LoOky lOokY . . .

[Sleeko]

To wet your appetite. :fat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH5cvpsVxE0

 

[Default]

But it's 2 years old?

 

[Sleeko]

Meh, a mear technicality. I love to drool over those last two any old time. :laughing:

 

[Default]

That...fuzz...

:-(

 

[GAD]

Holy crap, that X175B sounds amazing!

I just spent a half hour watching youtube videos, and every damn one of them sounds amazing!

I might have to buy one of those. Damn, I didn't need to see that...

 

[Greenstone]

Yeah that fuzz didn't do anyone any favors.

 

[bobouz]

Thanks for posting Sleeko. I recently purchased an A-150b Savoy, and for some reason had not run into this video while researching the model.

 

[Walter Broes]

Holy crap, that X175B sounds amazing!

I just spent a half hour watching youtube videos, and every damn one of them sounds amazing!

I might have to buy one of those. Damn, I didn't need to see that...

They're an awful lot of guitar for the money, absolutely. That said, I sold my own NS X175 last week - I just wasn't playing it. (I have two old ones with Franz pickups)

 

[Sleeko]

Fuzz? :numbness:

 

[GAD]

They're an awful lot of guitar for the money, absolutely. That said, I sold my own NS X175 last week - I just wasn't playing it. (I have two old ones with Franz pickups)

How are the necks on the new X175s? I tend not to like older Guilds because of the tiny necks, though I love how they sound.

 

[JohnW63]

I like mine. I suspect you want more technical info than that !

 

[GAD]

I like mine. I suspect you want more technical info than that !

LOL, yeah.

Have you ever played a 90s Starfire? That's the perfect neck for me.

 

[Walter Broes]

The neck is one of the things I liked most about it, and where you can tell Mike Lewis wasn't just talking when he said they copied the specs of the original guitars : I used to have a '60 X175, and I have a '60 CE100, and the neck was extremely similar to those two guitars.

A fairly meaty neck, closer to a 50's Gibson than the baseball-bats Gibson sells as "50's necks" these days. Not thin at all, with a back shape that's somewhere between a "U" and a round "C", not too much shoulder so it doesn't feel huge or clubby, but certainly not thin or small - quite a bit bigger than the early 60's Guilds I have. The fingerboard, again like the Guilds of the era it was inspired on, is pretty round, a 9.5" radius with frets that are a lot bigger than the vintage ones. They're what Fender calls a "medium jumbo" these days, but my tech said "this is what used to be called jumbo frets". Frets are exceptionally well-finished for a brand new Korean guitars, and as far as I could tell, the nut was bone, and nicely finished too. A tiny little bit on the tall side, like almost any new guitar.

 

[Greenstone]

The first two guitars were played through the tweed amp with what must be a fuzz pedal. They didn't show the pedal, but definitely there. I own a tweed deluxe (that's the clapton version with tremelo) and there's no way it sounds like that without a fuzz in front of it. Can't get a good sense of how the pickups sound- like the next guitars through the princeton clean.

 

[GAD]

The neck is one of the things I liked most about it, and where you can tell Mike Lewis wasn't just talking when he said they copied the specs of the original guitars : I used to have a '60 X175, and I have a '60 CE100, and the neck was extremely similar to those two guitars.

A fairly meaty neck, closer to a 50's Gibson than the baseball-bats Gibson sells as "50's necks" these days. Not thin at all, with a back shape that's somewhere between a "U" and a round "C", not too much shoulder so it doesn't feel huge or clubby, but certainly not thin or small - quite a bit bigger than the early 60's Guilds I have. The fingerboard, again like the Guilds of the era it was inspired on, is pretty round, a 9.5" radius with frets that are a lot bigger than the vintage ones. They're what Fender calls a "medium jumbo" these days, but my tech said "this is what used to be called jumbo frets". Frets are exceptionally well-finished for a brand new Korean guitars, and as far as I could tell, the nut was bone, and nicely finished too. A tiny little bit on the tall side, like almost any new guitar.

Very nice write-up. Thanks!

I think I need to find one to try.