Greetings!
This is my first post here. I've been a long time fan of guilds but hadn't gotten to own a pre fender Guild. I always thought my first would be the D25...I love those...but something funny happened the other day, I stumbled on what I believe to be a 1985 x80 skylark.
I have to start off by saying that this guitar isn't exactly the best fit for me, i'm not really a pointy guitar type, but something about it really spoke to me and I bought it (seemed like a steal) and I'm trying to gather some information on it, to decide what I should do. I'm tempted to make some mods that would make it more suitable for my style but from what I know this is a pretty rare bird and I hate to make changes to something like that, so I am hoping to see what else I can find out
Here is what I know so far.
1. It's as high quality of a guitar as I've ever owned
2. These were made between 1983 and 1985 and my serial number puts it in the last few that were made.
3. It looks like less than 200 hundred of these were made during this period.
4. Various headstocks were used (1. cloud, 2. Pointy, 3. Hockey stick)
5. Market value seems to be all over the place. I've seen them posted for as much as $1200 and heard of people buying them for as little as $100.
Does anyone know any thing more about these? It has a ding on the point of the neck and body and they appear to be the same wood type so I'm thinking its all mahogany. The pickups I read are dimarzios but these don't look like dimarzios to me, maybe EMGs??? but they aren't active.
Thanks everyone in advance for your help!
This is my first post here. I've been a long time fan of guilds but hadn't gotten to own a pre fender Guild. I always thought my first would be the D25...I love those...but something funny happened the other day, I stumbled on what I believe to be a 1985 x80 skylark.
I have to start off by saying that this guitar isn't exactly the best fit for me, i'm not really a pointy guitar type, but something about it really spoke to me and I bought it (seemed like a steal) and I'm trying to gather some information on it, to decide what I should do. I'm tempted to make some mods that would make it more suitable for my style but from what I know this is a pretty rare bird and I hate to make changes to something like that, so I am hoping to see what else I can find out
Here is what I know so far.
1. It's as high quality of a guitar as I've ever owned
2. These were made between 1983 and 1985 and my serial number puts it in the last few that were made.
3. It looks like less than 200 hundred of these were made during this period.
4. Various headstocks were used (1. cloud, 2. Pointy, 3. Hockey stick)
5. Market value seems to be all over the place. I've seen them posted for as much as $1200 and heard of people buying them for as little as $100.
Does anyone know any thing more about these? It has a ding on the point of the neck and body and they appear to be the same wood type so I'm thinking its all mahogany. The pickups I read are dimarzios but these don't look like dimarzios to me, maybe EMGs??? but they aren't active.
Thanks everyone in advance for your help!