[BillSPrestonEsq]

I have a couple, and I hate to say it, but they may be shaking me from being an all Gibson guy. The S-50 is in near mint condition for a '64 some natural relicing of course, but in great shape. Has a neck like a baseball bat and a really unusual and mean sounding humbucker.





I have an old S100 in the closet that needs repair. Till this I never had given guilds much thought.

[Sean.thomson]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

I have a couple, and I hate to say it, but they may be shaking me from being an all Gibson guy. The S-50 is in near mint condition for a '64 some natural relicing of course, but in great shape. Has a neck like a baseball bat and a really unusual and mean sounding humbucker.





I have an old S100 in the closet that needs repair. Till this I never had given guilds much thought.

ooOOOooooo... I like that.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by Sean.thomson

ooOOOooooo... I like that.

Dude, I think it might be your holy grail of a guitar...

It is one mean sounding guitar though...

My wife's first response was "It's beat up and it's butt looks weird"

[Sean.thomson]

Originally Posted by BillSPrestonEsq

Dude, I think it might be your holy grail of a guitar...

It is one mean sounding guitar though...

My wife's first response was "It's beat up and it's butt looks weird"

[Almost Enough]

I LOVE old Guild guitars. The build quality is fantastic and most sound incredible. I play a 1970's Guild G37, acoustic guitar. I love it to death and have never even considered buying a new acoustic.

Where did you pick up this beauty? If you ever decide to send it away, let me know.

Also, small pictures are small.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by Almost Enough

I LOVE old Guild guitars. The build quality is fantastic and most sound incredible. I play a 1970's Guild G37, acoustic guitar. I love it to death and have never even considered buying a new acoustic.

Where did you pick up this beauty? If you ever decide to send it away, let me know.

Also, small pictures are small.

At a pawn shop. There was a waiting list to see it. No, there really was. I just had first dibs. I had to trade away a beloved guitar for it... Well, that and the SG. I am also picking up a boutique '55 jr styled prariewood.

Bigger pictures are here...

http://www.christianguitar.org/forum...0/#post3515903

[Major Tom]

Interesting, I don't remember ever seeing that model - it looks to be their entry level model, like a Melody Maker. As I remember, (at least I think it was Guild...?) they had some other models with that odd butt, that had a flip out stand in the back of the body, kind of a cool feature. My first electric guitar was a Guild, a single cutaway, single pickup (may have been the same one on your ax, it was a chromed metal encased single coil), thin hollow body, I remember we bought it for $70. They were very much the equivalent of Gibson as far as build quality and materials used, just not as common.

[LC7rock]

Who says you only have to use one brand of guitar? That thing looks pretty cool!

[redbaron]

my unicorn guitar is one of the guild jumbo 12 strings with the maple back & sides, and archback. They sound like nothing else.

I haven't played a post-fender guild, but the old ones made in Delaware are something special.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Originally Posted by Major Tom

Interesting, I don't remember ever seeing that model - it looks to be their entry level model, like a Melody Maker. As I remember, (at least I think it was Guild...?) they had some other models with that odd butt, that had a flip out stand in the back of the body, kind of a cool feature. My first electric guitar was a Guild, a single cutaway, single pickup (may have been the same one on your ax, it was a chromed metal encased single coil), thin hollow body, I remember we bought it for $70. They were very much the equivalent of Gibson as far as build quality and materials used, just not as common.

They made these with a more conventional shape a few years later. Data is a little sketchy on my model, but I believe they discontinued the funky shape of mine in the late sixties. Mine is not quite the same as that is definitely a really quiet humbucker. (and I found an ad from '64 that advertises it as a humbucker too) Mine is also a thin solid body, unlike yours. Yours sounds like a later variant of the same line, judging by the ads I saw when trying to research this bad boy.

My guess is that like a lot of early sixties guitars that unconventional shapes were not a big hit.

[nbfan]

Kim Thayil from Soundgarden had a liking for guitars like this right?

Kinda cool looking. Like a Melody Maker or something but wackier.