Would like some info on my M80?

[jeffmac]

Here’s my m-80 . This is the nicest electric I’ve ever played . I had a s65d with the dimarzio super distortion single in the bridge that was amazing but the frets were way down and I decided to sell a few years ago . Once I saw the m-80 i grabbed it and told myself just get new frets if they’re too low . One of the things that’s interesting is at some point they moved the tail piece closer to the saddles and the string break is at a different angle . I think this improves the string tension significantly. These humbuckers are the real deal and yes it’s around 9 lbs but I love it . You really should be playing the blues seated anyway

 

[GGJaguar]

Here’s my m-80 .

I'm glad it's a heavy weight in the tone department and not just physically.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[matsickma]

I'm curious. I've had three 70's era M'80's over the years and held on to the walnut colored M80. I never saw a M80 with the hard stop located at a different location on the guitar.

On the other hand I owned a early M75 solid body guitar and it had the hard stop further from the bridge. The solid body M75 I acquired later had the stop located closer to the bridge.

I don't have exact dates but I think after a year or two of the release of the solid body M75 a number of complaints about the guitar was the tendency for the hard stop not providing sufficient down force on the Mueller roller bridge. The original location of the hard stop may have worked well with an adjustomatic bridge but the Muller bridge's combination of bridge roller in combination with the lateral string adjustment mechanism had a tendency to "flip" upward causing the string to pop out of the roller.

The M80 was released a little later than the solid body M75 so to my knowledge the M-80's all had the closer hard stop location.

I'm not 100% sure of this but it has been my assumption.
M

 

[jeffmac]

I'm curious. I've had three 70's era M'80's over the years and held on to the walnut colored M80. I never saw a M80 with the hard stop located at a different location on the guitar.

On the other hand I owned a early M75 solid body guitar and it had the hard stop further from the bridge. The solid body M75 I acquired later had the stop located closer to the bridge.

I don't have exact dates but I think after a year or two of the release of the solid body M75 a number of complaints about the guitar was the tendency for the hard stop not providing sufficient down force on the Mueller roller bridge. The original location of the hard stop may have worked well with an adjustomatic bridge but the Muller bridge's combination of bridge roller in combination with the lateral string adjustment mechanism had a tendency to "flip" upward causing the string to pop out of the roller.

The M80 was released a little later than the solid body M75 so to my knowledge the M-80's all had the closer hard stop location.

I'm not 100% sure of this but it has been my assumption.
M

Here’s one on reverb https://reverb.com/item/57774531-1974-guild-m-80-walnut.
Mine is from 1976.

Here is also Tim pierce with one that has had some modification to adjust for this very issue .

 

[matsickma]

Cool! I never knew the M-80's arrived that way. Apparently that Guild is just up the road from me in the The Martin factory home town.
Thanks for the update.
M