Archie
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I have to come clean and confess my sins to the honourable LTG forum.
50% of the reason I bought this guitar, was to take the Guild Bigsby off and put it on my 1967 DE-400.
The other 50% was because it felt great and in a sea of over 300 odd guitars, it stood out the moment I picked it up.
The plan was to take the harp tail piece off my DE-400, which I consider to be non original and swap it with the period correct bigsby on the SF4. The only issue being, the Bigsby has had the black enamel removed from around the Guild lettering.
I think we can agree that a 67 DE-400 is rarer than a 65’ SF4 and since the SF4 is refinished, it’s not a collectors example per say.
So everything made sense. I wasn’t asset stripping, or devaluing one guitar for the other. I was merely swapping parts to return the SF4 and DE-400, back to original spec.
Well… that is until I learned that the GSF4 is a ‘Special’ which means the Bigsby is original and other Bigsbys from that period, don’t have the black enamel paint either; well those on the ‘Special’ model.
So aside from the refinish and truss rod cover, the SF4 Special is all original.
Now I just need to confirm if the overly shiny new looking harp tail piece on my DE is original. If it is, then happy days.
Someone on the JGF has just shown me a picture of his friends DE-400 and it has a shiny new looking tail piece just like mine.
50% of the reason I bought this guitar, was to take the Guild Bigsby off and put it on my 1967 DE-400.
The other 50% was because it felt great and in a sea of over 300 odd guitars, it stood out the moment I picked it up.
The plan was to take the harp tail piece off my DE-400, which I consider to be non original and swap it with the period correct bigsby on the SF4. The only issue being, the Bigsby has had the black enamel removed from around the Guild lettering.
I think we can agree that a 67 DE-400 is rarer than a 65’ SF4 and since the SF4 is refinished, it’s not a collectors example per say.
So everything made sense. I wasn’t asset stripping, or devaluing one guitar for the other. I was merely swapping parts to return the SF4 and DE-400, back to original spec.
Well… that is until I learned that the GSF4 is a ‘Special’ which means the Bigsby is original and other Bigsbys from that period, don’t have the black enamel paint either; well those on the ‘Special’ model.
So aside from the refinish and truss rod cover, the SF4 Special is all original.
Now I just need to confirm if the overly shiny new looking harp tail piece on my DE is original. If it is, then happy days.
Someone on the JGF has just shown me a picture of his friends DE-400 and it has a shiny new looking tail piece just like mine.