Hi all (and a happy new year!),
I am new to this forum and sorry for my english. I am living in Germany and my English is not the best.
Found this forum by accident and I would like to introduce my Guild Solidbody Guitar to you.
It has been restored by the german luthier, Walter Kraushaar, and I got it back a few days ago! And I´m in Love (again) ...
Here you see the the old original:
I bought this guitar in the Mid '80ies. In the last 10 years I have neglected this guitar (different reasons).
Before that I played the guitar excessive and I produced a lot of damages, dings, dongs and bad scratches.
Parts of the neck binding were broken. No chance to play this guitar anymore.
And it took a long time for the decision to restore ist. Now the time had come.
First, Walter removed the paint. And he not only repaired the neck binding. My special wish was a binding on
the headstock:
Because of the great weight we decided to reduce it:
and renew the back with mahogany:
Now it got the new colour(s):
And finally it is at home (a simple iPhone photo - I will make better photos in the near future):
THIS GUITAR IS SO AWESOME! :tan:
We changed the original stop tailpiece with a Gibson one. And I bought classic Gibson Pickups (490R and 498T) for it.
Now it has locking tuners by Grover. Chrome Tulip Knobs for them are ordered.
The clean sound (with a fender amp) is absolutely great. It sounds very very warm and has
a little bit the sound of a semihollow. With my Marshall Combo this guitar sings like a charm and has an
incredible sustain.
Searching over month now I found a fitting case too. That was not easy! Guild don't answers to mails ...
and it took a long time to find a case for this dimensions. Les Paul Cases on every corner, but for this guitar? No.
It has a fatter *** ... :witless:
Hope you like my baby, too!
Pete
I am new to this forum and sorry for my english. I am living in Germany and my English is not the best.
Found this forum by accident and I would like to introduce my Guild Solidbody Guitar to you.
It has been restored by the german luthier, Walter Kraushaar, and I got it back a few days ago! And I´m in Love (again) ...
Here you see the the old original:
![Kraushaar__0_zps8a392754.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/peterdethof/Kraushaar__0_zps8a392754.jpg)
I bought this guitar in the Mid '80ies. In the last 10 years I have neglected this guitar (different reasons).
Before that I played the guitar excessive and I produced a lot of damages, dings, dongs and bad scratches.
Parts of the neck binding were broken. No chance to play this guitar anymore.
And it took a long time for the decision to restore ist. Now the time had come.
First, Walter removed the paint. And he not only repaired the neck binding. My special wish was a binding on
the headstock:
![Kraushaar_1_zps649925fd.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/peterdethof/Kraushaar_1_zps649925fd.jpg)
Because of the great weight we decided to reduce it:
![Kraushaar_2_zps131f4492.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/peterdethof/Kraushaar_2_zps131f4492.jpg)
and renew the back with mahogany:
![Kraushaar_3_zps37fc990d.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/peterdethof/Kraushaar_3_zps37fc990d.jpg)
Now it got the new colour(s):
![Kraushaar_4_zps7df5462a.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/peterdethof/Kraushaar_4_zps7df5462a.jpg)
And finally it is at home (a simple iPhone photo - I will make better photos in the near future):
![Kraushaar_5_zpsfac408e7.jpg](http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k592/peterdethof/Kraushaar_5_zpsfac408e7.jpg)
THIS GUITAR IS SO AWESOME! :tan:
We changed the original stop tailpiece with a Gibson one. And I bought classic Gibson Pickups (490R and 498T) for it.
Now it has locking tuners by Grover. Chrome Tulip Knobs for them are ordered.
The clean sound (with a fender amp) is absolutely great. It sounds very very warm and has
a little bit the sound of a semihollow. With my Marshall Combo this guitar sings like a charm and has an
incredible sustain.
Searching over month now I found a fitting case too. That was not easy! Guild don't answers to mails ...
and it took a long time to find a case for this dimensions. Les Paul Cases on every corner, but for this guitar? No.
It has a fatter *** ... :witless:
Hope you like my baby, too!
Pete
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