{"product_id":"c-1939-gretsch-flat-top-1612","title":"c.1939 Gretsch Flat-Top","description":"No serial number.  One of the best sounding blues fingerpickers we've had through the shop in a while, this OM-sized flat-top has all the mid-range pop you'd want, with big, full, round trebles, and a dry and present fundamental.  It's built with a solid Red spruce top and mahogany sides and back, and features wide-X top bracing and transverse tone-bars.  If you've ever wanted a guitar that marries the tone of ladder and X bracing -- this is it.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nThe mahogany neck has a full-feeling soft V profile, a long 25.8\" scale length and 1-3\/4\" nut.  Bound ebonized maple fingerboard with pearl dot inlays, triple-bound body and soundhole, Brazilian rosewood pyramid bridge, plastic headstock overlay, and cool double-bound tortoise-celluloid pickguard.  The guitar is completely original but for 1960's replacement tuners, and it's in remarkably good condition.  No cracks, no internal repairs, unworn frets, gorgeous original finish with a bit of buckle rash on the back.  The neck has been nicely reset, and the guitar plays well.  Set up by Folkway. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nWe've never encountered this model Gretsch flat-top before, and can't tell you what model it is with any real certainty.  Michael Wright makes mention of a Kay-built Grand Concert Size Spanish Guitar No. 20, in his \"Guitar Stories Vol. 2\" (Vintage Guitar Books, 2000,pg. 126), with a description that matches this guitar well.  It is almost certainly Kay built, and the trim, headstock logo, and neck carve are quite distinctive of the late 1930's. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\nWith chipboard case\r\n","brand":"GRETSCH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53610546463086,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0979\/3660\/5550\/files\/Gretsch-1112-main.jpg?v=1790964941","url":"https:\/\/folkwaymusic.com\/products\/c-1939-gretsch-flat-top-1612","provider":"Folkway Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}