New to this site, question regarding 1950's Guild X150 specs

[TPMCD]

Hello all, I'm a new member; I signed up mostly to find out more info about the Guild X150 (for now, I'm interested in the model from the 1950's, but the late 1990's-early 2000's one looks good as well).

I've come across varying bits of information regarding the specs for the 1950's version of this guitar.

This ad for a 1954 says the scale length is 25 3/4", nut width is 1 3/4", width is 17"

1954 Guild X-150 Savoy

This 1954 Guild X150 Savoy has just landed from the daughter of the original owner! It has survived in very nice condition and is ready to go back to the stage. Scroll through to check out a picture of the original owner with the guitar in the 1950s. I'm confident you'll love this fine playing...

truevintageguitar.com

Here's a current one for sale on eBay, here it says the scale length is 25 1/2"

1955 Guild X150 “Savoy” Archtop | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1955 Guild X150 “Savoy” Archtop at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

Archtop.com shows a 1960 X150 as having a 25 3/4" scale length and nut width of 1 11/16"

1960 Guild X-150

Some other offers list the guitar as being 17" wide, some say 17.5".

Not too concerned about the nut width or the overall width, but I'm wondering about the scale length. I've got Telecaster with the 25 1/2" scale and that feels fine, but I'm not sure about 25 3/4". Is that really the scale length? Or perhaps a typo and it should say 24 3/4" (like a Gibson ES175, 125, etc.)

Looking to get one of these, but curious to learn more about them. Any comments welcome, thanks all.

Tom in SoCal

 

[GGJaguar]

Welcome to LTG! The early Guild archtops had a 25 1/2" scale until sometime in late 1956 when it was changed to 24 3/4". The length list for that 1960 X-150 is almost certainly a typo, but you can email the seller and ask to confirm.

 

[Smiert Spionam]

As GGJ says, the 1960 is almost certainly a typo — those were consistently shorter scale at that point. I don’t think you’d find the long scale Guild archtops to be meaningfully different from a tele — they‘re close enough to be essentially identical (though of course a big archtop with a floating bridge feels and plays differently than a tele).

 

[TPMCD]

This is great info, thanks to both of you. Really interested in this guitar, there's a local shop that has a blonde one and I've got my eye on it. Thanks again.

 

[GAD]

In my experience you can’t trust any for sale ad to have accurate information. Hell, sometimes you can’t even trust the vendor catalogs to have accurate info!

 

[walrus]

Welcome, and good luck on the hunt!

walrus

 

[mavuser]

@zizala has a 1950's X-150 she may be willing to sell, good luck

 

[TPMCD]

@zizala has a 1950's X-150 she may be willing to sell, good luck

Thanks for the tip! When I've met my quota of posts, I'll post in the "Buy, Sell, Trade" forum; maybe I'll PM zizala as well. Thanks again.

 

[TPMCD]

Welcome to LTG! The early Guild archtops had a 25 1/2" scale until sometime in late 1956 when it was changed to 24 3/4". The length list for that 1960 X-150 is almost certainly a typo, but you can email the seller and ask to confirm.

Hey GGJaguar, do you know if there were any other changes to the guitar in late 1956? Was the width changed, etc.? Thanks again all, this is really helpful to my search.

Tom

 

[AcornHouse]

My 1960 X-150 certainly has a 24-3/4" scale.

 

[Neal]

Here is my 1953 X-150. 1 3/4” nut, 25.6” scale length, 17 1/4” across the lower bout.

 

[TPMCD]

Here is my 1953 X-150. 1 3/4” nut, 25.6” scale length, 17 1/4” across the lower bout.

Well that guitar is absolutely beautiful. I'm looking to get something like that. Going to check out this blonde one today, take some measurements, play it and see what I think. Thanks for posting this!