Gretsch G5420T Electromatic OS

Arrived today. Sounds good, setup fair.

But it cannot be played. Fret ends on high E-string side are completely undone. No rounding, no polishing. First two barre chords and your hand is bleeding.

That is lowest you can go as far as quality control can go.

I do own around 30 guitars. Some premium, some affordable.

None of those have this bad fret sprouts. Every single fret end razor sharp at high E-string side.

On low E-string side nice, rounded and polished fret ends. So they can do it. Someone just forgot to do other end of the fret and someone did not check.

Shame.

I received my guitar relatively quickly and the box was in a good condition. Inside was the box containing the guitar, everything well packaged by the factory. The guitar is setup well right out of the box, but I always replace the ex-factory strings, no matter what. There are no obvious flaws and the binding is gorgeous, as is the whole Guitar! Fretwork is also more than okay, no issues there. It will need to acclimate to my surroundings, then I will adjust the truss rod slightly - which is also normal - there’s an hex wrench delivered. And I’m loving the Bigsby! But I will eventually upgrade to TV Jones’ pickups and his wiring harness for hollow-body guitars, but that was the intent from the beginning. Would I buy this guitar again? Yes!