Gretsch guitars: G1121 Synchromatic Junior Jet
<p>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 <em>that's</em> all about anyway.
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<p>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.
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<p>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.
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<p>The Synchromatic Junior Jets all used bolt-on maple necks and one or two small chrome-covered humbuckers.
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<p>Single pickup G112x models included the tobacco-burst G1121 from 1999-2003 and, for 2003, the G1122 (Black), G1125 (Red), G1125 (Blue) and G1128 (Purple).
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<p>The G1212 Junior Jet Bass and G1222 Junior Jet Bass II (with two pickups) were also offered from 1999-2003, and an unusual Bigsby-equipped six-string G1255 Jet Baritone Bass was offered from mid-2002 through 2003.
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<p>The two-pickup G1315 Junior Jet was also offered from 1990 through 2003.
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