Gretsch has launched two new guitars providing alluring and trendy takes on two traditional designs.

Each reimagined variations of designs courting again to 1958, the C6134TG-58 Restricted Version 1958 Customized Penguin and G6136TG-58 Restricted Version 1958 Customized Falcon arrive as actual lookers, sharing a darkish Emerald Evening end, plus Bigsby tailpieces and TV Jones Ray Butts Ful-Constancy Filter-Tron pickups.

These TV Jones pickups are made in keeping with the non-public notes and designs of late Filter-Tron inventor Ray Butts, and are mentioned to provide a tighter bass response and barely extra high finish than trendy Filter’Tron pickups, whereas the absence of wax potting “leads to a extra open, three-dimensional sound”.

Each fashions share comparable spec sheets, with a Area Management bridge with a pinned ebony base, gold {hardware}, Commonplace U neck profiles and 22 medium jumbo frets. As a forward-thinking appointment, each guitars characteristic Luminlay glow-in-the-dark facet dot fret markers, plus gold plexi pickguards with their respective birds etched in.

When it comes to the place they diverge, the Penguin has a mahogany strong physique and neck with a Bigsby B3GP String-Via vibrato tailpiece. Its physique is chambered identical to the Duo Jet, making it lighter and extra resonant than most solid-body guitars.

The Falcon hole physique has a maple physique and glued-in neck, and it has a Bigsby B6GP String-Via vibrato tailpiece. The physique was constructed with 1959 trestle bracing, operating 2.75” deep.

“Each fashions ship wealthy classic tone with elevated playability,” Gretsch writes. “These uncommon birds are crafted for gamers who need a traditional Gretsch really feel with standout efficiency.⁠”

Each guitars can be found now, with the Penguin priced at £3,739, and the Falcon at £4,339.

Head to Gretsch for extra info.