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.

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  • 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
 

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