Archive for September, 2009
Vintage Gretsch 6106 Princess
The 6106 Princess was one of Gretsch’s Corvette solidbody guitars that they had hoped would be huge sellers and outdo Gibson and Fender. However, the line didn’t do quite as well as they had hoped. Still, these inexpensive solidbody guitars were fairly popular, mainly thanks to their low prices.
The Princess and several other models debuted [...]
Vintage Gretsch 6106 Songbird
The third in the series of Gretsch Rally guitars, the 6106 Songbird is similar to the 6104 and 6105 Rally models. These models weren’t much different from other guitars on the market at the time. In fact, when they were released in 1967, they were seen as yet another set of guitars featuring dual HiLoTron [...]
Vintage Gretsch 6105 Rally
The creation of the Gretsch 6105 Rally guitar is one of the more interesting Gretsch business decisions. They seemed to be trying to make an instrument that was reminiscent of a racing car. The 6105 Rally features the same kind of racing stripes that many cars feature. These stripes don’t really do anything but add [...]
Vintage Gretsch 6104 Rally
The 6104 and 6105 Rally models weren’t really anything exceptional when they hit the market in 1967. In fact, they’ve been called yet another guitar with dual HiLoTron pickups. There were many similar guitars available at the time, but the 6104 Rally featured one thing some of the others didn’t: a variety of color combinations [...]
Vintage Gretsch 6103 Streamliner
Gretsch’s 6103 Streamliner is a take on the 6123 Monkees model. However, that model simply didn’t sell very well, and Gretsch attempted to remake it as the 6102 and 6103 Streamliner models so that it would sell better. While the two models are very similar in design, there are some differences. The 6103 model is [...]
Vintage Gretsch 6102 Streamliner
The 6102 Streamliner is actually a take-off of the 6123 Monkees model. However, the 6123 wasn’t a very good seller, so Gretsch attempted to take the basic concept of the instrument and make it into a guitar that players would actually buy. The result was the 6102 and the 6103 Streamliner models. They were very [...]