Eras

• The rebirth years: 1988-2002

First registered year

None

Last registered year

None

Body width

16"

Wood

Maple with Spruce top

Scale

24.6"

A smaller, 16-inch-bodied take on the Rancher formula from the pre-Fender years, the Sweet Sixteen was offered in 2002 and 2003 in several colors. The RB was the finished in Regal Blue.

All Sweet Sixteen models featured a solid spruce top, maple back and sides, the traditional Rancher triangular soundhole, multiple layers of binding and X-bracing.

Color choices mirrored the Hot Rod models of the time. Aside from the RB, other choices were Natural, Purple, Tangerine, Black, Anniversary-style two-tone Smoke Green, Gretsch Orange, Tobacco Sunburst and Candy Apple Red.

0 examples are in the Gretsch-GEAR database.

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