Vintage guitar given CAT scan

From Ananova:

Rockabilly guitarist Brian Setzer, formerly of the Stray Cats, had asked makers Gretsch to brace his Gretsch signature series 6120 guitar the original way.

The Gretsch model 6120 was made with unique bracing from 1959-1961 but was discontinued for no apparent reason. Gretsch put a 1961 guitar through a CAT scan machine in Scottsdale, Arizona, rather than taking the guitar apart to study how it was built.

Not as surprising as all that. One of the leading vintage fountain pen restorers in Italy used to have a dentist friend X-ray unfamiliar models so he could figure out how to disassemble them.

Posted by David on May 13, 2003 11:00 AM