Dating a vintage Guild Starfire V , please help!

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No sure where Taylors gets all his woods, Africa primarily, and sustainably grown by him on plantations, what a visionary.

The Guild wood dates back to decades prior, and while they don't talk about timbers much in the electric world, I'd read Peruvian Mahogany in many period acoustic ads/brochures.

The Honduras Mahogany has been for all intents and purposes been gone for decades.

When I started playing Gibsons, the big deal was that all the vintage Gibby guitars - pre Norlin = pre 1967 - even down to lowly "Jr." models were thick slabs of 400 year old Honduras Mahogany, as in big trees. Old growth, and with the guitar booms and demand, there was never to be "old growth" again.

I remember playing this super mongrelized LP Jr. of completely unknown age that was just fantastic, ripping out some killer stuff in a busy store, the owner comes over and compliments my playing by saying "It's the old wood", i.e not a lot to do with my playing ;] The guitar was just downright special and made everything you played sound sublime.
 

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No sure where Taylors gets all his woods, Africa primarily, and sustainably grown by him on plantations, what a visionary.

The Guild wood dates back to decades prior, and while they don't talk about timbers much in the electric world, I'd read Peruvian Mahogany in many period acoustic ads/brochures.

The Honduras Mahogany has been for all intents and purposes been gone for decades.

When I started playing Gibsons, the big deal was that all the vintage Gibby guitars - pre Norlin = pre 1967 - even down to lowly "Jr." models were thick slabs of 400 year old Honduras Mahogany, as in big trees. Old growth, and with the guitar booms and demand, there was never to be "old growth" again.

I remember playing this super mongrelized LP Jr. of completely unknown age that was just fantastic, ripping out some killer stuff in a busy store, the owner comes over and compliments my playing by saying "It's the old wood", i.e not a lot to do with my playing ;] The guitar was just downright special and made everything you played sound sublime.
Yes I know exactly what you're talking about , my other love is a badass filthy vintage Gibson LP Jr , that screams and bites . I also think that the reason that I like so much the sound of the vintage Guild starfires , except the mini humbuckers , comes from the mahogany body construction besides the maple on the 335's
 

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I've had two Maple hollow bodies now, ready to try Hog ;]

Wanted a red '66 like on the cover of the Kinks album, but thankfully quit looking, always some issue, price, or snag, got bored, lost interest.

I still have this as a consolation present, a good one.

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I've had two Maple hollow bodies now, ready to try Hog ;]

Wanted a red '66 like on the cover of the Kinks album, but thankfully quit looking, always some issue, price, or snag, got bored, lost interest.

I still have this as a consolation present, a good one.

P1500098.JPG
nice ... these are some of my 66 love afairs ...
 

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Yeah, that would the one, single coils, hog, and those exact Grovers, with orig case preferably.

How does it compare to a Casino?
 

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All sound awesome , each in it's own way . The SFIII is very sweet sounding guitar when pluged in my 50's tweed . Great for swamp dirty overdriven blues and stuff like black keys . The Casino due to the fact that is longneck with a factory Bigsby is a kind of rock n roll animal but at the same time can easily turn to a serious jazz weapon . The 330 sounds close to the Casino although even more jazzy and dark .
 

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