Description
The Gretsch Country Gent (model 7670, if we’re being formal) is a highly addictive guitar and incredibly difficult to put it down. Like a luxurious old Cadillac, this guitar oozes big, rounded, ostentatious goodness. It feels heavy on your knee, (it’s bigger and heavier than the equivalent Gibson 335) yet it’s beautifully balanced. The neck is a slightly flattened C profile and boasts a 22 fret ebony fingerboard. It’s powerful like a big block V8 but you have a smooth knurled metal master volume control to tame it. This guitar is all about the American Dream – oh, and it plays like a dream, too.
Everything on this Country Gent is original, even the case and that oh so desirable signature Chet Atkins pickguard. There’s some oxidisation to the tuner buttons, but no metal corrosion anywhere else. Lovely vintage finish crackles all over, especially on the headstock, lend this guitar a serious dignified elder statesman air. If this guitar was a country gentleman rather than just being called a Country Gentleman, I’d like to think it would be Ted Kennedy.
Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gent
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17” double cutaway semi hollow body
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Mahogany colour
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Bound top, back, neck, headstock and f holes
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22 fret ebony board
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Thumb print fret markers
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Master volume and individual volume controls
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Pickup selector and three way tone toggle switches
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Bigsby tailpiece
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Grover Imperial tuners
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Adjustamatic bridge
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Gold plated hardware
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Original wooden hard case
7670 Tags
7670, Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gent, Gretsch, semi hollow, vintage electric guitar, bigsby, filtertron