$1600.00
Gretsch® Model 7685 Chet Atkins – Atkins Axe
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GRETSCH MODEL 7685 CHET ATKINS - ATKINS AXE
This is an awesome sounding and playing guitar ... The original pickups have been replaced with gibson pickups, but everything is original ... It comes with the original case ... Here are some of the specs:
Atkins Axe
Gretsch
Atkins Axe Series
768x
U.S.A.
Available 1977 to 1980
Standard Colors: Platinum Gray (7685), Deep Red (7686).
Pick Ups: 2 DiMarzio Humbuckers.
Body: Mahogany.
Neck: Mahogany.
Fingerboard: Ebony.
Number of Frets: 22.
Scale Length: 24 ¾ inches.
Options: BadAss Wraparound Stop Bridge
2 Volume Controls on Lower Bout
2 Tone Controls on Lower Bout
The 7685 Atkins Axe was a Balwin-era offering aimed at the rock market. It didn't work. Despite the name, Chet Atkins had relatively little involvement in it's development. but there were a few touches of the Country Gentleman: the 7685 featured distinctive dice-like fret markers on a neck that was only very slightly radiused (as Atkins preferred).
Atkins had wanted to name them "High Roller", with dice engraving on the distinctive square block markers, but Baldwin management squelched that plan.
Like the Super Axe (which Atkins was much more involved in developing) the Atkins Axe used two DiMarzio pickups. On the other hand, the Atkins Axe was a much simpler guitar.
Not surprisingly, the Atkins Axe went out of production in 1980, but has been resurrected in spirit as the modern-day Gretsch Axe.
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