matsickma
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It sure looks origional. I just forgot about that detail. It was one of those subtle itms that you wouldn't normally focus on. Foot switch are not typically known for there aestetics.
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capnjuan said:Hi Dave; sorry you missed it but, were I looking for one and had a choice between making one from scratch, buying something that doesn't seem to exist and nobody is exactly sure what it looks like, and this switch, I'da bought this one. You could always say: 'This is my vintage Guild 66J and a footswitch marked 'Guild' :wink: ... would work until a bona fide switch showed up. Too bad; despite the coincidence that this popped right after this thread, at best, these are once-a-year-on-eBay .... if that.dapmdave said:... original?... No one really knows what it's supposed to look like, and it's made of wood and a switch, with 10 feet of lamp cord and a phone plug. I can even imagine recreating the "Guild" (rub-off lettering under some poly?) although the 2-button version doesn't seem to have a logo at all.
matsickma said:Guild phased out the wooden foot switches at the start of the Thunder amp series (circa 1965). Prior to that they were hard wood with a fixed cord and full rubber anti skid bottom. I have seen three styles: Two stomp switches for Reverb + Tremelo (98RT AMP) with fixed point wiring to the amp, a plugin Single Stomp switch + cord w/phono plug, assumed for Tremelo but not marked (66J, 99J, 100J, 200S) and a mini "doorstop size" Single Stomp switch, assumed for Tremelo but not marked (20RT, 40T, 50J) where the 20RT was hard wired to the Reverb/Tremelo converter amp and the switch only activated the Reverb-tremelo was a rocker switch. The dual stomp switch pedal of the 98RT was around a 5 inch square with a rise of about 2 inches. The single stomp switch was around 6 in x 3 in and a 2 inch rise. The mini switch was around 2 in x 4 inch x 1 in rise (all my numbers are estimates. I never measured these pedels and have long since sold the amps with pedals they came with).
I am not sure what wood was used for these pedals but it could have been mahogany.
The Guilds of Grot said:Because of your earlier style Guild decal, I'm guessing your foot switch was from between those pictured and of the later style, but before they started routing the edges.
Do you still have this footswitch?Hi Dave,
Similar to this type?
Dug this one out of the basement. It's certainly showing its age,
and there's no cord or backplate (only the original footswitches),
-- from the Westerly factory--
Do you still have this footswitch?
Price shipped to zip 29388?