FS: Gretsch G5422TG 2016 with TV Jones T-Armond neck and HS Filtertron bridge

Cirrus

Great guitar, bought to play in a band that almost instantly ended so it's not getting the love it deserves.

This is the post-2016 update with the pinned bridge and better nut. It holds its tuning well with Bigsby use and is great to play with a comfortable neck and low action - set up by the Little Guitar Shop in Birmingham with 11-52s.

The pickups are upgraded - the T-armond neck in particular is amazing, very plummy vintage sound in the hollow body, nice and dynamic, the pickup costs £165 here in the UK, and the Bridge was changed from the stock Blacktop to a HS Filtertron for a bigger clean tone.

Pictured hardcase is included.

Condition is generally very good, only things of note are a dent in the binding on the bass side of the neck up at the 18th fret, and a couple of mismatched screws where, changing the pickups, I stripped the holes and replaced them. All pictured, if you have any questions though, don't hesitate to get in touch!

Collect in person only, but I'm happy to drive a fair distance to meet you.


£650





More Photos to be found here; https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWxz5Zy

THR1LLHAU5

Lovely stuff! Good luck with sale mate! 

dazzajl

The very best electromatic of them all in my book. And lovely upgrades too. 

Cirrus

Bump for the weekend!

Cirrus

And another weekend bump.

If anyone's been following this, they'll notice the pickups have changed; when I first listed this here, it had a TV Jones Brian Setzer Bridge pickup, and the HS Filtertron was in a solid body duo jet. But then I did some back and forth and decided that the janglier, more raw HS filtertron sounded better in the G5422, which has a naturally more open midrange anyway thanks to the hollow body, while the middier, more PAF-like TV Jones sounded better in the solid body duo jet, since it's halfway to a Les Paul anyway. So... IMO both guitars sound better now, and I've dropped the price by £50 to reflect the price difference between a Gretsch HS and TV filtertron.

This is a gorgeous guitar. I took it to practice last week, and the T-Armond through a loud but clean AC30 with Alnico cream is such a lush sound, especially on the low strings.  Then switching to bridge there's more compression and upper end jangle/ chime. And once there's overdrive/ distortion involved it gets mean and sounds really thick. The body does great acoustic feedback too if you really crank things up, when I got the volume and gain right it's almost e-bow like...

Cirrus

As the french would say... Bump'a'la'bump