funkcity
Junior Member
Guild Custom 7: The Guitar that never existed. Now there are 3 !
Hi All
I got an email from Larry in Massachusetts.
He saw my Amber Custom 7 and said he had a blond or natural Custom 7.
And it is a beauty!
Along with Hans C7 in The Netherlands this makes 3.
There are some differences however.
Jay's (mine) left (In Los Angeles)
and Larry's (center) are both circa 1972 and 1 serial number apart!... How cool is that?
Hans' (right) seems to be the prototype but I think he doesn't agree with that. Hmmm...?
Hans' has the smaller humbuckers, absence of vertical inlay on the fretboard, non single-string adj. bridge, and relocated master volume and pickup switch.
They all incorporate a longer than usual Artist Award neck and thicker (3.5") Starfire type body.
Carlo Greco told Larry he built 3. Hans believes there are 6.
So if any of you are holding another one, or know of the existence of one ?
Ill bet there is at least 1 other 1972 vintage C7 around.
We'd like to know where it is!
From Hans Moust:
Jay
<<< The Custom 7 is featured in the book however the Custom 7 is one of the models of which some of the info is not entirely correct.
When I was doing the research for the book during the early '90s, I spoke to the person who was a foreman in one of the departments at Guild and he told me that the Custom 7 that I showed him was the prototype for the model and that no further production models were ever done. Since he was in a position to know, that information ended up in the book.
However, shortly after the book was published, I came across the 'real' prototype for the Custom 7. It turned out that the foreman was mistaken and that several other Custom 7s were done during the early '70s. So far I've seen 6 different ones, which includes the one that I own myself. That's also the one that's pictured in the book, of which the foreman thought that it was the prototype. It has serial # 101. >>>
Fun eh?
More links:
http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... =3&t=20492
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/guitar-owner ... ost2680349
Again, if any of you are holding another one, or know of the existence of one ?
Ill bet there is at least 1 other 1972 vintage C7 around.
We'd like to know where it is!
Thanks,
Jay and Larry
the co-founders of the new Guild Custom 7 Club
Hi All
I got an email from Larry in Massachusetts.
He saw my Amber Custom 7 and said he had a blond or natural Custom 7.
And it is a beauty!
Along with Hans C7 in The Netherlands this makes 3.
There are some differences however.
Jay's (mine) left (In Los Angeles)
and Larry's (center) are both circa 1972 and 1 serial number apart!... How cool is that?
Hans' (right) seems to be the prototype but I think he doesn't agree with that. Hmmm...?
Hans' has the smaller humbuckers, absence of vertical inlay on the fretboard, non single-string adj. bridge, and relocated master volume and pickup switch.
They all incorporate a longer than usual Artist Award neck and thicker (3.5") Starfire type body.
Carlo Greco told Larry he built 3. Hans believes there are 6.
So if any of you are holding another one, or know of the existence of one ?
Ill bet there is at least 1 other 1972 vintage C7 around.
We'd like to know where it is!
From Hans Moust:
Jay
<<< The Custom 7 is featured in the book however the Custom 7 is one of the models of which some of the info is not entirely correct.
When I was doing the research for the book during the early '90s, I spoke to the person who was a foreman in one of the departments at Guild and he told me that the Custom 7 that I showed him was the prototype for the model and that no further production models were ever done. Since he was in a position to know, that information ended up in the book.
However, shortly after the book was published, I came across the 'real' prototype for the Custom 7. It turned out that the foreman was mistaken and that several other Custom 7s were done during the early '70s. So far I've seen 6 different ones, which includes the one that I own myself. That's also the one that's pictured in the book, of which the foreman thought that it was the prototype. It has serial # 101. >>>
Fun eh?
More links:
http://letstalkguild.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... =3&t=20492
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/guitar-owner ... ost2680349
Again, if any of you are holding another one, or know of the existence of one ?
Ill bet there is at least 1 other 1972 vintage C7 around.
We'd like to know where it is!
Thanks,
Jay and Larry
the co-founders of the new Guild Custom 7 Club