1956 Gretsch 6022 Rancher Jumbo Flat Top

$9,500.00

  • Year: 1956
  • Manufacturer: Gretsch
  • Model: 6022 Rancher Jumbo Flat Top
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Orange-hued Red
  • Condition: Near Mint
  • Description: This late 1956, 17-inch-wide, 4 1/3-inch deep, jumbo flat top weighs just 5.90 lbs. Close-grained mountain spruce top with "G®" brand and double-bound triangular sound hole, Highly flamed laminated rock maple back and flamed maple sides. Four-ply binding on the body and single-ply binding on the neck and headstock. Two-piece rock maple neck with mahogany center-strip, a nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches, a wonderful medium profile, and a scale length of 25 1/4 inches. Headstock with pearloid Gretsch "T-roof" logo and 'Horse Shoe' inlay. Individual open-back Grover StaTite tuners with oval metal buttons. 'Bullet®' shaped two layer black over white plastic truss-rod cover with three screws. Bound Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 21 original thin frets and 'Hump-Block' pearloid position markers. Original gold lucite pickguard with four screws. Compensated "Rancher" height-adjustable aluminium bridge and slanted 'ridged' metal bar tailpiece on specific shape rosewood base. Inside the sound hole is the original Gretsch rectangular white label with the model number "6022" stamped in black, and the serial number "21489" stamped in red. All hardware gold-plated. This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition. There are a few very small and insignificant surface marks on the body but overall the guitar is in remarkable exceptionally fine to near-mint condition. Housed in the original Gretsch five-latch brown 'Aligator' shaped hardshell case with dark-brown felt lining (9.25). This guitar was formerly owned by the late John Entwistle of The Who, and auctioned at Sotheby's Entwistle Sale, May 13, 2003, lot 124. In the studio (using this, Entwistle's), and during The Who's 1996-97 Quadraphenia Tour Roger Daltry played a later 6022 for the acoustic guitar part to Who Are You? You can see him play it on tour on YouTube (at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44rweQpitw8). (01322)