The GRGA42TQA features a basswood body with a quilted art grain (gravure) top and a maple neck with a 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays. Components include a double locking tremolo bridge, dual EMG covered humbucking pickups and a locking nut. The GRGA42T is similar but lacks the decorative top. Also new for 2011 is a hard-tail similar to the GRGA42TQA, the GRGA42QA. The GRGA42TQA was one of only a few RGA models to be offered after 2013. It was discontinued after 2015.