Description
As part of an all-new lineup of Electromatic Classic Hollow Body models, the G5420T is crafted with the essential semi-acoustic sound, style, playability and charm that guitarists adore about '50s and '60s-inspired Gretsch instruments. At a great price-point to boot, this can serve as the ideal next-step Gretsch or as a way into the world of hollow electric guitars. And while traditional aesthetically, the Gretsch G5420T boasts a few modern appointments that bring it up to the standards of today's generation!
Key Features
- Laminated Maple Body — Underpins the guitar with a bright, vibrant voice. Also boasts the vintage-inspired perimeters and refined arches that make a Gretsch, a Gretsch!
- Trestle Block Bracing — All new design helps to reduce unwanted feedback, which is essential when playing onstage through a loud amplifier. By increasing rigidity and contact between the top and back of the body, this also results in the sound having a faster attack with more focus, snap, and increased sustain.
- Classic “C”-Shaped Maple Neck — Offers a comfortable feel for improved playability and performance; topped with a 12”-radius Laurel fingerboard.
- FT-5E Filter'Tron Pickups — Explode with huge full-bodied punch, classic chime and enhanced presence, clarity and note definition.
- Treble Bleed Circuit — Retains the high-end in your signal when lowering the master volume knob.
- Adjusto-Matic Bridge with Bigsby Tailpiece — Beautifully-machined bridge allows you to easily make intonation adjustments, with gorgeous Bigsby B60 tailpiece letting you make subtle on-the-fly warbles.
- Graph Tech NuBone Nut — Innovative material doesn't damp string vibrations like plastic, but transfers the optimum frequencies to the guitar allowing for more volume, tone, and harmonics.
Here's what Gretsch say about the G5420T Electromatic Classic Hollow Body Single-Cut
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.
It’s the sound of honor itself—play proud.
Specifications
Body
- Body Finish: Gloss Orange Stain
- Body Shape: Electromatic® Hollow Body
- Top Wood: Arched Laminated Maple
- Back & Sides Wood: Laminated Maple
- Body Binding: White with B/W/B Purfling
- Bracing: Trestle Block
- Cutaway: Single Cutaway
- Sound Hole: F-Holes, Bound
- Pickguard: Silver Plexi with Black Gretsch® and Electromatic® Logos
Neck
- Neck Construction: Set-Neck
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Neck Material: Maple
- Fingerboard Material: Laurel
- Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
- Headstock Binding: White
- Neck Shape: Classic "C"
- Number of Frets: 22
- Nut Material: Graph Tech® NuBone™
- Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Neo-Classic™ Thumbnail
- Side Dots: Black
Electronics & Hardware
- Neck Pickup: FT-5E Filter’Tron™ with Nickel cover
- Bridge Pickup: FT-5E Filter’Tron™ with Nickel cover
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume with Treble Bleed, Master Tone
- Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge And Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Hardware Finish: Nickel
- Bridge: Adjusto-Matic™ with Secured Laurel Base
- Tailpiece: Bigsby® B60
- Tuners: Vintage-Style Open-Back
