Gretsch Streamliner Jet Club SC VWT
Product information "Gretsch Streamliner Jet Club SC VWT"
The Streamliner™ Collection brings the best elements of the past back to life and combines them with exciting new features to deliver extraordinary performance, tone and style at an incredible price. The Gretsch Streamliner Jet Club SC VWT is an impressive instrument that convinces in terms of design, sound and performance. With its Vintage White finish and solidbody Nato construction it brings a touch of retro chic to your playing.
Sound and Features
The Gretsch Streamliner Jet Club SC VWT offers a versatile and powerful sound that suits a wide range of musical styles. Equipped with two humbucking pickups, this guitar delivers a warm, full tone that covers everything from blues to rock. The Jet Club SC is fitted with the new Broad'Tron BT-3S pickups. With a combination of Alnico-5 and Alnico-2 magnets, the new BT-3S pickups provide stronger mids, tight yet full bass and smooth, clear highs while retaining the soft, musical character Gretsch is known for.
The 3-way toggle pickup selector gives you control over your sound and allows you to choose between different tonal colours. The passive pickups provide a natural, dynamic tone that supports your performance. Additionally, the guitar's volume and tone controls let you shape your sound exactly as you need it. Coil-splitting opens up further sound options: the extra push/pull potentiometer on the master volume control enables coil-splitting for interesting single-coil sounds and expands an already strong tonal arsenal with another layer of sonic variety.
Construction and Design
The Gretsch Streamliner Jet Club SC VWT is a 6-string solidbody electric guitar made from Nato with a 24.75" (629 mm) scale length and 22 frets. The neck is bolt-on and the soft "C" neck profile provides a comfortable playing feel. The Indian laurel fretboard is decorated with Pearloid Neo-Classic Thumbnail inlays, offering an elegant contrast to the Vintage White body colour. The Gretsch Radio Knobs and the tortoise pickguard are further distinctive features that make this guitar a real eye-catcher. The hardware on the Gretsch Streamliner Jet Club SC VWT is finished in nickel. The Gretsch Anchored Compensated Wrap-Around Bridge ensures precise intonation and long sustain.
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- Body Material: Nato
- Body Shape: Single Cut
- Bridge / Tremolo: Gretsch Adjustable Wrap Around
- Bridge Pickup: Gretsch Streamliner Twin-Six Humbucker
- Color/ Finish: Vintage White
- Colour: White
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: China
- Fretboard: Indian Laurel
- Fretboard Inlays: Pearloid Neo-Classic Thumbnail
- Fretboard radius: 12"
- Frets: 22
- Hardware: Chrome
- Neck: Nato
- Neck Pickup: Gretsch Streamliner Twin-Six Humbucker
- Neck Profile: Slim "C"
- Neck construction: Bolt on neck
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Pickup Selector Switch: 3 way toggle
- Pickup type: passive
- Scale: 24" (610 - 634 mm)
- Scale Length: 24,6" (625 mm)
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .009 - .042
- Technology: Solid Body
Since its founding in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, Gretsch has delivered musical instruments of the highest quality with masterful craftsmanship — instruments that have been both influential to and cherished by some of the music industry’s most respected artists, including Chet Atkins, Eddie Cochran, Billy Duffy, Bono, Duane Eddy, George Harrison, Brian Setzer, Stephen Stills and Malcolm Young.
Twenty-seven-year-old Friedrich Gretsch, a German immigrant, began the company’s career by making banjos, drums and tambourines. Only 12 years later Friedrich passed away and left the young business to his then 15‑year‑old son Fred. Far from a typical teenager, he built the company into one of America’s leading importers and manufacturers of musical instruments. Knowing that the key to growth was listening to the public — and the public wanted guitars — Gretsch began producing the sought‑after six‑string instruments.
Initially, from 1926, these took the form of acoustic archtops for the rapidly growing popularity of jazz and a handful of flattops for the ever‑popular country and western sounds in the USA. In 1935 Gretsch launched the legendary Broadkaster drum series, which remained successful into the 1950s. Gretsch’s contribution to the rise of electric amplification came in 1939 with the first Electromatic®, a hollow‑body design that, in contemporary form, remains in the range to this day.
In 1942 Fred Gretsch Senior, after 50 years of successful business, handed the company to his son Fred Gretsch Junior. Because production was interrupted during the turmoil of the Second World War, Junior left the business to his brother Bill and joined the Navy. Tragically Bill died in 1948, like his grandfather at a young age, so the now‑inactive naval officer Fred resumed the helm of the family firm.
Since 1953 the company has also cultivated its expertise in solid‑body guitars, which met the ever‑louder concerts with greatly reduced susceptibility to feedback. The semi‑acoustic line has since been expanded to include guitars with centre‑block construction, combining the tonal character of a hollow‑body guitar with the practical aspects of a solid‑body.
After George Harrison’s appearance with the Beatles and his Country Gentleman on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Gretsch became firmly established among the iconic guitar makers — a status reflected in 1965 by the highest production volume in the company’s history.
In 1967, at the peak of its success, Fred Gretsch Jr. decided to retire and sold the company to the Baldwin Piano Company, which took over operations — unfortunately with only moderate success. Fortunately Dinah Gretsch joined the company in 1979 and helped prepare the path for a repurchase that her husband Fred W. Gretsch, the great‑grandson of the founder, completed 17 years after the sale. Together the couple restored the company to its former glory, where it seems to remain today.
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