KEY FEATURES
G5420T ELECTROMATIC
DESCRIPTION Hollowbody archtop electric guitar. Made in Korea
PRICE £989
BUILD Laminated 70mm maple body with sound post, maple set
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HARDWARE Licensed Bigsby B60, Adjusto-Matic bridge,
open-back tuners, G-Arrow knobs
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master volume, master tone, individual pickup volume controls,
3-way selector switch
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LEFT HANDERS Yes (no Bigsby)
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Candy Apple RedVintage style, impressive pickups and tremendous
upgrade potential – this is the bargain of the bunchbraces. This also couples the front and back, but here,
there are four contact points – two in the vicinity of
the bridge and two close to the neck block.
All three of these models’ necks are different.
The Streamliner’s is the chunkiest, with a deep ‘U’9 /10
BUILD AND HARDWARE
All three guitars here have the same control layout,
with a master volume, individual volume controls, a
master tone control and a three-way pickup-selector
switch. The bodies are maple ply, but the Players
Edition is 13mm thinner than the others.
The fingerboards are different too, moving from
laurel, to rosewood and finally ebony as prices
increase. The Adjusto-Matic bridges on the cheaper
models may seem more sophisticated, but the Players
Edition bar bridge offers superior tone and we
experience no intonation issues.
Despite the similarities in the materials used to
build all three guitars, there are significant differences
in the way they’re assembled and a quick glimpse
through the various f-holes reveals all.
The Streamliner is a bona-fide archtop, with
two braces glued to the underside of the top. The
Electromatic and Players Edition are constructed
in much the same way, but the Electromatic has a
substantial post beneath the bridge area that couples
the front and back of its body.
The Players Edition has 50s-era ‘trestle bracing’- two elongated and inverted ‘U’ shaped pieces of
spruce that are glued to the underside of the top
REVIEWS
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