SFIV1967
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Sure, I missed a "0", I was going to write A-500. Thanks for the correction. I corrected it and added the A-550 as well.Not the A-50! That one has a laminated top as well!
Ralf
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Sure, I missed a "0", I was going to write A-500. Thanks for the correction. I corrected it and added the A-550 as well.Not the A-50! That one has a laminated top as well!
SFIV1967 said:Now if you really want a solid spruce top on a vintage Guild Jazz guitar you need to get like a Johnny Smith Award or Artist Award model, A-150, A-350, A-500/A-550, CA-100, CA-500, X-700 or so.
Ralf
Thanks, something went wrong when I typed the message, no idea where this came from...I deleted it....... and there's no such thing as a CA-500!
Thanks, something went wrong when I typed the message, no idea where this came from...I deleted it.
Ralf
Ha, ha! Yes, that would be funny!CMG new model? ;-)
Well....one guy's "aneamic looking flimsy guilds" are another (this) guy's perfection - I wouldn't trade any of my Hoboken Guilds for a Westerly built guitar. What you seem to think of as "sturdy" feels clunky, overly heavy and overbuilt to me. We all like different things, and I know quite a few people who are not into Westerly Guilds at all, and prefer the earlier lighter, more resonant guitars. different strokes yada yada.
But for counterpoint, there was the Youngbloods' "Darkness Darkness" with the same kind of sustain on a completely different guitar, a 1953 M75 hollow-body (not sure what pickups came on that Guild) but it's pictured here:
http://www.vintageinstruments.com/museum/53m75sfulpage.html
Same guitar was used for "Let's Get Together" so I'd say you can get a hellacious amount of versatility out of that early formula. And it occurs to me he might have been using a fuzzbox on Darkness Darkness to get some extra sustain.
LOL.Ah yes. that's what it's all about, those thin featherlight bodies just vibrating under your hands, throbbing and twanging with overtone.