Help with identification!

Hello all! I need some help identifying a Guild that's on my repair bench right now. Everything about it looks as if it's an X-175B, but the neck has dot inlays as opposed to the trapezoidal blocks. As for the label inside, it doesn't appear to have had anything written on it. According to this, http://support.guildguitars.com/downloads/datingyourguild.pdf, the serial number dates the guitar to 1959. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Definitely not an X-175 - those have a rounded cutaway. In my non-expert opinion, is that it's a T100D blonde.

walrus

1959 is at least ballpark on the date. It's a T-100D, like walrus said. Should be quite a ripper! Not the first Guild I've seen of that era where the original model/SN ink has totally faded off the label.

walrus said:

Definitely not an X-175 - those have a rounded cutaway. In my non-expert opinion, is that it's a T100D blonde.

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Walrus is correct. In those days the official designation would have been T-100BDP.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

It's the "ghost label" which dates it to 1959, right Hans?

Rich Cohen said:

It's the "ghost label" which dates it to 1959, right Hans?

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And the ghost-writing. :laughing:

(The serial number on the headstock, also.)

AcornHouse said:

And the ghost-writing. :laughing:

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Just to explain this for the OP: The ink just faded over time when sun/light came on the label into the F-hole. With black light maybe there would be something visible, but who cares, the serial number is on the headstock so you know the year and Hans told you the correct model number T-100BDP (Blonde, Double Pickups), so all set.

Ralf