6118 "Double" Anniversary

Two-tone green

46 examples are in the Gretsch-GEAR database.

Specs

Body width: 16"
Wood: Maple
Scale: 24.6"

1958 6118 "Double" Anniversary ???58
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary 30107
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary 30110
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary 30159
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary 31126
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary 311XX
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary 33263
1960 6118 "Double" Anniversary 34355
1960 6118 "Double" Anniversary 741XX
1962 6118 "Double" Anniversary 459XX
1962 6118 "Double" Anniversary 48004
1962 6118 "Double" Anniversary 51864
1963 6118 "Double" Anniversary 59524
1963 6118 "Double" Anniversary 62546
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 564XX
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 64839
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 657XX
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 70746
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 71693
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 72376
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 72397
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 72411
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 75419
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary 76262
1966 6118 "Double" Anniversary 86670
1967 6118 "Double" Anniversary 127718
1967 6118 "Double" Anniversary 17468
1968 6118 "Double" Anniversary
1968 6118 "Double" Anniversary 882XX
1992 6118 "Double" Anniversary 9212118-1
1996 6118 "Double" Anniversary 997118-675
1997 6118 "Double" Anniversary 978118-485
1999 6118 "Double" Anniversary 999118-720
1999 6118 "Double" Anniversary 999118-765
2001 6118 "Double" Anniversary 0110118-1111
2001 6118 "Double" Anniversary 013118-961
2001 6118 "Double" Anniversary 0191181037
2002 6118 "Double" Anniversary 022118-1176
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary JF050500XX
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary JF05050072
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary JF05080038
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary JF05080060
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary JT050601XX
2006 6118 "Double" Anniversary JF060100XX
2007 6118 "Double" Anniversary JT070825XX
2007 6118 "Double" Anniversary JT07093000

1958 6118 "Double" Anniversary
???58
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary
30107
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary
30110
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary
30159
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary
31126
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary
311XX
1959 6118 "Double" Anniversary
33263
1960 6118 "Double" Anniversary
34355
1960 6118 "Double" Anniversary
741XX
1962 6118 "Double" Anniversary
459XX
1962 6118 "Double" Anniversary
48004
1962 6118 "Double" Anniversary
51864
1963 6118 "Double" Anniversary
59524
1963 6118 "Double" Anniversary
62546
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
564XX
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
64839
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
657XX
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
70746
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
71693
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
72376
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
72397
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
72411
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
75419
1964 6118 "Double" Anniversary
76262
1966 6118 "Double" Anniversary
86670
1967 6118 "Double" Anniversary
127718
1967 6118 "Double" Anniversary
17468
1968 6118 "Double" Anniversary
1968 6118 "Double" Anniversary
882XX
1992 6118 "Double" Anniversary
9212118-1
1996 6118 "Double" Anniversary
997118-675
1997 6118 "Double" Anniversary
978118-485
1999 6118 "Double" Anniversary
999118-720
1999 6118 "Double" Anniversary
999118-765
2001 6118 "Double" Anniversary
0110118-1111
2001 6118 "Double" Anniversary
013118-961
2001 6118 "Double" Anniversary
0191181037
2002 6118 "Double" Anniversary
022118-1176
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JF050500XX
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JF05050072
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JF05080038
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JF05080060
2005 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JT050601XX
2006 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JF060100XX
2007 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JT070825XX
2007 6118 "Double" Anniversary
JT07093000

1958

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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???58

Years ago when my dad and family started fooling around with guitars, a neighbor stopped buy and asked him if he wanted to buy this Gretch. Dad bought it for $60.00 and years later, he gave it to me. I had focused on keyboards, sax, some banjo, violin, drums and 12-string so for him to give it to me was a surprise.

1959

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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30107

1959

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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30159

When I bought this guitar the original 2-tone smoke green finish had been stripped and refinished in clear. The only original features appeared to be the wood, pick-ups and wiring loom - all else was repro/replacement. A clumsy headstock repair had been overpainted with a stinger. Joe and Curt brought this ol' girl back to life better than I could have hoped - thanks guys!

1959

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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31126

Used it for 2 shows on consecutive weeks in 2002 at CBGB in NYC with my rockabilly band Wanda Jackson 5.

1959

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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311XX

i had found a fairly cool 1959 chet tennessean at a music story in hollywood that i wanted to buy, but i lacked the robert deniro. soon after spotting that guitar, i left out on the road with a country bar band. after a few weeks of frugal living i had saved up enough bucks to make the purchase. the only caveat was i was a mere 1500 miles from home. Back then there was a thing called western union (paypal wasn't even a thought in the late 80's) where ...

1959

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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33263

1960

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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34355

A very sentimental "Green Gretsch"! I call it "The Ed Rod" Gretsch! One of the first "Gretsches" I've ever seen in the real! It belonged to my first guitar teacher, "Ed Rod", back in 1965! "Ed Rod" (Ed Rodriques) was a Bay area legend back in the 60's and taught alot of us, managed a band called "The Juveniles" for four generations, was welll known and liked by many ,,, Anyway, He said he bought it new in 1960 right after he got out of the Navy and had it ...

1960

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741XX

3rd owner. Originally purchased from Sam Ash Music on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. Have letter from 1st owner saying he got it for his 19th birthday in 1960. As nice a Double Annie as you ever see. No hazing, cracking or crazing. Plays like butter. Sounds like heaven, especially through my 1959 6161 Dual Twin & '63-'64 6149 Reverb unit.

1962

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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459XX

I found this guitar in the basement of my uncles house. He bought it at a pawn shop in Texas in the '70s for $150. I recently bought it off of him.

1962

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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48004

The guitar came to me with 2x generic dog ear P90's nailed to the top,covering very rough holes that had cut into the bracing. The original 2 tone green had been badly sanded off, and the neck had started to 'ramp',and the bracing was parting from the top...tho' it did have a recent fret job......So with some glueing,clamping,fitting of 1/2'' dowels to support bracing by pickups and rewiring later,it has turned out to be an amazing player with low action and great sound,tidy!

1962

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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51864

Ebay buy in great condition with original hard case,plays and sounds great,love it

1963

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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62546

I got it for $600 at a nefarious guitar store in Cambridge,MA that was only in business for a short time and the salesman knew nothing about the guitar or where it came from.

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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64839

I dont know a whole lot about this guitar, i picked it up at a little pawn shop in Chesapeake City Md. I was just lucky enough to be there when it was put up for sale. I told them i would give them $600 for it and they said ok, and thats the story.

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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657XX

Bought from Nashville dealer liquidating an estate

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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71693

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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72376

Guitar was given to me, someone painted it dark brown with a paint brush. I stripped it down then took it to Ron Pace in Houston TX for restoration. He does GREAT work ! Need an original case.

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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72397

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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72411

This was a mess that Otto D'Ambrosio had and he fixed it up nice. Red sparkle refin, waffle tuners, and white DeArmonds. This guitar was used for a bit by Jimmy Vivino.

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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75419

1964

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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76262

My stepfather purchased this 6118 in a secondhand store in Ames, Iowa around 1968. He played it in country swing bands in the Ames-Des Moines area for several years while finishing college at ISU. He kept the guitar well maintained until 2012, when I acquired it from him, along with a early 1970's Peavey 300 Classic amp (Tubes, reverb, 4 x 10" speakers). This guitar sounds so good it should be illegal. Thanks, Larry, for taking such good care of it all these years. It's now a family heirloom.

1966

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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86670

I was given this guitar by my father around 1974. He bought if from someone and was told it was a 1959 Anniversary model, but I believe it's the 1966. I've never made any changes to it, just tried to keep it in good shape. I think everything on it is original. Minor chips and scratches on it, they were there when I received it. I try to take good care of it, mostly keep it in it's original case.

1967

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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127718

Found out that if you gave a 'best offer' on ebay and the seller accepts, that you've actually bought the guitar :-) haven't regret it for a day, this has been my main guitar ever since!

1968

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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882XX

1992

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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9212118-1

The only Double Anniversary prototype available in the world today This "GGP6118" was made for inspection by Fred Gretsch himself in Dec '92 before official launch of the G6118 in 1993. It was kept under wraps until 2000 and the OK card. Serial number denotes it as (GGP) Gretsch Guitars Prototype, December 1992 number 1! It has "Prototype Fred Gretsch April 2000" handwritten by Fred himself. About this beautiful rare guitar.... Unlike the production guitar this has a bound fingerboard, 1893-1993 dates on the nameplate, G Machines and the pickguard ...

1996

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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997118-675

One of my Favorite "Go To" Gretsches! :)

1997

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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978118-485

Purchased from Midnight Music, Pittsburgh, PA in 1998

1999

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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999118-720

Daniel Thorne (current owner 12 -): I am now the privileged owner of this gem of a guitar as of Feb 2012, which I acquired from a chap in Sydney, Australia who had previously imported it in December 2011 from the aforementioned drumBob below. Can hardly believe I managed to find it and apparently had to stave off a few competitors to get her and boy am I glad I did. After coming from a G5120, this is leaps and bounds a better instrument, so much easier to play, it ...

1999

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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999118-765

I'm the third owner of this guitar. It's spent it's formative years residing in Wales where it was used extensively by indie recording artists in the area. I drove to Wales with the cash feel in love and left with the guitar.

2001

6118 "Double" Anniversary

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013118-961

I grew up listening to my Dad play his 6120 Gretsch, Chet Atkins. December of 2009 I was with my wife looking for Christmas gifts in a small local toy store. The store also has some science items, and had some guitars displayed on a shelf near the ceiling around the room. My wife looked over at me, and I guess I was just standing there looking up at this cool green Gretsch, with a childlike "Someday" gaze. She walked over to see what was so interesting and she saw ...