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GRETSCHEN A SWAMP WITCH MOD

“gretschen “ 2 stringer . GRETSCH MOD BY SWAMP WITCH GUITARS
Was conjured up from an original gretsch bo diddly 5850 body . (The rare single pickup version . ) of the bo didley jrs , these are now obsolete and very hard to find, and pricy if you do find one . I lucked out and found the body on ebay .
Gretsch does not make this model anymore , and they are super rare . (unlike the double pickup jr. model that gretsch outsourced to china and you can get on ebay any day for $400 . )

Anyway , the knobs and pots are original gretsch ,, I replaced the pickup with an original gretsch LAP STEEL pickup instead . to give it a cool slide sound . also, in keeping with the raised design , I kept the pickup mounted low and raised the 2 poles .. thus omitting the mag field and going only off the poles .., resulting in a nice clean sound . you really gotta hear this in person . it’s a real cool tone .

The stiff mount whammy bar is made from cabinet parts screwed together and fitted to the original bridge bolts (thanx reeds ). with a wooden painted vine base from the same stock I make my swamp witch fretboards from. The whammy is not like a spring whammy .. and needs very little effort to get a “wow “ effect “ without the need to slam or pry . and it stays in tune!!
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The fretboard is a new tooled and colored leather belt , just dripping with sexiness .
Set up for slide only .
the nut is actually a cut tuner shaft . it fits this 2 string design nicely .
there is a metal topless woman figure , sitting on a skull , that covers the truss rod hole from the rough German made “shadow “ neck that I repurposed . (the back of the scarf joint is rough and looks like the excess was grinded roughly away with a hand grinder .. I left it like that to give it character . )

I added a block under the neck to fill in the original neck cavity to allow a top mount body design .
the body is kept all original , no extra screw holes or anything that can’t be removed and still have the original body unmolested . I used all existing screw holes and or . bolts . etc.. even the black rose vinyl decal is removeable . (I hand cut that from sign vinyl )

24 inch scale . side markers , 2 stringer slider .

Antique brass , leather , chrome , silver , red , black , a topless women , a skull , a black rose ….. , How can you go wrong with that ? ;-)

She’s for sale folks ;-) check ebay soon . or ask me in an email ON CBN.

swamp witch guitars .
grab yours here ;

site http://swampwitchguitars.weebly.com

ebay http://stores.ebay.com/Swamp-Witch-guitars

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Comment by the anonymous pick on May 21, 2013 at 9:30pm: glad ned approved darryl ;-)

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 21, 2013 at 9:30pm: thanx bug .. i stole billy's ZZmobile too ;-)

Comment by darryl kernaghan on May 21, 2013 at 9:21pm: shoulda read reeds post first,but ya get that

Comment by darryl kernaghan on May 21, 2013 at 9:20pm: ned just fell over,coolaroo

Comment by BUGGY (C) on May 21, 2013 at 8:37pm: Shivering Swampwitches batman....Pick's been eating Billy Gibbons....!!

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 21, 2013 at 2:20pm: whoo hoo .. pink bear plug !!! :P-D

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 21, 2013 at 2:19pm: thanx reeds ,, and james ;-)

Comment by James on May 21, 2013 at 2:07pm

Comment by Reeds Taylor on May 21, 2013 at 1:46pm: Cool-A-Roo!

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 21, 2013 at 1:27pm: thank you uncle john , this thing is just a hoot to play .. i cant put it down :-D

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