NEW PHIL X FOR THE NEW YEAR!! 1953 Gretsch Duo Jet 01175

This late Summer 1953 Duo Jet with a 13 1/4-inch-wide, 2 inch deep guitar weighs just lbs, has a fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches, a wonderful medium-to-thick neck profile and a scale length of 24 1/2 inches. Chambered mahogany body, triple-bound pressed arched top with black plastic laminate, mahogany neck, and white-bound Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original ’small’ frets and inlaid pearloid block position markers. Single-bound, dark brown maple faced headstock with inlaid pearl Gretsch “T-roof“ logo. Individual open-back Grover StaTite tuners with oval metal buttons and hexagonal bushings. Two single-coil DeArmond pickups with outputs of and . Four-layer (white/black/white/black) plastic pickguard. Four controls (three volume, one tone) and one three-way selector switch. The potentiometers are dated “134 304“ (Centralab, January, 1953). Earliest style plain-top chrome pla