Unique is not a word many of us can use when describing the instruments we mod and create. Yes, you might have come up with some wonderful steampunk mash-up, but chances are it’ll have a Tele, Strat or Les Paul-like outline. If you’re lucky to have anything remotely resembling a workshop to create your own outline then it’s a different matter, but I suspect for most of us our chances of creating a uniquely shaped guitar are slight.
Gretsch’s G2215 P90 Streamliner Junior Jet Club [1], however, is certainly pretty unique, isn’t it? A bound slab-bodied Jet with a wrapover bridge, a humbucker/P-90 pickup complement, plus a lowly full retail of £370, which is even lower in-store. There are three colours, too: Sahara Metallic, Mint Metallic and our Single Barrel Stain. We looked at a sample back in issue 473 that was originally intended just for this feature but was so good for the money we ran a full review. If someone told you Gretsch had made this back in the day –a ‘student’ guitar – you might not be surprised: it has buckets of retro-Gretsch appeal.