Guild I've never seen before

[guitarist21]

Helllllooooo from Harmony Central Acoustic Guitars! Someone on that forum directed me here with my question and so I hope you guys can help me out.

I'm a student at Berklee College of Music and one of my teachers has a Guild I've never seen before. Here's the post taken word-for-word from HCAG:

"It's an archtop. It is red (haha like that helps). It is apparently a semi-hollowbody or maybe all hollow. It is fairly thick, at least a couple inches, and has one DeArmond-looking pickup at the neck. The headstock matches the finish of the body. Really sweet, woody tone. Anyone familiar with Guild jazz boxes? I couldn't really find much online. If you need more info, just ask and I'll try to remember. Or I can tell you when I have this class again, which is next Tuesday. I'm just curious about where this guitar came from, when it was made, etc."

Later I posted a picture:

You can't really see the pickup (sorry, I know its a crappy pic, I snapped it with my phone on the way out of class) but it resembles the DeArmond style. My teacher's name is Jane Miller and she doesn't know a whole lot about it. She says she got it secondhand from someone and she believes that everything is stock.

It isn't terribly crucial that I know what this is, but the fact that no one at HCAG could figure it out piqued my curiousity. Anyone recognize it? Thanks in advance! :mrgreen:

Ellen

 

[matsickma]

Hi guitarist21,

That guitar is a Guild Freshman M-65. Because of its pickup it is alater model somewhere between 1965 and early 1970's.If you provide the serial number our Guild expert, Hans Moust, will be able to identify it more precisely. It looks to have the smaller neck length indicating it is a 3/4 guitar typically orientated toward younger children guitar studens. However many guitar player use them also. Check out ebay. I believe there is one like it currently in an auction.

M

 

[jp]

Yours looks a lot like this one perhaps--a 1969 example.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Guild-Vintage-M-65- ... dZViewItem

 

[hansmoust]

It isn't terribly crucial that I know what this is, but the fact that no one at HCAG could figure it out piqued my curiousity. Anyone recognize it? Thanks in advance! :mrgreen: I'm just curious about where this guitar came from, when it was made, etc.

Ellen

Hello Ellen,

Well, as some before me already pointed out it's a Guild M-65 3/4.
Or to be more precise, it's an M-65 3/4 Ch. from the early '70s, made in Westerly, RI probably before the model was discontinued at the end of 1973. A few were done during the mid-'70s so if you give me the serial number, I should be able to date it even more precisely.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[Graham]

I'm a student at Berklee College of Music and one of my teachers has a Guild I've never seen before. Here's the post taken word-for-word from HCAG:

Ellen

Hey Ellen, welcome to LTG.

Is Larry Baione still at Berklee? He also plays a Guild, an X-170 or he did during the making of A Modern Method for Guitar. Must be something to the Guilds Eh? :wink:

 

[capnjuan]

Hi Ellen and welcome! I used to hang out on the Harmony Central BB but in the amps/electric guitar forums...which over there, is 'code' for moderately psychotic. That bunch loved their own gear and dissed everyone else and their gear. The 'glue' here is the mutual appreciation for Guild and its products.

Regards,
cj

 

[Graham]

I used to hang out on the Harmony Central BB but in the amps/electric guitar forums...which over there, is 'code' for moderately psychotic.

Regards,
cj

You hung out in a "moderately" psychotic area? Now you're the moderator for a similar section? I see the connection. :wink:

 

[guitarist21]

Thanks for your help, everyone! You guys are fast.

Capnjuan- I try to avoid the EG and amp sections haha. They are a bit psychotic sometimes. The acoustic guitar forum is way more laid-back and is a tight-knit but nonetheless welcoming group.

Graham- Larry Baione is the guitar department chair here. He's really cool. He does still have his Guild, actually I believe his picture on the Berklee website is him rocking out on his Guild. Very cool guy, all about diversifying the guitar department so that I can have my private lesson teacher be a bluegrass guy but the next guy's private lesson teacher is a shredder.

Thanks again folks! If you're ever on HCAG, stop by and say hi!

 

[capnjuan]

I used to hang out on the Harmony Central BB but in the amps/electric guitar forums...which over there, is 'code' for moderately psychotic.Regards

You hung out in a "moderately" psychotic area? Now you're the moderator for a similar section? I see the connection. :wink:

Yes, it's an electrical connection; shocked a few too many times on the workbench and things get..uh...scrambled.

True story: I followed a thread there where a guy went on for 3 days and nights obsessing over the fact his sister had taken up with a guy older than he and she and her new dude were shacked up in some motel. Page after page; all kinds of remarks about shotguns, lawyers, mayhem, cops on and on. The only 'conclusion' was that the poster was in a jealous outrage; didn't realize the extent of his ...uh ...interest in his sister or, worse, ...you know where I'm goin; (I hope Darryl doesn't get out of his hospital bed and whack me for breaking Freudian).

I could of lived with 'Jealous Boy' but there were 20 or 30 other 'members' egging him on, fueling his fire / lust or whatever it was. That's when I pounded on the door: "Guard Guard, let me outta here...."

Hi Ellen; I might - the deal here is that I tolerate people obsessing about bridge pins and they tolerate me obsessing about .... everything; but I will stop over; I do spend some time (and spy on Graham) over on the AGF.

j

 

[Graham]

True story: I followed a thread there where a guy went on for 3 days and nights obsessing over the fact his sister had taken up with a guy older than he and she and her new dude were shacked up in some motel. Page after page; all kinds of remarks about shotguns, lawyers, mayhem, cops on and on. The only 'conclusion' was that the poster was in a jealous outrage; didn't realize the extent of his ...uh ...interest in his sister or, worse, ...you know where I'm goin; (I hope Darryl doesn't get out of his hospital bed and whack me for breaking Freudian).
j

What was his amp question? :shock:

Just j now huh?

 

[capnjuan]

True story: ...j

What was his amp question? :shock: Just j now huh?

That was the problem; there wasn't one ... his brain was fried and so were those of the guys egging him on...and unfortunately as many as 30-40% of the threads there veer off into pubic hair counting...tolerable levels of chick BO...best choices in automatic weapons...

Thought I'd try the 'j' out...essence of simplicity, no?
Jy?
Jaye?

 

[Graham]

True story: ...j

What was his amp question? :shock: Just j now huh?

That was the problem; there wasn't one ... his brain was fried and so were those of the guys egging him on...and unfortunately as many as 30-40% of the threads there veer off into pubic hair counting...tolerable levels of chick BO...best choices in automatic weapons...

Thought I'd try the 'j' out...essence of simplicity, no?
Jy?
Jaye?

We have thread veer here of course but not to that extent, yet. Sounds bizarre.

As for the j, it seems to fit ci?

 

[capnjuan]

Was/is bizarre; as far as I'm concerned, we hurting for Darryl; the threads have gotten much too linear...whatever happened to all that talk about tonewood in Romania and the Bid Nazi?

 

[Graham]

Was/is bizarre; as far as I'm concerned, we hurting for Darryl; the threads have gotten much too linear...whatever happened to all that talk about tonewood in Romania and the Bid Nazi?

We need to take up a collection and get him a laptop with voice recognition so he can just lie there and speak his posts. Come on Darryl, think of the rest of us here. :shock:

 

[capnjuan]

Yeah, only thinking of himself; selfish so-and-so...I hope he gets a mild bed rash ... shame on him... he'd need a wi-fi card and account too. Dial us up Hats or else:

 

[Graham]

Don't make us come and get you, especially now that darkness approaches in these parts for the next 8 months. :shock:

 

[capnjuan]

I worked in Boston in 1979; dark by 5pm shortly after (our) Labour Day in early September. If he sent in his whereabouts and condition, he mustta had pc-access? or Mrs. Hatz signed on.... :?

 

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