JohnW63
Enlightened Member
I find the random variances in the Guild builds fascinating ! And, even with all the differences, they most often sound good, play well, and still sound like a Guild.
then there's the early Hoboken guitars that a lot of people (including myself) find the best looking and that has been reissued in the GSR X-500T and 400T as well as the Newark Street 150's.
A little after that the Hoboken guitars got bigger and bulkier and deeper and the cutaway changed and later in Westerly that got exagerrated even more, with the cutaway going to the shape you're seeing in the guitars above.
I know this thread faded a few months ago but I have to share mine anyway...... 2001 X170 w/Guildsby and Lollar P90's w/.015 pio tone caps and not in this pic but it now sports a brass compton bridge......
This guitar is absolutely perfect.... tone drips off of it just sitting on the stand......
[/URL]X170 by eric.penrod, on Flickr[/IMG]
narrower/different than what? Than vintage guitars?
Yep, and I'll bet that Duane Eddy is a '61 at the very earliest, probably a '62 or later? It's altogether wider, larger, bigger. The body outline above it on the GSR, from what I've seen, lasted to around 61, give or take.