X-170 Custom

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I find the random variances in the Guild builds fascinating ! And, even with all the differences, they most often sound good, play well, and still sound like a Guild.
 

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I know this thread faded a few months ago but I have to share mine anyway...... 2001 X170 w/Guildsby and Lollar P90's w/.015 pio tone caps and not in this pic but it now sports a brass compton bridge......

This guitar is absolutely perfect.... tone drips off of it just sitting on the stand......

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[/URL]X170 by eric.penrod, on Flickr[/IMG]
 

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I never got hooked on the X170's but I love the way that one is set up. Nice pic!

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then there's the early Hoboken guitars that a lot of people (including myself) find the best looking and that has been reissued in the GSR X-500T and 400T as well as the Newark Street 150's.
A little after that the Hoboken guitars got bigger and bulkier and deeper and the cutaway changed and later in Westerly that got exagerrated even more, with the cutaway going to the shape you're seeing in the guitars above.

Is that correct? the GSR 400 seemed narrower of waist and different in outline, or am I thinking of the later Hoboken models? what's the changeover?
 

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I know this thread faded a few months ago but I have to share mine anyway...... 2001 X170 w/Guildsby and Lollar P90's w/.015 pio tone caps and not in this pic but it now sports a brass compton bridge......

This guitar is absolutely perfect.... tone drips off of it just sitting on the stand......

8512277382_0424249377_b.jpg
[/URL]X170 by eric.penrod, on Flickr[/IMG]

That's a gorgeous guitar! Put me second in line after Walter!
 

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Yep, and I'll bet that Duane Eddy is a '61 at the very earliest, probably a '62 or later? It's altogether wider, larger, bigger. The body outline above it on the GSR, from what I've seen, lasted to around 61, give or take.
 

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Yep, and I'll bet that Duane Eddy is a '61 at the very earliest, probably a '62 or later? It's altogether wider, larger, bigger. The body outline above it on the GSR, from what I've seen, lasted to around 61, give or take.

Ah, ok, gotcha. You mean something like the below. I wonder if my '57 x175 was similar. I have some pictures somewhere.

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I now feel slightly warmer towards the T400 :)

Although, is it the long scale that makes the pickups so freakishly far apart or is it a trick of the light?
 
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