frettedamericana | 2 decades ago
This six-string 'C Melody' Spectra Sonic Baritone (tuned down four steps to C: F: B flat: E flat: G and C) guitar features a single-cutaway thinline chambered alder body with a triple-bound laminated spruce top. Three-piece maple neck with a 29.50 inch scale and a very wide nut width of just under 1 3/4 inches. African Paduak fretboard with 22 medium frets and pearloid dot position markers. Headstock with Gretsch "T-roof" logo in white. Individual (three-a-side) Sperzel USA closed back tuners with hexagonal metal buttons. The serial number "2 0079" and "Made in USA" stamped into the back of the headstock. One TV Jones Alnico Magna-Tron in the neck postion and one TV Jones Alnico Classic pickup in the bridge position. Adjusto-Matic bridge with metal saddles, aluminum Bigsby B11 Vibrato tailpiece. A mint (9.50) example of this very unusual instrument housed in it's original Gretsch black hardshell case with deep red plush lining (9.50).
