The Guild Starfire III Thinline first appeared in 1960, as a single-cutaway, thin but fully hollow archtop, with a Bigsby tailpiece – the Starfire II was the same guitar but with the Guild harp tailpiece. It was available with either maple or mahogany laminate body.
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Originally launched in 1954 as the M-75 Aristocrat, the Guild Bluesbird has had a number of revisions over the years. The version seen here was built from 1998 to 2003, as a chambered Mahogany solidbody with a solid AAA Maple top and a softened cutaway.
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Here we have a fairly rare bird – the Guild X79 Skyhawk in white, produced in Westerly Rhode Island from 1981 to 1986, this one dating to 1984. The construction of this model is simple – the body and set neck are Mahogany, with an un-bound, 24-fret Ebony fingerboard. Those last few frets were very rare at the time!
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The Guild X-500 archtop electric was a single-cutaway, fully hollow 17 inch wide archtop electric model built from 1953 to 1995, and again for a year or two until being discontinued in 2015. This example dates to 1979 and comes from the Westerly, Rhode Island plant. The Guild X-500 archtop is intended as an electric model, and Guild followed the proven pattern of using laminate woods for the body to reduce feedback.
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Now out of production, this great condition Left Handed Guild F30-LH Aragon was built in New Hartford, Connecticut in 2012. The F30 model first entered production in 1954, and was discontinued around 2015. The Guild F30-LH uses an ‘Orchestra’ proportioned, faux-tortoise bound body, pairing an Adirondack Red Spruce top with Mahogany for the sides, back and neck, with Indian Rosewood used for the fingerboard, head plate and bridge.
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Here is a lovely and great sounding Guild GAD-50e AMB – for Amber – non-cutaway Dreadnought guitar, built during 2005. When introduced in 2004 under the ownership of Fender Musical Instrument Corporation (FMIC), the GAD series represented Guild’s effort to provide a lower cost but high quality instrument and in this they definitely succeeded. Based on the D-50 Bluegrass model introduced in 1963, the Guild GAD-50E uses the Dreadnought body design. The top is Sitka Spruce paired with Indian Rosewood for the sides, back, head plate, fingerboard and bridge.
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