Bringing a Starfire back to life.

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Not the De Armonds I had in mind, but still vintage. And at least it is for sale. From a Gretsch. But looks like a humbucker and not your usual Filtertron. Can't say I have ever heard one in a Gretsch. Size looks to be standard.

I have a set of pickups that look identical, but are single coils in a humbucker shell.

 

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By the way, Hans Moust wrote the Guild Guitar book. He could tell you when and probably how many were in the batch made.

 

[GAD]

By the way, Hans Moust wrote the Guild Guitar book. He could tell you when and probably how many were in the batch made.

...with the serial number.

 

[geoguy]

Welcome to LTG . . . perhaps posting the serial number with "XX" in place of the last two digits would be more comfortable for you. And enough info for folks to give you better advice re: how your guitar was originally outfitted.

 

[Boneman]

Fair enough you don’t want us to see how bad and unpresentable it is in its current state, but hopefully you at least still took photos to at least document its journey from trash to treasure. Besides, we’re curious what all it is that you do pull out from inside, and also whether the label is still legible.

The serial number would be stamped into the back of the headstock, so some indentations may still be visible with a good cleaning, unless they really did dig holes with it? Heh

 

[Dardplay]

I have a set of pickups that look identical, but are single coils in a humbucker shell.

Oh well, so probably single coil then. Would make sense.

I'm hoping these would fit?

 

[Dardplay]

By the way, Hans Moust wrote the Guild Guitar book. He could tell you when and probably how many were in the batch made.

Do you mean here an actual book, or that he just knows a lot about Guilds?

P. S. Oh, alright. I just googled it and there is a book. Never knew.