Unabashedly advertising the 6136 as 'the utmost in striking beauty and luxurious styling', the 1955 catalog offered the guitar at a bursar-busting $600. But the unparalleled Model 6136 White Falcon introduced in 1954 at music trade shows and designed, touted and adroitly played by Gretsch whiz kid Jimmy Webster may be one instrument that lives up to its reviews. "'The most beautiful guitar in the world' is surely a description difficult to live up to. The body thickness was reduced in 1960 to just 2 inches, when double mutes and also a padded back were added. This incredible example has hardly ever been played and has almost certainly spent the vast majority of its forty-nine years tucked away under a bed! This White Falcon is an early 1960 example, which still has the 1959-style 2 3/4 inch-deep body.
card, original cream Gretsch Filter'Tron instruction card, original Gretsch Guitar Guarantee in the original cream envelope, and an old photocopy of the circuit diagram for Gretsch "Double Pick Up # 6440." Together with the original Gretsch padded black leather guitar strap, original white guitar cord, original (?) set of flatwound strings, original Gretsch circular clear plastic string container and lid with one string, original case key, original silicon sachet, original Gretsch guitar polishing cloth, original green Gretsch Quality Control Department O.K. Housed in the original Gretsch two-tone gray hardshell case with purple felt lining (9.50). This guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition, with the exception of the following three minor flaws, which are so insignificant that we cannot even consider them in our condition rating: the gold plating is slightly faded, the sculpted ring around the bridge pickup has two very small cracks, and the truss-rod cover has one tiny little split by the top left-hand screw. All metal parts heavily plated in 24-karat gold (except for the Bigsby vibrato, which is aluminum). Bar-style bridge on ebony base and factory B-6 Bigsby ("Gretsch by Bigsby") vibrato tailpiece. "Arrow" knobs set in the middle with a mother-of-pearl circle and a red rhinestone at the tip of the arrow and with cross-hatch pattern on the sides. Three volume controls (volume for each pickup on lower treble bout and master volume on the upper treble bout) and two three-way selector switches (one pickup selector and one tone selector) on the upper bass bout. Clear acrylic pickguard back-painted in gold with Gretsch "T-roof" logo engraved from underneath and a falcon engraved from underneath in black. Two "Patent Applied For" Filter'Tron pickups with sculpted mounting rings and balanced outputs of 4.17k and 4.28k.
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Madagascar ebony fretboard with 21 frets plus zero fret and neo-classic inlaid pearl thumbprint (half-moon) position markers. Individual Grover Imperial tuners with stairstep metal buttons. On the headstock face (which is also triple-bound in black and white and has a 1/8 inch band of gold sparkle) is a rectangular metal plate which is engraved "The/White/Falcon/36806." Gold sparkle plastic "V"-shaped truss-rod cover.
The neck has a scale length of 25 1/2 inches, a nice fat nut width of just under 1 3/4 inches and a wonderful medium-to-fat neck profile. "V" headstock with horizontal Gretsch "T-roof" logo cut from gold sparkle plastic and inlaid into white Nitron drum material. Three-piece maple/ebony/maple neck which is also bound in similar gold sparkle on the sides of the fretboard. Laminated maple body with five-ply black and white binding and a 7/32 inch band of gold sparkle on the top and bottom of the body and the 'f' holes triple-bound in black, white and gold sparkle. This rare and oh so beautiful 17-inch-wide, 2 3/4-inch deep electric archtop guitar weighs 8.60 lbs.
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