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 similar to the 6123, but there were a few differences between the models. While the 6102 and 6103 models weren’t huge sellers, they were still quite popular. Even today, players find the 6102 Streamliner a solid instrument that can produce a great variety of sounds and some nice rhythm.
First of all, the 6123 featured a unique fretboard. It had what is now known as the classic inlays on the treble and the bass sides of the neck, while the Streamliners featured only inlays on the bass side only. This is the setup that Gretsch traditionally used on most of their guitars. The Streamliners also had the tone and pickup switches in the upper bass bout, while the Monkees model had all of the controls grouped on the treble side.
The 6102 Streamliner was produced in 1968, and it featured a double cutaway hollowbody, a rosewood fretboard, neo-classic fretboard markers, and SuperTron neck and bridge pickups. Its controls included a master volume, neck pickup volume, bridge pickup volume, a pickup selector switch, and a tone switch.
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