Hi Friends,
I know that many of you must have seen this guitar on ebay. It was posted several times for pretty high prices. But it seemed the seller was willing to negotiate and I got this guitar for a very reasonable price that made me, the buyer, and the seller happy. My wife's first question was, "why do you need another T100"? My answer was another question. "Why not"? Man I love living rent free! Anyway back to the guitar. Here is the first picture.
The C in the model number stands for cherry red. There's not too many cherry T100s around. That was a special order color. The other upgrade was the bridge. Normally the T100 would come with a rosewood compensated bridge. This one is outfitted with the bridge Guild was using on the Starfire II at the time. I wish he would have upgraded the tuners as well, but that's cool.
The guitar is all original and in overall very good condition. Unfortunately it does not come in it's original case, but does come in a nice hard case. All the bindings and the peghead laminate are in fine condition showing no shrinkage or separation. No damage to the guitar. It does however show some finish wear. Mainly checking on the top and back but there is finish wear on the back of the neck as well. That's fine with me as long as it is in good shape structurally, electronically, etc... The fretboard is in fine condition with only minor fret wear. I do not know if they are original frets or not.
Has all the features of a '61 with the chevron logo on the guard, amber knobs, etc...
The label shows the model # as a T100C- and "spe" for special order. Man if I ordered this I would have had them install the cool Kolb tuners Guild was using at the time as well. Anyway, another cool find from ebay. And it never hurts to try to negotiate. Seems a strategy many folks are using on ebay these days is to start high and hope for the best reasonable offer. So it never hurts to ask. This has satisfied my current case of G.A.S, but that won't last long. Anyway enjoy the scans of this rare color T100 with it's single Franz pickup. I am hoping for it to arrive by early next week since I am in Florida and it's coming from the west coast. Thanks for looking and we'll see ya all soon. MB
I know that many of you must have seen this guitar on ebay. It was posted several times for pretty high prices. But it seemed the seller was willing to negotiate and I got this guitar for a very reasonable price that made me, the buyer, and the seller happy. My wife's first question was, "why do you need another T100"? My answer was another question. "Why not"? Man I love living rent free! Anyway back to the guitar. Here is the first picture.
The C in the model number stands for cherry red. There's not too many cherry T100s around. That was a special order color. The other upgrade was the bridge. Normally the T100 would come with a rosewood compensated bridge. This one is outfitted with the bridge Guild was using on the Starfire II at the time. I wish he would have upgraded the tuners as well, but that's cool.
The guitar is all original and in overall very good condition. Unfortunately it does not come in it's original case, but does come in a nice hard case. All the bindings and the peghead laminate are in fine condition showing no shrinkage or separation. No damage to the guitar. It does however show some finish wear. Mainly checking on the top and back but there is finish wear on the back of the neck as well. That's fine with me as long as it is in good shape structurally, electronically, etc... The fretboard is in fine condition with only minor fret wear. I do not know if they are original frets or not.
Has all the features of a '61 with the chevron logo on the guard, amber knobs, etc...
The label shows the model # as a T100C- and "spe" for special order. Man if I ordered this I would have had them install the cool Kolb tuners Guild was using at the time as well. Anyway, another cool find from ebay. And it never hurts to try to negotiate. Seems a strategy many folks are using on ebay these days is to start high and hope for the best reasonable offer. So it never hurts to ask. This has satisfied my current case of G.A.S, but that won't last long. Anyway enjoy the scans of this rare color T100 with it's single Franz pickup. I am hoping for it to arrive by early next week since I am in Florida and it's coming from the west coast. Thanks for looking and we'll see ya all soon. MB
