Used Gretsch 6136T Silver Falcon

Description

Gretsch 6136T excellent condition

The Gretsch G6136T Silver Falcon is the silver variant of the White Falcon.

Gretsch G6136T Silver Falcon - Professional Collection base

Body

- Type: Hollow Body single cutaway 17", 2.75" thickness

- Top, back, sides: Arched laminated Maple

- Bracing: Vintage 1959-style Trestle bracing

- Binding: Gold Sparkle multi-ply

- Finish: Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer, color Silver/Firemist Silver 513a407b

Neck

- Construction: Set-Neck, glued

- Wood: Maple, Standard “U” profile

- Fretboard: Ebony

- Radius: 12"

- Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo

- Nut: Bone, 1.6875" / 42.86mm

- Inlays: Mother-of-pearl Neo-Classic Thumbnail

- Scale: 25.5" / 648mm bc81407ba5883a4e

Hardware

- Bridge: Adjusto-Matic with fixed ebony base, or Space Control/Rocking Bar

- Tremolo: Bigsby B6G/B6GP gold vibrato

- Tuners: Grover Imperial Die-Cast gold

- Pickguard: Gold Plexi with Gretsch and Falcon logo

- Hardware: Gold

Electronics

- Pickups: 2x TV Jones TV Classic Humbucker HH

- Controls: Neck Volume, Bridge Volume, Master Volume with treble bleed “Squeezebox” capacitors, Master Tone

- Selector: 3-position Toggle + 3-position Master Tone Switch 513a

Other

- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel .011-.049

- Made in: Japan, Terada

- Case: Hardshell Case included bc81

Silver Falcon variants you can find

1. G6136T-LTD: Limited Edition Firemist Silver or Two Tone Copper/Sahara Metallic. Same base specs, but LTD finish

2. G6136T-RR Rich Robinson Signature: Raven’s Breast Blue/Silver Sparkle finish binding, Broad’Tron BT-65 at the neck + TV Jones Filter’Tron Classic at the bridge, nickel hardware

3. G6136T-140 Double Platinum Falcon: 140th Anniversary, Two-Tone Stone Platinum/Pure Platinum, mahogany body, 24.6" scale 407bfe184622

The main difference with the White Falcon is only aesthetic: silver top instead of white, binding and hardware always gold except on signatures. Same hollow sound with trestle bracing, same sustain and Filter’Tron attack.