Product: Gretsch 6120 JR2
Price Paid: US $945
Submitted
03/01/2000
at
08:15am
by
Hackdog
Email: shacker at pro-online<dot>net
Features
:
9
This is basicaaly a nashville with a 13 1/2" body instead of the normal 16", thus making it ( for me anyway ) more comfortable to play standing or sitting. All the features of this guitar are the same as the 6120 nashville, full hollowbody, see-thru orange finish, gold hardware, bigsby, filter-tron pick-ups, half-moon fret markers, 24 3/4 scale, master volume on lower bout, master tone and individual volumes for each pick-up.
Sound
:
10
this guitar is Great for twang to jazz, I play jazz mostly and the filter-tron neck pick-up is very well balanced from low to high. the bridge pick-up is bright but not biting, they both are dead quiet. you can get a very wide varity of clean tones and a suprising amount of great overdrive tones. I've used it with everything from a fender blues deluxe, mashell plexi, a line 6 pod, jazz chorus 77 and the roland cosm effects in a VS 880, and I have yet to find a weakness in the sound, I guess the only one would be at high volumes the overdriven sounds feedback easily, but this isn't what I use this guitar for anyway.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
the set-up was was great medium - low action 12's with an unwound 3rd string, I love that and I think the gauge on the 3rd string was a .22. the pick-ups were set-up great for me, some people might have to lower the neck pick-up to even it out with the bridge. the finish is very well done, and the binding is very clean.
Reliability/Durability
:
9
I do use this guitar live all the time, and I would gig without a back-up but I always bring a strat for songs that call for that sound this IS a hollowbody! This guitar is built very well the finish is thick but not like the new gibsons, so thick it hampers the response of the hollowbody. the strap buttons are great!!!
Customer Support
:
1
it has a limited one year warrenty, but they state IF you need repairs it will bet a least 100 day turn around that just sucks, if gretsch wants to stay in the gane this MUST change!
Overall Rating
:
10
I've been play 16 years and currently own 12 other guitars ( strats, tele's, les paul, ES 175, a syth axe, guild and ovation acoustics, and a fender jazz bass ( I know this sounds like overkill but I make half my income gigging and doing sessions ) and the Gretsch really stands up to all of them. The 175 has been in it's case since I bought this, the smaller body and great neck pick-up sounds makes it my #1 jazz axe, all things concidered this has a perfect combination of freatures for my tastes, although I am going to take the bigsby off and put a regular trapize tailpiece on it.
