![]() We offer an array of top quality guitars from a wide variety of manufacturers. ![]() This 1958 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 four-string tenor guitar is a very rare. ![]() The burst on your guitar looks a little odd but it's sometimes hard to judge from a photo. We specialize in Vintage Guitars and Rare Guitars. Originally appeared in Vintage Magazine August 2004 Issue. A sprayed sunburst with a very small centre is suggestive of the mid 30s - earlier guitars having a hand rubbed burst and later ones the more typical large burst. Identifying between 0, 00, and 1 styles is confusing but possible if the date is known, and the tenors follow the same changes as six string versions. There's a great book by Joe Spann that lists many of the numbers used in this period so it should be possible to get an idea from that what year your guitar is. The number on the heel block is called a factory order number. The earliest L-00 sized tenors were 12 frets to the body so yours is a little later. I've seen small body tenors from 1930 and possibly even as late as '31. This is the 2nd generation of the TG series guitars - the earliest had a unique body style that measured 11" across the lower boot then when the L style six strings were upgraded from the smaller round body design to the modern L-00/Blues King shape the small tenor was discontinued and subsequent tenors were adapted from the equivalent six string model.
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