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Rock & Roll All Over...

Here is a proper rockabilly machine. This first generation 2006 G5120 is made for rock and roll. It's a big hollowbody with Filtertron pickups, Bigsby and open back tuners. It's Brian Setzer. It's Poison Ivy. It's seriously cool. This one has a cosmetic modification. It has been custom painted around the f holes and headstock to give it more 'pop', making it truly unique.

Get ready for some serious Twangin up ahead, because this stylish guitar has the vibe and tone that will make you dancing the Twist until 2 a.m. Don't let the price fool you, because these are serious professional guitars with such features as newly designed Gretsch dual-coil pickups, adjustable bridge, chrome-plated die cast tuners, and wicked cool colors!

ODEL NAME G5120 Electromatic Hollow Body

MODEL NUMBER 250-5811-(Color#)

SERIES Electromatic Collection

COLORS (506) Black,

(512) Orange,

(537) Sunburst

CATEGORY Hollow Body Guitars

BODY STYLE Single Cutaway

SCALE LENGTH 24.56" (624mm)

TOP Laminated Maple

BRACING Parallel Tone-Bars with Sound Post

BACK AND SIDES Laminated Maple Body, 16" Wide, 2.75" Deep

Laminated Maple Body, 16" Wide, 2.75" Deep

NECK Laminated Maple

PICKUPS 2 Chrome Covered Dual Coil Humbucking Pickups

PICKUP SWITCHING 3-Position Toggle:

Position 1. Bridge Pickup

Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups

Position 3. Neck Pickup

CONTROLS Volume 1. (Neck Pickup),

Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup),

Master Tone,

Master Volume

WIDTH AT NUT 1-11/16" (43mm)

FRETBOARD Rosewood

BRIDGE Rosewood Based Adjusto-MaticTM Bridge

TAILPIECE Bigsby Licensed B60 Vibrato Tailpiece

HARDWARE Chrome-Plated

FINISH Gloss Urethane

2016 Korean-made Gretsch G5120 Hollowbody Electric Guitar

It's got a fast neck and a sturdy, practical feel.

I must say, this is a very well-built guitar, though the factory setup left a lot to be desired. It's precisely made, has a good-looking gloss finish, and all of the fittings feel durable. The Bigsby whammy, for instance, is excellent and has a touch that's very reminiscent of the units supplied on the originals.

The G5120 is essentially an import version of the 6120 -- and is bascially a hollowbody design (laminate maple throughout), though under the bridge there's a central "soundpost" that helps keep the top stable with a lot of whammy use and, in addition, reduces feedback.

The neck is a pretty standard modern feel/shape with a 1 11/16" nut width, slim C profile to the rear, and a 24 3/4" "Gibson" scale length.

I've always liked Gretsch hardware.

My only complaint about this guitar is that the FilterTrons are a bit on the dark side. I'm sure this was done to give the coils a few more windings (and thus more power and usefulness in a driven context), but it strikes me that they're more suited to straight-up rock, modern "Americana," and jazzier stuff than they are for typical rockabilly.

They've got a lot of that original Gretsch twang but it's slightly mellower and less diggy in the highs and upper mids. It's good, but different.

A Gibson-style adjustable bridge is a huge improvement over the barrel of laughs that were the various Gretsch bridge designs from "back in the day."

The openback tuners are 18:1 ratio, I believe, and function about the same as modern 18:1 Grover Sta-Tites. I much prefer them to something like Rotomatics.

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