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.