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Undertoad · 05-14-2003, 11:53 AM

If you've ever seen Brian Setzer, and chances are you have, he was playing a Gretsch guitar. All of the Stray Cats records were done with a 1959 Gretsch 6120. This particular model with a specific kind of bracing was only made from 1959-1961, and there aren't that many of them. When Setzer asked Gretsch to build a new one with the same kind of bracing as his old favorites, they figured they would have to tear one apart to figure out to see exactly how it was built.

OR, they could just do a CAT scan on it. So that's what they did.

A Stray CAT scan?

05-14-2003, 11:53 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	5/14/2003: CAT scanned guitar If you've ever seen Brian Setzer, and chances are you have, he was playing a Gretsch guitar. All of the Stray Cats records were done with a 1959 Gretsch 6120. This particular model with a specific kind of bracing was only made from 1959-1961, and there aren't that many of them. When Setzer asked Gretsch to build a new one with the same kind of bracing as his old favorites, they figured they would have to tear one apart to figure out to see exactly how it was built. OR, they could just do a CAT scan on it. So that's what they did. A Stray CAT scan?