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The vintage guitar world is full of little bits of minutia, eccentricities and oddballs… nectar for those of us who are seriously addicted…
Over the years I have come across many guitars that are 'different' or 'special' and sometimes unique…

I bought this guitar many years ago…
At that time it was thought to be a 1961 Gretsch Model 6119 Chet Atkins Tennessean with a 2 1/4 inch thick body - and I cataloged it as such…
The absence of the 'signpost' signature on the pickguard was something that I overlooked – but there was a reason for it's absence – and all is explained in my revised description…

A super rare 1961 Gretsch Model 6113.

This super-rare Model 6113 has a 15 3/4-inch-wide, 2 1/4 inch-thick body and weighs just 6.60 lbs. Double-bound (white and black) maple body with two painted-on f-holes (with no white border). Three-piece maple/ebony/maple neck with a nut width of just over 1 1/16 inches, a short scale length of 24 1/2 inches and a medium profile. Unbound rosewood fretboard with 21 original medium-to-small frets and neo-classic inlaid pearloid thumbprint (half-moon) position markers. Black-finished headstock with inlaid pearl Gretsch "T-roof" logo. Two-layer (black on white) plastic truss-rod cover secured by three screws. Serial number impressed into the top edge of the headstock. Individual Grover StaTite tuners with cloverleaf metal buttons. Two Gretsch Hi-Lo'Tron (humbucker) pickups with silver plastic surrounds and outputs of 2.81k and 2.87k. Silver-gray Lucite pickguard with Gretsch "T-roof" logo in black. Three controls (two volume on lower treble bout and one master volume on cutaway bout) plus two three-way tone selector switches on upper bass bout. Chrome "Arrow-through-G" knobs with cross-hatch pattern on sides. Gretsch "bar" bridge on ebony base and aluminum V-cutout Bigsby ("Gretsch by Bigsby") vibrato tailpiece. This rare guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition, with the absolute bare minimum of belt buckle wear on the back of the body, a few tiny marks on the edges (including one small ding on the edge of the treble horn), and a tiny amount of playing wear on the back of the neck. There were less than 200 made of the 6113 with the thicker body (2 1/4 inches deep) no standby switch and no reference to Chet Atkins. Housed in the original Gretsch silver gray hardshell case with five latches and purple velvet lining (8.75).

Stock #603

To read the full description, click on the following link:

http://www.frettedamericana.com/product/1961-gretsch-model-6113