Documented Gretsch Lore: The CHERRY BLOSSOM INCIDENT...

  1. You heard it HERE first...

    SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (July 30, 2012) – Sometimes with good intensions, even the best well laid out plans can go haywire, with glorious results. Case in point…

    An experienced painter at the Gretsch factory begins prepping top coats on two-hundred (200) of the NEW Electromatc® G5422TDCG double-cutaway guitars in the color “Snow Crest White”. What the painter didn’t realize was he had connected the source paint supply with a contaminated feed line that was freshly used to color a run of guitars in Cherry Red.

    Once the paint cured on the guitars, the shop foreman questioned the painter on his method that created the now gorgeous high-gloss white finish that embodied a hint of red tint, a color that WASN’T scheduled to be produced. Embarrassed and unsure at the time how the mis-hap occurred, the painter in an effort to save face responded with confidence, “what you see before you is not guitars painted the wrong color, but 200 instruments finished in the shade, CHERRY BLOSSOM.”

    Limited global quantity of 200 units – G5422TDCG Cherry Blossom Hollow Body Electric p/n 2504814569

  2. I think I like that better than the stark white...I'll have to track one down in person and take a look. Nice story, Joe!

  3. As those in the software biz would say, "It's not a bug, it's a FEATURE!"

    Or as Pee Wee Herman put it so well,

  4. Beauty eh.

  5. Can the painter do this with other colours too, please? Some blue, some green, some amber... ;-)

  6. I love it when a plan comes together...oh, wait a minute!

    I think the color looks great. Cherry Blossoms are beautiful in Japan when they bloom in April. This makes me think of the Sheryl Crow song "Favorite Mistake".

  7. That's cool, now try doing it again. Or was Randy Travis spraying? :D

  8. If you need a home for one of those "mistakes", I'm sure I could take one into permanent foster care for you. :D

  9. Is this true? If so, where can I find one?!

  10. i would buy that no problem !!

  11. I love it when a plan comes together...oh, wait a minute!

    I think the color looks great. Cherry Blossoms are beautiful in Japan when they bloom in April. This makes me think of the Sheryl Crow song "Favorite Mistake".

    – BuddyHollywood

    Rumor has it Sheryl wrote that song about Eric Clapton.

  12. wow...stunning! I so love that color...I agree with Anne, I'd buy me that one! The painter needs a raise!

  13. dont be surprised if that painter is a VP someday ,, thats quick thinking ,,,, bet he could talk a dog off a meat wagon

  14. Love it!

    Maybe the VP painter is taking bribes. Hmmmm, what color....

  15. Joe, you know I want one.

  16. ser·en·dip·i·ty   [ser-uhn-dip-i-tee] noun 1) an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
    2) good fortune; luck: the serendipity of getting the first job she applied for.

    Joe, a quick question: Why does the model name (G5422TDCG Cherry Blossom Hollow Body) contain the designation for a Cadillac Green version of the G5422?

  17. Hey Joe, why don't you make the first 30 a GDP exclusive....??

  18. +1 for that!

  19. ser·en·dip·i·ty   [ser-uhn-dip-i-tee] noun 1) an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
    2) good fortune; luck: the serendipity of getting the first job she applied for.

    Joe, a quick question: Why does the model name (G5422TDCG Cherry Blossom Hollow Body) contain the designation for a Cadillac Green version of the G5422?

    – Ric12string

    Joe's a busy guy --- I can answer that one:

    G5422 Thinline Doublecut Cherryblossom Goof 8-)

  20. Men,

    It takes a real man to play a pink guitar.

    Paul/FF909

  21. Sweet.

    I'm still loving that "stark white" one Joe:D

    It's special to me ;-)

  22. dont be surprised if that painter is a VP someday ,, thats quick thinking ,,,, bet he could talk a dog off a meat wagon

    – Anne

    Maybe he's a Jedi?

    "White is not the paint you wanted . . . cherry blossom."

  23. This incident is indeed a TRUE story. And Parabar is CORRECT... almost.

    G5422Tremolo, Double-Cut, Gold Hardware

  24. I wish I could see it bigger, its too small on my ipad to see the red tint.

    Im going to be getting a white one soon, so this is definately on my radar. Thanks for sharing Joe

  25. Thanks, Joe. That is a great story. So...what are the chances of 'goofing' a run of the new 12-stings in a natural finish? :)

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