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, however, is certainly pretty unique, isn’t it? It’s a bound slab-bodied Jet with a wrapover bridge and a humbucker/P-90 pickup complement, plus a very reasonable price. There are three colours, too: Sahara Metallic, Mint Metallic and our Single Barrel Stain. 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.
We’d purposely asked Fender to ship it without going through the usual setup, and it’s a testament to the quality that, in reality, it was pretty much ready to go. There was a rather too rigid foam
