-stealing style with five stunning finishes—Aspen Green, Azure Metallic, Black Gold, Cadillac Green and Orange Stain—and gleaming gold pickguards and hardware, including the Bigsby B70 vibrato tailpiece, anchored Adjusto-Matic bridge and G-arrow knobs.
Key Features
- Slightly smaller 14” single-cutaway maple body with a chambered spruce center block
- Lower set maple neck for effortless access and performance
- 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 controls
- Bigsby B70 vibrato tailpiece
- Anchored Adjusto-Matic bridge
- Graph Tech NuBone nut
- Gold hardware
Specifications
Neck
- Headstock Binding: Aged White
- Neck Material: Maple
- Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Neck Shape: Thin “U”
- Neck Construction: Set-Neck
- Fingerboard Radius: 12″ (305mm)
- Fingerboard Material: Laurel
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Neo-Classic Thumbnail
- Number Of Frets: 22
- Scale Length: 24.6” (625mm)
- String Nut: Graph Tech Nubone
- Nut Width: 1.6875″ (42.86mm)
- Nut Material: Graph Tech Nubone
Body
- Body: Laminated Maple
- Body Finish: Gloss
- Body Shape: Electromatic Center Block
- Body Top: Laminated Maple
- Body Binding: Aged White With B/Aw/B Purfling
- Body Back: Laminated Maple
- Body Style: Gretsch Center Block Guitars
- Body Material: Laminated Maple
- Bracing: Center Block
- Waist: 8.625″ (219.08mm)
Hardware
- Bridge: Anchored Adjusto-Matic
- Bridge Cover/Tailpiece: Bigsby B70
- Bridge Mounting: Anchored
- Pickguard: Gold Plexi with Black Gretsch and Electromatic Logos
- Pickup Covers: Gold
- Control Knobs: G-Arrow
- Switch Tip: Gold
- Hardware Finish: Gold
- Tuning Machines: Die-Cast
- Neck Plate: N/A
Electronics
- Bridge Pickup: Black Top Broad’tron
- Middle Pickup: N/A
- Neck Pickup: Black Top Broad’tron
- Pickup Configuration: HH
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume, Master Tone
- Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Special Electronics: N/A
Miscellaneous
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
