Amazing M-80 in this photo

A blue one with factory Bigsby? Wow!

That style of M-80 is on my wishlist.


Yowsa, baby do you wanna come home with me?

Horuss where'd ya get that picture? Nice collection!

I recognize that sofa! That's gotta be Diamond Strings in Rochester, NY. They get the greatest basses and quirky guitars. I like the pic they have of Kustom semi-hollows.

Yeah, I found that on the Diamond Strings site.

It is hard to tell from the picture resolution any reminants of the origional diagonal Stop but I suspect the Guild Bigsby is an after factory add-on. For this guitar and Bigsby the string tension over the bridge may be insufficient to hold the strings in place. By the time Guild issued the M80 it had moved the location of the diagonal stop closer to the bridge of the M75 to hold the string in place. The M80 were issued with the closer bridge/stop location. I suspect that knowing this Guild would have installed a Bigsby with a tension bar similar to a SF5.

Hans, how do you read this configuration?

I must admit that a BLUE M80 is indeed an unusual color for the mid 1970's.

I would love to own that one.

M

matsickma said:

Hans, how do you read this configuration?

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Hello Mike,

Like you said with such a low resolution you can hardly see anything in that photo but my first impression is that except for the 'superstructure' itself, most of what you see was probably done after the guitar left the factory, including the blue finish.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl