About The Gretsch Pages
- Converting Sta-Tites to locking tuners
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My G6118 double anniversary came with the stock Sta-Tite tuners. These tuners look great (IMO) but they weren't staying in tune very well with Bigsby usage. I also wanted the easy re-stringing that comes with locking tuners. I did not want to make any permanent mods to my guitar. I came up with a way to modify the stock Sta-Tite tuners to use the locking shafts from some replacement locking Klusons for a Les Paul. The result looks great and works great.
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- Which Gretsch for me? How to choose?
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So you've decided you might want a Gretsch, but you're not familiar with Gretsch model names and features, pickups, components, and assorted unique Gretsch idiosyncrasies.
There are SO many models, and different versions of each model. Some are made in Korea and some in Japan. Which ones are good? Which one will suit you?
If we've heard it once here, we've heard it a thousand times: which Gretsch should I get? We can help answer that. We really can.
Note that the following information places new Gretsch instruments in their historical context, but is meant to help new Gretsch shoppers pick out new guitars from the current (or recent) lines. While some of the basic information about pickups and features transfers, this is not intended as a vintage buying guide.
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- The Gretsch Pages Dictionary
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Reading the Gretsch Pages doesn't take a secret decoder ring, but sometimes it can feel like it does. Some acronyms and terms you'll find around here are Gretsch-specific, others relate to technology. Either way, here's your secret decoder ring...
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- Mal's big guide to guitar setup and troubleshooting
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Your guitar comes with a whole panoply of features that should be able to tweak to get it into shape, and most of these adjustments can be made with nothing more than a screwdriver, a little care, and some patience. Find out how...
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- Country Clubs: Current model differences clarified
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The purpose of this article is to describe current (and very recent) Country Club models for the convenience of shoppers, dreamers, and spec-fanatics. It focuses on the 2005-07 line.
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- Which Gretsch Should You Buy?
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"Which Gretsch is right for me?" It's a common question, and a devilishly difficult one to answer.
The short answer? The one you like and can afford.
The long answer is a bit more involved, and tends to lead to still more questions...
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- Elliot Easton White Tiki
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Elliot Easton's love of Tiki Culture is well-known. Much less known is how close he came to bringing his own Gretsch White Tiki guitar to the world.
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- The Gretsch Pages Store is now open
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There's a lot of new features we're excited to be rolling out here at Gretsch Pages HQ, but one of the most-requested is now a reality... something a lot of folks have been requesting for a very long time:
T-Shirts.
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- 1951 Catalog & other memorabilia
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The 1951 catalog now in the Memorabilia section is a very different sort of guitar catalog than most of us are used to. "Your Album of Gretsch Guitars" provides an uncommon glimpse into a pre-rock and roll Gretsch, when guitars were really big, really hollow, and had "orchestra" somewhere in the name or description.
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- Cool New Stuff
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A couple of neat new things on the site might be easy to overlook. And they're well worth taking a peek at...
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- Django
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From its beginning back in 1995, the Gretsch Pages has sought to be the largest, most comprehensive resource on Gretsch guitars anywhere. About five years ago I realized I was going to hit a wall. The site was simply becoming too large and unwieldy for one person to maintain, let alone add much of anything new.
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