“The perfect marriage of brilliance and brute force”: With high-output humbuckers, an onboard Lumen Filter, compound radius fingerboards and a contoured body, Gretsch unveils the reinvention of the Jet

The Gretsch Electromatic Premier Jet reinvents the classic singlecut. Yes, there is the chambered body as before but with a compound radius fingerboard, Twin Six pickups, and contemporary touches such as Luminlay side-markers it is very much a modern update.

We all know Gretsch guitars. They’re the rock ’n’ roll guitar, the country guitar, Chet Atkins, George Harrison and John Lennon, Brian Setzer and yer man Billy Duffy from the Cult, Richard Fortus, too. They’ve been around since Methuselah was a boy. But what about this new Gretsch, the Electromatic Premier Jet?

This is a very fresh style for Gretsch, albeit one dressed in the familiar shape of its storied semi-hollow/chambered singlecut electric guitar, and in finishes that are archetypically on-brand for the brand – Clairvoyant (a deeply alluring blue), Onyx Storm (err, metallic black), Robusto Burst (a coffee-coloured vintage burst), and Vintage Pearl (hmm, vintage pearl).