Your cart is empty.
Your cart is empty.
Like a ’60s invasion, the Gretsch G5422G-12 Electromatic Classic Hollow Body Double-Cut 12-String Guitar with Gold Hardware serves up a full hollow-body build and the true Filter’Tron voice for that classically lush 12-string chime and jangle. Like all Electromatic guitars, it delivers the fearless and electrifying authenticity that has set Gretsch apart as the quintessential rock ‘n’ roll guitar from the very beginning.
Body
The G5422G-12 features a laminated maple body with vintage-inspired perimeters and refined arches, as well as all-new trestle block bracing to help reduce unwanted feedback.
Trestle Block Design
By increasing rigidity and contact between the top and back of the body, the new trestle block design also results in the sound having a faster attack with more focus, snap, and increased sustain.
Huge Full-Bodied Punch Voice
Coupled with all-new FT-5E Filter’Tron pickups, this hollow build’s voice explodes with a huge full-bodied punch, classic chime, and enhanced presence, clarity, and note definition.
Maple Neck
An all-new classic C-shaped maple neck offers a more comfortable playing feel for improved playability and performance and is topped with a 12-Inch radius laurel fingerboard.
Other Features
Other premium features include versatile upgraded controls including master volume with a treble bleed circuit, master tone, individual pickup volume controls and three-position tone switch, oversized bound F-holes, multi-ply body binding, smaller late-50s G6120 bound headstock, sealed die-cast tuning machines, Graph Tech NuBone nut, historic pearloid Hump Block inlays, secured Adjusto-Matic bridge, and a Gretsch G-cutout tailpiece.
Finish
Alive and loud, the G5422G-12 is available in a walnut stain finish with gold hardware and gold pickguard.
Lacey
2025-08-14 19:29:40
Its beautiful and my husband loves it.
Steelpicker
2025-07-23 10:46:11
This guitar looks and feels great, but is supports the old adage saying, if you buy a 12-string, you'll spend half of your time tuning and the other half playing out of tune. I'm not a novice, and have set up other guitars that I have and I own all the tools. As much as I'd like to like this the tuning and intonation issues drive me crazy. First, it won't stay in tune. I think part of that is the hollow-body and part the tuning keys. Second, with only a 6 saddle bridge, the intonation is impossible, in my opinion, to adjust on each pair. Even if I try to strike a compromise adjustment. I've tried detuning one half and one step, but it still not too good, in my opinion. I purchased a $450 Fender Squire Paranormal Jazzmaster 12 from Sweetwater. Intonation is perfect to set up since the bridge has 12 saddles. It plays up and down the neck very well, with none of the similar issues. Even the cheap tuning keys stay in tune much better.
Louis Montanaro
2025-04-28 18:33:54
Nice action and tone for a 12 string electric. The wood is flawless. Action is like a 6 string but more jangle. Good value for the money
Lamar.Fandango
2025-04-23 09:56:17
Gretsch recently moved production to China, so maybe they are still trying to figure out how to manufacture 5-series Electromatics to the high standards they used to do at the MIRR factory in South Korea. The quality is way down and the QC is spotty. Sharp frets, bindings coming unglued, pickups rattling in their mounts... these are not things that happened at the previous factory. I would avoid Gretsch's Chinese-made guitars until they can figure out how to replicate the overwhelming success of the old South Korean-made guitars.
joseph rosiles
2024-12-20 16:11:37
Amazing price for such a fine instrument. Very happy. Get one, you will thank me.Finding a case may be problematic though.
Richy
2024-12-13 17:06:04
So listen I have made a review of this guitar before. I tried it and gave it back in favour of a Rickenbacker. The Ric was everything you’d expect but also a little tricky to play, the fretboard is tiny. This Gretsch has a fretboard like a big acoustic with the easy action of an electric. I love it to bits already and have played for a hour straight out the box. I haven’t even plugged it in yet. It’s so much fun to play.The headstock is a little heavy so is always wanting to tip down but a good strap will fix that I’m sure.If you are in two minds and read this I hope you forget your fears and go for it. Life is too short, get the guitar.
Recommended Products
$219.89
$ 89 .99 $89.99