I saw that as well. How is it that this seller seems to have a stash of odd ball vintage 6120s?
I owned that 6120. I bought it from a GDP memner “bigsbyslur”. He sent the guitar back to gretsch around 63/64 for a refinis. he told me.
Interesting. Typically when a guitar is refinished it loses half of its value. I wonder how the value is affected when it’s an official factory refinish that was done back when the guitar was still fairly new.
And no doubt when you sold it you disclosed that it was a refin. Yet here it is with the finish is being described as "factory" (true) and "original" (not true). It's always hard to know who in the chain of ownership decides to obscure the known truth for an extra buck, but given that this guy is selling two known refins and one suspected refin as being original, my guess is that he's the guy who's hiding what he actually knows.
yes I told him when I sold it . he was a bit enamored with the fact it was in the new 6120 book at that time. It was a fellow GDP member who lived in Massachusetts.
And it's not out of the question that he could actually get about what he's asking with good documentation of it being a factory refin and this is apparently the rare case where that's available with a known original owner to attest to it and photographic evidence of when it occurred. That guitar has a lot going for it. I should probably be careful not to talk myself into going after it. It's certainly more appealing than the other more dubious one that he has priced twice as high.
I was thinking about guitars that change hands a few times where it could have been anybody along the way who made the decision to knowingly misrepresent originality. If there were no owners between you and him, that sort of eliminates any doubt about whether he's the one who decided to fudge the truth.
For wives' purpose or a way to establish a direct eye-contact in cash ?
I don't know if the seller is a GDP member or member of this site, but he's in California not Massachusetts. I presume the instrument was since sold on to the guy in California now selling it(?)
This might well be true. I certainly didn't get a mind blowing price for the 56 from him.
Gorgeous! But not a bit of gold plating left... anywhere(?). It's typical for the Filtertrons and control knobs to lose their gold luster over the decades, but usually the tuning machines retain some evidence of the gold. I'm certainly not insinuating anything here... just an observation from a flamey 6120 addict!
Maybe when it had lost half of its gold, someone decided it would look better to just clean and remove the remaining gold. Just a wild guess.
After reading Ed's post and taking a second look the same thought occurred to me. You can tell all the hardware was once gold since it's nickel and not chrome, but the degree to which it has disappeared does almost look deliberate. Not that it's a bad look, IMO.
With any luck, it'll wind up in the hands of a proactive owner. The neck binding needs to be replaced and what might even be more critical is the strip of binding in the cutaway that connects the top and back. It's really getting bad there but mercifully doesn't appear to have spread to the main body binding. With a relatively minor procedure it might be spared from metastatic binding rot. Leaving that strip alone is like leaving a malignant tumor alone and hoping for the best.
