A Little Something

[Pappy]

http://sothatothersmayread.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-that-got-away-and-then-to-mock-me.html

This is just a blog about an amazing Guild I played last year. I thought some of you might enjoy the read if you were bored.

 

[john_kidder]

Great story. But the pics show two different CE-100s, one with a humbucker and one with a Franz. I guess it must be the feel, "alive in my hands", not the sound that got you? In any event, buy one. You'll be happy.

 

[matsickma]

John,

I see two pictures of a CE100 both with a 60's humbucker. Where is the Franz?

M

 

[gilded]

matsickma, john,

It's the same guitar in both pics, but the guitar is at a different angle to the camera in the 2nd pick and the reflection from the top of the humbucker pickup makes it look like the pickup is white. Ergo, one pic seems to show a CE100 with a 'bucker, while the other a CE100 with a Franz.

 

[Pappy]

Yup, same guitar.

Honestly, we didn't plug it in, I was so impressed with it acoustically.

 

[Walter Broes]

Haha, just read it.....you've been "Hoboken-ed"!!

 

[Andy Hiwatt]

Well, I can confirm that guitar was still there at the end of last July.
Rainbow Guitars is a wonderful guitar store in Tucson that I went visiting some months ago while on holiday through Tucson, on advice from some members of LTG. I liked my stay in Tucson a lot, and visiting Rainbow Guitars I spent a couple of hours trying a nice 12 strings Rickenbacker, some Gretsches, and every Guild they had there, plenty of GAD Guilds, but also some beautiful 12 strings ,I guess an F412, and an F30. Then on the electric guitars rack I saw a nice starfire reissue and that old CE100.
If my meeory serves my well the price was really cheap but on the price tag it was written generically "'70s Guild CE 100" ,while it's pretty clear from the pickup and from the striped chesterfield headstock logo that it must be at least from the sixties, and from the pickguard it looks even older. I already own a 1966 Guild CE100D so I was a bit curious of trying another one, it felt good and comfortable, and pretty good acoustically, I didn't plug it to and amp though...

 

[Walter Broes]

The combination of that headstock and pickup would make me guess it's a '63.

 

[valcotone]

Russ, maybe it's still there.... give them a call!

http://www.rainbowguitars.com/
520.325.3376

You're not supposed to let guitars like that get away! :lol:

 

[Bluelizzard]

I live 2 blocks from Rainbow Guitars and was just in there yesterday playing that Guild. It has replaced tuners & bridge and looks like there was a P-90 in there at one time and was changed out for the current pickup. Narrow neck but plays real nice. That guitar has been there for well over a year so good chance they would be willing to deal on it.

 

[Walter Broes]

Eh...how much was the price on it ? :?

 

[Bluelizzard]

$1099

 

[Walter Broes]

Thanks!

 

[Pappy]

Sorry I haven't been here to reply, away on business and all that.

Yup, it's very reasonably priced, enough to sweat about, but still, it's pricey. I've been offered another job in the AF, one that means more time in Iraq and much less time at home, but it would get me more money so maybe when I come back from my first visit out there, if it's still there, I just might get it.