What is the best solid body Guild electric guitar?

[mavuser]

I find your preference for neck joint position fascinating, mostly because I've even noticed where my necks join.

What is it about the difference that makes you prefer the 18-fret option?

it is just easier for me to sound better, somehow. I am far from an expert or professional guitar player. I need to use the entire fretboard to sound good. It comes pretty naturally on 16 fretters, but 18 fretters just seem "easier" somehow, to sound good, playing the way I play.

I keep buying 14 fret electric guilds, because they sound so amazing. I just don't like playing them that much after long though, and keep selling them. 97 SF-2, 58 CE-100-D, 77 CE-100-D, 64 T-100 D...all those maple archtops sound glorious mounted at the 14th...they just were not my style.

and my acoustics are 14 ers, obviously. I still
enjoy acoustic but have really been more of an electric guy. My first acoustic Guild sounded and played so great, I went on a little bit of a spree. But i'm (slowly) selling off the vast majority of my acoustics

 

[GAD]

it is just easier for me to sound better, somehow. I am far from an expert or professional guitar player. I need to use the entire fretboard to sound good. It comes pretty naturally on 16 fretters, but 18 fretters just seem "easier" somehow, to sound good, playing the way I play.

I keep buying 14 fret electric guilds, because they sound so amazing. I just don't like playing them that much after long though, and keep selling them. 97 SF-2, 58 CE-100-D, 77 CE-100-D, 64 T-100 D...all those maple archtops sound glorious mounted at the 14th...they just were not my style.

and my acoustics are 14 ers, obviously. I still
enjoy acoustic but have really been more of an electric guy. My first acoustic Guild sounded and played so great, I went on a little bit of a spree. But i'm (slowly) selling off the vast majority of my acoustics

Cool - thanks for the explanation!

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

(and my Carlo Greco Chief Star).

I've never heard of this. Have any photos?

 

[mavuser]

I've never heard of this. Have any photos?

the one on the right

 

[tonepoet]

You might be surprised. I bet that S300 is at least 2-piece. Look carefully at the grain lines under the smaller horn.

Hi Gary, When I get a chance, I'll get the S-300 out of storage and take a look. Memory has it that when you look at the end grain on the bottom of that guitar, it is one solid slab. But since my memory is not necessarily one solid slab anymore, I'll take a look again.

 

[tonepoet]

X-97

That's a rare one !!! I see it has the XR-7 pickups. Thanks for the post.

 

[HeyMikey]

the one on the right

Wow ! Double wow !! And triple wow !!!

 

[GGJaguar]

the one on the right

Whoa!

 

[GAD]

That's a rare one !!! I see it has the XR-7 pickups. Thanks for the post.

Maybe even one of a kind.

Guild X97V Prototype | GAD's Ramblings

Today’s obsession is a 1983 Guild X97V. If you’ve never heard of that model that’s because it doesn’t exist… well, not as a production model, anyway. So far as I know this is the only one. This is a prototype guitar for a model that never made it into production, and while it’s certainly possible …

www.gad.net

 

[Guildedagain]

For me it's this one because it's the only one I got, but it's looking for a home because Guild acoustics are the cat's meow. More playing, no tone chasing.

The burst from Guild at this time is unmatched by anyone IMO, and the contouring is quite fabulous, and the light weight.

 

[lungimsam]

Didn’t someone here have one up for sale in the last year or was that you?
That burst is incredible.

 

[Guildedagain]

Same guitar.

 

[HeyMikey]

“Hell” of a guitar

 

[hagmeat]

I always go back to my first Guild. A black 1971 S90 full unbevelled slab.

 

[Guildedagain]

I restrung that S-50 last night just about bedtime, an easy one with the Tremar, with 11-50 SIT strings with a wound 3rd, and wow, wow, wow, she's a rhythm machine, rings like a bell.

That's another way to make a guitar sell, fall in love with it.

 

[tonepoet]

That's another way to make a guitar sell, fall in love with it.

My problem with selling guitars is that when I decide to, I pick it up, tune it, play it a bit and say "Nope, I can't let go of that." An ongoing issue with me.

 

[lungimsam]

These decisions can be tough.
I had a '61 re-issue SG and a Blue Flower Strat, both for years.
I decided to test run both of them and whichever one sounded and felt best I would keep.
The Strat won by a mile.
I am a bassist. Had I been a guitarist, I guess it would have been a tougher choice.
I could see not wanting to let either go.