Legit or Not? Players Edition Jet

It is legit, and CME knows their stuff. One of our members, @EdwardsKim, works there, i suggest contacting him. He has played matchmaker for a few people here.

 

I saw that one on Facebook for sale as a 6228 used for $2.000, pickups a the first thing I noticed as well as the inlays, a 6228 has block inlays.
Not sure what that is!

 

There is a G6131T players edition that looks just like that, crescent inlays, but with a Biggs.

 

Well, first - welcome to G-T forums . . .
city sounds like something in the great north country -
maybe Alberta (?) [nope - looked it up SK ! close to Montana (?)

I like these kind of questions, actually . . .
I'll chime in - maybe a neck switch with the thumbnail inlays (?)
- or - some year variation in production (?) at certain factories.
No pickguard maybe is more telling though (?)

JT is deciphered as Japan -Terada plant -
Gretsch had three production codes in Japan locations,
but really I dunno . . . experts here can track the serial no. better than moi.

Good luck.

 

It says it has a 10" fretboard radius. Lots of inconsistencies on this one. Seems like someone tried to turn a Jet into a Les Paul.

 

This PE is a good example of a PE being inferior to a stock Jet Firebird imo

 

That doesn't look like a PE Jet neck. The truss rod cover is too big, it's missing the 19th fret inlay, and the heel isn't contoured.

 

The front pickup ring will cover the hole for the pickguard screw, but that won't fit anymore because of the new rings. There'd be a couple of small holes in the side, but it's hard to see because of the reflections.

Personally, I wouldn't want this in my armoury. It'd be too difficult to move forward. I'd question the statement from the OP that a humbucker swap is a common mod in a Proline. People generally buy a Gretsch for the Gretsch sound. There's no going back on this one if the holes have been routed out.

 

Just want to say .. Heresy!
But you are welcome

 

That hole would still be visible. I did that swap on mine and it was definitely still visible. The humbucker rings still screw into the same four holes as the filtertron rings, it’s mostly the pickup opening that’s bigger.

 

Didn’t you swap yours out for regular Filter’Trons? I thought I read a post that the regular Filter’Tron rings were the same outer diameter but with a narrower inside diameter. If so I imagined the holes would not be visible.

 

I’ve put about a dozen different pickups in there at this point.

The TV Jones filtertrons are narrower than the Gretsch filtertrons. Humbuckers are wider.

The four outer screws for the rings are always in the same place.

I didn’t have to do any routing either, not sure what that’s about.

 

Found a pic. Those rings would have to be huge to cover the pickguard hole.



And bonus pic of the contoured heel.

 

I dunno

Was there ever a PE made where they were silly enough to replace filtertrons with a pair of PAF style humbuckers.
Gretsch wouldn't have sold many if they did.

And I've never seen anyone else do this mod.
Why buy an expensive Jet and try to turn it into an LP?

If someone did it as a mod it takes at least $1000 off the resale value imo.
Would cost you $300 to reverse the stupidity with TV Jones filtertrons.