Sarah93003 said:
So Qvert, I am still unclear. The guitar I had looked just like that one you found on Gbase that was listed as a 1965. My best recollection is that when I bought mine in 1974 I was told it was a 1962. Maybe that wasn't correct. Do you know when these were first produced?
I'm no expert and I'm surprised Hans hasn't chimed in yet. Hm.
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THIS LINK. If you see what I'm looking at, that's the Blue Book listing of S-100's. It says the S-100 Polara was made from 1963-1968. I wouldn't take that as the final word because it also says the S-100 was 1970-1974 when in fact they were made later than that until Guild introduced a new body shape with the S-300 and phased out the S-100 line. It also says the Polara (recent manufacture) was 1995-2000 when in fact the reissues that looked like the '70's models were made in '94 and '95, then late in '95 they made some changes and after that they looked like the pic Dane posted. In '97 they started calling them "Polara" again and I think the last ones were made in '99, not 2000. To further complicate things, Guild was not the best at consistency with their serial numbers so a guitar may appear to be a '62 when in fact it's from a different year. And further - guitar shops and other sellers often misquote the dates of their guitars. So I really don't know what to tell you other than to look at pics and see what you find that somewhat resembles your old guitar. From there you can get a rough idea of the time frame for the production of that model.
Grot's collection is a good source for pictures, as you saw earlier in this thread. Click the link to his website for more.
I really have to get a copy of the bible!
Hope that helps.
PS: I have to give Joey credit for the gbase link.