That being said has anyone tried any of their all solid wood Gretsch style arch top electrics such as their 6120 style called the tone master? And it streets for a very reasonable $1195! I know since the whole Asian solid wood arch top craze that started a few years back with companies like Eastman has allowed for there to be much more competitively priced solid wood built arch tops,where traditionally solid wood arch tops were way out of the reach of the average working class musician. That being said I looked into some of their other models that they have to offer, and I was very surprised to see that they offer a Gretsch 6120 style guitar with all solid wood as opposed to laminate. Regardless of the wood construction it is a decent axe that I am thoroughly impressed with for the money.

I even tried emailing Peerless with the serial number to find out what was up and well its been over month and no one got back to me. However I'm having trouble deciphering if it could indeed have a solid top or not due to the way the binding is. My years of experience knows how to tell if a top is solid by following the wood grain to an edge to see if it goes through. I have to say I am quite impressed with the guitar and in fact the volume acoustically is so loud on this thing, that I'm not sure if this could maybe even feature a solid top which isn t normal for this model but there have been a bunch of model variation one off unique 2013 NAMM demo models that have been floating around and ebay the latter which I purchased mine from. Over the last couple of years they have started to slowly trickle into the states by way of a couple of East coast importer/dealers.Īfter hearing some good reviews about the I was always tempted and curious to try one, which I did over this past summer when a deal too good to pass up was to be had on Ebay for one of their Benedetto all laminate style 17 inch single pickup,big body Manhattan model arch top. For those not familiar with them they have been around for years producing various OEM guitars out of Korea under different manufacturers labels,most notably Epiphone and I may be mistaken but do they also produce the Electromatic Gretsch guitars?Īnyhow, under their own branded Peerless name they have been around for awhile in other markets around the world in particular the UK and Europe.

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