[markerdown]

So I got my first gretsch. I am trying to find the fretboard radius on a G5120 and can't seem to find this data. I want to upgrade the bridge to a SS compton. Everyone I have spoken to says to download a chart and check it against the guitar. It coud be 9.5 or 12.

The neck does not feel like a strat/tele and being from the fender camp, that's a heck of a difference in fretboard radius. So Gretsch factory has no continuity on production runs? or do they change fretboards from year to year? ............................markerdown

[OpenMike1963]

I'm "pretty certain" that all G5120s have 12" radius necks, but I also know that the g512X series of guitars has been made in at least two different factories since they first appeared on the market. I'm certain that someone with much better knowledge than I have will fill us in in the true facts.

[Bear]

All 5120s and 512X series guitars have a 12" radius regardless of where built.

[jdr1014]

Yes - 12" radius.................that would be 24" diameter

[Sarah93003]

The 5120 we have in the house is a 12" radius

[v8dve]

Yep and mines a 12" too... lol