SFIV1967
Venerated Member
Now that is amazing! Well, Hans is probably laughing about us as he might know all of that but I have never seen such through neck S-100! I'd consider it rare! Maybe Guild run out of fresh bodies and they had to ship one in 1974 and used an old "prototype body" or a customer indeed ordered one with mini-humbuckers (both ideas should negative, as the label would have shown "spec" on it) or it was an "employee model which an employee finished (the label together with the pot codes and the factory done wiring however would speak against that theory). In any case that "prototype body" theory might explain the missing stamp in the headstock, unless it was sanded away when the cherry finish was removed. But I see no signs of any previous cherry finish in the pickup- or control cavity either! Which could speak for the use of a lid with a label that did not even belong to thet guitar! So again more "employee model"...But an employee would have made a better fretboard...The strap button again is original Guild.Just to add fuel to the fire... It appears that the guitar is in fact a neck-through.
On the other hand I have such a "rare" factory assembled S-300 (assembled years after the body and neck were made) with bolt on maple neck that also shows no "spec" on the label...
So still looking for Hans and his wisdom here...
Ralf