How long did it take you to get your first Gretsch after you started playing guitar?

[radd]

40 or so years.

I got this, what a heavy beast…..Long gone

 

[mbkri]

15 years. I began playing as a teenager but got my first Gretsch as a 30th birthday present from my wife. We flew from London to Kentucky to buy it. A used ‘72 Country Gent.
Ive been a Gretsch player ever since.

 

[Chris MC]

My 5420 was my first guitar. It was a 5420 in the guitar store window that made me want to start playing.

 

[GreTschocaster]

47 years, I got my first guitar in 1965. I played solid body guitars, mostly Stratocasters, until I bought a Gretsch G5120 to see if I liked a hollowbody.

 

[Craig Encinitas]

51 days.
14 days later for my second Gretsch.
44 days after buying the first one, it was returned to GC. That would be the one below. 5410T

 

[Baba Joe]

I finally got my Country Gentleman 56 years after starting my guitar playing obsession. It was worth the wait and the patience saving for that beauty

I know what you mean. It took me over 53 years to get my grail 6122-1962.

 

[Lucky Jim]

15 years for me. I’d played Gretsches in guitar stores in my teens but they cost way more than I could afford so settled for a used ‘58 d/c Les Paul Jr (very cheap in those days). Then progressed to a used ‘62 Gibson ES-335 - also cheaper than any Gretsch in the U.K. at that time. Finally, after fifteen years, a used ‘57 Duo Jet (exactly like George’s) and a Gretsch amp to go with it. Bliss.

It was then another looooong wait for my next Gretsch………

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

35-40 years give or take.

 

[Desirsar]

23 years. It was originally 14 years between first guitar and first bass. In the last two years, I added two guitars, another bass, a drum kit, and a ukulele.

 

[GlenP]

For my 51st birthday, I was fully intending to get a G5420T, but saw this one on sale and it came home with me.

First guitar was in 1985,
first Gretch in 2019,
so 34 years.

(PS-three years later, I have three Gretsches, and my first and only Fender and first and only Gibson.)

 

[Highroller]

I'm gonna guesstimate about 25 years, give or take a few. Long time, but for a good chunk of those years you couldn't just walk into a music store and buy one anyway.

They were basically out of business for most of the 80's and early 90's.

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[Dansimpson]

50 years, I couldnt afford one till they did the Jim Dandy....

 

[juks]

30 years. Then it sat in the case for almost 10 before I actually started playing again. Where would I be had I been practicing all that time?

 

[twangmanster]

Oh boy! Not an easy question to answer for strange reason. I'd say 45 years. Jeeze, I'm not that old!

 

[wabash slim]

Forty years or so.

 

[audept]

47 years. Started playing in 1963. Didn't play between 1970 and 2009, bought a 6120-1959LTV in 2010.

 

[Randy99CL]

Less than two months. GC put the G2622 WS on sale for a price I couldn't resist.

 

[Ricochet]

Approximately 29 years.

 

[Teledriver]

20 years, almost ecactly.

 

[mrfixitmi]

About 3 years. My first guitar was a Kay Acoustic, you could have driven a Winnebago between the fret board and the strings. The in 1970 ,my Uncle sold me his 1958 Chet Atkins 6129 for $10 if I would paint his 1963 Buick Electra. I welded in some patch panels, we had extra paint from other jobs, I combined them to make a Brownish Green custom metallic, that he loved, and was a proud owner of a real Gretsch. The action was better than my Kay. The reality was it needed a neck reset, even though you could have driven the Buick between the fret board and the strings, I loved it. It did have a unique sound that I used in Motown Studio "B" for the "fill ins", so going from a polka band to Motown music, it was up to the task.