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The front is as clean as it looked in GC's photos. The back is almost as clean, with a few small spots of melted lacquer where it sat against a cable or something for 50 years; there's a little finish wear to the back edges, but overall it's better than your average T-100. The switch is a...

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Five years ago, I bought a nice Taylor 12-string. It still sounds great, but for five years I've been fighting with that horrible neck. No more. I just got this near-mint D-212 back from a bridge reglue, and between its chunky neck and glorious sound, the Taylor's going up for sale tomorrow. And...

I just acquired this amp and wow, it really kicks! Despite the push-pull 6AQ5 power section, the volume is closer to a Champ than a Deluxe, albeit with less breakup than either but a much nicer sound. And while there's just one preset tone, it comes with onboard reverb and tremolo at just 27...

I like guitars with stories, and I've deduced a pretty interesting story from this one: A guitar with identical features was posted on the forum a long time ago and soon after purchased by Valcotone: Alas, that's the only pic of it that's still accessible. After hemming and hawing a lot...

...and you get a Hagström Concord II De Luxe: I must admit, I'm a sucker for anything with Van Ghent tuners. Aside from the usual minor cosmetic blemishes expected of a bass that predates Woodstock, it's quite clean and the only possible replacement part I see is the nut. The pickups even...

There's nothing wrong with it; it just doesn't hit the spot the way my standard Pilot does. They're two very different-sounding beasts. As far as I can tell it's mostly original except for one knob, and someone added a second strap pin on the horn. As I mentioned in my other thread on this...

Like they used on the M-65 and M-75. And yes, I've also searched for Valco ones; there don't seem to be any of them out there either right now. Chrome or nickel is preferable, but I'll take gold if need be.

Aside from that beautiful fretboard, how does the Advanced compare to the run-of-the-mill Pilot? How do the Bartolinis sound compared with the EMGs or DiMarzios? It looks from price lists that Guild offered them from 1988 to 1990 - is that correct?

The bass is an early solidbody. The case is too deep for it, even with a piece of foam propping up the body. Could it be a leftover hollowbody case?

The guitar has been refretted with slightly larger than original frets (but smaller than medium jumbo), and comes with a modern reproduction arm for the vibrato and a recent switch tip; otherwise, all the parts are original. There are scattered dings, moderate finish wear to the back of the...

Time to admit that I have more basses than I need just for recordings. I bought this one last year on a whim (see thread), since the chances of finding another in this finish are almost nil. It once sported a non-original bridge, hence the extra screw holes in the top, and currently sports a...

...But it paid off! I regret selling my 1970 JS-II with the Bi-Sonic and the Hagstrom humbucker, and I'm not likely to find another one soon. However, I did find one of those Hagstrom bass humbuckers for sale; I bought it figuring I'd have someone make a couple copies and I'd stick them in a...

Well, deep greens, at least. Something clicked when I saw this one today, and I was able to make a quick and reasonable deal. I love JS basses from the ‘70s. I know most players view them as decent if unremarkable instruments, but for me they just do something special. The feel of the neck, the...

If I were to pick up a Starfire II, Starfire IV, X-175, or an S-100 from the same era, would they have similar necks to my '72 M-75?

My bike is in the shop, so I went and got another kick stand. As you can see, it's not perfect. The TRC is missing (but hey - it's not upside down!), so is the vibrato arm, two saddles look like replacements, and there are a couple of repaired cracks in the pickguard. Otherwise, I don't see...

I just picked up one of these. Because, you know, everyone needs a pointy guitar in a metallic finish for playing Chet Atkins. Two questions: 1) Aside from the silhouette and top binding, is there any practical difference between the X-82 and X-79? I realize there are variations of each, but if...

It was sold to me as a Model 66 with a replaced speaker. The speaker turned out to be an RCA dated 4 weeks before the pots in 1956, so I think it's original (maybe a recone? I don't know). The tubes appear to all be the original RCAs as well. Someone has opened it up before (two screws are...

I haven't seen a list of CG's serial numbers, but I did recently find a guitar attributed to 1980 with a serial 80XXX. Does anyone know if my guitar, serial 83XXX should be dated to 1983, or are the first two digits not a date code? The pots in mine date to late 1975, but the headstock reads...

I admit it - I bought this last October on a whim, and now I'm selling it to pay for another shiny object with strings that I have to have. This is a beautiful old Guild by any standard, but I have more electric archtops than I can justify (especially since I'm playing mostly bass on stage these...