Gretsch releases new addition to its Center-Block series

The Gretsch Professional Collection G6112TCB-JR Center-Block LTD 2-Tone guitar.
The Gretsch Professional Collection G6112TCB-JR Center-Block LTD 2-Tone guitar.

Gretsch has unveiled a new addition to its Center-Block series. The new guitar is the Gretsch Professional Collection G6112TCB-JR Center-Block LTD.

Read on for full details, and visit the official Gretsch Guitars website for more information.

Gretsch press release

Gretsch is proud to introduce the latest addition to the popular Center-Block Series, the Gretsch Professional Collection G6112TCB-JR Center-Block LTD 2-Tone guitar, a splendid Nashville® Junior model with a thinline body, chambered spruce center-block and gorgeous two-tone finish with a limited production Jaguar Tan top and Copper Metallic back and sides.

It features a beautiful 1 ¾"-deep single-cutaway three-ply maple body with a 14"-lower bout, arched top and back, two-ply black-and-white binding and dual f holes. The spruce center block, chambered to reduce weight, helps produce a spirited and lively tone, minimizes body-resonant feedback and enables a more "high gain-friendly" performance. Further, the pinned ebony bridge base extends slightly beyond both sides of the center block, transferring string-vibration energy to the two f-hole-vented body chambers to produce a rich and full-bodied tone.

Other premium features include a bound three-piece maple neck with a "U"-shaped profile and bound headstock, 12"-radius ebony fingerboard with 22 medium frets and pearloid Neo-Classic™ "thumbnail" inlays, bone nut, dual High Sensitive Filter'Tron™ pickups with three-position toggle switching and "G-Arrow" volume controls for each pickup, upper-bout tone switch and "G-Arrow" master volume control, Copper Metallic pickguard with Gretsch logo, Adjusto-Matic™ bridge with pinned ebony base, Bigsby® B-3C tailpiece, Grover® Sta-Tite™ tuners, Schaller® strap locks and nickel-plated hardware.

Joe Bosso

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