'70's Sunburst M-75's?

[Csquare4]

Every since I purchased my '75 M-75 Sunburst, I have been looking for any others to see how they compare. I think they must be pretty rare as I have only seen 1 other (Afterglow's), up until today when I was reading Russian Guy's thread and saw the one that Phase Shifter has. They are both in this thread.

Afterglow's M-75 SB

Phase Shifter's M-75 SB

Here is a photo of mine:

I found out long after falling in love with mine that it originated with Coastie, went to Horuss for a while, then off to me. I have no idea how Coastie took ownership. I recently had it set up at my luthier who raised the nut a hair, made the requisite bridge/truss rod adjustments, dressed the frets, and set it up for 10's. It now plays very nicely with relatively low action - not as low as my S100 - but still it has become much more of an attachment lately. I really enjoy the bite of the HB-1's on this thing, and it has a lot more volume, warmth and sustain compared to the S100. Of course it weighs twice as much as well!!

So are there others out there? I am just curious and thought maybe we could pull them all into one thread.

Craig

 

[Thunderface]

Sorry, Craig, I always forget about yours, too!

 

[Csquare4]

Sorry, Craig, I always forget about yours, too!

Lol...no worries my friend. I just like seeing others as these are beautiful guitars! Now, it would be nice if mine were the only one, mind you 8)...

 

[AfterGlo]

At practice tonight I was just flying around the band room wailing on my M-75 (I have wireless now, its dangerous) and after one particularly great tune I declared my M-75GS my favorite guitar are of all time. I really prefer the body size to that of my 97 BB (which is bigger) and the weight and fit to my playing style are just perfect. I also love having the phase switch - it is way more useful than I'd expected it to be. From clean and spanky to tight and snarling, this guitar does it all. I'll try to post some updated pictures at some point, just for the joy of doing it.

Hans - is there a resource to help us determine production numbers of M-75 bursts of this era with gold trim and sunburst? They do seem hard to find.

 

[Phase Shifter]

Mine is chrome & sunburst.

You're right about the tone of this guitar. There is nothing like it. It is crystal clear and the phase shift switch combined with the pups just makes it even cooler.

 

[SFIV1967]

The Chrome hardware version had a CS at the end and the gold version a GS. Sunburst was a standard color, not a custom color.
@Craig and Phase Shifter: The fingerboards on your two guitars look like Ebony, or is it Rosewood?
The picture is from the 1975 catalog:

Ralf

 

[Russian Guy]

The Chrome hardware version had a CS at the end and the gold version a GS. Sunburst was a standard color, not a custom color.
And according to Hans book, on page 159 you can read that the GS version had a ebony fingerboard while the CS version had a rosewood fingerboard.
@Craig and Phase Shifter: The fingerboards on your two guitars look like Ebony, or is it Rosewood?

I think Guild used rosewood up until 1974. My '74 CS has ebony fingerboard. That '73 that was up for sale in Peoria had rosewood fretboard.

 

[Csquare4]

The Chrome hardware version had a CS at the end and the gold version a GS. Sunburst was a standard color, not a custom color.
And according to Hans book, on page 159 you can read that the GS version had a ebony fingerboard while the CS version had a rosewood fingerboard.
@Craig and Phase Shifter: The fingerboards on your two guitars look like Ebony, or is it Rosewood?
The picture is from the 1975 catalog:
Ralf

Definitely Ebony Fingerboard on mine.

Craig

 

[SFIV1967]

Definitely Ebony Fingerboard on mine, even though it is a CS.Craig

O.k,, thanks for checking. So the 1975 catalog at least was correct showing ebony. Makes sense what Vadim said, there was obviously a time when the spec was changed from rosewood to ebony fingerboard.
Ralf

 

[Phase Shifter]

Mine is also ebony.

 

[Ross]

My 1975 has an ebony fingerboard. Its tailpiece is also closer to the bridge than the illustration in the catalogue. I understand that the tailpiece move occurred in '75; so I assume that they used a '74 for the catalogue.

 

[SFIV1967]

My 1975 has an ebony fingerboard. Its tailpiece is also closer to the bridge than the illustration in the catalogue. I understand that the tailpiece move occurred in '75; so I assume that they used a '74 for the catalogue.

Right, good catch. Afterglow's still has the older (more distant) position and PhaseShifter's and Craig's a closer to the bridge position.
Ross, is your's sunburst as well?
Ralf

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Sunburst, but not solid!

Solid, but not sunburst!

 

[SFIV1967]

And Grot's M-75CS seems to be with Rosewood fingerboard like written in Hans book.
Ralf

 

[Ross]

My 1975 has an ebony fingerboard. Its tailpiece is also closer to the bridge than the illustration in the catalogue. I understand that the tailpiece move occurred in '75; so I assume that they used a '74 for the catalogue.

Right, good catch. Afterglow's still has the older (more distant) position and PhaseShifter's and Craig's a closer to the bridge position.
Ross, is your's sunburst as well?
Ralf

hi Ralf:

No, mine is "natural" - clear finish over mahogany. It's also a "CS" with chrome-plated hardware.
R

 

[Thunderface]

Must ... stop ... viewing ... post!
GAS ... building!
Weakness ... rising!
Trouble ... brewing!

 

[Thunderface]

From clean and spanky to tight and snarling, this guitar does it all. I'll try to post some updated pictures at some point, just for the joy of doing it.

 

[Horuss]

I found out long after falling in love with mine that it originated with Coastie, went to Horuss for a while, then off to me. I have no idea how Coastie took ownership.

This guitar was for sale near where Coastie lives. He was nice enough to help facilitate the sale of the guitar to me. He never owned it.

Hope you're loving it!

 

[Csquare4]

I found out long after falling in love with mine that it originated with Coastie, went to Horuss for a while, then off to me. I have no idea how Coastie took ownership.

This guitar was for sale near where Coastie lives. He was nice enough to help facilitate the sale of the guitar to me. He never owned it.

Hope you're loving it!

Very much so. I had it professionally set up not too long ago, which lowered the action and got rid of one buzzy spot on the low E. Now it plays like, well, the proverbial butter. I love these HB-1's, I am amazed at how much more bite these have than the one's on the S100. This is my raunch and grit guitar, the S100 is more for cleans and more mellow stuff. Not that it can't do the raunch and grit, it just doesn't do it as well.

I never use the phase reverse switch, I get so many tones with the various combinations of vol/tone/master that it suits me fine. Plus you sold me a beauty