Sam Powrie
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- Mar 15, 2021
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Good Morning Folks,
Thankyou for admitting me to your august company, much appreciated. I am in Australia and own and play (after a fashion) a blonde Guild X-170 (see below). Not sure of the date but I read it's model designation & s/n as 'X-170 EO8, HH100141'. It's heavily flamed front & back with a maple neck and 2 of the Guild p/ups. It's a great guitar but I do find it a tad heavy and I've become interested in perhaps getting a lighter and maybe slightly smaller (narrower & thinner) instrument.
Now I should say that I know very little about Guild archtops and find myself rapidly getting confused when I try to chart the production variations that seem to have occurred through the various changes of ownership and factory locations. Guitars that apparently fit what I'm after seem to be the mahogany-necked X-150 and maybe the A-150 with what I understand was a pressed but 'solid' spruce top, and which I read was actually made in Korea in the early-mid 2000s.
I'm not at all sure that I have either of these instruments correct, but I wonder if anyone can kindly refer me to a reference that might state clearly the various characteristics of each archtop model Guild has made. I am not at all averse to guitars made in the far-east, but for some reason I don't find myself particularly interested in the very latest versions. The 2013-15 A-150 interested me mainly because it seemed to harken back to the acoustic origins - lighter weight with only a floating pickup and control!
Any help would be much appreciated,
thanks, Sam.
Thankyou for admitting me to your august company, much appreciated. I am in Australia and own and play (after a fashion) a blonde Guild X-170 (see below). Not sure of the date but I read it's model designation & s/n as 'X-170 EO8, HH100141'. It's heavily flamed front & back with a maple neck and 2 of the Guild p/ups. It's a great guitar but I do find it a tad heavy and I've become interested in perhaps getting a lighter and maybe slightly smaller (narrower & thinner) instrument.
Now I should say that I know very little about Guild archtops and find myself rapidly getting confused when I try to chart the production variations that seem to have occurred through the various changes of ownership and factory locations. Guitars that apparently fit what I'm after seem to be the mahogany-necked X-150 and maybe the A-150 with what I understand was a pressed but 'solid' spruce top, and which I read was actually made in Korea in the early-mid 2000s.
I'm not at all sure that I have either of these instruments correct, but I wonder if anyone can kindly refer me to a reference that might state clearly the various characteristics of each archtop model Guild has made. I am not at all averse to guitars made in the far-east, but for some reason I don't find myself particularly interested in the very latest versions. The 2013-15 A-150 interested me mainly because it seemed to harken back to the acoustic origins - lighter weight with only a floating pickup and control!
Any help would be much appreciated,
thanks, Sam.