So all Errors and Omissions are Accepted should there be any misdescriptions. Please see description of this item for details.Īlthough we do our best describing the guitars we are yet to have any returns on items being not described as they are here. Any significant cosmetic damage is shown in the photos so please take the time to look through and make sure you are happy with the condition before buying. The G6636T Players Edition Falcon Center Block Double-Cut with String-Thru Bigsby is an innovative new version of the venerable Falcon, with a slightly. Pre Owned Equipment is often subject to some wear depending on age and how well it has been looked after. It features a beautiful 1 '-deep double-cutaway three-ply maple body with a 16' lower bout, arched top and back, multi-ply sparkle appointments and oversized f. If you have any questions about this item or would like to talk to someone about it, please call us direct on 01625 433033 and speak to one of our store staff who will be happy to help.įor EUROPE shipping please message with postal code for precise priceĪs well as buying 2nd hand items for cash we are also happy to take items as part exchange against new and 2nd hand items, so if you have anything to part exchange please email us with details of any part exchange. The Gretsch Professional Collection introduces an innovative new version of the venerable Falcon design with the arrival of the G6139T-CBDC Falcon Center-Block Double Cut-Away guitar. So they do provide a fence post in the window of production opportunity a particular guitar or its batch was made.We can ship this item worldwide via UPS courier – fully tracked and insured to your door. But the fact remains that a Gretsch guitar could not be produced before the pots used inside (assuming they are original). As the success of the golden era pushed Gretsch production, toward and then through the boom of the 60s (Dan Duffy's characterization) they were buying pots in much larger quantities, lessening the value of of that data. In the early-mid 50s they bought smaller lots of pots and therefore they are more reliable to assist in dating Gretsch guitars. only to be used many months later in a batch of guitars that otherwise have much younger pots. Produced as a single cutaway from model year 1958 through model year 1961, there’s a simple understated elegance to this version of the Gent. Dan Duffy explained that the periodic "much older" pots that surface are because they kept these in buckets on the production line, and when the supply was getting low they would refresh with newer pots, right on top of the older one's that sometimes remained at the bottom of the bucket for a long time. And given the 500 price tage, a substantial sum of money in 1958, it sold in limited numbers (in Gretsch’s electric line, only the White Falcon was more expensive). Granted pot codes don't tell you everything and I don't know how quickly Gretsch was cycling through pots at that time, but I'm sure they'd tell us something useful.Ĭlick to expand.I can certify that they did NOT religiously abide to the FIFO standard. USA Custom Shop Tom Petersson Signature 12-String Falcon Bass. I would be that they would more likely correspond to a 1962 or 1963 Anniversary. G6636T Players Edition Falcon Center Block Double-Cut with String-Thru Bigsby. I.e., I would bet my paycheck that the pots on the "1960" flip-up mute Falcon would not correspond to the pot codes on a 1960 Anniversary. The value of that would be that then you could compare pot codes on Falcons to pot codes on more common models. If I could snap my fingers and conjure up a complete set of data points it would be pot codes for this batch of Falcons. But when you see a single cut with flip-up mutes, it makes you realize that nothing can be assumed. Then finally double cuts with flip-up mutes. Then some double cuts with dial-up mutes. Then you'd see a handful of single cuts with dial-up mutes. The most logical order of things would be that the start of this batch would be single cut, no mutes. But exactly how production flowed would be pure conjecture. ![]() And there probably wasn't much point in dedicating the time and resources to labor intensive guitars that they knew would be ordered only on a sporadic basis compared to other models. Dan Duffy mentioned how much the factory workers hated dealing with Falcons, so that may be at least partially the reason for spreading out the misery. Did they fabricate 10 or 50 or 100 bodies at once? Bind them all together, one at a time, or small batches? Same with attaching necks, or finishing. But I haven't got the slightest clue what may or may not have happened before then. ![]() When you see certain features that didn't exist before a certain time, that suggests it couldn't have been completed before a certain time frame. When I say "completed" that's exactly what I mean. Click to expand.There's absolutely more than meets the eye. 1964 Gretsch White Falcon, Double Cutaway SKU: GRE0330 0.
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