I have a rare, old Guild that I've been trying to figure out what it is. I've searched the internet, showed it to friends, no one has ever seen anything like it. It appears to be a Guild neck with Guild hardware, pickups, etc. on a Gibson ES-175 body with a bolted on neck. Inside the guitar you can see a sticker saying Guild Guitars / Guild Musical Instruments. Inside is stamped serial # U3460-26 and the pickups have a patent number on the covers: # 2.683.388. It has three volume controls, top left, where a Les Paul pickup selector switch would be, and each acts as a separate volume control for bridge pickup, neck pickup, or both. There's a master tone control to the right of the pickguard. Pickup selector switch is down by the cutaway, and has weird, toaster knob type switch. I believe all parts are original except for the pickguard and the tuners which were changed to Grover. One dealer told me it may be something that was fabricated, never for sale from Guild. Here are front and back photos.
thanks, Dan
thanks, Dan