THANKee Gary!
I'm not so sure about anything I remember anymore, these days!
Personally, I blame the '70's for that problem...
walrus
THANKee Gary!
I'm not so sure about anything I remember anymore, these days!
Personally, I blame the '70's for that problem...
walrus
Personally, I think your English is superb and is much better than mine on most days. But, most importantly, congrats Ruedi. That is a beautiful guitar!!!!
That's what was officially written in the Guild catalogs, they called those colors the "Woodgrain colors" and there were Woodgrain Red, Woodgrain Green, and Woodgrain Blue specified at that time in the pricelists as available colors.I like your proposition "woodgrain red" Ralf, it's something special like the guitar itself.
It's a property called chatoyancy and is especially apparent in high grade maple, which Guild had a great supply of from the mid '80's through the early 2000's, thanks to a guy named Willie Fritscher:Idk how to call the colour, it's unlike anything I've seen before. The woodgrain beneath the finish changes it's appearance depending on the light and angle of view, and so does the lacquering itself.
Count on it.Come back here for updates
cheerio
Yesterday evening I experimented with the phase switch and distortion, I think I'm getting closer. The Nightbird is slowly revealing it's secrets in terms of versatility.
*note to self: need to look up difference between phase switch and single coil switch.
Please forgive my ignorance and thank you Hans! The switch indeed does have it's effect on the neck pickup.
THANKee Gary!
I'm not so sure about anything I remember anymore, these days!
Now that's cool. Thank you for the confirmation!
But why on earth did they abandon the solder terminals?
I couldn't tell you. My guess would be to lower cost. Hans may know for sure, though.
This might well be the case. It's just a shame to sacrificesuch a nice and clean solution to save a few pennies and go back to this tinkering... But as long as it doesn't affect the sound I'm fine with it, I don't need to look at it all day
I've only now seen your entry "Guild Pickup Wiring" where you point out to the different coloured wiring as a distinguishing feature between the mid-90ies HB1s and the SB1.
And yes, they sound unlike anything other and better than everything I've heard before, just awesome.
Back in the 80's I molested the neck HB-1 on my S300 to allow coil splitting. (It wasn't vintage then, just a used guitar.) It works really well.