One of the Very Few Country Clubs with a Spruce Top!

This guitar (with serial number "31062") is one of the very few Country Clubs with a Spruce top! It weighs 7.80 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Laminated maple back and sides, laminated spruce top with two large double-bound f-holes, three-piece maple/ebony/maple neck, and double-bound ebony fretboard with 21 frets and neo-classic inlaid pearl thumbprint (half-moon) position markers. Headstock with inlaid pearl Gretsch "T-roof" logo. Two "Pat. Applied For" Filter'Tron pickups with outputs of 9.50k and 8.95k. Black Lucite pickguard with Gretsch "T-roof" logo in white engraved from underneath. Three volume controls (volume for each pickup on lower treble bout and one master volume on cutaway bout) and two three-way pickup selector switches on upper bass bout. Metal "Arrow-through-G" knobs with cross-hatch pattern on sides. Space Control bridge on an ebony base and "G" cutout tailpiece. All hardware gold-plated (somewhat dull). A few tiny marks on the top, otherwise this guitar is in exceptionally fine condition. Housed in the original Gretsch gray hardshell case with purple plush lining (9.00).

"The Country Club was in many ways Gretsch's most traditional guitar...[and] also among the company's best. Among Gretsch's first commercially successful electrics, the Country Clubs were directly descended from the 6030 and 6031 of the Synchromatic line, which were in turn directly descended from the pre-war 'cat-eye' Synchromatic 300. In other words, the 6192 and 6193 Country Clubs were 17-inch pedigreed jazz boxes when they were introduced in 1951. They were the largest Gretsch electric models, other than the White Falcon, and the only guitars in the line other than the Falcon to use a spruce top, although spruce is rarely found after '55" (see The Gretsch Pages at http://www.gretschpages.com/models/6192club/index.php).