Gretsch Debuts New G6136T-MGC Michael Guy Chislett Signature Falcon
The elegant hollowbody features TV Jones TV Classic pickups and gold hardware.
Gretsch has launched its new G6136T-MGC Michael Guy Chislett Signature Falcon guitar.
The elegant hollowbody – which the company first teased this past summer – was built to the exacting specifications of the veteran Australian guitarist, whose credits include time with Pete Yorn, Good Charlotte, and Pistol Youth, among many others.
The guitar features a laminated maple body and a solid Sitka spruce top with bound F-holes and vintage 1959-style trestle bracing. Its semi-gloss maple neck has a 12-inch-radius ebony fingerboard featuring pearloid Big Block inlays and 22 medium jumbo frets.
Sonically, the guitar has TV Jones TV Classic pickups, a three-way toggle switch, individual pickup volume controls, plus a master tone and a master volume with a treble bleed circuit with Squeezebox paper-in-oil capacitors.
There’s also a Bigsby B6GP vibrato tailpiece and an Adjusto-Matic bridge with an ebony base and bone nut.
“I reached out to the guys because I felt like there wasn’t a White Falcon that resembled the one I played," Chislett said of the guitar. "To have them offer to make me a new one was pretty exciting in itself.
"I grew up idolizing Brian Setzer – I even have a tattoo – and guys like George Harrison. I never would have even dreamed of having a signature model; it is pretty crazy to me still, and I am just incredibly honored.”
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The Gretsch G6136T-MGC Michael Guy Chislett Signature Falcon is available now – in a Vintage White gloss lacquer finish with gold sparkle binding, a gold pickguard, and gold hardware – for $3,799.
For more info on the guitar, stop by gretschguitars.com.
Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.