The Gretsch G5422G-12 Electromatic Hollow Body is a new 12-string that has a handful of new improvements on their classic 5422. There’s the treble bleed on the master volume, a new 4-ply binding on the body and a rebound headstock. The 5-ply Maple tonewood body has been shaped with a thinline hollowbody profile with elegant bound over-size f-holes and the vintage aesthetic of their historic models is enhanced with gold hardware…
Other features of the Gretsch G5422G-12 Electromatic include a Maple neck, bound Rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium frets and Pearloid Neo-classic ‘Thumbnail’ Markers, silver plexi pickguard with Gretsch Electromatic Logo, three-position pickup switch, classic “G” arrow control knobs, Rosewood-based Adjusto-Matic bridge and Bigsby-licensed B60 vibrato tailpiece, vintage-style open-back tuners and chrome-plated hardware.
When the Gretsch R&D team recently unearthed a Baldwin-era Filter’Tron pickup with knockout punch and phenomenal twang, they incorporated its DNA into dynamic new “Black Top” Filter’Tron pickups, which now endow Electromatic hollow-body instruments such as the G5422G with an electrifying new voice and identity.
- Series: Gretsch® Electromatic Collection
- Build: Hollow Body
- Cutaway: Double Cutaway
- Body: 5-Ply Maple
- Body Shape: Electromatic® Hollow Body
- Bracing: Sound Post
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Scale Length: 25.5″ (64.8 cm)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Radius: 12″ (305 mm)
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
- Nut: Graph Tech® TUSQ XL
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Hump-Block
- Headstock: Late ’50s Gretsch
- Neck Plate: NA
- Bridge Pickup: Blacktop™ Filter’Tron™
- Neck Pickup: Blacktop™ Filter’Tron™
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume, Master Tone
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Pickup Configuration: FT/FT
- Bridge: Adjusto-Matic™ with Secured Rosewood Base
- Tuning Machines: Die-Cast
- Pickguard: Gold Plexi with Black Gretsch Logo
- Control Knobs: G-Arrow
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Colors: Black, Walnut Stain
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel .011-.049
- Country manufactured: South Korea
