These Japanese reissues are uniformly great, and they make a ton of them. This is the 5,360th Gretsch made in the Terada factory in 2004. In August. I got it used, a little fascinated by the way the brass nut made it sing, and happy that it came with the Bigsby bridge intoned for a plain G. And I love Dyna-Sonics, even the Duncan ones used here. And this is my favorite of the many crazy Gretsch control layouts: master volume up front, one for each pickup and a master tone in back, one pickup selector on the top bout. That’s like the Gretsch tele of the 60s.
I wasn’t quite so keen on the buckeroo appointments, but they’ve grown on me. Even the G. Especially the sticks and cacti.
And I love this stick best, on the best of the Gretsch plexi pick guards. It even boasts–it always boasts–my favorite knobs.
And I’ve always especially loved Gretsches with raw aluminum Bigsbys and gold hardware, which I pretty nearly hate almost everywhere else. Gretsch always knew how to ride excess on to wisdom.
Strung with elgtsco 11-49 trem long twists. Gloriously. G is for Gabriel.
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Hello, I have the same guitar but mine is a 2006. You state yours has Seymour Duncans. I heard that they come with Gretsch’s own brand of Dynasonics. Did you add Duncans afterwards or did the previous owner add them? Thanks
Good question. Gretsch does use their own dynasonics as well as T-armonds and Duncans (there are current models using all three). I tried to confirm that mine did use Duncans and couldn’t, but my recollection is that I did confirm it at the time. There have been many versions of the 1620-DS, but the only ones I could find definitive specs for were the current Gretsch offerings. They are the stock pickups.