40’s Synchromatic Question
Gretsch Guitars 
I’m considering buying a 1940’s Gretsch Synchromatic very seriously and I have two questions. As my name implies, I’m a blues player, mostly slide, and I’m wondering if people feel these ’40’s era Gretsch’s can make good blues instruments. My second question is about the clearance between the surface of the body and the neck just beyond the end of the neck. I’d like to affix a floating pickup of some kind — either a floating P-90 or a DeArmond — but I am wondering if there’s enough clearance in the neck position to do this.
Synchromatic Info:
Roughly speaking, vintage Synchros can be broken into three periods: 1939 - early World War II, late wartime - 1951 and 1951 - 1953.
The later period started losing some of the more opulent features, including the cat-eye soundholes.
While it’s life was short and few were built, the Synchromatic quickly became (and remains) a legend among acoustic archtops.
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