X-700 serial #
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hansmoust
Enlightened Member
Hello loux,
Welcome! Don't have the slightest idea why you posted your question in the 'Guild Amps & Effects' section, but I do know that your X-700 was manufactured during the year 1998 in Westerly, R.I.
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
guitarfarm
Junior Member
Are you sure it's an X-700? I have #AK700337 (47 guitars from yours) and it is definitely an X-500. Those guys at Guild weren't too careful about serial numbers.
SFIV1967
Venerated Member
Welcome to LTG! I am pretty sure Hans can tell you what you have and why your X-500 has a AK700xxx serial number.
Ralf
NEONMOONY
Member
Welcome both of you to LTG. I have a guitar, #AK700244, just 46 BEFORE his, and it is definitely a X-700
hansmoust
Enlightened Member
loux said:
guitarfarm said:
Hello guitarfarm,
Actually, the person who was responsible for the serial numbers was very careful and precise and all of the talking you hear on the LTG pages about wrong serial numbers hardly ever had anything to do with him. But since he's only human too he did make mistakes and at this point I'm not even sure if it was his mistake.
The fact is that for a period during the second half of the '90s the X-500 had been discontinued in favor of the X-700, which means the X-700 was the regular top-of-the-line deluxe 17" archtop electric available from Guild. Towards the end of the '90s dealers were asking for the return of the X-500 and so it was decided that the X-500 would be introduced again next to the X-700.
So the guy who was stamping the serial numbers in the finishing department, just before they were going into the spraying room, didn't realize that the unfinished guitar on the rack was not an X-700, but an X-500. At that stage in production, with the pickup holes not being cut yet, an X-700 would look the same to anyone who would just look briefly. So that's how your X-500 did get an X-700 serial number and depending on the number of X-500s that were done in that batch, it means that there are less X-700s and more X-500s made than the serial number list would indicate. Your X-500 is one of the early ones made after they were reintroduced and it was made during the year 2000.
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
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