Wouldn't the previous owner have saved money over all if he had just spend the money on a different G6120 model then changing out the pot to have tone, No? It sounds glorious and looks outrageous. I like what you played. If money wasn't a situation I'd have me a Hot Rod A.S.A.P. .
The other Brian Setzer model has the Tone Switch... So he would have been looking at 2 Toggle Switches, a Master Volume (Like most other Gretsch), and a volume for each of the pickups. All in all that would be 2 Toggle Switches and 3 Volumes. If he was after simplicity then the Hot Rod was the way to go. I have the receipts for everything he did on the guitar and he WAY overpaid for that mod ($389 most of it was in labour). The Hot Rod Shop Refinish was $1,200 on its' own. I think he just wanted a simplistic Brian Setzer in a Metallic colour that he could make his own... and then sell it later at a loss haha. Cheers -Ryan
I have a Hotrod from this era. Great build quality and tone. But the neck is too thin, in both dimensions, and I sometimes have a hard time playing it cleanly. I'm sure the classic 1620 he usually plays has a normal neck.
sweet guitar brother! i have a "surfy" model with a single coil in the neck and a properly coilsplit humbucker on the bridge...2 separate volume pots...1 for each pup... since theres no tone pot....i notice that the tone "darkens" a bit when i roll back the volumes a bit...curious as to what is going on there...i find it to be kool tho.... any ideas on how it does that would be great brother!
Maybe I've missed it, but I'm not seeing a JCM 800 versus JVM 410 video on your channel...?
Seems like an obvious one to do.
Wouldn't the previous owner have saved money over all if he had just spend the money on a different G6120 model then changing out the pot to have tone, No? It sounds glorious and looks outrageous. I like what you played. If money wasn't a situation I'd have me a Hot Rod A.S.A.P. .
The other Brian Setzer model has the Tone Switch... So he would have been looking at 2 Toggle Switches, a Master Volume (Like most other Gretsch), and a volume for each of the pickups. All in all that would be 2 Toggle Switches and 3 Volumes. If he was after simplicity then the Hot Rod was the way to go. I have the receipts for everything he did on the guitar and he WAY overpaid for that mod ($389 most of it was in labour). The Hot Rod Shop Refinish was $1,200 on its' own. I think he just wanted a simplistic Brian Setzer in a Metallic colour that he could make his own... and then sell it later at a loss haha. Cheers -Ryan
I have a Hotrod from this era. Great build quality and tone. But the neck is too thin, in both dimensions, and I sometimes have a hard time playing it cleanly. I'm sure the classic 1620 he usually plays has a normal neck.
sweet guitar brother!
i have a "surfy" model with a single coil in the neck and a properly coilsplit humbucker on the bridge...2 separate volume pots...1 for each pup...
since theres no tone pot....i notice that the tone "darkens" a bit when i roll back the volumes a bit...curious as to what is going on there...i find it to be kool tho....
any ideas on how it does that would be great brother!
This would be considered normal,. You could add a "Treble Bleed Circuit" for each of the volume pots to combat this. Cheers -Ryan
@@Crypticmaskguitar i actually like that it does that lol!
what is actually going on there anyway?
im intrested in the science of it....