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My friend said a customer is going to consign a Gretch Bikini 6025 doubleneck at his store. Ever see one(er...2?) of these? He said they come apart and fit into a small case

BIKINI MODEL 6023/6024/6025
- double cutaway slide-and-lock poplar body with detachable poplar center block, available in six-string guitar (Model 6023), four-string bass (Model 6024), or double neck (Model 6025) configurations, bolt-on maple neck, 22-fret maple fingerboard with black dot inlay, blackface headstock with logo with various tuner configurations, adj. ebony bridge, trapeze tailpiece, raised white pickguard with logo, one Hi-Lo 'Tron pickup, volume/tone control, chrome hardware, available in Black finish, mfg. 1961-62

That is amazing - I hadn't thought Gretsch made anything anywhere near that ugly until the '70s.

Totally not what I was picturing when I read the thread title...

One of these Wretsches sold on eBay a couple of years ago for more than you'd think... (I think around $2K...)

Then there's always MY favorite Bikini, the Wandre:

jingle_jangle wrote:
Then there's always MY favorite Bikini, the Wandre:

Oh yeah! the one made of Italian motor scooter parts.....

Eden.

antipodean wrote:That is amazing - I hadn't thought Gretsch made anything anywhere near that ugly until the '70s.

I've never seen one of those before

It's at my friend Jim Harms store in Golden Valley MN.It come's apart and fits in that case.

I saw a "partial" one many moons ago when I was high school in an old electronics re-sale shop (every once in a while the shop had some musical equipment). They had the double-neck body but only one of the necks. I can't remember if it was the bass or the guitar, but regardless it was cool.

jingle_jangle wrote:One of these Wretsches sold on eBay a couple of years ago for more than you'd think... (I think around $2K...)

Then there's always MY favorite Bikini, the Wandre:

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Wandre Pelotti? Didn't he design the "Rock Oval" ?