S60 or ???

[jhdoom]

I've got a very strange s60 here and was wondering if anyone out there can tell me anything about it. I'm assuming it was a custom job and whoever did it did a fantastic job on appearance. Solder work is a bit shotty but I'm terrible at it too so no complaints The pickguard looks factory made, all hardware is Guild branded the routing for the neck is the only give away and thats not because they did a poor job. It looks factory as well but inside the cavity written in marker is MG 9.83.
I'm assuming the work was done by the hands of Magnificent Guild (MG obviously thats not their name. Or is it???) in the month of September (9) year 1983 (83). What do you all think?? Let me know if you're out there, Magnificent.

 

[mushroom]

Hello and welcome

Looks to me like an S60 that someone has added an extra pickup to the neck position.

I think it’s a late 70’s, possibly a 79 model but I am known to be wrong and so are the charts.
Others will confirm or deny.

Nice looking guitar in my opinion and I really like the pick guard shape on this.

 

[tonepoet]

Welcome jhdoom,

Serial number looks to be 1979. I agree with mushroom on the pickup addition.

 

[GGJaguar]

That Schaller isn't a bad pickup. G&L used them in the 1980s.

 

[GAD]

While it pains me to see a nice old Guild carved up like that, I bet it rocks.

 

[jhdoom]

While it pains me to see a nice old Guild carved up like that, I bet it rocks.

Plays better than my s300D if im being honest.

 

[jhdoom]

Does anyone know anybody on the forum who might have th initials MG? I thought for sure he would be in here somewhere

 

[GAD]

Plays better than my s300D if im being honest.

S60s are great guitars. Only weakness is the tuners IMO.

 

[tonepoet]

While it pains me to see a nice old Guild carved up like that, I bet it rocks.

A friend has an S-60 that he regrets carving up that he still plays. As he put it: "Hey, ya know, teenager, high school wood shop..." with a shrug of the shoulders. He had reshaped the whole body.

 

[GAD]

A friend has an S-60 that he regrets carving up that he still plays. As he put it: "Hey, ya know, teenager, high school wood shop..." with a shrug of the shoulders. He had reshaped the whole body.

Yeah, I totally get it. Hell, EVH carved up his beloved Explorer and turned it into “The Shark” then commented that whatever magic was in the guitar was sadly gone:



It’s been theorized that some of the amazing tones on the VH1 album were made with that guitar and he hacked it up to make it look cooler. It was just a thing we all seemed to want to do back then.