Thunderface
Senior Member
The masses have gathered at the gates, pickforks and torches in hand, chanting up to the castle, "Mo-jo!, Mo-jo! Mo-jo!
FS: 1972 Guild S-100
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Markus
Markus
Unfortunately I am not going to be joining the club fellas. I got the guitar today and it looks super, the pics didnt do any justice to how beautiful it is cosmetically. Unfortunately there are some issues with the frets and fretboard. I tried to tune it up and noticed it would not stay in tune or tune at all. The bridge was also all the way down and high action up the neck. I took it to my luthier and he gave it an inspection and noticed the following
"This guitar is basically the victim of a bad fret job. Before going into this I would mention that I mean no offense to the owner(s) of this guitar and while this it may be acceptable for some players, my job is to be a perfectionist and look at everything from that point of view. At some point in time the guitar had a refret and during this process too much material was removed from the fretboard. This causes the action to be high even when the bridge is bottomed. The frets are poorly seated as well. A look towards the side shows gaps under almost all of them. They are however, secure in the wood. Frets 4, 5 and 6 actually bend back toward the nut from the G string on. This is caused from clipping the tang too short when doing a bound refret. The part of the fret not supported by tang under it can wonder as it has on this guitar. The only correct way to repair this would be to steam off the fretboard, install a new one that is thicker as the original would have been, cut new fret slots and fret the guitar. All these things add up to a guitar worth significantly less than one which has its original frets or has been properly refretted. "
not sure if this pic is clear enough to illustrate the issue but having seen it with my own eyes i can see the bend in the 5 and 6th frets.
"This guitar is basically the victim of a bad fret job. Before going into this I would mention that I mean no offense to the owner(s) of this guitar and while this it may be acceptable for some players, my job is to be a perfectionist and look at everything from that point of view. At some point in time the guitar had a refret and during this process too much material was removed from the fretboard. This causes the action to be high even when the bridge is bottomed. The frets are poorly seated as well. A look towards the side shows gaps under almost all of them. They are however, secure in the wood. Frets 4, 5 and 6 actually bend back toward the nut from the G string on. This is caused from clipping the tang too short when doing a bound refret. The part of the fret not supported by tang under it can wonder as it has on this guitar. The only correct way to repair this would be to steam off the fretboard, install a new one that is thicker as the original would have been, cut new fret slots and fret the guitar. All these things add up to a guitar worth significantly less than one which has its original frets or has been properly refretted. "
not sure if this pic is clear enough to illustrate the issue but having seen it with my own eyes i can see the bend in the 5 and 6th frets.
Nigel Wickwire
Member
Sorry to hear that, Mojo.
There's an S-100 out there with your name on it, somewhere.
I'll be at the liquor cabinet, working through my dis-appointment. :| :?
~nw
There's an S-100 out there with your name on it, somewhere.
I'll be at the liquor cabinet, working through my dis-appointment. :| :?
~nw
krysh
Guildarist in the mod squad
a shame. I hope it works out fine.
Qvart
Senior Member
Weak sauce! :evil:
yeah it is unfortunate because it is a very nice example of an S-100 minus the issues. The Hb-1's sounded great. At the very least those can be salvaged and/or the guitar might be a fixer upper for someone who wants to partake in a serious project.
Thunderface
Senior Member
Nigel Wickwire said:Sorry to hear that, Mojo.
So sorry to hear that, Mojo. But what little time you spent with it does make you have to think about an S-100 in the future, I hope.
stclrob
Member
Thunderface
Senior Member
Gone for $860 ... but not to me, since I didn't bid on it. That one was like son_of_gloin's S-100, only with a different logo screened on the pickguard.
