Is This a Guild Acoustic Electric? Steve Vai

[PreacherBob]

I was just watching a video with Steve Vai talking about his 263 guitar collection(mainly Ibanez) and I saw this in the background. Is that a black thin body Guild acoustic electric with a maple neck? Maybe a Burnside model? Cant see the name but that headstock shape looks familiar.

 

[GGJaguar]

Looks like an FS-46-6 solid body?

 

[GGJaguar]

 

[hansmoust]

Yes, that's a Guild FS-46CE-6 from the year 1984. It's not really an acoustic electric, but more like a solid body guitar with an under-saddle pickup system.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[PreacherBob]

I REALLY like the six in-line tuners on that. I hope one comes up for sale before I die.

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

Used to have one...6 string cousin to my 12 string...really nice maple fast electric type neck...short scale...24 fret...for plugged in play only...had the old 3-volt TASS system.

If you find one, you'll really want to change the electronics...be close to 40 years old now...I just used a mag sound hole PUP in the 'not really a sound hole'

ps: seem to recall having seen a pic of Brian Setzer playing one...besides his Bluesbird pics.

 

[SFIV1967]

ps: seem to recall having seen a pic of Brian Setzer playing one...besides his Bluesbird pics.

And in this video he plays the 12 string version FS-46-12CE:



Ralf

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

I knew you'd find it, Ralf.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Hey, I have one of those!



And its Cousin!

 

[GAD]

I’ve got one but surprisingly I don’t think I have a pic of it.

 

[GGJaguar]

I don’t think I have a pic of it.

That probably means it's quite a ways down on the review list.

 

[Rambozo96]

I know they made him an electric solid body back when he was shopping around for an endorsement deal and for a company to make him the ideal guitar for him. I don’t know if there’s a pic of it floating around but I think it was a 27 fret.

 

[Rambozo96]

Here we go, makes you wonder what could have been…

Vai.com - The Official Steve Vai Website

www.vai.com

 

[Rambozo96]

And pics for posterity in case the link stops working.

 

[SFIV1967]

Here we go, makes you wonder what could have been…

Vai.com - The Official Steve Vai Website

www.vai.com

See more here:

And now for something completely different!

I love Hans' comments in the old thread about them clearly not having any guitar designers. LOL. +1. That made me laugh out loud! Not much different than George Harrison's childhood drawings! walrus

letstalkguild.com

And earlier:

:50 in Steve Vai's 30-fret Guild

:50 seconds into this video on Reverb, Steve Vai shows a custom 30-fret Guild. Only a couple of seconds. Don't know if this was posted before... https://reverb.com/news/video-inside-steve-vais-wild-guitar-collection

letstalkguild.com

And earlier:

Steve Vai Guitar collection - 4 Guilds

https://www.vai.com/steves-guitars/ 300 + instruments. Only 4 Guilds, and odd ones at that. Way too many Ibanez "Jem" models.

letstalkguild.com

Ralf

 

[kostask]

Guild should have just gone with a Dana Scoop type design. Upper fret access doesn't get any better than that. The one they came up is pretty ugly.