Hi, I'm a long term vintage guitar player and collector in South Australia. I recently added a nice Guild to the collection, so I thought I'd join the forum! My 'new' guitar is a 1964 T100D with a B3 Bigsby fitted. The Grover StaTite tuners on the guitar look to be original, as is pickguard, knobs etc. The bridge loks to be a Gibson style. I don't have a full history of this instrument, other than that it was bought new in South Australia. The serial number is 34482 on the back of the headstock and on the internal label; interestingly the label has the 'second variant' small USA letters at the bottom. Now that I have done some setting up it's a very smooth and enjoyable guitar to play. The build quality is excellent, the 1-11/16" nut width and full C neck profile with no volute feels great, like a late 50s Gibson but with a more radiused fretboard, and the lively resonant nature of the guitar makes it very engaging to play.
I do have a couple of questions and am hoping that forum members might have some comments.... This guitar has the wide single coil pickups with chrome plated cover and 6 adjustable pole pieces. (In the quickly taken photo below the pickup tops look black from a reflection but they are in fact all silver). According to Mr Moust's excellent book, these were used by Guild between '62 and '66. Both of these pickups sound strong but on this guitar they are out of phase when both are selected together. I wonder whether that is how they were designed to be in a T100D, or has this one had a wire swapped around at some time? I'm also wondering if any definitive information has come forward as to what company made this particular pickup? Inspecting the underneath of the pickups reveals no markings or codes. . Finally, the guitar came in a generic old dreadnought case. I happen to have a 1970s era made in Japan thinline case that fits the guitar quite well, but I was wondering if anyone knows which company made the cases that had the Guild logo on them back in the day?
Hi Ian ('Stello'), That's a nice guitar - still have it? I have a blonde X-170 which I think may be the same general shape as your T100 (apart from the different cutaway). Not sure about the 2.5" body depth though. The point is that I have the original case which you are welcome to check out sometime - I'm aware that you live only a few streets north of me! ;-) Hope the home renovations eventually got finished - mine continue...;-( regards, Sam.Hi, I'm a long term vintage guitar player and collector in South Australia. I recently added a nice Guild to the collection, so I thought I'd join the forum! My 'new' guitar is a 1964 T100D with a B3 Bigsby fitted. The Grover StaTite tuners on the guitar look to be original, as is pickguard, knobs etc. The bridge loks to be a Gibson style. I don't have a full history of this instrument, other than that it was bought new in South Australia. The serial number is 34482 on the back of the headstock and on the internal label; interestingly the label has the 'second variant' small USA letters at the bottom. Now that I have done some setting up it's a very smooth and enjoyable guitar to play. The build quality is excellent, the 1-11/16" nut width and full C neck profile with no volute feels great, like a late 50s Gibson but with a more radiused fretboard, and the lively resonant nature of the guitar makes it very engaging to play.
I do have a couple of questions and am hoping that forum members might have some comments.... This guitar has the wide single coil pickups with chrome plated cover and 6 adjustable pole pieces. (In the quickly taken photo below the pickup tops look black from a reflection but they are in fact all silver). According to Mr Moust's excellent book, these were used by Guild between '62 and '66. Both of these pickups sound strong but on this guitar they are out of phase when both are selected together. I wonder whether that is how they were designed to be in a T100D, or has this one had a wire swapped around at some time? I'm also wondering if any definitive information has come forward as to what company made this particular pickup? Inspecting the underneath of the pickups reveals no markings or codes. . Finally, the guitar came in a generic old dreadnought case. I happen to have a 1970s era made in Japan thinline case that fits the guitar quite well, but I was wondering if anyone knows which company made the cases that had the Guild logo on them back in the day?
Hey!!! Original case for sale!Hi, I'm a long term vintage guitar player and collector in South Australia. I recently added a nice Guild to the collection, so I thought I'd join the forum! My 'new' guitar is a 1964 T100D with a B3 Bigsby fitted. The Grover StaTite tuners on the guitar look to be original, as is pickguard, knobs etc. The bridge loks to be a Gibson style. I don't have a full history of this instrument, other than that it was bought new in South Australia. The serial number is 34482 on the back of the headstock and on the internal label; interestingly the label has the 'second variant' small USA letters at the bottom. Now that I have done some setting up it's a very smooth and enjoyable guitar to play. The build quality is excellent, the 1-11/16" nut width and full C neck profile with no volute feels great, like a late 50s Gibson but with a more radiused fretboard, and the lively resonant nature of the guitar makes it very engaging to play.
I do have a couple of questions and am hoping that forum members might have some comments.... This guitar has the wide single coil pickups with chrome plated cover and 6 adjustable pole pieces. (In the quickly taken photo below the pickup tops look black from a reflection but they are in fact all silver). According to Mr Moust's excellent book, these were used by Guild between '62 and '66. Both of these pickups sound strong but on this guitar they are out of phase when both are selected together. I wonder whether that is how they were designed to be in a T100D, or has this one had a wire swapped around at some time? I'm also wondering if any definitive information has come forward as to what company made this particular pickup? Inspecting the underneath of the pickups reveals no markings or codes. . Finally, the guitar came in a generic old dreadnought case. I happen to have a 1970s era made in Japan thinline case that fits the guitar quite well, but I was wondering if anyone knows which company made the cases that had the Guild logo on them back in the day?
Hi Hans, how thick/deep is the T100? This case looks identical (in shape, colour etc anyway) to the Guild-labelled case I have for my X-170. Thanks, Sam.
Thanks Hans - that's 1/2" thinner than my X-170 which measures 2.5". I'm interested in this for 2 reasons. First, Ian ('ianstello' whom I've known since we were both young) lives just up the road & I thought maybe he might want to try out my case for his T-100 to get a better idea of what he needed. Second, I have a set of very nice pressed maple ply plates (randomly flamed) I bought a while ago from a well known builder in Canada and which I've been considering for a thin-line, very light & full-hollow T-100 or Starfire 2 clone. I also have some solid maple sides I bought many moons ago that I can use & a mahogany neck blank. I think the T-100/Starfire 2 is the same shape as my X-170 so I thought I'd just take a profile from that. I've read somewhere that the combination of fully-hollow body & mahogany neck can give a mellower tone so I thought it might be fun to find out! Thanks again, Sam.
Thanks Hans! It didn’t actually look familiar to me but this same guy parted out an old T-100 (
) and this is the case he had so I posted it here in “case” anybody is interested.
I can hand my guitar to a world class player, and it would likely get the better of them in any cranked situation. )
If the snares on the drum kit can buzz, so can my guitar. Lol
He also talks about feedback control and resorting to stuffing his tightly whitey underwear (or hotel washcloths) in the F hole to semi mute the full hollowbody resonance. Lol.
No, that pickup was made with coils that were wound by Todd.
No, the coils for the small humbuckers were made by Todd as well.