Did you end up with the super clean burst that was on reverb? I can’t wait to see the pix. Congrats!!!
That was me. I ended up paying full price for it because there were other bids. I had to have it, even if my wallet was annoyed. Never seen a cleaner looking guild, especially an s-300. Every other one I've found is incredibly beaten up. I knew that the guitar was going to sell soon, because of the condition it was in. When I bought the guitar, I felt as though I was stealing another guy's dream, cause I know there were a few others that really wanted it. To those I would say that at least there will be an s-300 in amazing shape for as long as I own it. Guitars like this are part of history. In the case of guild guitars, they're a more niche part of history than the fenders and Gibsons of the world, but no less important, to me anyway. Owning a vintage guitar is sort of like being tasked with preserving a piece of history. We get to own awesome guitars from a better time, when music didn't suck and you actually had to be able to play an instrument or sing in key to be considered a musician.
I love watching old, obscure movies that I've never seen. It's like getting transported back to a better time, and being able to discover something new about that time. Lesser known guitars are sort of physical exemplars of that same principle. I love fender and gibson, but I want to hear something that doesn't sound like everything else.
There was a video I saw recently, where the guy was talking about how guitar pickups are all just magnets with wire, and that they all sound the same while playing through a hi gain modern amp. Of course they sound the same with that much gain. That mentality is shared by lots of guys, it seems. However, to my ear, most modern guitars lack that magic sound that some vintage guitars have. I think it has to do with the quality of the woods and that in those days, the pickups were so much more important to players in terms of tone shaping. They didn't have a million pedals or emulators etc. Also, pickups weren't wound so hot back then, and I find a lower wound pickup has a nicer sound, to my ears. Anyways, that's why I like vintage guitars.
