die Bullen
Junior Member
Hi all, first time poster- normally I am over at Axetalk where I am a mod, but there aren't really any Guild guys there...
A friend of mine lent me his 1955 Guild X-50 a few months back and I absolutely love the sound and feel of this guitar. It is stunning for a "student grade" instrument. With tone all the way up you are in rockabilly land and rolled half off it has an ideal jazzy sound- especially when fingerpicking.
Ever since I have had the X-50 I've been trying to find a 50's Guild cutaway hollowbody in nice shape but I just can not find them out there. It pretty much has to be 50's because I really love this single coil pickup- don't like humbuckers personally. Ironically I am only about 25 miles away from Hoboken so I'm squarely from Guild's home turf at the time but the pickin's are slim indeed.
I've avoided EBAY because I really need to play the guitar before buying it and the risk of getting something with issues is just too great for the amount of money we are talking about. I check GBASE and CL every day and there is really little out there. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to locate one of these instruments? I'm starting to get very frustrated in my search...
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A friend of mine lent me his 1955 Guild X-50 a few months back and I absolutely love the sound and feel of this guitar. It is stunning for a "student grade" instrument. With tone all the way up you are in rockabilly land and rolled half off it has an ideal jazzy sound- especially when fingerpicking.
Ever since I have had the X-50 I've been trying to find a 50's Guild cutaway hollowbody in nice shape but I just can not find them out there. It pretty much has to be 50's because I really love this single coil pickup- don't like humbuckers personally. Ironically I am only about 25 miles away from Hoboken so I'm squarely from Guild's home turf at the time but the pickin's are slim indeed.
I've avoided EBAY because I really need to play the guitar before buying it and the risk of getting something with issues is just too great for the amount of money we are talking about. I check GBASE and CL every day and there is really little out there. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to locate one of these instruments? I'm starting to get very frustrated in my search...
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