Vince Cassella's new OLD Gretsch Cats Eye archtop

I'm just a middle-man/shipper for a cool Italian rocker friend, Vince Cassella who bought this neat cats-eye acoustic off eBay. Sounds pretty good for a guitar that's older than I am ... would have sounded even better if I'd tuned it tighter. Bob T. in Denver

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Music

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• Gretsch archtop
• cats-eye
• pre-war guitar

[7080hutchison]

I'm not much of an archtop guy, I'm more into that martin deep dreadnought sound, but holy moly, that thing sounds great!

I'v played a few gretsch g400's in stores and they did not sound like yours. What a sound man.

Yer one lucky feller!

[RTaylorDen]

I'm mostly a dreadnought guy too, but have TOO many guitars of various shades and tones. This one went to Switzerland though! Type "Vince Cassella" in the search box and you'll see some of the cool videos of the owner, an Italian rockabilly guy who is the most charismatic person my wife and I have ever met ... especially my WIFE!

[Gschnok]

well, for a student like me it's pretty expensive. But I guess you get what you pay and you get top quality. I might get one, but after some years. yeah, that bigsby is pretty cool. Have fun with it.

[7080hutchison]

Actualy there not that expensive, I'v seen vintage ones (50s-60s) go for 2300-2600$ on ebay.

The re-issues go for about 1500$ new. I got one and the cool thing is that you can put a bigsby vibrato on it like I have. It's really cool to have an acoustic guitar with a bigsby, like, how often do ya see that. Where ever I bring it it's the talk of the town.

You only live once man, get one, you wont regret it.

[Gschnok]

Beautliful guitar, i wish i had one of these, but they are really expensive.