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Thanks for the add. Looking for some info. This guitar belonged to my grandfather that passed in 1989. I believe that it's a 58 Starfire. He played professionally for 50 years. Supposedly, he knew and played with greats such as Roy Clark, Chet Atkins and Buck Owens. This guitar had 1000s of hrs of play and had been back to Guild at least twice. (Headstock repair and a re-fret) Guild had notoriously bad record keeping early on, and I read that they also had a fire in the late 50s or so, and lost a lot of records. The story that my uncle tells me is, that this guitar was part of a block of guitars (a dozen or so) given to Chet Atkins to play, as a marketing move. Wondering if anyone could verify or dispell this story. I'm also considering selling. I don't play it, and she needs some TLC. I've had some of the banding repaired a couple of years ago, but it's advancing again. Case is original also.
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