Getting back with some photos of the CrossRoads Series guitars I've rescued. Actually a couple of them are in pretty good shape. I like to look for the guitars that have all original parts when possible. Even if they are in rough shape. The one item that people seem to like to change out are tuners. But I'll have to say I've never seen crappy factory Guild tuners, even open units are decent so unless damaged I'll keep them.
FS46-CE
(This guitar has the original pickup and preamp. The preamp has been modified slightly. See my notes on the FS46-6CE)
FS46-6CE
(This guitar was a second apparently and had no electronics but did have an under saddle pickup. I did replace this pickup with a Fishman wide 12 string under saddle pickup. I use the wide 12 string pickup due to the large saddle on these guitars. The preamp I installed was a vintage Fishman AGP-2 that Guild used in the later 80s. One other thing I did is installed a power switch on the compartment cover because the type of endpin jack Guild used back then did not have a switch built in so the power was on all the time. This was possible back then due to a very low power preamp circuit they used. If you are interested I posted a couple of schematics years ago along with my own modifications to change the power from 3v to 6v. See my post in the Tech Shop section titled "Early 1980s Guild Crossroads series pickup systems info...", I don't know how to create a link but you can search for it.)
FS46-12CE
(This guitar is in very good shape. I did have to replace the the under saddle pickup as described in the FS46-6CE notes. But I was able to save the preamp pcb even with some corrosion from a leaking battery. I did not raise the gain with this mod because the modern under saddle pickups have a higher output.)
MKS10-CE
(This guitar is all original. I did do the pcb modification described in my old post. She has seen alot of play wear and finish checking but is rock solid.)
FS48-CE Deceiver
(This guitar had the original hidden EMG humbucker removed and they cutout the top to mount a humbucker in a standard fashion. It was terrible to see! The tuners were replaced and if the guitar ever had the preamp, this guitar was also a second, it is was long gone. So... I removed the external humbucker and fashioned the wood plate you can see to cover the huge hole in the top. It was the best I could do but it is certainly not as nice as the original top, with no indication of a "hidden humbucker". I then installed a Fishman wide 12 string under saddle pickup along with a vintage 1980s Super Distortion pickup under the top. These are then run into a Fishman Power Chip preamp. The controls are; one passive tone on the Super Distortion and an overall volume out of the preamp. I did not want to add more controls to keep it operating as it originally had but the Power Chip does have adjustments on the board to set a one time balance.)
(FS48-CE back)
Grot, I did look at the prefix on the FS48-CE and it is the same "EJ" as the FS46 models.
