They way I understood it all Gretsch shells were the maple/gumwood if they were made by Jasper. When Jasper went out, all the gretsch shell tooling/forms went to Keller. Keller supplied their normal shells (all maple) to gretsch for a short period of time until they tooled up for the maple/gumwood formula again. I think that was the case about 8-10 years ago. They should be all back to the 6-ply maple/gumwood again. I remember reading an article somwhere about Gretsch and the Jasper shells, but can't remember where as it was some time ago.....maybe there is a Gretsch expert out there that can confirm this for us?

Thanks!

That helps and I will forward the information.. If I do get more info I will update this post for others.

David