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Major Gretsch Renovation/Customization

Ecadad
July 23rd, 2012, 06:04 PM
I have a dream Gretsch that i would love to build or have built, but I don't know if it's possible. Here's what I want:

-Duo-Jet Double Cutaway body shape
-Three Filtertron Pickups
-Three toggle on/off switches, one to turn on each pickup
-Master Volume Knob
-Master Tone Knob
-Bridge Pickup Tone Knob
-Bypass switch to bypass the volume/tone controls
-Bigsby

So here's my plan: get an Electromatic Double Jet w/Bigsby and add a third pickup, as well as switch out the stock pickups. I would then remove all the controls and rewire, how hard would all this be?

jmiles
July 23rd, 2012, 06:29 PM
Not too bad. I'd use push/pull pots for some of the functions.

csadams5
July 23rd, 2012, 07:15 PM
I agree. That really wouldn't be too big of a project. I second the use of push-pull pots. I would use that for the bypass personally. Sounds like a winner to me.

Paul in Colorado
July 25th, 2012, 12:13 AM
Let's see it when you get it done.