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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?
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?