Jeff Haddad
Senior Member
This is my 3rd try at a vintage Guild with DeArmond pickups. I had a 1970 SFIII Special with DeArmonds, block markers, and best of all green but the neck was too wide and thin. I eventually sold it.
Then last September I bought another SFIII, a '61 with DeArmonds that I thought was green but I think was a black one that had faded to green-ish. I sent that back because it smelled so badly of mold/mildew/something. It would get on my clothes and hands. There appeared to be mold growing on the inside also. I sent that back to the seller for a refund.
When the recent '61 T100 DPB Spc. was mentioned in another thread, http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?195111-A-Sexy-Hoboken-Blonde-on-ebay!, I bookmarked it. When the price was reduced I hit buy it now and waited five (5!) days for it to be shipped. It was very poorly packed, but survived a drop which broke the case but did nothing to the guitar (modern TKL case).
Here it is, DeArmonds, blocks, Melita bridge, Guild Bigsby all present:
The neck feels just like my other late '50's/early '60's Guilds and it plays well. It might still need a little setting up, I replaced the strings and had to put the (floating) bridge into place. It had moved pretty far due to the apparent drop.
Also, when I picked the guitar out of the case the first time I noticed a piece of metal with a spring on it in the bottom of the case. I think the drop it suffered broke one of the brass adjusters on the bridge pickup and the piece in the case was the polepiece and spring from the low e string on the bridge pickup. You can see the broken ring in this photo taken after I re-installed the magnet:
Thanks (I think) to the enablers here for finding this one!
Then last September I bought another SFIII, a '61 with DeArmonds that I thought was green but I think was a black one that had faded to green-ish. I sent that back because it smelled so badly of mold/mildew/something. It would get on my clothes and hands. There appeared to be mold growing on the inside also. I sent that back to the seller for a refund.
When the recent '61 T100 DPB Spc. was mentioned in another thread, http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?195111-A-Sexy-Hoboken-Blonde-on-ebay!, I bookmarked it. When the price was reduced I hit buy it now and waited five (5!) days for it to be shipped. It was very poorly packed, but survived a drop which broke the case but did nothing to the guitar (modern TKL case).
Here it is, DeArmonds, blocks, Melita bridge, Guild Bigsby all present:
The neck feels just like my other late '50's/early '60's Guilds and it plays well. It might still need a little setting up, I replaced the strings and had to put the (floating) bridge into place. It had moved pretty far due to the apparent drop.
Also, when I picked the guitar out of the case the first time I noticed a piece of metal with a spring on it in the bottom of the case. I think the drop it suffered broke one of the brass adjusters on the bridge pickup and the piece in the case was the polepiece and spring from the low e string on the bridge pickup. You can see the broken ring in this photo taken after I re-installed the magnet:
Thanks (I think) to the enablers here for finding this one!