The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
Sweet, always wanted a Sunburst from that era.
New Guild Day: 1970 Guild BluesBird M-75 DeLuxe
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ClaytonS15
Member
What a gorgeous guitar. Congratulations!
matsickma
Senior Member
More than I paid for mine, and looks like the standard silver hardware. Never bad to see more in circulation tho!
Edit- that wear on the back looked familiar so I read the description- it’s the same guitar that was in the Rivington ad on the first page, that is just a serial number away from mine!
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Replaced bridge for sure and perhaps a pickup swap since those are old golds and not silver like the rest.
Edit- that wear on the back looked familiar so I read the description- it’s the same guitar that was in the Rivington ad on the first page, that is just a serial number away from mine!
Vintage Guild M-75 Bluesbird 1969 Black Hollowbody Guitar w/Original Case 1960's | eBay
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Guild Bluesbird M-75 Deluxe 1969 Black | Reverb
Remarkably cool vintage 1969 Guild® Bluesbird™ M-75 in original and very rare Black finish. This guitar plays and sounds just incredible. Original Guild® humbuckers are super warm, strong, and punchy. Neck plays fantastic, nice and smooth. Some signs of wear, but all original with lots of mojo. S...
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matsickma
Senior Member
BTW for the curious, it weighs 6 pounds, 2.8 ounces. That’s the lightest electric I own, which makes sense since it’s hollow. And it’s surprisingly loud acoustically too, as it has the deepest body depth of all my electrics too- guess I’m retiring my ES-335 as the couch guitar!
swiveltung
Member
Very Cool. I had one back in the day just like that... I think it was a 69, could have been 68 or 70 though. The only difference was mine said "Bluesbird" on the truss cover. All gold hardware Deluxe though. Light as a feather. I have looked for it to show up for years. It can be ID'd by a third pickup added in the center. (yeah, I know... DUH!)
matsickma
Senior Member
Never saw one of these with a Guild TRC that said Bluesbird. However I did see one with what looked like a Gibson TRC that said Bluesbird. Don't recall a 3rd pickup.
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swiveltung
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I added the third pickup back in the day. The Gibson Black Beauties with the 3 pickups were "the thing" then.....
swiveltung
Member
I did buy another black one with chrome hardware in maybe 2008 or so. I think it was a '70, the last year of the hollows.... whenever that was. It was a deal, $600 on Ebay with case. Not superb shape but pretty good and better than some of the ones for sale now.. I should have held onto it. I couldn't bond with it for some reason.... "you cant go back...."
krysh
Guildarist in the mod squad
I love my 71 with the block. Perfect keeper for me.
Very cool Krysh, I see yours in your avatar, I’ll update mine too! I was debating the block version too, but I already have a semi by way of the ES-335, and I was looking for the smaller 60s version of the HB-1, which I think were phased out before blocks were introduced anyhow. Reason being, I missed my Starfire II, which is a full hollow with the smaller HB-1, and sure enough this BluesBird can cop that tone that I recalled perfectly.
so hopefully this is it for me- my acoustic Guild is a ‘69 F312NT and my electric Guild is a ‘70 M-75. All good! Totally reminds me of the days when my first Guild acoustic was a ‘60s F-30 and first Guild electric was a ‘60s Blackfire V, back in the 90s.
And just for fun, let me show you the one I held in my hands and was very tempted about, but passed due to a thin neck and the fact that it cost $4500 and that's it, everything else ticked all the boxes - a Starfire freaking VI in Ebony with crazy flamed maple:
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So you know this guy's a winner if it can beat out that SFVI in my mind!
so hopefully this is it for me- my acoustic Guild is a ‘69 F312NT and my electric Guild is a ‘70 M-75. All good! Totally reminds me of the days when my first Guild acoustic was a ‘60s F-30 and first Guild electric was a ‘60s Blackfire V, back in the 90s.
And just for fun, let me show you the one I held in my hands and was very tempted about, but passed due to a thin neck and the fact that it cost $4500 and that's it, everything else ticked all the boxes - a Starfire freaking VI in Ebony with crazy flamed maple:
1969 Guild Starfire VI Ebony / Black > Guitars Electric Solid Body | Southside Guitars
This is a very cool Guild Starfire VI with an extremely rare Ebony finish. This is the only Ebony Starfire VI we have ever seen. The guitar shows light play wear but its in very nice shape for its ...
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So you know this guy's a winner if it can beat out that SFVI in my mind!
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matsickma
Senior Member
I like humbuckers on the "semi solid" block models and the later solid body M75's. I would really like a set of DeArmonds on the hollow body version of the M75 Bluesbird! I suspect that may be the setup best suited to my taste! Anyone ever see a stock version of the M75 with DeA pups?
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krysh
Guildarist in the mod squad
Very cool. Southside guitars. I remember this blanket. I visited their shop in 2011 when i attended LMG2 and in the shop I played a 59 aristocrat for the first time. They also then had a beautiful 70s blonde SF6 in the making up for sale. This late hollow bluesbirds are magic, but I prefer the HB-1s.
swiveltung
Member
Yeah, I keep wondering if I'm remembering wrong... been a long time... but I swear it had that... can still visualize it... I bought it new. It was all gold hardware but the tailpiece was not the engraved type, just smooth gold.
matsickma
Senior Member
Ahh yes...the mahogany M75 Aristocrat guitar with gold hardware, DeArmonds and Guildsby.
I always wondered if that came from the factory that way. Not questioning the DeArmonds but the Guildsby.
I was wondering if the reissued M75 Bluesbird ever had DeA pickups?
These are special and beautiful guitars. I just finished playing a 'hog M65 with early 60's chrome "Polara" type neck pickup and I just couldn't believe the tone and warmth of that guitar. I tried an amp setting that cut the bass all the way down and treble all the way up and that neck pickup perform super emulating a bridge pickup.
Back to the DeA pickups on a Aristocrat. I started looking through pictures on my phone and found another Aristocrat with DeA. This guitar doesn't have the Guildsby so maybe a small special run of mahogany Aristocrat were built with DeA pickups and the one in Hans Guild Vol1 wasn't a lone special.
I always wondered if that came from the factory that way. Not questioning the DeArmonds but the Guildsby.
I was wondering if the reissued M75 Bluesbird ever had DeA pickups?
These are special and beautiful guitars. I just finished playing a 'hog M65 with early 60's chrome "Polara" type neck pickup and I just couldn't believe the tone and warmth of that guitar. I tried an amp setting that cut the bass all the way down and treble all the way up and that neck pickup perform super emulating a bridge pickup.
Back to the DeA pickups on a Aristocrat. I started looking through pictures on my phone and found another Aristocrat with DeA. This guitar doesn't have the Guildsby so maybe a small special run of mahogany Aristocrat were built with DeA pickups and the one in Hans Guild Vol1 wasn't a lone special.
