Newark St. prototype: BluesBird M-75 Solid body (?) with HB-1

The discussion was started here, but I think it is more appropriate under solid/chambered.

Look at this below picture from the Louder Than Life festival which Guild posted on their Facebook page. It shows a yet unknown model in the Newark St. Collection. It has a stop tailpiece and HB-1 humbuckers, which could basically be a "BluesBird M-75 Solid Body". Now I just wonder if it is really a solid body (looks basically as thick as the Aristocrat) or if they somehow just changed the hollow Aristocrat from harp to stoptail (maybe by adding a center block?) and from Franz to HB-1.



Ralf

Cool! From the photo it does look like it has identical dimensions to the Aristocrat... Personally, I'd be thrilled to see a small bodied semi-hollow without f holes. I think it's a format that works well and is under-represented.

Another 10 lb, solid mahogany with maple cap guitar does not interest me at all.

My attention went straight to the relic'd ? S100. What's that all about !!

Good question. I don't see a market for a new relic'd S-100

Is it relic'ed or just terrible lighting?

jcwu said:

Is it relic'ed or just terrible lighting?

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That's what I was wondering. I thought it was just reflecting all kinda shizzle from around it but.....

jcwu said:

Is it relic'ed or just terrible lighting?

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My guess is that it is just a lighting effect and the terrible quality of whoever from CMG takes those photos using Instagram. Those Instagram pictures suck big time! Not sure why people like those. CMG should invest in a proper camera and leave those cell phones at home...
Ralf

I think worse than the lighting is the extremely glossy finishes on these imported Guilds.

I really hope they put a few of those solidbody m75s into production.