Guild GSR X-150D made in New Hartford?

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Would any member have info on a NOS Guild Limited Edition GSR X-150D Savoy Made in New Hartford, CT in 2013? Tundra Music has three NOS for sale on Reverb without a pick guard yet their specs state it is included. So I'm not sure if the rest of the specs are correct or they just ran out of pick guards before they closed New Hartford.

Body Shape: Guild® X-150
Body Top: Laminated Spruce
Back and Sides: Laminated Flame Maple Back and Sides
Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Body Depth: 3" (76.2 mm)
Bracing: Parallel Tone Bars
Headstock: Vintage 3x3 with Chesterfield Headstock Inlay
Neck: 3-Piece Mahogany/Maple/Mahogany
Body Binding: Ivory White with Black/White Purfling
String Nut: Bone, 1.70" (43.2 mm)
Fingerboard: Rosewood, 9.5" (241 mm) Radius
Frets: 20 Medium Jumbo
Position Inlays: Pearl Block
Scale Length: 24.75" (628 mm)
Hardware: Nickel-Plated
Bridge: Guild® Adjusto-Matic™ with Rosewood Base
Tuning Machines: Die-Cast Enclosed
Strings: D'Addario® EXL115 Nickel Wound (.011-.049 Gauges)
Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Tone 1. (Neck
Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
Pickups: Guild® "Anti-Hum" Dual-Coil (Bridge)
Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and
Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
Other Features: Single Cutaway Hollow Body; Bigsby® Vibrato Assembly; Chesterfield
Headstock Inlay, Dual "F" Hole Design, Black Pickguard with Gold Logo
 

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Welcome. My quick search looking at commentary circa 2014 makes me think a pickguard was part of the deal. let's see what the smarter folks turn up.
 
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Thank You, Just not sure if this dealer has the right specs listed for the GSR X-150D. Also can't figure out why they are selling four of them at almost $5K each yet have another two for only $1,800 ea.
 

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Thank You, Just not sure if this dealer has the right specs listed for the GSR X-150D. Also can't figure out why they are selling four of them at almost $5K each yet have another two for only $1,800 ea.

There are a few items that were made in New Hartford but didn't necessarily go through the usual retail channels to get to market because of the way NH closed. Perhaps that explains the difference? The higher priced ones might be New Old Stock with a warranty?
 

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Welcome to LTG! The GSR X-150D Savoy together with the GSR X-500D Stuart were the first New Hartford made guitars using the new BH (Korea) made "Guild Anti-Hum Dual Coil" full size HB-1s back in 2013. At that time it was not yet known that Guild in New Hartford would close. So I believe the pickguards are not missing but in the case. See the guitars at L.A. Music below.

Anyway, since they were a limited GSR run, there were only 26 pcs of the GSR X-150D Savoy made.

They are very nice guitars and built quality should be perfect, but they had and have obviously a very limited market in Canada for them. Now after so many years Tundra seem to be clearing their inventory, at least for one of them.
This NR016001 is a January 2014 made one:

The three blonde versions are from November and December 2013 and they have are totally overpriced, I guess if you offer them something like for the burst one they might be willing to sell:
NQ342005:
NQ308006:
NQ309008:

Another Canadian Dealer, L.A. Music in Ontario also has two from November 2013. And they have a pickguard! So the 4 at Tundra probably have the pickguards in the case, just ask them.

The second: https://reverb.com/item/12676843-gu...50d-sunburst-savoy-electric-guitar-3822000837

They also still have a GSR X-500: https://reverb.com/item/12350780-gu...x-500d-stuart-electric-guitar-3826000801-2013

Anyway, you see the issue, 6 of the GSR X-150D still for sale in Canada out of 26...Clearly the wrong country for them.

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Thank You for the reply. So with the pickups made in Korea and who knows where other parts were made including the bodies how could Guild at the time state they were made in the U.S.? Do you think they are any better than the ones made today in Korea and if so is $1,800 a good price?
 

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Well, I suppose the fact that they were assembled and finished in the US makes them qualify for "made in the US" as far as Guild is concerned. However, if you want a US-made X-150D, they can be found for less than $1800. They have maple tops, not spruce, and they are fitted with Fender's version of the HB-1 humbucking pickup. These are standard PAF-size so you can put in any pickup you like that fits that format (literally hundreds of possibilities there). And if you want a Bigsby, you could always put one on. That said, I have a GSR T-500 and it is a very fine guitar. Good luck with your quest!
 

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Do you think they are any better than the ones made today in Korea?
Definitely. They have nothing to do with the Newark St. Collection guitars. The workmanship of the New Hartford factory was absolutely top! In that X-150D case there were rumors they reused whitewood bodies which had been laying around in at least two previous Guild locations since many many years. Rumors were they originated from the Takada factory in Japan as far as I can remember. But there was never an official confirmation. So just the body wood possibly came from Asia, everything else was added in New Hartford. As Guild had no HB-1 pickups anymore the FMIC engineers tasked the pickup factory in Korea with making a copy of the full size vintage HB-1, and people who played them say they are great. Also the guitars were Nitro finished in New Hartford, the Korean Guilds are finished in Polyurethane. Just for reference, there was only one GSR electric model ever that had issues (some misaliged parts) which was the GSR M-75 Aristocrat. Everything other GSR model was great. The absolute cream of the cream were the few American Patriarch models from New Hartford.

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Interesting info. Do you have more details on the "misalignment" on the M 75 ?
 

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Do you have more details on the "misalignment" on the M 75 ?
See here:

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Don't get Steve (Default) started on the M75 GSRs! :cool:
 

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Don't get Steve (Default) started on the M75 GSRs! :cool:
😭 I really wanted to keep that one and I would have if it was salvageable!
If I could find one, realign the tailpiece and install HB-1 reissues.
 

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Stupid question : was the misalignment affecting the playability or "only" cosmetic ? ( even the latter is not acceptable in this price range of course). And all guitars were affected ?
 

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Basically, if you aligned the strings over the pup pole pieces, the e string is at the very edge of the fingerboard, if you aligned the strings to the fingerboard, the bridge pup e polepiece is too far toward the treble side. It misses the string completely and looks terrible. You have to relocate the tailpiece, and reroute the bridge pup cutout. On the one I had, the ring would not cover the new route. Other than that, it was a very resonant guitar, and sounded glorious on the neck pickup.
 

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Stupid question : was the misalignment affecting the playability or "only" cosmetic ? ( even the latter is not acceptable in this price range of course). And all guitars were affected ?


The threads linked to above say that the problem applied to all of the guitars. I' think it was more than cosmetic but I'll lt someone else re-read the discussion to confirm or deny.
 

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All of the clownburst m75s were bad, according to Kim. Sad, because I would have just had the pickups rewound and that would has been a killer guitar.
 

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It is a problem and it's not excusable. OTOH, if I owned one and like the way it sounded then I would just try not to look at the pickup.

The neck pickup on my Blues90 is off center, but the guitar is so fierce that I decided to forgive its flaws.
 
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