frettedamericana | 1 decade ago
http://www.frettedamericana.com/gretsch_6129_silver_jet_1955-d-1134-0.html
This featherweight 13 1/4-inch-wide guitar weighs just 6.60 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of over 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 1/2 inches. Chambered mahogany body, pressed arched top with silver sparkle plastic laminate, one-piece mahogany neck with a wonderful fat profile. Bound Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 medium-thin frets and inlaid pearloid block position markers. Two single-coil DeArmond Dynasonic pickups with outputs of 3.44k and 3.39k. Black Melita Synchro-Sonic bridge with chrome saddles on ebony base and chrome cut-out "G-hole flat" tailpiece. This is one of the earliest Silver Jets, with the serial number "15064" printed on a label inside the control cavity with the model number "6129." The serial number is also engraved on the outside of the control cavity cover. The plastic 'rings' (between the pickups and the body) have been replaced due to the quite common 'disintegration' of the original tortoiseshell material. Apart from a few very minor surface marks on the back and edges and a small area of discoloration on the silver sparkle top just by the bass-side of the neck pickup, this is an exceptionally clean and totally original example. The neck has been re-fretted (with the original gauge fret-wire) so expertly that it is almost impossible to tell. A superb example of a beautiful piece of guitar history. Housed in the original two-tone gray hardshell case with maroon plush lining (9.00).
