nmiller
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Normally I wait until an instrument's in my hands to show it off, but I'm curious to know if you folks have seen another one like this before. Lately I've become a big fan of the tenor guitar, and I've long been a fan of Guild electrics, so when the stars aligned and I saw this one come up for sale, I pounced. It was priced like you'd expect from a high-end vintage dealer, but it's exceptionally clean and I'm not likely to see another, so... what the heck, I'll get my Tiny Grimes on. I expect to get it by the end of next week.
The label simply says "Tenor Special", and it's sort of a mash-up of a CE-100D and a T-100D: block markers and back binding on a thinline body with single-coil pickups. I've seen a few Guild electric tenors before, but never with 4-pole variants of this pickup type. How are these pickups constructed? Are they structurally similar to P-90s? The dealer says that the neck has a 24.75" scale, which is unusually long for a tenor; I forgot to verify this, but the neck looks like it's that long from these pics.
The label simply says "Tenor Special", and it's sort of a mash-up of a CE-100D and a T-100D: block markers and back binding on a thinline body with single-coil pickups. I've seen a few Guild electric tenors before, but never with 4-pole variants of this pickup type. How are these pickups constructed? Are they structurally similar to P-90s? The dealer says that the neck has a 24.75" scale, which is unusually long for a tenor; I forgot to verify this, but the neck looks like it's that long from these pics.