Newark Street series… (If you're talking about the new ones - I forget what NS stands for)
I'd say error on the webpage and copy and paste error on most other sites, all the pictures look clearly maple to me.Are NS green Starfires hog or maple?
Pics look like maple, but description on CMG website says hog.
I guess I should have said "I forget what NS means" - are they new? Is there somewhere on here where the various designations are explained? (Sorry to be a pain!)Newark Street series
Agreed: I've never owned or played a Guild bass from the 60s, but every NS, Westerly or DeArmond SF I've ever seen has had a plywood body. Makes sense, since the semi-hollow design evolved to control unwanted feedback and plywood is less resonant than solid wood. I believe the Gibson ES-175 guitar (also a plywood, though fully-hollow body) came about in an intentional attempt to reduce high-volume feedback (in addition to reducing production cost). Prior Gibson "jazz boxes" such as the L5 had solid tops and backs with the arch carved into them rather than the hydraulically or vacuum-pressed contouring as with the plywood ES-175.I would then guess mahogany. I suspect it is less costly than maple. Still, it may all be a laminate anyway, so the cost diff may be minimal.
However, the Green versions wouldn't have different wood than the rest.
Hey, hieronymous! Been a while. Welcome back!I saw one at one of my local music stores (Bananas at Large in San Rafael) but it disappeared pretty quick. (If you're talking about the new ones - I forget what NS stands for)
The Newark Street series was introduced as Asian-made (Korea, at the time) electrics made not as reissues but as inspired by their US-built versions... CMG continues to produce NS guitars (from other Asian places as well). I think this all started in 2013, hieronymous, as part of Fender's celebration of Guild's 60th anniversary. Grot and some others sent them their originals to use a basis for making the new ones.I guess I should have said "I forget what NS means" - are they new? Is there somewhere on here where the various designations are explained? (Sorry to be a pain!)
Website says arched maple top and back so that would be laminated. Sides are maple as well.
Starfire IV ST Emerald Green | Guild Guitars
This marks the welcome return of a highly popular semi-hollow Guild classic, with a graceful double-cutaway thinline body and incomparable tone and feel.guildguitars.com
Hopefully he has just been busy - hope the trade works out!darn!
I had what appeared to be a trade going for a green one but haven't heard back from the guy so maybe he lost interest.
Or maybe he is thinking it over.