G6131MY-CS Custom Shop Malcolm Young "Salute" Jet™
Malcolm Young, we salute you. At long last, Gretsch honors the guitarist whose rock-solid rhythm guitar swagger and songwriting provided the unshakable foundation for Australia's most beloved musical export, AC/DC, for more than 40 years.
The G6131MY-CS Custom Shop Malcolm Young "Salute" Jet™ pays faithful homage to Young's famously battle-hardened instrument, which began life in 1963 as a red Gretsch Jet Firebird handed down to him by Harry Vanda and elder brother George Young (of Easybeats fame) and nicknamed "The Beast." Malcolm certainly made the instrument his own, not least by removing two of the three pickups, stripping away the finish, and pounding out some of the hardest rocking rhythm guitar ever heard in either hemisphere.
The G6131MY-CS Custom Shop Malcolm Young "Salute" Jet is a meticulously crafted Gretsch Custom Shop recreation accurate down to every last nick, scratch and dent acquired over Young's long and raucously illustrious career.
Specs
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General
Model Number 2410106821 Series Gretsch® USA Custom Shop Family Jet™ Color Natural Number of Strings 6 Orientation Right-Hand
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Body
Build Solid Body Cutaway Double Cutaway Body Finish Lacquer Body Shape Jet™ Body Material Mahogany Bracing Chambered Body Binding White Body Top Laminated Maple Body Depth 2" (51 mm)
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Miscellaneous
Strings Nickel Plated Steel (.012-.056 Gauges) Case/Gig Bag Vintage-Style Hardshell
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Neck
Neck Material Mahogany Neck Finish Heavy Relic® Lacquer Neck Shape Standard "U" Neck Binding White Scale Length 24.6" (625 mm) Fingerboard Radius 12" (305 mm) Fingerboard Material Ebony Number of Frets 22 (Plus Zero Fret) Fret Size Medium Jumbo Nut Material Bone Nut Width 1.6875" (42.86 mm) Position Inlays Pearloid Neo-Classic™ Thumbnail Neck Plate NA
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Hardware
Bridge Space Control™ Hardware Finish Nickel/Gold-Plated Tailpiece Gretsch '60s Jet Vibrato Tuning Machines Schaller® Diecast Pickguard None Control Knobs G-Arrow
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Electronics
Bridge Pickup TV Jones® Filter'Tron™ Classic Controls Volume 1. (Bridge Pickup), Master Volume, Master Tone Pickup Switching None Pickup Configuration S