The mere existence Synchromatic line may be one of the more baffling Gretsch mysteries of recent years — maybe decades. They're the duck-billed platypus of guitars — you know they're real, but you rarely see them, and can't quite figure out what that's all about anyway.
The revered Synchromatic name, traditionally reserved for high-end acoustic archtops, was plastered across a dizzying array of Korean-made guitars which were themselves near-clones of the Electromatic line offered at the same time.
Like the Electromatics and Historics, they debuted in 1999. Nobody could keep track of all the models, not even Gretsch, and all three lines of budget guitars were merged into a single (and much-improved) Electromatic line-up in 2003.
The Synchromatic Junior Jets all used bolt-on maple necks and one or two small chrome-covered humbuckers.
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