fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
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- May 3, 2007
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What mavuser said.
Guild marketing literature initially referred to the double cutaway body style bass as a JetStar and last time I looked at this there were examples of Guild calling that shape a JetStar as late as 1974 although the JS terminology was also in use as early as 1971. My '71 is lacking an internal label and Hans has said the control cavity labels were not consistently present until sometime after my bass was made.
The 1970 catalog scan here shows what we would describe as a two Bisonic JS bass. In discussion, I seem to recall that Guild swapped the bridge PU for a different Hagstrom when the supply of the Bisonics dwindled. I think it is safe to say that a JS body with any Hagstroms is rarer than one with Guild humbuckers and we know teh Guild factory used available parts regardless of the catalog specs.
Guild marketing literature initially referred to the double cutaway body style bass as a JetStar and last time I looked at this there were examples of Guild calling that shape a JetStar as late as 1974 although the JS terminology was also in use as early as 1971. My '71 is lacking an internal label and Hans has said the control cavity labels were not consistently present until sometime after my bass was made.
The 1970 catalog scan here shows what we would describe as a two Bisonic JS bass. In discussion, I seem to recall that Guild swapped the bridge PU for a different Hagstrom when the supply of the Bisonics dwindled. I think it is safe to say that a JS body with any Hagstroms is rarer than one with Guild humbuckers and we know teh Guild factory used available parts regardless of the catalog specs.