Description
Vintage Select Chet Atkins Hollow Body with 1959 Trestle Bracing
The G6120T-59 Vintage Select Edition '59 Chet Atkins is a hollow body guitar built around the construction details of the 1959 G6120. The body is laminated maple with 1959-style trestle bracing, which connects the top and back internally. The finish is Vintage Orange Stain in gloss nitrocellulose lacquer, with aged white binding and B/I purfling. Made in Japan.
The neck is maple with a Vintage “V” profile and an ebony fingerboard. Scale length is 24.6", nut width is 1.6875", and the board has a 12" radius with 22 vintage small frets and pearloid neo-classic thumbnail inlays. The nut is genuine bone.
TV Jones Filter'Tron Classic Pickups & Controls
Both neck and bridge positions carry TV Jones Filter'Tron Classic pickups. Controls include individual volume knobs for each pickup, a master volume, G-Arrow knobs, a 3-position pickup toggle, and a 3-position tone switch. The circuit includes “Squeezebox” capacitors.
Hardware & Appointments
Hardware is nickel throughout. The tailpiece is a Bigsby B6C vibrato with Gretsch logo, paired with a pinned rocking bar bridge. Tuners are Grover V98 Sta-Tite open-back. The pickguard is gold plexi with a black Gretsch logo and a signpost graphic. Body binding is aged white with B/I purfling.
