Owned by

senojnad

Body style

Single Cutaway Hollowbody

Color(s)

Sunset Orange

Fretboard

Rosewood with Block inlays

Nut

Unknown

Pickups

TV Jones T-Armond

Tuners

Grover StaTite

Bridge

Compensated Bigsby

Tailpiece

Bigsby B-7

Modifications

None. The would just be WRONG.

Unusual factory features

Nothing unusual. Just plain GORGEOUS!

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6 months ago Last modified 2018-10-23 10:47:18

My first encounter with the ’55 Chet Atkins guitar was in Gretsch’s “Guitars For Moderns” catalog in 1955. I think the only guitars in that catalog that did NOT stir up fantasies were the Chet Atkins models, with the western appointments, even though I was an avid Chet Atkins fan. But as a growing "man" of 13 living in Philadelphia where we had Rock & Roll and Bandstand, I could NOT get into that “country” stuff.

Fast forward 6+ decades, and this guitar moved itself to the top of my bucket list!