WTB: Ce-100 with "P90's"

rocket88

Junior Member
Joined
Jun 18, 2005
Messages
44
Reaction score
0
Hi I'm looking for a Guild Ce-100 with the guild P-90's. Please send me an email if knowing anyone forsale.

Thanks/Johnny
 

billydlight

Member
Joined
Jun 20, 2005
Messages
384
Reaction score
5
You'll have to pull my CE's from my cold dead hands.... all 6 of them 8) :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:



PS I would have bought that one on ebay except the guy was INSANE in his asking price. I am a bargain hunter to the bone.
 

parker_knoll

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 27, 2006
Messages
1,453
Reaction score
410
Location
London
well it's $300 cheaper now, but he hasn't listed it in the Guild section for some unearthly reason
 

billydlight

Member
Joined
Jun 20, 2005
Messages
384
Reaction score
5
Well I bought it. Help me please! I... can't... stop...

This is gettin to be re gaddam diculous. I need CE100D.
 

jp

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 21, 2006
Messages
4,850
Reaction score
1,764
Location
Pacific Northwest US
Guild Total
4
Did you really? Fantastic! And you already have 6 of them :shock:

Just out of interest, what years do you have and with what PU configs? Which one do you like best?

I've owned a '64 with a minihumbucker in the neck and I now have a '68 DP. I love this guitar to death!

--JP
 

billydlight

Member
Joined
Jun 20, 2005
Messages
384
Reaction score
5
They are all between late 57 and 60. All have Franz Coils. Some came with bigsbys I put them on the rest. My very first one is still my baby. Check it here http://www.billydlight.com/Rocknroll/ce100d.htm

I started buying the other ones because I was playing the first one to death.

I wrote a little thing a while back when someone asked me why I loved them so much.

Here it is

I have a 58, 59, 60, and 61. All of them sound equally awsome. They all have Franz pickups in them. I also have a 58 Aristcorat, a 55 X350 all with Franz Coils, a 60 Blackfire III with DeArmonds, They all sound great, I have a 66 X175 that I put Franz Coils in it sounds great too.

However...

The CE100 D is a completely different animal. These guitars are all basically the same. THe 58 is about a quarter inch thicker than all of the others. In 60 they did something different with the laquer and the ones after that have a slightly greenish tint. The neck shape is the same on all of them. But it is about the tone! Those pickups on that body, it is a Maple body, maybe that gives it a little more zing, I use bigsby bridges, the key on these guitars IMHO is that the bridge pickup is RIGHT ON THE STRINGS, this makes them snarl. They are all the same in that respect.
Having the strings right on the pickup pushesthe pickups output so good. The X guitars have the strings at different heights over the pickups and You can only lower them so much because of the neck angle. But the CE's are built just right. I am sure it was unintentional. Probably someone at Guild got their Butt handed to them for cuttin it so close. But unlike a strat the strings being so close to the pickup does not pull them out of tune. THis guitar is kind of like a Super Tele on Steroids. Of course you do have to work the pickups a little. I dip them in wax and reverse the polarity so they are humbucking in the middle position. Also a lot of the coolness factor come into play when you use touch. These guitars sweeten up so beautifully with a lite touch and then turn into a beast when you smack it! The CE's more than any other guitar I have played. I have never played one with humbuckers but I would imagine it would not be as satisfying.

Have you been to my website? http://www.billydlight.com

I only have my first CE up there, but I wrote the text for that some years ago, and even back then I new the guitar was something special. She is still my main guitar, but she was coming apart at the seams. She is structurally oK but the inlays and binding have just gone to glop over the last 10 years. The guitar is soaked with sweat, and the finish is pretty much gone on the whole thing, but maaaaannn she sounds great. So I went on a trek over the last 2 years to get a few more so I could retire her slightly. I cannot say enough about these things.

What I can say is if you are planning on getting one, you're gonna have to get in line behind me!! Twisted Evil

And the best part is I totally stumbled on this guitar that changed my life. I was walking through the Philadelphia guitar show with a Jerry Jones Doubleneck that weighed a 1000 pounds. I walked by Jay Pilzers (the Guildguy) and said "what will you trade me for this?" He said I'll give you this and pointed to an old beater that looked like a ES 175. I said OK mostly cause the I was sick of carring the doubleneck.

And the rest is history.
 

jp

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 21, 2006
Messages
4,850
Reaction score
1,764
Location
Pacific Northwest US
Guild Total
4
Hey there Billy,

It took a long time for me to see that you'd posted an answer! So months later I have to answer as well.

I have a similar story as to how I came across my first CE-100. See here - http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=545

Mine was a '64. I now have a '68 DP that I love to death. I've never tried a '57-'60 Franz PU model, but my T-100 has that tone that you're talking about. The thing is, I like the slim neck profile of the mid-60s model - maybe '62 - '68. My T-100DP definitely has a chunkier neck profile.

BTW - YOU'RE THE GUY WITH THE BLACKFIRE! I had seen your site even before I found this site. I always wanted a Blackfire and I never made the connection of your username and your website. It's a real beauty. If you ever want to part with it - in order for you to acquire another 50s CE-100DP that is - I'll love it as I love my children.

You should post your process for waxing the Franz PUs. I'm sure that it's be really useful to a lot of folks on the forum. I haven't gigged for quite a while now due to my family situation, but I'm gonna be getting back to it soon. I used to work professionally as a musician. I'd really like to know a good potting process. Or have you already posted it somewhere?
 

jp

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 21, 2006
Messages
4,850
Reaction score
1,764
Location
Pacific Northwest US
Guild Total
4
Hey there Billy,

It took a long time for me to see that you'd posted an answer! So months later I have to answer as well.

I have a similar story as to how I came across my first CE-100. See here - http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=545

Mine was a '64. I now have a '68 DP that I love to death. I've never tried a '57-'60 Franz PU model, but my T-100 has that tone that you're talking about. The thing is, I like the slim neck profile of the mid-60s model - maybe '62 - '68. My T-100DP definitely has a chunkier neck profile.

BTW - YOU'RE THE GUY WITH THE BLACKFIRE! I had seen your site even before I found this site. I always wanted a Blackfire and I never made the connection of your username and your website. It's a real beauty. If you ever want to part with it - in order for you to acquire another 50s CE-100DP that is - I'll love it as I love my children.

You should post your process for waxing the Franz PUs. I'm sure that it's be really useful to a lot of folks on the forum. I haven't gigged for quite a while now due to my family situation, but I'm gonna be getting back to it soon. I used to work professionally as a musician. I'd really like to know a good potting process. Or have you already posted it somewhere?
 

billydlight

Member
Joined
Jun 20, 2005
Messages
384
Reaction score
5
Pickup Potting

Here was a good thread on potting pickups.
http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/vie...=potting&sid=6db186c908d514d0c935d2a683037fd9

I just dip em in wax and let all the bubbles come out. easy.
I am the blackfire guy and sorry she will never be for sale 8)

how bout a pic of your T100

here are some pics of my Blonde I got a while back
http://www.letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=261&highlight=

Also here is a good thread on making your Franz's humbucking in the middle position
http://www.letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=554&highlight=

Keep your eyes open they are still out there but they are getting more expensive. I just saw a 56 CE100 (one pickup) on ebay went for $650 or so. I would consider getting that and adding a pickup.
 

billydlight

Member
Joined
Jun 20, 2005
Messages
384
Reaction score
5
Pickup Potting

Here was a good thread on potting pickups.
http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/vie...=potting&sid=6db186c908d514d0c935d2a683037fd9

I just dip em in wax and let all the bubbles come out. easy.
I am the blackfire guy and sorry she will never be for sale 8)

how bout a pic of your T100

here are some pics of my Blonde I got a while back
http://www.letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=261&highlight=

Also here is a good thread on making your Franz's humbucking in the middle position
http://www.letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=554&highlight=

Keep your eyes open they are still out there but they are getting more expensive. I just saw a 56 CE100 (one pickup) on ebay went for $650 or so. I would consider getting that and adding a pickup.
 

jp

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 21, 2006
Messages
4,850
Reaction score
1,764
Location
Pacific Northwest US
Guild Total
4
Hey Billy,

Thanks for the links to the potting threads and the reverse polarity trick. I'll post some pics of my T-100 soon.
 

jp

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 21, 2006
Messages
4,850
Reaction score
1,764
Location
Pacific Northwest US
Guild Total
4
Hey Billy,

Thanks for the links to the potting threads and the reverse polarity trick. I'll post some pics of my T-100 soon.
 
Top