frontpage Posted by iconian | Staff • 4d ago
Mar 21, 2025 9:37 PM
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Item 1 of 3
frontpage Posted by iconian | Staff • 4d ago
Mar 21, 2025 9:37 PM
Gretsch G5655TG Electromatic Center Block Jr. Electric Guitar w/ Bigsby (Various)
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I believe it's mostly hit or miss. Lots of reported issues and lots of happy owners at the same time.
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I bought a streamliner semi hollow and it needed a lot of adjustment. Later on I bought two electromatic solid bodies and they were perfect right out of the box, so that's the info I can give you. But I will say that I sold the streamliner to guitar center for $20 less than what I got for it on adorama.
Not saying everyone's will be so nice out of the box, but I wouldn't hesitate on it. Wish I'd gotten it for $50 less
Edit: Looks like that has a center block too so nevermind. I believe the body is slightly larger on the classic. Anywho, is there any rhyme or reason to the numbering of their model numbers, a hierarchy of sorts? With most brands, the higher the #, the better the model. Kind of interested in Gretsches and may jump on one soon.
Edit: Looks like that has a center block too so nevermind. I believe the body is slightly larger on the classic. Anywho, is there any rhyme or reason to the numbering of their model numbers, a hierarchy of sorts? With most brands, the higher the #, the better the model. Kind of interested in Gretsches and may jump on one soon.
T indicates it has a tremolo system.
FM indicates Flame Maple top
They distinguish the guitars mainly by product lines. Starting from the highest quality and highest price:
Custom Shop: All custom made in the USA. Some might be built in small limited runs and a lot may be one offs.
Professional: Highest end regular production models. All made in Japan and over $2,000. Subdivided in to Vintage Select and Player.
Electromatic: upper middle range. Good quality for a moderate price.
Streamliner: Most affordable line.
The numbers may have meant things at some point, but the general idea is that they came from catalog numbers way back when Gretsch made more than just guitars, and the guitars were all in the 6000 series catalog numbers. If they mean more than that now, I don't think anyone outside of Gretsch has really decoded it... unless I'm wrong in which case I'd love to know
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Both have humbucker pickups so they should be pretty minimal noise.