mellowgerman
Senior Member
Today on facebook I saw a fella from Venezuela post a photo of his 1967 Guild Starfire bass. The bizarre thing is that it has a pickguard. I automatically assumed it would have to have been either a custom ordered spec or an owner at some point modified a 6-string Starfire guitar's pickguard to fit this bass. However, he says that he bought it (along with a Starfire guitar) from the original owner, who had bought both for his restaurant back in the 60's. He said that he doubts the original owner would have added it since he didn't really know much about what he had. Is this possible to have been factory original? Of course we know Guild to have been no strangers to variation, but it always seemed to have been variations out of necessity (using up parts and working with what's on hand), not so much creative exploration impulse (Hey! Let's see if this fits here!)
Or maybe it was an overly ambitious rookie factory worker's mistake that ended up going out the door anyway?
Has anybody else seen this before on another example? In about 15 years of tracking Guild basses, I definitely have not!
Or maybe it was an overly ambitious rookie factory worker's mistake that ended up going out the door anyway?
Has anybody else seen this before on another example? In about 15 years of tracking Guild basses, I definitely have not!
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