Gretsch G5425 Electromatic Jet Club Electric Guitar - Black

This guitar came with the neck dead straight, even fret height with no sprouting, good action height, good intonation, and playable right out of the box. The 2 highpoints for me were the sound and the scale. I love the sound of the humbuckers played through my Blues Cube Stage or Hot Rod Deluxe lV. The 24" scale allows me to make some bar chord stretches that I previously had to substitute triads for (small hands with short fingers). Fit and finish is very good. I decided this was a keeper and so out of personal preference put locking tuners on it and my preferred strings. The fretboard was a little dry so I resolved that while the strings were off. I had I also polished the frets with a sponge fingernail finisher and now they have no grit and do shine. Did I mention the pickups sound really good. This guitar and my Fender Strat Vintage 50's reissue with Lollar pickups will be my 2 lifelong guitars.UPDATE: I've had this guitar for 5 months now and am as pleased with it as I was when I first got it. Great value.

A friend of mine plays an Electromatic in his band regularly and I asked him recently if it was an expensive guitar. He said for the quality, it is ridiculously affordable. I saw the Jet Black Club on sale here for $299 and thought I would give it a go. I took it out of the shipping box, tuned it, plugged it in and was amazed. Setup and intonation were great. Finish is absolutely beautiful. Fret feel is flawless. Great guitar! I had just recently purchased a different guitar, so I ended up giving this one to my son. He actually loves it more than I did.

My niece is musically inclined, wanting to take up guitar and is one *who I trust to actually stick with it* so I went with this as a gift. If I was more uncertain for a beginner I'd probably have gone the cheaper Squier route.For the price I was quite impressed with the clean tones, overall build and firm feel. Admittedly I was already a little biased for Gretsch. Can't go into the finer points because I only played it for a little while before taking it in for pre-gifting setup (I had my local pro make adjustments for a petite learner).She got the black model and is thrilled with it.

As an ex-pro player, modifier, repairman, (read fussy) and multiple guitar owner, I'll go ahead and state I'm a qualified reviewer. After retiring, I longed for a Les Paul a-like and landed one of these pups in black. The fit and finish is great but note it is metric for bridge and tail-piece stud diameters, pot shafts, pickup selector switch, etc. The after market has plenty of parts or upgrades available for metric hardware so not to worry about servicing these. American spec parts do not fit directly so beware.The fret ends are well dressed and initial setup is average when shipped. Per normal, intonation and bridge height will need setting up. I dropped down to .009's and truss rod relief remained fine. The pickups were the furthest out. They were crazy high but quick to lower. Tuners feel smooth and accurate. Sound test was surprisingly deep and rich where the pickups are not thin, dull China-Cans. I was prepared for "meh" pickups but they are keepers. Gretsch describes these as "dual humbuckers" which is what I hear (think Gibson) but they sport the Gretsch logo and old-skool "Filtron-ish" cover design that's cool.I put some fabric tape around the rear control cover plate wood to silence a click when you set the guitar down or tap the plate. When open, I had a look around at the internals and she looked fine. I say decent quality control. Yeah, there are Epiphones and what-not's cheaper out there but if you want a real playing, nice sounding instrument, this is a go.Note: I don't miss the four control knobs on the LP style, two make sense to me.

Great guitar, great value. Very happy.

Impossible to get rid of the rattle from the low E string, ive tried everything and spent more to repair this guitar than the actual price to buy it. Very unhappy and will be tossing it in the garbage since it is unusable.

Full inspection comes to this, the one I got frets are just a tad edgy file will fix within minutes, overall very good build thick body massive sound from the hum buckers and resonation. Holds tune well came set up, just dropped the bridge alittle more for my comfort was still pretty low. Went lower no buzzing all the way up full bends. So 9/10.

This thing is built well. Very rugged, even heavy. The designers did not hold back in their use of stainless steel.The only downside is that the finish on the wood is so glossy you will see fingerprints on it all the time. The pups are solid don't bother replacing them! Compared to a gibson lp, it has a narrower head, but this actually makes the strings less likely to break.Comes with D'Addario EXL110 (.010-.046 Gauges) pre-installed. I was torn between this and a Squier, and I have to say I made out like a bandit. What a steal.