The pickup rings are now vintage-style moulded
surrounds, but the Black Top Filter’Tron pickups are
suspended from the rings like Gibson humbuckers
and there are two screws on the bass side to adjust
the angle relative to the strings as well as pickup
KEY FEATURES
G6120T PLAYERS EDITION NASHVILLE
DESCRIPTION Hollowbody archtop electric guitar.
Made in Japan
PRICE £2,609 (inc. hard case)
BUILD Laminated 57mm maple body with trestle bracing, maple
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with pearloid Neo-Classic thumbnail inlays and 22 frets
HARDWARE V-Cut B6GP String-Thru Bigsby, Rocking Bar bridge,
Gotoh locking tuners, G-Arrow knobs
ELECTRONICS 2x High Sensitive Filter’Tron humbucking pickups,
master volume, master tone, individual pickup volume controls,
3-way selector switch
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STRING SPACING 35.2mm at nut, 52.8mm at bridge
WEIGHT 3.35kg/7.38lb
LEFT HANDERS Yes
FINISHES Orange StainA well-considered update on a classic-era 6120,
8 /10 with tone tweaks and prudent hardware changes
height. Gretsch also added thumbnail inlays, a treble
bleed on the master volume and a bridge that’s
secured by drilling two small holes into the top that
accommodate the bridge posts protruding from the
base of the bridge.
In 2016, Gretsch began organising the Professional
Collection into three categories – Vintage Select
reissues, Players Edition models with modern
featuresets, and the Signature Series. The tagline
for the High Sensitive Filter’Tron-equipped Players
Edition line-up is “Every Song, Every Night”, with
the aim of providing a stable, gig-friendly instrument
straight out of the box (something that couldn’t
always be claimed of Gretsches of old).
Player-oriented features include a pinned bridge,
locking tuners, a Graph Tech Tusq XL nut, medium-
jumbo frets, shallower bodies, a dressed-away heel
shape, no-load tone control, a treble-bleed circuit on
the master volume and String-Thru Bigsbys.
This is enticing news for anybody who has
struggled to keep their ball ends latched onto Bigsby
pins when they’re re-stringing [ie, everybody except
for octopi – Ed]. Pinless Bigsbys allow you to thread
strings straight through the roller bar and top wrap –
much like a Gibson-style wrapover bridge.REVIEWSGUITAR MAGAZINE 97