Don Grosh Retro Classic Rosewood - Distressed

This is an early example of the Don Grosh Retro Classic double cutaway guitar, serial number 266, made in 1995. The basic configuration is very familiar from another famous California builder; three humbuckers, a five way switch, master volume, tone and tone knobs all mounted on a pickguard with a trem block, a bolt on neck and six-on-a-side Kluson style tuners.

The neck is a beautiful lightly figured piece of maple with a Brazilian rosewood “slab” fingerboard. It has an aged satin nitro finish on a vintage style neck carve that starts as a soft “V” shape that transitions to a “C.” There are 22 frets, medium size, with traditional clay dots. The nut is 1 ⅝” and the scale length is 25 ½”. The body is a Mary Kay Blonde Aged nitrocellulose finish with lots of wood grain showing through from the swamp ash below. It weighs in at 7 lbs. 

The trem block is a Vintage Custom Gotoh 1088 Tremolo. There are three original single coil Lindy Fralin pickups mounted on a pale green three ply pickguard along with the electronics mentioned above. 

This is an excellent Strat style instrument, with numerous upgrades all planned with a vintage feel and plenty of vintage tone in mind. After almost thirty years, it has aged-in enough to have a distinctive vintage tone of its own.