Fire in the Hollywood Hills!

This 15 1/2-inch-wide guitar weighs in at 7.50 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a scale length of 24 1/2 inches. Double-bound laminated maple body with painted f-holes, three-piece maple/ebony/maple neck, and ebony fretboard with 22 frets plus zero fret and neo-classic inlaid pearl thumbprint (half-moon) position markers. Brown mahogany-stained headstock with inlaid pearl Gretsch "T-roof" logo and pearloid plastic horseshoe inlay. The serial number ("46223") is on the top edge of the headstock. Individual open-back Grover StaTite tuners with oval metal buttons. Two Filter'Tron pickups with outputs of 4.02k and 4.03k. Gold Lucite pickguard with pantograph-engraved Gretsch "T-roof" logo and "Chet Atkins" signature. Three controls (all volume) and three three-way selectors plus one string damper control. Gretsch "Arrow-through-G" knobs with cross-hatch pattern on sides. Aluminum Bigsby bar bridge and aluminum V-cutout B-6 Bigsby ("Gretsch by Bigsby") vibrato tailpiece with pivoting arm. Pad on body back. All hardware gold-plated. This near mint guitar is exceptionally clean and totally original. In the original "Cowboy" white Tolex and tooled leather hardshell case with burgundy plush lining. This is an unusually attractive example with heavy flaming on the top and back, reminiscent of the color of a Flagstaff sunset!

"In 1962 a profound change occurred in the Model 6120 Chet Atkins Hollowbody: the company introduced its Electrontone hollowbody design, a two-inch-deep, 15 1/2 inch-wide (not 16" as the catalog noted) double cutaway body with replica, not real, f-holes painted on the guitar. So, the Model had been converted from a true f-hole, single cutaway, hollow guitar to a simulated f-hole, double cutaway, semi-hollow instrument" (Jay Scott, The Guitars of the Fred Gretsch Company, p. 83).