"Extremely Rare...Only a Few Are Known To Exist" .

This incredible 18-inch-wide, 4 1/3 inches deep, Jumbo Flat Top weighs just 6.20 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of just under 1 3/4 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Close-grained "X-Braced" spruce top. Highly figured book-matched 'quilted' curly maple back and sides. Asymmetrical, non-trussrod Gretsch "miracle neck" (three-piece flamed maple neck with two mahogany center-strips) and a wonderful medium profile. Black (pyralin plastic) faced 'light-bulb' shaped headstock. Individual Grover Imperial tuners with gold-plated stair-step metal buttons. Triangular soundhole. Ebony fretboard with twenty medium frets and inlaid pearl hump-top block position markers, each with two gold sparkle 'slashes'. Unique shaped raised (about 1/4 inch) black triple-bound celluloid pickguard with three screws. Gretsch stairstep "synchrosonic" ebony bridge on ebony base. Gretsch "Chromatic" harp-shaped ebony tailpiece with gold-plated 'ridged' stop-bar. Housed in the original Lifton four latch brown hardshell case with purple plush lining (9.00).