NEW PHIL X FOR THE NEW YEAR 1953 Gretsch Duo Jet 01175

This late Summer 1953 Duo Jet with a 13 1, 4inchwide, 2 inch deep guitar weighs just 7. 80 lbs, has a fat nut width of just over 1 11, 16 inches, a wonderful mediumtothick neck profile and a scale length of 24 1, 2 inches. Chambered mahogany body, triplebound pressed arched top with black plastic laminate, mahogany neck, and whitebound Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original small frets and inlaid pearloid block position markers. Singlebound, dark brown maple faced headstock with inlaid pearl Gretsch Troof logo. Individual openback Grover StaTite tuners with oval metal buttons and hexagonal bushings. Two singlecoil DeArmond pickups with outputs of 3. 13k and 3. 05k. Fourlayer (white, black, white, black) plastic pickguard. Four controls (three volume, one tone) and one threeway selector switch. The potentiometers are dated 134 304 (Centralab, January, 1953). Earliest style plaintop chrome pla